Every time they talk about this damn thing it's a different size and works by a different mechanism. Explanations given vary from this magnetic field mumbo jumbo to essentially just being a near perfect dead reckoning integrator.

Anyone have links to any actual papers or journalism on the subject that hasnt been oversimplified to the point where it is just nonsense?

If/when true AGI is achieved, only a fool would announce it. What would announcing it do for you? Make you famous? Rich? Cool. Know what's better than all that?

Not telling a damn soul and using the AGI quietly to do whatever the Hell you want. If you want to be rich, the AGI will tell you how to become rich. If you want to be famous, the AGI will tell you how to become famous. You can do both. And you don't have to stop there. A real, vastly superior AGI enables the person controlling it to do anything. The second you tell people about it, you'll lose control over it and then you're the famous idiot who did a cool thing one time. Kids in elementary school will recite your name back on a test. And you could have had everything.

Anyone smart enough to crack AGI can't also be stupid enough to advertise when they do it.

It's annoying that you have to change your mac address every 20 minutes, but yeah. Free wifi (after hoop jumping) has been available for quite a while on many airlines.

I read it as 4.5 didn't end up performing as well as hoped in the real world and 4.1 being a direct iteration of 4o rather than 4.5.

They're operating with parallel code lines because each is targeting different use cases.

These are all issues directly related to regulation and unnecessary red tape created out of NIMBYism and irrational fear around radiation. India, Canada, and China aren't stupid. They're building and/or modernizing nuclear power plants like crazy because they're so effective at reliable baseline power, which renewables simply are not. In the US, we force years - sometimes decades - of reviews and permits and defending court cases and other bullshit unrelated to the construction and operation of clean, safe nuclear power.

The other issue going to cost is that the US - again, stupidly - bars reuse of high energy spent fuel. If you simply separate the low energy (relatively safe, but useless for generating power) waste from the high energy fuel remaining and feed the high energy stuff back in, you can extract nearly all the energy, save a ton of fuel costs, mine less fuel, and have vastly less volume of waste and vastly less energetic waste.

Let's assume some sort of absolute mandate were passed to build 5 CANDU-6 (known, proven, safe, reliable design) reactors. No reviews, no permits, no red tape, no lawsuits. Just build the damn things now. You can get one operational in ~3.5 years, all of them in about 4ish years. South Korea and China have built PWRs in 5. Assuming we also lifted the ban on fuel reprocessing, CANDU-6 plants will produce power at a cost of 5-6 cents per kWh, yielding a retail price of 13-17 cents per kWh. US average is about 16.2 cents, California has rates pushing 50 cents. But we're too stupid to get out of our own way and just do it, so we'll keep strangling the poor and middle class economically.

It's clear the brute force approach works and is sometimes the best way to advance. Once you see the path to getting the job done, take it. I see projects like ITER and ChatGPT4 in this category. Can you learn to do these things more efficiently given a few extra years of R&D? Obviously. But you are also a few years behind, and you have probably spent a lot of effort prematurely optimizing.

With falsified records, anything is possible.

Gas tube signs have a very unique spectral emissions that makes them appear the way they do. Very little effort has been put into LED lighting to properly mimic the appealing spectral emission of incandescent filtered or gas tube colored lighting.

Almost exclusively phosphor coatings have been tuned to cause blue and near UV leds to emit (sort of) broad spectrum white light and nothing more, though it would certainly be possible to develop a phosphor that could more closely approxmiate neon, for instance.

As for direct emission, red green and blue LEDs are mostly now only available at certain wavelengths for tricolor mixing applications. Due to economies of scale, LEDs at other visible wavelengths are extremely underdeveloped technology.

Exactly. If you want to take the principled stand and not to do endorsements, you announce this before the campaigns begin. Otherwise it just looks like you were keeping your options open until 2 weeks before the election, which let's be honest, is exactly what happened.

You are very enthusiastic, but you have forgotten about critical current. The more current you put down a superconductor, the higher the magnetic flux. At a certain level, the magnetism will disrupt the material's ability to form cooper pairs. In most superconducting materials the critical current is quite low, which is why things like MRI magnets and ITER magnets have historically needed to be very very big. Only very recent advancements in state of the art superconductors like REBCO tapes are finally achieving critical currents that touch the lower end of what is needed for grid-scale transmission. My point is this isn't so clear cut; the materials and systems still need lots of additional development to become broadly useful in these applications.

If you have access to be able to call up Trump, you call him and tell him what you want. You call him as much as he will talk to you. You'd be absolutely stupid not to do it. The guy has the memory of a goldfish; if you have talked to him in the last day, you are his whole world. After a week, he doesn't even know who you are.

I cannot imagine a more business destroying move than to be a payment processor that collects money from the customer and stiffs the vendor.

It's not even possible to do this in the current us regulatory environment unless your business is doing some horribly shady shit like comingling customer funds with operating accounts.

Imagine if one day Visa just said, oh we are gonna keep the funds from these 750 million daily transactions to ourselves for 3+ months.

Bingo. Anybody can think of the obvious. If it's a good idea: a product or service people actually WANT, then a thousand, a million people will have also thought of it. By the time you get to me with your stupid napkin, I'll have a list together of all the other people who got to it first.

Back when I was a startup tech consultant, I wouldn't even meet with anyone who didn't have a proper written business plan. I didn't necessarily care to read it, but if you couldn't make the effort to understand your own path forward, you were gonna be a nightmare client. Despite this being an apparently low bar, it worked very well to weed out the people who overvalued their ideas/contributions.

AI is more like statistical mechanics which is ... well let's just say it started as very clearly not physics and the deeper we dig the more it seems that it is basically the entirety of physics.

> higher propensity to share low-quality news

For anyone reading along, this is just a euphemism of people with low intelligence. It's not as if propensity to share low quality news is some kind of innate human trait that some people have and some people don't. The issue, depending on your perspective is either: 1) people who cannot tell that it is low quality in the first place or 2) a failure of the media's implicit social contract to report truthfully and without bias.