The real reason is because LLMs are crap and aren't achieving the gains that they predicted. Which, as you've pointed out, is also going to bite them hard for overspending on the data-centres.

There's no indication of improved productivity for general LLMs beyond being an expensive pirating engine.

Only specialised LMMs that are carefully curated with experienced human made accurate, and presumably paid for, data have been making inroads on productivity.

A lot of island hopping was done during ice-ages. And jumping on rafts for one-way trips isn't difficult either.

That's all they're saying. With a big shrug on productivity.

Why would anyone attribute them as being modern humans when our branch starts about 250 thousand years ago, not 1 million? Or did they just not know the age before?

Eliminating all "black boxes" is the objective. There is no distinction between mask-ROM and Flash.

Valve had to defend. Otherwise they lose all rights to that product for good.

Dbrand could have easily asked for a license. They've even admitted they messed up.

Assuming April 2020 is treated as an anomaly, which is fair given the wide spread and large scale lockdowns and deaths at that time, then the headline is still correct. And as long as the trend keeps going down, then they could make a new article of similar ilk each year from now on. Not unlike the recurring reports on climate trend.

The fact they didn't previously could be as simple as missed opportunities.

I repeat, it was 30-50 years ago. Things have changed.

Good for you.

At any rate. As I said earlier, the top-exec types that USED to, 30 years ago, use Concorde are no longer doing so. The market changed, Concorde could never cater to average Joe pricing so it retired.

Really???

More likely an increase in post-covid vaccination rates.

I'm not trying to defend filling orbit with a million satellites but
there is already a large and knowingly always shaded space - Behind the solar panels. And solar PV is already a power limited supply anyway. So all-in-all it's certainly something that can be engineered for.

PS: When I said panels as an emitter there, I mean as a mount for back side radiators.

I'm certainly not defending Musk but I guess I'll say, from an engineering stance, you design to the limits. You have a heat budget, stay in it.

Solar panels can act as both energy collectors and emitters simultaneously. Basically, the panels define the power rating of the facility.