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You can absolutely select founding population to be maximally genetically diverse and of large enough number to avoid inbreeding.
Speciation is a likely outcome for interplanetary and interstellar colonies, yes.
beats rawdogging it, at least.
"The "S" in AI stands for security" strikes again.
Run any cloud-based AI agents in VM/container and map your host's local folders to guest OS as needed.
Takes more effort that default way, I know.
One of the most interesting technologies that is not about LLMs/AIs.
My bad! Global aerospace industry then.
1969 was truly the pinnacle of US aerospace industry - Concord, Boeing 747 and Apollo 11 all happened during this year.
This should be way higher.
There is no metric a reasonably intelligent person can't sabotage or subvert...
...for example, you can write a script to burn tokens and write the code yourself.
Nobody forces you to use AI.
It has become sort of junk food for the brain. Temptations and ads for it everywhere.
That's one idea I am willing to bet on (with my money and skills).
Fair enough. I appreciate your civility.
When does it stop, though?
A white lie during interview, a deadline you promised and knew you could not deliver? A product you ship that claims to do X, but it doesn't?
Culture begins at the front door, corporate or personal.
I would expect absolute sincerity from pilot or a doctor during the interview, including history of mental health and professional mistakes. Authority over lives of people must come with full transparency. If you are caught lying or misrepresenting your experience and skills, not only you would lose your job, you should be blacklisted from occupation as well.
In every skill, everyone benefits from honesty, both employers and employees. But I am aware this is a minority view.
Goes both way, yes.
History has examples of extremely underprivileged people not compromising on the values even when facing death or torture.
Having any kind of integrity is expensive, financially, emotionally and sometimes physically.
Software development is not that high-stakes of a job anyway. There is always another interview. I got another one soon enough, where the employee AI policy fully aligned with mine, so telling the truth was an easy, pleasant experience.
Imagine you are a pilot or doctor. Any kind of interview reply that doesn't fully align with your values now carries a real risk for human lives.
Correct. I did it anyway (and yes, it was awful).
In the end, everyone makes their own choices.
I don't want to preach martyrdom, but I am also offended by people choosing moral bankruptcy when faced with even the slightest hardships.
Yes.
It is not. I made that choice in the past and will do it again.
"Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes"
The only effective action is push back on Athropic.
SpaceX already blown through a number of "... but this cannot be!" forecasts. Would not discount them easily.
TL;DR:
- AI part of SpaceX is absolute disaster, while its IPO valuation hinges on its future success.
- Lot's of questionable corporate shenanigans and accounting tricks.
- Public shareholders have zero power over Elon after IPO.
Some numbers for 1Q 2026
Launch: -660M
Starlink +1.1B
AI: -2.5B
Entire civilization flourished for 2000 years and then disappeared without any clue why.
I have a pet theory about Indus Valley script - inscriptions on the seals are so short and unique because they are just name signatures, to stamp other objects.
Having to be durable, they were the only inscribed objects that survived.
"Recursive self-improvement" is in the same league as "perpetual motion".
What would be a way to recursively self-improve algorithms for matrix multiplication (foundations of machine learning and inference)?
Who says "valuation"? I am talking about "profits", something that none of the the upcoming IPO debutantes have managed to achieve.
Among IT giants, Apple is the only such option.
The logical business opportunity in the current LLM-boom is to create a bunch of AI-less services and products, and then charge money to access them.
Think of premium branding analogy: masses get cheap AI slop, wealthy get high quality human-curated and human-created produce. Like organic vs regular food.
SpaceX will increase the lead from all potential competitors even further.
Very unfortunate, but strategically this changes nothing for US spaceflight. If anything, SpaceX will continue to increase its dominance.