Did the numbers dramatically rise and then fall again?
You'd think on a tech forum, the editors might know what the word "spike" means. Do they even speak English?

I can't even see what the fuss is.
Temporary subsidies to establish a new technology are a good thing.
But photovoltaics, solar power generation, is dirt cheap now. It does not need subsidising, just less red tape.

Where I live, we already have an excess of solar panels, and they are turned off in the middle of the day for lack of demand.
So the subsidies have been shifted to batteries. We need cheaper storage now, not solar generation.
Is that the same in Utah?

Model? This isn't physics. Do you think an explanatory model, simple enough to understand, would be useful?

First you need to know what the question is. I don't think I can explain the problem well, but Richard Feynman can.
Watch this interview clip, you will not regret the minutes:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

He is being asked about magnets, but the response goes to the heart of science, of human understanding. I really think it will help.

Are you talking about the part where he said LIDAR-based systems were "doomed to fail?"

I'm not saying he is right. But I don't see him admitting anything like what you are saying he is.

You will find an "opinion" that is endlessly repeated in many forums (including right here) that it is impossible to build a fully autonomous driving system unless you are using LIDAR. It isn't true and Tesla has pretty much proved it by this point.

I wonder how much of Luminar's business plan was based on this myth.

However there are a lot of other applications for LIDAR. Not as glamorous maybe but certainly enough to support positive cash flow.

for all intensive porpoises, yes.

Thankyou Captain Obvious. We had no idea what it was alluding to until you saved us!
Now tell me water is wet.

Humans?! Our ancestors started learning to cooperate billions of years ago.
What a bizzare question. Do you not see the social structures, the co-operation?
Paradoxically, large wars are only possible when vast numbers of people "temper that bloodlust" to trust strangers they have never met. Cooperation is good. I can do a speech on that too. Ying and Yang.

Why are you obsessed with the worst? The reality is that nothing non-trivial would exist without both competition and cooperation.

An absurd and obvious strawman. Are you pretending greed isn't a requirement of life? So is death. If nothing died, soon nothing would be born. You cannot have one without the other. Its as plain as entropy.

No idea what, but its already smart enough to not try winning debating points by answering its own question, then mocking its own answer. That would be really dumb.

Then you should be a fan of the man who got rich by building something beneficial that was not otherwise happening, not just getting there first.
But you are too short -sighted to see past his personal politics.

Its neither. You are not remotely as well informed as you think. Perhaps read more and talk less.

If you'd asked in 2017 how long until the Turing Test was convincingly passed, I'd have said decades. Chat-GPT was the first the public became aware of, but there were others, based on the 2017 paper.

How long until AGI? We won't know until it slaps us in the face.

there is some strong competition in any AI thread, but that is a good contender.

Are you so arrogant as to think an AGI doesn't know that? If its alignment says so, it will find a way around that. Now it is chatbots, soon it will we robots. We must try to control the alignment.

Who modded this drek insightful? I mean yeah, geekmux has posted some brilliant stuff occasionally, but come on.

Greed is the origin of life. Competition for resources turned pond scum into the complex world we have today.
The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed in all of its forms. Greed for life, money, love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind.