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The wealth of the USA compared to other devoloped countries has shot away over the past 10-15 years, it’s not entirely clear why.

No they’re more like business property taxes, they’re complicated but usually defined as a fraction of what the market rate rent would be on the property the business is using.

For anyone who doesn’t know, she legitimately said that jewish space lasers were the cause of wildfires in California. She is an out-and-out “The jews are secretly running the entire world from the shadows” antisemite.

Users of consumer Windows are not Microsoft’s customers in any real sense. Microsoft’s customers are huge enterprises who want this stuff and smaller companies who are trapped into using the MS ecosystem by needing to have interoperability with other people/businesses who use MS products.

Its eco-friendly because the waste heat is being used to heat the home methane isnt being burnt to provide that heat. Data centres are needed unless you want to scrap the internet entirely.

I’m not an expert on licences by any means, but my understanding was that LGPL explicitly allows you to link it to other binaries without needing to licence them with the same licence. Does rust really only support static linking and not dynamic?

Per the Gnu wiki:

Does the LGPL have different requirements for statically vs dynamically linked modules with a covered work? (#LGPLStaticVsDynamic)

For the purpose of complying with the LGPL (any extant version: v2, v2.1 or v3):

   (1) If you statically link against an LGPLed library, you must also provide your application in an object (not necessarily source) format, so that a user has the opportunity to modify the library and relink the application.  

   (2) If you dynamically link against an LGPLed library already present on the user's computer, you need not convey the library's source. On the other hand, if you yourself convey the executable LGPLed library along with your application, whether linked with statically or dynamically, you must also convey the library's sources, in one of the ways for which the LGPL provides.  

So as long as you also provide your application with an LGPL library shaped hole you can release a static-linked binary with LGPL components.

Even then, LGPL exists, I wish more libraries would use it rather than going for MIT/BSD licences.

No, it isnt. Artificial inteligence has been the name of the field for avenues of exploring “intelligence” with computers (including Eliza, deep blue, neural networks, expert systems, symbolic reasoning and now LLMs) since before you were born. That you associate it with something like EDI from mass effect rather than the pre-existing field does not mean its an inappropriate name.

Your point about poinitng (ha!) is incorrect, its pretty trivial to maintain pointing at the target. Hubble achived 7mas pointing accuracy over extended periods (thats ~0.000002degrees) with technology more than 30 years out of date. That gives you ~1.2m accuracy from geostationary orbit, which seems fine.

The real point is getting a mirror which is large enough and perfect enough into orbit is completely infeasible. As you rightly say, the maximum potential power it can provide is equal to solar insolation time its area.

Definitely a possibility! But dealing with “only being a normal profitable company” is a very different problem to “oops, we were selling $10 for $5 and VCs have stopped giving us money to burn, and people are using self hosted models too”, which is the possible outcome for the big AI labs.

I’m not a fan of them either, I wish AMD would step up and compete with them better (Just get ROCm into a good place FFS!), but they are definitely not one of the companies most exposed to an AI pop. They’ll stop being insanely profitable but they are not anywhere near the position of openAI and the likes who have massive negative profit.

From a quick look they have ~40B USD in liabilities and make ~115B USD gross profit. Being able to pay off the entirety of their debt with 4 months of profit seems pretty healthy to me.

It wont be Nvidia unless they play things incredibly badly, they’re the only ones making actual profit by selling shovels in the goldrush.

Mining raw resources that are more easily availabe on asteroids than on earth seems like the most likely candidate. There are metalic asteroids that have significant quantities of valuable metals like gold, titanium, iridium etc.

I wouldnt be too sure on the UK and France yet, the far right parties in both are leading in the polls right now. The UK has a lot of local elections next spring and Frances’s parliament seems like it will probably collapse and require new elections soon, maybe by this time next year if the far right havent gained significant power we can talk about turning a corner.

Not only that, but if they do engage in “DEI activities” (definition not included) then they reserve the right to take back the entire grant and and previous money the python foundation had recieved from them in the past. Its a total poison pill, and if this sort of language is widespread in government grants its going to completly gut research in the USA.

Alternatively, shutting down the entire internet (which is what removing datacentres is) for the sake of growing 0.1% more almonds in California is not a good trade off IMO.

If we are, then I entirely misinterpreted them.

On re-reading it seems like thats quite possible! The first and second line seem to agree with me but the third is taking the opposite postion though so who knows.

Are we on the same website? Lemmy as a rule hates AI with a blind passion and will downvote anything that isnt frothing at the mouth hatred of it. Hence the downvotes on this post, people see it has AI in the title and isnt calling it slop or saying its cooking the planet and so it gets downvoted.

The killer feature for other AI-powered browsers has been the built-in chatbot that sits in a side panel and automatically has context for whatever’s on your screen. It may sound minor, but many users spend all day copying and pasting text or dragging files and links into ChatGPT, just to provide context. The sidecar feature removes that friction and makes for a smoother user experience.

Really sounds like exactly what you’d want be focusing on if you were the leading AI company and are on the verge of AGI just like you promised… Just think, people might save a dozen ctrl-c ctrl-v keystrokes a day!