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Well somebody is still making things and presumably selling them. So you could tax them and redistribute the money

It is sufficient to make existing workers more effective to be able to fire some of them. If turning a patient to change a diaper is a two person job and somebody buys a robot that…

In companies where I worked there were about two dozen developers for every product manager, sometimes more.

My experience has been that security is mostly treated as some contractual obligation that has little benefit and just costs money so the minimum amount of effort that prevents cha…

I’m very high dimensional spaces as they occur in real life projects with difficult to measure dimensions (eg how much does implementing something cost and how much does not implem…

The article does talk about putting weights on the dimensions to account for different dimensions having different importance.

It is my understanding that just baking the model itself into silicon only gives moderate gains because memory bandwidth remains a bottleneck.

I’m certainly no expert in the field but to my knowledge a lot of the LLM science is empirical. I’m not aware of a theory that lets us predict what architecture and what number of …

People are literally dying due to the heat.

I really don’t think we know enough about what „intelligence“ is or how LLMs actually work to confidently say that this is the end of the road for LLM.

EVs are fine for weekend trips, you just have to spend a little more time taking breaks.

The problem can be alleviated with more chargers. If every parking spot had a charger you could slow-charge with much lower pressure on the grid. 2kW over night are plenty for most…

EV adoption is not uniformly distributed among the population.

The supply of 10+ year old EVs is rather limited, so that is not a very surprising fact.

There is also a whole different language used to talk to toddlers and small children that native speakers know but very few adult learners ever pick up. And slang used among teenag…

Arguably an educated populace is a corner stone of democratic societies. Too much of a focus on economic applicability of education is dangerous imo.

Trade routes spanned Eurasia before we invented writing. Faster transportation and communication only expanded economic ties. Transportation is something that is fairly easy to do …

You seem to believe that proof of feasibility is impossible before actually finishing the task. I disagree. And for the record, profit oriented market economies are extremely old. …

Fossil fuels can be replaced for every use case by electricity from carbon-free sources and some chemistry. The price point for replacement of course varies by application. There i…

That seems to have very low chances of success.

Nuclear is a high-capex source of electricity. It doesn’t do well economically in a grid where power if essentially free on sunny or windy days but you need a lot of backup power f…

Fingerprinting is usually insufficient for law enforcement.

The people here maintain a list of things: https://drawdown.org/explorer Chiefly we need to replace fossil fuels with electricity from carbon free sources and electrify transportat…

Even if we stopped emissions today, Earth will keep warming up for a couple of decades. We’re not at equilibrium temperature for the current CO2 levels.

The point of VPNs often is hiding in the mass. Rolling your own kind of defeats that purpose.