This. Fox News did the same to engineer doubt about the 2020 election. Always be suspicious of the framing of "a growing number of people think...".

Yeah, got to generate a steady stream of promising headlines to prop up the stock price while each new traunch of SPCX shares gets dumped on the bagholders^h^h^h^h^h^h retail investor.

In a worse case scenario, AI superintelligence would be like giving hostile genius aliens root access to most every computer in the world. In a relatively "happy" scenario, white collar work is nearly eliminated in 1 or 2 decades and the billionaires hide in their bunkers while everyone else is just expected to rot. It can get a lot worse than Iran having nukes (which would be concerning for Israel and the Saudis).

... for "I want to program for a living.". CS is way more than that, but that was the reason many people chose it. Since AI now can code as good as humans and explain to a human what it's doing, studying CS to program is less of a thing now.
CS and it's"applied math"thing won't go away, but that was less people will study it sounds quite plausible IMHO.

Don't be naive, this is just the foot in the door. And it requires you to have a relationship with Google or Apple, which itself is not anonymous.

This is kind of like saying that car wrecks wouldn't happen if we had training and standards that excluded 95% of drivers... You're right in that it would greatly reduce the number of fatalities, but people are still people and it wouldn't eliminate them (see the recent Prime Air runway excursion for an example). You'd also lose the benefit of all those other drivers being able to get to where they want to go... American society would have to completely restructure itself.

It's simply bad engineering to pick a fundamentally unsafe tool over a safe one that will do the job just as well. Computer verifiable checks strictly beat depending on a human to follow best practices. Talent is multidimensional and reducing the job requirements for any one dimension means you hire candidates that are better in other important aspects. Engineering must consider technical realities, human nature, and market efficiencies.

Not sure how much it applies to VR, but as a point of comparison, VHF dominates drone racing because it has super low latency (15ms). Racers put up with it despite the crap quality, despite DJI and walksnail offering systems with 20-40 ms latency. Maybe DJI race mode (15ms) is changing that.

To somewhat discount this perspective: latency isn't the only benefit of analog... factors such as interference and penetration also come into play, as does price. But still, at 60 MPH, every 10ms is almost a yard of extra distance before the drone responds.

... steam age but modern times turns out to be way more efficient and reliable.

Golly jeepers gee wizz - Who would've thunk?

Ahh, thanks... was not aware of that term/phenomenon, though it makes sense.

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Summer loads typically peak mid-day and follow solar generation closely... batteries help make managing supply and demand easier, but huge capacity isn't necessarily needed or helpful.

By contrast, it's winter loads that experience the morning/evening "double peak". That's where these large capacities come into play... the sun directly warms houses during the middle of the day (cutting the need for heating) and the batteries soak up excess dollar generation, which then gets spent as the sun sets and in the morning hours the next day.

We had a creeping at work put cameras under women's desks aimed to catch up-skirts. Deploying the cameras ahead of time doesn't lessen the offense. "Passive" stalking an entire population is a grave threat to our collective well-being.

This. Hoping we can control superintelligent AI when we have no experience controlling superintelligent AIs is like hoping you can invent automobiles and never ever have any wreck, not even once. Because if you wreck--if your super AI escapes long enough to establish itself--then it's game over for humanity.

I agree, but also: open source isn't really a viable concept for frontier AI models. You can't release the training data because it undoubtedly contains unsavory, politically-misaligned, copyrighted, and illegal content: you'd drown in p.r. and legal problems. And on the recipient side, nobody can afford billions of dollars of GPUs to make their own fork.

It keeps the head warm and improves mental performance. A warm head performs at a better rate. Like a warmed up body or the people doing hot yoga. I'm a more or less bald ADHD candidate and I wear buffs as "spare hair" and observe a similar effect.

There's a reason we keep ill and injured people warm.

Bottom line:
This sounds plausible IMHO.

Let's wait until the last possible second to talk about preventing a world-ending catastrophe. What could possibly go wrong?