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> The cloud deployment surface covered in our contract would not permit powering fully autonomous weapons, as this would require edge deployment. … What?? Much of this seems duplic…

Natural radioactive decay is also an example of fission - just not a fission chain reaction (… except when it is! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklo )

I think it’s very much a magical fantasy computer :-) A thought experiment, rather than a claim to something that’s been built or exists. The questions you pose are interesting one…

Perhaps. I was thinking along the lines of MarkBurns response - ML will allow us to efficiently look in those places we might otherwise only have searched by accident. If ops point…

I think ML is likely to be material to us making many more such discoveries. So much of the current constraint is not in the knowledge to identify the interesting pattern, but the …

In New Zealand we have a pretty effective system that covers all fossil fuel use nationally, as well as several other greenhouse gas emission classes (notably not agricultural emis…

This is extremely cool! Nice work. What data does it rely on and do you have any plans to support other countries?

It wouldn’t help with kinetic energy harvesting from the raindrops as that would go into the funnel as heat. It might provide a way to harvest the remaining gravitational potential…

Love you for this! I had exactly the same “solar freaking roadways” thought, although at least that idea qualified by basic theoretical analysis of available energy and area for ha…

Correct, but what the parent here presents is a theoretical upper bound. A working product wouldn’t even get close. When the theoretical upper bound shows that something could neve…

It also ignores the fact that there’s no need for it to become “alive” or “conscious” to be a threat in the way he describes. It just needs to be an agent with an mis-specified, po…

> One reason is that there are some problems that a company will only encounter once it begins testing fully driverless operations. Waymo and Cruise’s problems with fire hoses and …

No. That wouldn’t be a battery by any meaningful definition, nor have any similarities in implementation or enabling technology or physics. But it would deliver 24 trillion wh/kg… …

Yup - or higher load factors, or electric drive, or higher efficiency engines, or some synthetic fuel produced in a low emission way… all of which the tax provides a nice incentive…

It’s adding a tax to the fuel type for the category, not the category as a whole. The tax will increase the commercial incentive for cleaner shipping which will reduce emissions. T…

In the case of transferable concert tickets that’s already the ‘solution’. Even if someone ‘poor’ is lucky enough to beat the odds and buy a ticket under the current system at the …

I have an innate desire to write a book. But I haven’t because the effort would be significant and I have other things to do, including work. I am glad that the many professional a…

Do what Canada does; add a carbon tax and distribute the proceeds. This is generally a progressive tax scheme so low income people end up with MORE money.

I’d argue another consideration is the land occupied by the corn - it’s the real constrained resource, not the corn growing on it, and were the demand for corn displaced by somethi…

Was going to ask the same question and scrolled through the comments to happily find yours. The answers basically seem to explain why there's no robotaxi business model NOW though.…

There were numerous direct references to Valve, explanations of issues in the context of Valve, and commentary from Valve employees. As someone who really liked the ideals and conc…

Haven't looked at the proposal, and not commenting either way on the risk of using water in this context, but the water/reactive-metal issues have been widely investigated in other…

I suspect we're going to end up seeing evidence that the first accident was also the result of known risks being down-played / swept under the rug in the name of profit. One perspe…

I should qualify that a bit... - The promoters are likely to present at least a realistic (if not optimistic) estimate of mid term cost, the technologies involved are all mature (s…

If the promoters themselves are only claiming $150/kwh as a goal this doesn't have a chance of success given its other limitations.