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I studied material science in school specifically to try and address his concerns. Unfortunately they are all quite valid - the hard part isn't manufacturing, extruding, printing. Those are actually all quite reasonable (albeit not super space or weight efficient). The hard part is refining and ore enrichment, and most techniques that could possibly work in microgravity are almost impossible to test on earth. You would certainly need vitamins for electronics components for a time. Even much older computer chip architectures (1990s level) still require the clean room and 20-30 stages of prep. I believe an orbital chip fab is not only possible but, kind of ideal? Keeping it clean would be within reach - and it's mostly if not entirely an autonomous process from silicon monocrystal to assembled part today.

We're along way from self replicating probes. But I would argue were quite capable of autonomous mining, manufacturing and material transport - assuming we can figure out how to refine effectively. If someone wants a cool PhD project and ship an experiment to the ISS, I would argue an ionic or plasma based refining technique designed for micro gravity could be very interesting and very useful

Why not self host or go to openrouter if you don't need SOTA frontier?

That's what jfrog + artifactory is for, enterprise solved this problem long ago

I actually think we should only be using labor force metrics for everything, if someone stops looking because their depressed and can live at home - suddenly that's ok? I don't think we should stop counting people like that

Are you kidding? It will be Millions easily. It will just take 1 or two blackouts in wet bulb conditions to cause that

Also the US is essentially the only country with failed public transit, outside of Africa. If he thinks he can expand his robo taxi fleet to China or Europe or hell even Russia he's got screws loose

I think the sentiment changes when the pig owns the farm

I might typically have 4-5 tabs open for serious work, and then 0 when not.. am I the weird one? I've never once found value with tab groups or multiple sessions

Actual access to reliable healthcare is a massive assumption to make, not everyone has incredible health insurance or lives in a country with sufficient doctors/med staff. Most places are in crisis for lack of resources, I'd rather ask chatgpt or Gemini for something urgent rather than wait 5+ hours in ER for the doctor to say "just take some aspirin and go to a walk-in tomorrow"

The problem is, if everyone knows it going to curry favour and you're the odd man out - are you in Violation of your fiduciary duty to your shareholders?

I've only ever worked remote professionally and I've got a track record, when I apply to a new role there's no question that I can adapt to working remotely at X company.

If I just finished my PhD in comp sci and have never worked professionally in my life let alone remotely, going day 1 remote is a huge risk

If I'm in a quiet place I can walk through the project, and understand where different things fit into place - even for very very complex systems, I can almost simulate algorithms and see where things go wrong without looking at my code. I realized this ability is not normal, and many people even software engineers struggle immensely with fully understanding large complex systems

Yes same even multiple times, but if I met them online (slack, teams) I'll always remember them.

When I was younger I was much worse at recognizing people and names, as an adult it's gotten much better

That's me! I can visualize processes really well, and complex systems. But ask me to picture or hear something in my head and I'll just stare at you.

That can't be all the food their eating right? That's like 1/5th of the calories I eat as an athletic man

Is there even a point to money post AGI?

Your wife / family (if applicable) will very much appreciate more frequent breaks.

What do you expect the average Mexican to do about that? The Cartels have substantially more power than the state.

I think it's great that they're reclaiming some power by relearning their ancient languages that were nearly destroyed by their colonizers

It is though, in the English speaking world - to to Latin America or southern asia, anti-social behavior is treated like the disease it is

I learned thinking too much about it makes it worse. Just have to do lists that are ephemeral that you'll rewrite and start over 5-10 pages from now. Just pencil and nice small notebooks that are portable is more important than my laptop or phone most of the time for work

This is me all the time, but as I've gotten older I realized extensive note taking is extremely helpful for work. I can't recommend it enough for people like me

I don't like DeSantis, but this is a bit of policy I would like to see throughout the US and the world.

Can I.. vote against this? Death has historically been the only equalizer and return to the mean that has saved us from Tyrants and excessive concentration of power and control.

I'm fine with having the life expectancy that I have, am I the only one?

steam, weather forecast updates, waze, better games (steam?), whatsapp, telegram, zoom, google meet, etc

My parents died penniless in my early 20s (mid 30s now); I have friends who's parents are gifting them a Condo or Down Payment as a wedding present.

Thankfully my wife and I make good income and have been saving, but the treadmill doesn't work for everyone.

I can't wait for the opposite of this; Tesla App Store will be an insane value-add feature; for both owners and app developers.

From every lawyer I spoke to about this, this was not a win for Ripple but the SEC.

They were found guilty of unregistered offerings to institutional. There's no way that the jury/judge won't take that prior decision into account with the non-institutional tranche. Somehow this was spun as a good thing?

This doesn't just resonate with creatives - the startup / path to tech entrepreneurship is structured in a very similar way. I've seen lifers, trust funders and day jobbers succeed and fail in different ways, raise funds or bootstrap with nothing for years. Obviously the trust fund kids succeed substantially more often than the lifers or day jobbers

People thought that for a long time, that we'd be able to persue higher minded activities such as art, business management, entrepreneurship and writing.

What we've discovered is that the first model breakthroughs have been able to largely demolish that dream. As a writer I can tell you that writing with GPT4 today provides me with superpowers that non- accelerated authors could come close to; and theres no plausible way to distinguish our two works.

I'm more worried about the coming depression / suicide spiral (which were already in by the way) because of human uselessness than I am of terminators coming to farm us.

It's as good as an intern today, there's definitely room to improve to avoid saying incorrect things - great work being done on providing negative samples during RLHF training; also some papers working on incorporating trust (not near my laptop so don't have links)

Textbooks are all you need is another extremely interesting area of focus.

Improved correctness and a general reduction in hallucinations I predict will end up hitting OSS models by EOY