Not sure what you think those have to do with anything. I know plenty of women who've had children and are not (nor have been) married.

Given how engineering is a registered profession in many places in the world, I'd like to see gain its professional accreditation.

... a post-cyberpunk post-scarcity economy. If he only achieves half of what he's pushing for that wealth won't mean that much. It's precisely that he's acting that way that puts him in a position to be this wealthy. The final goal of capitalism is to make itself obsolete. We might actually be getting there just now. Musk being a trillionaire is just an intermediate step on that scale.

Done some integrated circuit design for ESA. Electronics circuits do not like space.

This is similar to the radiology argument.

Company builds "AI" (it isn't AI but let's pretend) that can "read" images. Company goes to sell this to a hospital CEO. They say it will do the work that radiologists would do, and it only costs (X) tokens per scan. Imagine the savings! Hospital asks about liability, and here's the kicker: The AI company says just have one of the remaining human doctors the hospital has on-site to review the scan.

Now skipping the part where it says it can do the work, it's dumping liability on the human who now not only has to review their own work but also the AI. The AI doesn't have to be perfect... the human has to be perfect. In a logical world the CEO would tell the company to go sell their hokum elsewhere until they're willing to put their own reputation AND finances on the line to stand behind their work. However if the average CEO can sign a contract to pay the company 15% less than a human overall, then add that 15% to the bottom line, they'll get a bonus, so you'd best get to work doc.

When the mistake happens, you'll get sued... instead of the "AI" system and it just sucks to be you person who went to school to become an actual SME. We've already seen them blame software devs/engineers when AI writes crappy code that causes problems. You think they aren't going to dump other bad crap on humans when the tool breaks?

The advocacy groups didn’t stop datacenters from getting built. Reality did. Altogether, the big companies had announced enough data center building to consume 10 times the total planetary electricity generation, and also use up the next 150 years of semiconductor production. The math and physics literally didn’t work. Only a sliver of them can get built. The rest are vapor. It’s like Meta assuming that it’ll command every ad dollar on the planet, or a memecoin valuing itself at “a HUnDREd tRIlliOn doLlARz”. Just cause someone says it, doesn’t make it reality.

The anti-datacenter movement is full of people who need something shiny and new to be outraged about, and the politicians pander to it because they can pass laws banning the construction of datacenters that were never gonna be constructed anyways,

Isn't that the unit of measure these days for data centers?

Your math is a little off: today's national debt is "only" $115K per person, not "hundreds of thousands" per person. That is, of course, still a lot.

But slavery it is not. Owing a debt does not make a person a slave. If it did, everybody who has a credit card or a mortgage would be a slave. And that's most people.

We know what it looks like when a country gets too far into debt. Argentina, Greece, Spain, to name three countries that have experienced over-indebtedness. Their outcomes were dramatically different because of the ways they handled their debts.

The debt absolutely needs to be reined in. But that's not the same as slavery.

It's not just incompetent drivers. Part of the problem is structural. Aside from accidents, weather, and construction, there are issues whenever cars need to switch lanes or accommodate cars merging due to on-ramps or lane merges. If the drivers could zipper merge exactly without altering their speed, then that source of congestion would disappear. Perhaps vehicle autonomy, even partially, might help with this.

Another issue that is addressed by the metering lights is that whenever the density of vehicles exceeds a threshold, even slight changes in speed from one car can cause backward ripple effects that manifest as congestion. This is the problem that the smart metering lights is trying to address, and it is a real issue. But there are also other sources of congestion not due to density.

I dunno, it could be kind of funny watching them trying to get a machine to make sense of reality.

Indeed, it is, and it isn't anything new either.

https://www.academia.edu/58091...

Well, if I were prompting the LLM, I would simply request that it not make any mistakes.

Well then, you must know better than most people that when you are on the right drugs it not only seems possible, but easy!

Funny you should mention that.

Since ChatGPT3 we've left behind the financial reality of stocks being worth what their expected returns are over time, so either the company pays dividends or gets bought and people that own the stock get actual money back for the money they paid in, and we've now reaching the stage of orbit where everything is just a complete fantasy designed to goose more money out of people that somehow haven't run out spare cash to throw at stocks yet.

AI hasn't replaced coders, despite it being declared so. AI has temporarily displaced some journalism by simply ignoring copyright because Google is too big to feel it cares about laws. AI has eaten up billions in drug discovery and yet to see any of that debt paid off. But nevermind all that because some geriatric narcissist just told everyone they're replacing oxygen with 'AIxygen'.

The next 3 years will see the biggest Wallstreet crash since 1929 and we should feel sorry for 0 of these suckers.