You seem to be treating fiction as if it was representative of the real world.
Yes, because everyone knows the show bears no resemblance to the real world.
Readit NewsKeep in mind that boats in general aren't built in sufficient quantities to enable mass-production on the scale of automobiles. And this is a custom yacht on top of that.
So, a stupendously high percentage of the purchase price went directly into the paychecks of the middle-class laborers that built it.
Let's be honest - this is going to spend 98% of its time sitting in a harbor, with a full-time middle-class maintenance team making sure it is ready for the other 2% of the time. Enjoy it Jeff.
Yes, at the end of the day the lucky laborers now hold a fresh piece of paper on their hands. While Mr. Bezos enjoys his real world tangible object, the laborers will discover that their work isn't done yet. Because their money is only worth if they themselves work for each other once again, otherwise it is just worthless paper.
bismuthcrystal commented on Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet twitter.com/coinbasewalle... · Posted by u/stale2002
Why is it seen as acceptable for a government to tax people for the privilege of transacting in their (the government’s) markets, but it’s seen as bad form for a corporation to do the same?
Why is it seen as acceptable for a government to jail people, but it’s seen as bad form for a corporation to do the same?
bismuthcrystal commented on North Korean ICBM launch detected using GPS twitter.com/armscontrolwo... · Posted by u/Pietertje
Do we know they can make warheads small enough to fit on ICBMs? I always understood that is quite difficult.
AFAICT we know they have blown up stationary nukes and shot out inert ballistic missiles.
Lets speculate a little bit for argument sake. Take this with a grain of salt because I am not a specialist, just a information hoarder.
Lets put miniaturization aside and focus on another aspects, which i judge will be more critical.
The warhead must survive mechanical stress of launch and reentry, and thermal stress at reentry. The question is: can it be designed only with computers and public knowledge? They could build small hypersonic wind tunnel to collect data and simulate the rest.
bismuthcrystal commented on Retrofitting null-safety onto Java at Meta engineering.fb.com/2022/1... · Posted by u/mikece
Breaking backward compatibility is not the end of the world.
It might not be, but is damn close to it.
bismuthcrystal commented on A Russian Missile Crew Was Geolocated from Just This Photo petapixel.com/2022/11/09/... · Posted by u/beauHD
So what is the point of all this? If done by Ukrainians, what military objective does is accomplish?
Are we supposed to track down the people responsible for the Tomahawk cruise missile program as well? I mean, this piece does not make any sense to me. There is a difference between the people that make weapons and those that use them.
bismuthcrystal commented on Mark Zuckerberg confirms broad layoffs to begin at Meta theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/cadence-
Sweet for many, but very tough for those on visas who will have to now leave the US and abandon the lives they built there.
Since when it became reasonable to build a life on such a weak foundation?
bismuthcrystal commented on Monumental (if correct) advance in number theory posted to ArXiv by Yitang Zhang · Posted by u/gavagai691
Good luck finding a movie about Isaac Newton or Einstein, or literally anyone whose value to the world is more than pretending to be someone else or lying a lot, let alone a very interesting mathematician no one recognizes. (Ok I know there’s a few movies about folks like Turing and Nash, but it’s pretty slim pickings).
This whole theme is sort incompatible with movies. Most people like to relate to the characters in the plot. The "genius guy" does something we can't understand has very little appeal as a story.
Same thing goes for mathematics that is too "deep". Most people could not care less about prime numbers. Yes, they drive important cryptographic procedures. But we care about cryptography. We care that the message gets to its destination "safely". If its done using prime numbers, imaginary numbers, geometric numbers or fantasy numbers, it does not matter.
bismuthcrystal commented on Road to Artificial General Intelligence maraoz.com/2022/10/31/agi... · Posted by u/maraoz
I’ve been starting to wonder, is GPT-3 the beginning of AGI?
I know, I know, it’s just a language model.
But I’ve been thinking. About my thinking. I think in words. I solve problems in words. I communicate results in words. If I had no body, and you could only interact with me via text, would I look that much different than GPT?
Does AGI really need anything more than words? Is it possible that simply adding more parameters to today’s transformer models will yield AGI? It seems increasingly plausible to me.
Or perhaps words are the byproduct of the real thing. Consider the moments where your mind just click and solves something. You find it hard to map words to what happened. Or when you judge a situation to be dangerous, you just kind of know it, and then you map your gut feeling into words so you can explain to someone.
Perhaps "intelligence" is the process that enables these leaps between islands of words.
So, ya know, it's better than him just putting it under the mattress :)
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