Which was what without Woz?

I suspect that AI will eventually be a super-important teaching tool. People have been trying to apply technology to enhance teaching for over 50 years, with very little progress. It turns out that the human-to-human component of teaching is really, really hard to replace.

AI might be able to bridge the gap. Not to replace teachers, but to enhance the learning environment.

But not the current AIs. I recently asked chatgpt to assist with a thermal calculation, and it's first answer was to assume that 1000K is the same as 298K. I'm not making that up. I was told to assume that glowing red hot was the same as room temperature, with 100 percent certainty and confidence. When I told it "no, don't make that assumption" it responded with another wrong approach, with the exact same certainty and confidence.

AI will eventually have a big impact but it's absolutely not ready to be unleashed in a classroom. Teaching will probably be one of the last professions to be impacted by AI.

But what did he do that actually counts as innovation? What new did he bring into the world?

Sounds like it.

When would that happen though? The point where they would start to benefit from standardization and economies of scale? There have still been plenty of them built and nothing like that seems to have emerged yet. Renewables already benefit from those things, but there isn't even a timeline for when a nuclear plant might, or even a suggestion of what processes could lead to those kinds of efficiencies.It seems pretty easy to see how a product that you can load onto the back of a truck can be mass produced, how can something that is basically entirely built in place by an army of contractors really be anything other than bespoke?

Regarding France, rumors of the success of their nuclear power are a bit exaggerated. The actual costs of civilian nuclear power in France have always been hidden from the public, and for good reason. Their aging plants are also now a boondoggle for them to deal with.

The simple fact is that nuclear power is still too expensive and insufficiently nimble and scalable.

at some dinky cryptobro firm, can even do this, tells me that the ecosystem is basically a private fiat currency, minus all that pesky management by an elected government, control by a politically independent central bank, and all that other useless stuff.

“Accidentally minted and then burned”? I thought the blockchain was sooooOOooo robust that no individual had that sort of leverage. Turns out, some individuals have infinite ability to print and then delete infinite numbers of so-called stablecoins. Stable. Uh huh.

I have noped out of that ecosystem and everything Ive read tells me that the smart move is to avoid it like the plague.

IIRC, none of those Chinese companies are making a profit or even breaking even. How does that work? In the US, the answer is “investors are floating a loss making company in hopes of future profits but their patience will only last so long”. What’s the explanation in China?

Sure, Jan.

China's "Communist", right?

At least that's what slashdot wisdom says.

They'll redistribute the profits and live like Lenin promised in 1917.

On a serious note, why were these CEOs paid the compensation they don't deserve if the West has fallen so far behind?

Shouldn't they be returning some of it?

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Using focused ultrasound through the cranial bone is something I had not heard of before. I imagine precise mapping using ultrasound imaging to map how the ultrasound waves are refracted through the uneven bone structure would be important.

If you set up a market, and multiple people who actually had $1e100 put in a bid of that amount for your stupid crypto, then at least for that instant it was worth that much. It may not be worth that much later, but it would be NOW.

FFS, how can you have such a hard time understanding such a basic concept?

Luckily for the Chinese, they're allegedly communists.

"From each according to his ability" - that would be the robots.

"To each according to his need" - those millions of people.

We'll see whether it pans out.

Sounds like you've never been to the EU, your claims of having traveled more than anyone here notwithstanding.

By Dominic's Cummings own admission revealing this secret is a criminal offence which we can hope will be treated a bit more seriously than driving all the way to Barnard Castle during the pandemic lock down.

True, but when you actually look at the differences between where a UK (ranked 8th), Canadian (ranked 9th) or US passport will get you without a visa let's just say it's not a list of places I plan to be visiting anytime soon but at least I still get to feel morally superior! ;-)