It will not. Part of its generation function involves injecting white noise into the system for randomization.

The word is being used in a technical argot. It's meaning is different than the colloquial understanding. In this context, it means that there are a finite number of definitive states that the procedures must result in. The system must drive users to one of those end states. GPT systems, by their stochastic nature sometimes hallucinate and run off on wild tangents. Deviating even slightly from the prescribed outcomes results in a failure state for the system. If the GPT has a 5-10% hallucination rate, then that's a 5-10% failure rate of the software.

Meanwhile, humans are intelligent. Having a human in the system who understands what the purpose of the system is and the need to drive users to one of the prescribed endstates.

This reminds me of a possibly apocryphal story about a compsci security class. First day of class, the professor walks in, tells the whole class, "Congratulations, you've just failed this class." He then shows them him entering 0s into the database software. "This course is 16 weeks long. Whether you pass or fail is up to you."

I agree totally. The economics of this device are just fucked, which anyone who ever looked into carbon capture could have told you.

A more interesting use for this technology is to hook it up to a high carbon source. Something like a metal refinery or a cement plant that generates large, concentrated amounts of CO2. It then results in a fuel you can use either in surface transport or in regeneratively running the industrial source itself, significantly shrinking its carbon footprint. Ironically, if you were to hook an industrial scale version of this up to a coal-fired powerplant, you could significantly reduce the carbon footprint of extant power generation while building out green alternatives.

The only price is of the device, which is listed as $15k-$20k. At that price, given gas prices, that's a payback timeline of almost 40 years.

An average box fan will move around one thousand cubic feet of air a minute. Converting that to metric, that's about thirty-seven cubic meters of air a minute. A cubic meter is one thousand liters; thus an average box fan moves 37,000L/min of air, roughly. You can very easily move enough air to run a simple hydroxide CO2 capture device. It wouldn't be terribly efficient and it would also be a power hog. Given the size of the machine in the pictures in the article, the numbers they give are reasonable. Even the price seems on par with a back-of-the-envelope estimate. This device doesn't make economic sense but it does make mechanical and chemical sense.

This thing generates one gallon of gasoline per day. As this reads like a press release, I assume that would be under ideal circumstances. For the sake of argument, let's just roll with that. Assuming a price per gallon from a gas station of $2.50 USD, at a price of $20,000 this device has a payback timeline just short of 22 years. I somehow doubt this machine will run for that length of time without encountering the need for maintenance and repair. This would extend the payback timeline to closer to 30 years. The average lifespan of a car is about 20 years. Meaning before you reach break-even on this machine, you'll probably be replacing your car. If you replace your gasoline car with an electric car, the payback on a solar array is just 5 years.

Havana syndrome doesn't exist. It's a psychosomatic mass hysteria. Havana syndrome hasn't been "conclusively proven" false, only because it's virtually impossible to prove a negative. Several scientific bodies looked into it and found it to likely be psychosomatic. Intelligence agencies and the State department looked into it several and determined that it couldn't possibly just be in their heads and so issued multiple wildly differing theories with little to no evidence in their favor.

This is a very good idea. It isn't a short term solution to anything but it would be a long term net benefit to the economy. It would also go a way towards the de-financialization of the economy and controlling consumer debt loads. Which is why none of Trump's handlers, party members, or financiers will allow it to go through.

It's so weird to me that Trump the person has a habit of throwing out good ideas I assume he's heard somewhere, immediately walking them back, then doing the opposite. You'd think the media would have figured out this pattern. Instead, they Charlie Brown for it everytime he pulls a Lucy.

Adams was a moron who tried to treat his cancer with dewormer and apple cider vinegar. Much like Steve Jobs, if he had been half as intelligent as he thought he was, he would have listened to subject matter experts and treated his cancer with chemotherapy, radiation, and/or surgery as his oncologist recommended. Instead, he died as a testament to the fact that money rots your brain and your soul.

You can't recycle most plastic. You definitely can't recycle a bunch of random different types of plastic that are fully contaminated and mixed together. Plastic recycling is a myth of the petrochemical industry to maintain a profitable stream for what would otherwise be a waste product of oil refining.

(Unlike plastic recycling, glass and metal recycling makes economic sense on it's own and thus didn't need add campaigns to back it. People did it simply because they could make money doing it.)

Do you think analog means the same thing as the Imperial system of measurements and digital means metric? Because I can assure you that you don't use the actual metric time-keeping system that had 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, and 100 seconds in a minute. Analog means a clock with hand. Digital means a clock with numbers. Maybe if you had a better educational system in your country you'd know that.

China is not a dictatorship. That's not to say it isn't authoritarian. A dictatorship is a specific thing and China isn't that thing. Taiwan was a dictatorship until this century, and might just slide back into it given recent political unfoldings on the island. China is a single party authoritarian communist state. They have non-hereditary peaceful transfers of power through elections. Admittedly only party members can vote in those elections, but the elections are still meaningful, and no nation allows all citizens to vote.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to have a functional government. Oh, well.

I meant that the equipment to produce mirrors of that level of fineness has existed for half a century at least. As far as it's concerned, the mirrors on Hubble and KH-11s aren't out of the ordinary for that generation of optics. It might be a high degree of precision, but it's one that's been met for a long time. You, in fact, can purchase a dielectric mirror of that level of precision off the shelf. They're not usually as large as the Hubble primary but they are on the Earth-monitoring cubesats used commercially, as well as higher end amateur astronomical equipment. Of course, those will all probably use aluminum dopant and not the probably exotic materials used by ASML. (Which, a little bit of research I've done says it's probably molybdenum and iridium in precisely controlled alternating layers.)