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A few of these questions are answered in the Commonwealth saga books of Peter Hamilton

I meant a cli is essentially a wrapper around an API, you are right it is less complex than a direct call. My point was that now there is an API you can call with this CLI, or a cli you vibecode yourself to call the API or you can call the API directly. Where before you probably could not create an account without going on the website manually. They now have a programming interface to more features of their services. But their cli still feel too complex with the stripe protocol integration. As said in other comments, I probably only want to create an account and register a domain every once in a while so a simpler cli that just wraps the api call would be better.

This is an API. They now allow users to create accounts, buy domains and deploy from their api instead of going on the website. That's great. I am not sure I understand why all this complex protocol is needed though, especially now that you can generate a cli with a prompt.

If we agree that consciousness is a physical process part of our universe, I think the better and simpler question is whether or not computers can simulate any physical process. Currently quantum processes might still be a frontier but quantum computers and their hardware should allow us to simulate them.

If we can simulate any physical process, it then becomes more philosophical in my opinion. Whether the simulation is the same as the real thing even though it is exactly the same. It becomes the same kind of question then for example whether or not your teleported self is still you after having been dematerialized and rematerialized from different atoms. The answer might be no, but you rematerialized self still definitely thinks it is yourself.

would encrypting sms and using some kind of authorized certificate authorities, maybe the ones from the country's phone carriers, alleviate this issue?

Another good book exploring this idea of not dying is Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton. Only in this book almost everyone has access to the technology by paying into a rejuvenation fund instead of a retirement one as we have today. It is a pretty realistic exploration of the consequences and benefits of such technology. Good food for thoughts.

It got me super excited!

Strangely reminiscent of "Children of Time"'s beginnings of spider intelligence

I think you can do that with an iframe, but it always makes me nervous

That's what I thought too skimming through the documentation, my thinking is that since it does that, which makes sense to avoid script injection, why not do it with "jsonized" html.

Right this makes sense, I wonder if it would then be a good idea to abstract html to JSON, making it impossible to include css and js into it

I see how useful a universal UI language working across platforms is, but when I look at some examples from this protocol, I have the feeling it will eventually converge to what we already have, html. Instead of making all platforms support this new universal markup language, why not make them support html, which some already do, and which llms are already trained on.

Some examples from the documentation: { "id": "settings-tabs", "component": { "Tabs": { "tabItems": [ {"title": {"literalString": "General"}, "child": "general-settings"}, {"title": {"literalString": "Privacy"}, "child": "privacy-settings"}, {"title": {"literalString": "Advanced"}, "child": "advanced-settings"} ] } } }

{ "id": "email-input", "component": { "TextField": { "label": {"literalString": "Email Address"}, "text": {"path": "/user/email"}, "textFieldType": "shortText" } } }

The EU represents about 24% of the global Saas market for example. (95 billion in 2024 / global SaaS market in 2025 is ~ $408 billion). For comparison, North America leads globally at around 43-50% market share)

It makes sense, I would be curious to see the price computations done by the different space GPUs startups and Big Tech, I wonder how they are getting a cheaper cost, or maybe it is marketing.

We also have to build a lot more solar and nuclear in addition of the datacenters themselves, which we need to do anyway but it would compound the land we use for energy production.

I like the underwater idea did not think of that

The one thing that space has going for itself is space. You could have way bigger datacenters than on Earth and just leave them there, assuming Starship makes it cheap enough to get them there. I think it would maybe make sense if 2 things: - We are sure we will need a lot of gpus for the next 30-40 years. - We can make the solar panels + cooling + GPUs have a great life expectancy, so that we can just leave them up there and accumulate them.

Latency wise it seems okay for llm training to put them higher than Starlink to make them last longer and avoid decelerating because of the atmosphere. And for inference, well, if the infra can be amortized over decades than it might make the inference price cheap enough to endure additional latencies.

Concerning communication, SpaceX I think already has inter-starlinks laser comms, at least a prototype.

Thanks to everyone who replied, I understand it better now!

Something weird here, why is it so hard to have a deterministic program capable of checking a proof or anything math related, aren't maths super deterministic when natural language is not. From first principles, it should be possible to do this without a llm verifier.

So AWS S3 Glacier might actually be cold

one issue I see is when steps in a plan depend on one another, when you cannot know all the next steps exactly before seeing the results of the previous ones, when you may have to backtrack sometimes

Right, a pure functional program can be composed of many things, so it can be complex even without side effects. Only a program with side effects is necessarily complex, as it includes at least two components if not more. Another interesting thought is that you can always encapsulate a purely functional program in a black box with an input and an output. Doing so with a program with side effects that themselves might be programs with side effects and their own interface is probably much more difficult.

For a moment I thought they were making hobbyist PCBs you can put in your body.

But is it maybe the difference between complicated, which indecipherable definitely is, and complex, in the sense of composed of many things?

It is interesting how the data rush is changing, it was about Ads targeting, now it is about training AI. I wonder if one is better than the other for the open-source community? Would Chrome be more free or more locked-in with OpenAi

Agreed. Let's include family benefits in inheritance. What is the percentage of Billionaires that inherited/were born in wealthy families compared to the completely self - made ones, and I think we should nuance that with the time they became wealthy as it feels like many made it recently, as suggested by the fact that a new billionaire was minted every 17 hours in 2021.

.. or those that own stocks are more likely to be in a position to start a company.

probably. So I guess the real debate is inheritance vs self-made and whether inheritance is good or bad.

I used grok deepsearch for sure not to search google myself and I wanted to cite my source

apparently around 100 exaflops if the 100 billions dollars datacenter is made only of nvidia H100. I am guessing the fact that (most?) personal computers and smartphones do not have a big gpu makes the above scenario difficult.

How much exaFLOPS can we expect from a 100 Billions dollars datacenter today? A rough estimate from a quick Perplexity search gives us 24 exaFLOPS for all smartphones in the world and 12 exaFLOPS for personal computers. Could a competitor to such a Datacenter be a collective effort with some sort of crypto to split the benefits?