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Why do hammers put up with being smashed into nails all day?
because once you're a hammer, you're just biding your time to smash a skull.
"I'd hit somebody in the head."
"All over this Land!"
It does have a ring to it and would probably make it up the pop charts as a 21st century version more than ever ;)
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Why do you think you'd be given access and permission to do this? If a company genuinely cracks this human free system problem, why would they open it up, instead of simply outcompeting everyone that doesn't have their product?
Is science hard to distil?
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Why shouldn't they? Also, wouldn't anyone with half a brain use the human-free system to produce another human-free system that was no longer controlled by the "small number of 'people'"?
My best research is one that is seeking funding but none is forthing and by sheer guts and whatnot makes a breakthrough that basically funds itself. No investors. No funders. Definitely not public.
Which could be pretty hard to find and not everybody wants to wait.
Sooner or later somebody's going to say "Hold my beer," anyway ;)
>Definitely not public.
Seriously worth considering keeping a low profile, almost all other scientists can only enjoy respected institutional status by diverting huge amounts of their effort merely to gain or maintain certified eminence. This really limits the potential accomplishments of world-class minds if their talents really are tops in the very front-line frontier of discovery.
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They make many bold promises, but their core goal is neatly encapsulated on the website: "Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than massive teams of scientists and engineers do today." This is the same goal as every other AI company out there. Automate away the human employees and let a small number of "people" (no…
I don’t understand why all of these companies need to frame it like this. Why not a large amount of people doing an even larger amount of science?
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Not really. Grad students are already essentially working for free.
But they require large support systems (typically rich parents) to work for "free". Scholarships mean they're not free.
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> Similarily, everyone becoming their own accountant / lawyer / other professional services. These professional services will defend themselves with gatekeeping. Suddenly it doesn't depend anymore on the quality of your legal advice, but whether it has been stamped by a qualified Lawyer. It doesn't matter that your taxes are correct, but whether they are submitted by an approved accountant. Etc.
It's not just gatekeeping though. The reason you get a qualified, credentialed structural engineer to sign off on your house instead of just YOLOing the build is so that you (and your insurance company) can sue their pants off if it collapses.
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Yes It is. Even including batteries: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/lcoe-and-valu...
"Solar PV with storage = solar PV installation paired with four-hour duration battery storage, scaled to 20% of the output capacity of the solar PV." Sometime the sun goes away for more than 4hrs. That may be OK for closed-ended systems (turn off the science at night and during storms), but not for open-ended systems with diverse user demand. 4hour batteries are competitive with gas peakers to match high demand durin…
everywhere? all at once? The grid is distributed, this is a solved problem. Most of what is needed now is to build the systems, storage, and transmission lines.
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The purpose of hiring grad students isn’t to advance science, it’s to train experts.
Perhaps this is the fundamental problem that can be solved with AI. As a non-scientist, I'd very much prefer to have massive amounts of scientific breakthroughs instead of massive amounts of well-trained experts.
From Jeff's twitter post: > Our general approach is to automate the experimental loop. We think this approach is broadly applicable across many different fields of science and engineering. We’ll initially focus on ML research and engineering, but believe the approach can help with important subproblems in nearly every one of the fourteen NAE Grand Challenge problems. We think doing this well requires strong expertise…
1. Make Solar Energy Economical — https://github.com/orgs/HardisonCo/projects/194
2. Provide Energy from Fusion — https://github.com/orgs/HardisonCo/projects/206
3. Develop Carbon Sequestration Methods — https://github.com/orgs/HardisonCo/projects/196
4. Manage the Nitrogen Cycle — https://github.com/orgs/HardisonCo/projects/197
5. Provide Access to Clean Water — https://github.com/orgs/HardisonCo/projects/195
6. Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure — https://github.com/orgs/HardisonCo/projects/193
7. Advance Health Informatics — https://github.com/orgs/HardisonCo/projects/203
8. Engineer Better Medicines — https://github.com/orgs/HardisonCo/projects/200
9. Reverse Engineer the Brain — https://github.com/orgs/HardisonCo/projects/205 10. Prevent Nuclear Terror — https://github.com/orgs/HardisonCo/projects/204
11. Secure Cyberspace — https://github.com/orgs/HardisonCo/projects/201
12. Enhance Virtual Reality — https://github.com/orgs/HardisonCo/projects/202
13. Advance Personalized Learning — https://github.com/orgs/HardisonCo/projects/199
14. Engineer the Tools of Scientific Discovery — https://github.com/orgs/HardisonCo/projects/198
Specs and the per-challenge process lists: https://github.com/HardisonCo/opendl
It should also be funded by the Gov. IMO and 100% for oublic benifit e.g.: nsf.dev
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Unless it's on a specific list of chemicals that the DEA has decided are bad and need to be monitored. Even toluene is on the list!
This is nonsense. "Monitored" is not the same as "unavailable", any chemistry lab worth its name has the means and procedures to acquire toluene in pretty much any quantity it wants. As long as you have the required licenses, keep careful administration and can produce said administration during inspections, there is nothing to worry about.