Writing helps us process information that we've gathered. A better writer is a better thinker. We've already lost much of our physical ability by having machines do the work for us (driving, instead of walking or biking). Now we're starting to delegate mental skills to machines.

On the other hand, ancient civilizations, like that of classical Greece, achieved a high level of culture with much less writing as we have available today (because writing materials were so much more expensive). But they used a lot of oral communication, which is faster and probably more effective than written communication.

A better approach then would be for the reporter to converse with the AI orally, before the AI writes the article. Then the reporter could process information by talking to the AI on the way to/from interviews and meetings. How far along are oral chatbots?

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Shouldn't everything be decided by democracy, including the financial system (whatever that means), and corporate reform? Do they have anything to propose about how to improve "deliberative democracy"? That alone would be a good start.

Trade secrets don't need to be copyrighted or copyrightable. If they don't publish their code, you can't read it.

Will HP charge me a Non-Gaming fee, if I use their gaming laptops for something other than playing games?

You've never heard that GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), are often repurposed for AI workloads?

There is a precedence for this line of thinking: NVIDIA Limits RTX 3060 Crypto Speeds As it Introduces Mining Cards . So yes, you have a point.

I wonder if you are allowed to replace the operating system on a rented laptop.

Every tool is a hammer, except for the screwdriver, which is also a chisel.

How does renting a laptop with a GPU compare to renting a server with a GPU?

Hetzner offers a server with a Nvidia RTX 4000 GPU and 64GB RAM + 20GB vRAM for $205/mo + $312 setup fee. If I want to rent one for a month, to experiment running LLMs, it will cost me $517. I can rent an HP laptop with a comparable GPU (but with less memory) for just $50. If I want to rent one indefinitely, the laptop is 4 times cheaper than the server.

Using his boring company, of course, which he should first sell to SpaceX, for an astronomical price, so he can pay for this all.

Yes, he should be talking about building a vehilcle assembly line on the moon, to build moon trucks, so he can excavate moon caves and build datacenters in the caves. That would solve the radiation problem. He can also use the excavated lunar regolith as raw material to build solar panels and GPUs. He could use Tesla robots to build and operate all these factories.

He's just not visionary enough. I suppose he went too far with his Mars plans, and toned it down too much.

By your own calculations, a data center in space costs only 2X the cost of a data center on earth, which is starting to look competitive

The communications bandwidth already exists in space. Starlink has proven that building infrastructure in space is competitive to building it on earth.

You did not include the cost of building up the power grid, which is a real problem on Earth. And the cost of batteries on an earth-based solar power plant.

Solar panels in space can be easily rotated to face the sun 100% of the time, while on earth they produce about 3-6 hours of their nominal output per day, without rotation. This is how the 5X difference is derived. And it's not just an issue of average output, which you can easily surpass on earth by installing more panels, but that in space the panels can have constant output 100% of the time, while on earth this is impossible because of the day/night cycle.

Speculation.

Who said anything about launching satellites? The spacenews article uses the phrase "launches government satcom program", which is different from "launching government satellites". It also mentions using satellites "already on-orbit". The slashdot title uses the word "Deploys", which avoids this confusion.

Their stated goal is for the satellites to be "built in Europe, operated in Europe, and under European control." They don't say "launched by Europe".

A more relevant question might be if the satellites have non-European electronic components.

Imagine the world we would be living in if we had focused on clean energy decades ago. Why didn't we invent lithium batteries 100 years ago? Because burning fossil fuels was easier and cheaper than developing batteries. Interestingly enough, Exxon made an attempt to commercialize lithium batteries in the 1970's but they abandoned the effort, because the technology was not good enough. Couldn't they pay for the R&D to develop the technology?

Exactly, people use the products that are available.

But it's not only the fossil fuel producers that do this, but also intermediate industries.

Car Manufacturers have all but killed alternative ways of transportation, bicycles, trains, trams. In most cities people are afraid to use a bicycle for transportation, because they might be killed by a car. Car manufacturers have used the lethality of the car to sell bigger, supposedly "safer" cars, that are even more lethal for people who are not in cars. Cities have a fraction of trams that they used to have, and if they want to catch up, they are faced with enormous costs to reclaim the space used by cars. City governments have the power to reverse this trend, but governments are elected by consumers, who are conditioned by advertising from car manufacturers to want cars.

I concede that there is a serious effort by car manufacturers to produce electric cars, but not about using fewer cars.