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unless... the compute happens also in space? Given how dirt cheap solar has become, how cheap shipping stuff to space is becoming and how little there are clouds and nights in the …

I guess GP meant to build a train from downtown NYC to JFK.

I think ELI5 means that you simplify a complex issue so that even a small kid understands it. In this case there is no need to simplify anything, just explain what a term actually …

So it's just fancy words for safety (legal/reputational) for Stability AI, not users?

You sound offended. My apologies. I had no intention whatsoever to offend anyone. Even if I am not diagnosed, I think I am at least borderline somewhere in the spectrum, and though…

I'd propose a compromise. Euros switch to decimal point and Americans to metric system. Win-Win.

I get a slightly uncomfortable feeling with this talk about AI safety. Not in the sense that there is anything wrong with that (may be or may be not), but in the sense I don't unde…

This. Amartya Sen has claimed that two actual democracies have never been at war between each other. At least I find hard to find significant counterexamples in history. (Not sure …

I offer one more alternative. Double the tax every year, and once the ip holder decides not to pay the tax, IP is released to public domain. No compnay has money to keep IP indefin…

I don't think that the point was that there are no for loops in SQL. I think the point was that almost always using for loops is wrong and super inefficient and there is a much mor…

> What kind of applications would this be useful for? What can you build with an AI data science intern that's right 75% of the time? I have written a bunch of more or less complic…

I think of it with this kind of analogy: the original image is stored with 32 bit color scheme. You can reduce the color scheme to 16 bit accuracy and still figure out pretty well …

But there are forces even in our 3d world that do not follow inverse square law (strong/weak nuclear forces). That kind of proves that all forces do not need to follow this intuiti…

I have never quite understood why there can't be stable stallites in dimensions above 3. I mean, I know the argument that gravity inverse square law becomes inverse cube law in 4d,…

I think it would be important to understand the distinction between two types of applications, I call them "utilities" and "tools" here. Utilities are things that should be designe…

Because the owner does not typically sell with a market price but with a power purchase agreement where the buyer agrees to buy all electricity produced at the agreed price. (This …

Not sure if you mean difficult politically or technically. Politically I have no answers, but technically, I assume that you would not need that many fines that wipe out shareholde…

At least in europe there is a separate licence for glider flight.

I have flown gliders when I was younger and occasionally thought about PPL. And I have thought sims as well. Given the glider backcround, am I going to learn bad things on a sim?

This. And also adjusted on what you get for your tax money. (Say, median income after taxes, health care, student loans and pension savings.) And adjusted for the amount of holiday…

Legacy? Unpopular? Can you elaborate a bit more. To my understanding all the rumors of SQL dying have been a bit premature so far.

This is a bit of a rabbit hole. The right way is whatever is agreed, and there are many ways to agree it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_count_convention

Could you elaborate a bit the "very serious skill" needed to store your bitcoin in e.g. Bitfinex or CuadrigaCX?

> First, you gave to either understand the underlying technology, or someone you trust have to understand it sufficiently to be able to say "this is bullshit", or "this is a great …

To be a bit nitpicky, Internet is not free. The content may or may not be free/ad funded. And there are many problems. One of the major ones being that ad funded content is overwhe…