To be clear I'm not pretending they are the same. I believe in gold as a store of wealth. Bitcoin mystifies me.i don't understand what the fuck any of it rests on.
Everything has a supply curve and a demand curve, including gold and bitcoin. Where the curves cross, that is the price. This is economics 101, which you never took.
Air is more "innately valuable" than gold, but you don't pay money to breathe.
With a break-even number of $120 million, according to the Hollywood Accounting where the WB shell companies are all paying themselves in a circle, compared to the actual production cost of $30 million as indicated by the tax writeoff stated value...
"protect against renegade AI"
This is a fundamentally unsolvable problem. It's like: "How do we stop humans from being humans?"
Saying that's your objective is fundamentally dishonest. You can't protect against the unknown. You can't protect against anything without covering all the corner cases, and AI, by it's very nature, is almost exclusively corner cases.
The worst-fear scenario was always the Paperclip Optimizer [decisionproblem.com] - that models would become so set on achieving a goal that they'll violate all ethics to achieve it.
How much compute power will that take?
After testing actual Googlebooks, The Verge's reviewer first acknowledges that "it might be just another Trojan horse for Gemini.
Yeah if you long-press the power button on my phone now it opens Gemini instead of turning off the phone. Intuitive UI.
If they would reprocess it, much of that 3.6 million pounds would become either valuable nuclear fuel or totally inert scrap.
The rest would only last 200-500 years before becoming totally inert.
Evolution is a million line computer program falling into place by accident.
