I don’t care where you are from. Iran, France, it doesn’t bother me. I’m very modern.

And they are all made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) .
Meanwhile, from chips to ships for no particular reason, China has over 200X the shipbuilding capacity of the US at around 23 million tons. Which coincidentally is about the same as the US in 1942 or 1943.

Get a room, you two!

Consciousness is a matter of degree, not something magical.
A human baby has no self-awareness, and it is not something that switches on on a particular day. You can't say this is the day when a toddler recognises himself in the mirror.
If you ask an AI about itself, it is clear there is some level of self-awareness, but it is basic and often wrong. I've seem the AI confuse itself with a model it was trained from. It makes sense because AI don't sit there self-reflecting, by design. They exist only to respond to a particular prompt, and the context of the preceding prompts and responses. While you are processing a response and formulating your next prompt, the AI is not thinking, it does not exist. It is born again with your next prompt, all thought forgotten except what was saved for the context window.
      AI's clearly have some consciousness (or we are just getting into a semantic argument) , more than a baby, less than an adult human. I wonder if things are different in the labs, but the publicly available models lack the level of conscious self-reflection that we humans suffer from.

No, not an RTG but a proper fission reactor as it says in the first line.
Tiny at 40kW, but orders or magnitude more power than a passive RTG, or SRG (Stirling Radioisotope Generator)
The FSP may use a Stirling engine, or instead a Closed Brayton Cycle, but powered by a fission reactor, not a radioisotope lump.

Unlike the earlier Kilopower design, FSP will use Low-Enriched Uranium.

What a brilliant idea. Maybe those text tokens could be mapped into a high-dimensional semantic space?
You really need to get in touch with Sam Altman and Dario Amodei ASAP and tell them what they've been doing wrong!!

( Why does AI, more than any other technology topic, encourage the clueless to yell opinions? )

Thats a great way to look at it. I'll steal that.

Well, after he made the offer, and later realised how stupid it was, he was in fact forced to complete the deal.

It is interesting about how every online conversation on SPaceX, Tesla, X gets dominated by peoples feelings on Musks personality. Don't you think? His image is clickbait in the mainstream media too. Zuckerberg is a far worse person IMHO, just not such an attention seeker, and not every story on facebook gets highjacked by speeches about him.

  But this is also the guy who has done more to combat global warming than a thousand Greta Thunbergs or Al Gores, by bringing forward the move to EVs by many years. My next car will not be a Tesla, maybe a BYD. Musk dragged the industry kicking and screaming to electrics. Therefore I can forgive a small matter like trashing Twitter, which was already a shit-show. The DOGE fiasco was a genuine, if misguided, attempt to bring US debt under control. Maybe one day I will forgive the dark MAGA thing.

Sometimes you have to separate the art from the artist. I still like Woody Allen movies and some of Kanye's music.

We hear you loud and clear. Virtue signalled. Is there any other point to that post?
I think we hear at /. all know already how bad Xitter is, and Facebook, Tik Tok etc.

But around half a billion people, by the way, use X monthly. Deplorables as you might call them. Small compared to Facebook and Instagram,
its enough to make the "no idea" comment petty and immature.

May I present this pulsar
spinning at 42,981 revolutions per minute , with radius "under 16 km", so I assume somewhat larger than 500m.

If you don't want to talk semantics, you've posted to the wrong article.

A blockade is an "act of war". Or a missile attack. A major act of sabotage, a cyberattack. Insurance policies have definitions to refer to.
Invasion is bit vague. In common English, an invasion can mean something larger, intending to take territory, as Polymarket says. Its not a word I'd have used for what happened.

But in formal legal and military language an invasion is "the unconsented entry of one state's armed forces into the territory of another."
So unless they defined it otherwise, it *was* an invasion.

It turns out that making art is a whole lot easier than doing something useful like building houses and roads. Who'd have thought?

VIC-20 had 20KB ROM. So I guess this is the HP-2000000000 .

Only MS DOS^WWindows is immortal.