You can buy a refurb workstation off eBay with an old i5 for the same and get better performance and higher-quality components.

Reminds me of that line from Contact (1997): "Why build one when you can have two at twice the price?", which was about government spending, too.

No one would be complaining if a Linux vendor released a commercial like this to promote their OS. Instead the comments here would be filled with I.T. professionals talking about the CrowdStrike event, and how all the Windows systems were dead in the water but their *nix-based ones were humming along.

It's not advanced, I shared it because the headline is clear. The article is written in a confusing way because the author doesn't understand the topic. Another way to say the same thing is, "people are flowers," but that's not exactly precise, either.

This one says things along your thinking, "The Cave You Fear to Enter Holds the Treasure You Seek," but make no mistake, there is a destination and it is reachable.

But since we're at it, What is enlightenment?

If poor people don't have loan options like this one, they go to loan sharks.

If you don't pay back payday loans, you ruin your credit. If you don't pay back a loan shark, you get your legs broken.

Ironically, a lot of people don't understand the ChatGPT explanation, either.

The US has far and away the best military satellite system. It's not even close.

Currently, one satellite is destroyed every year from space junk.

If you are behind in a space race, you are incentivized to encourage the Kessler Syndrome, because if no one can use space, the disadvantage is gone.

For me, the point is to find sources. If there's a [citation needed], then it has to be treated as unknown.

This is the same as Wikipedia. It's helpful because the internet has gotten less and less searchable, as spam has crept into Google and other search engines.

Taxi salaries dropped 10% on average when Uber came. The medallion system was a bad system.

That's a stupid take, everyone is using a lot of eyes to find bugs these days. Your software crashes, it sends a bug report back.

Downloading a library off Geocities wasn't exactly recommended, either.

Once you start doing proper audits, it quickly becomes easier to just write the code yourself for most things.

There's the Blue Brain project, which made an attempt to simulate a mouse brain. It didn't really do anything, though.

They will likely need to have some understanding before getting it to do anything practical.

A) We can't stop ourselves from building it. If it can be done, it will happen.

B) It doesn't matter anyway, because no one has a clue how to build real AI. It's all science fiction until better algorithms come along.

While true that people want to get rich, and some at the expense of all else, being able to produce proteins on demand will provide huge benefits for humanity. It also would mean we can stop bleeding horseshoe crabs.