We have gained a lot of confidence that having control ourselves is actually enormously valuable.

I still don't get why so many people who watch/read scifi conclude "yes this is a legitimate and realistic vision of the future, and not Wizards and Dragons but with Technology"

Going to mars or staying on the moon will be a Darwin Award-level adventure.

Secondary effects can also make this a good investment decision: if you have enough other delusional people to buy into it, you still gain from it, even if you believe it's bullshit.

It is only this degree of malice and incompetence that can give rise to something like the CCC.

Yeah it does feel like much tech competence that sprouts in Germany is either sequestered off and penned in, and/or leaves the country.

You're right, all error messages should be voiced by Cave Johnson.

considering how unsustainable this whole AI Business is and how much it ruins everything, I can't wait for the crash.

Why did we listen to the Worldcoin guy again?

I can't wait for this to happen. I live far enough from the US to not be super affected by this crash and hopefully I will be able to stock up on disks and parts once the prices drop.

Because he killed the Open part of openai and the PEs went nuts

While the observations are measurable correct, are we not antropomorphosising a bit too much here?

That debate is 90% of the article.

I mean, even the debate still goes down that path on both sides. What even.

> but to my dilettante, critical eye it really looks as though there is a hell of a lot of learning happening in the convnet also.

Yeah it feels like they constructed the conclusion and worked backwards from there. I'm not seeing how their claim has much merit.

> A bunch of rotten fruit is _exceptionally valuable_

> right now I'm in a position where I could really use truckloads of rotten, inedible peaches if I could get them for free.

These two statements contradict each other. If you are pushing to get something for free (and seems like you wouldn't pay for them, or wouldn't pay much for them, instead opting to do without), then they are absolutely not exceptionally valuable from the sell side.

I would pay for it - I meant this in the context that people here are getting paid to destroy value. Also don't get the downvotes, improving soil efficiently in large quantities is an interesting question a lot of tech people (being city people) never have to care about.

If rotten fruit was exceptionally valuable, then people would be paying exceptional amounts of money for it instead of wondering where they can get truckloads of it for free.

Right? It's not exceptionally valuable. It has some nonzero value doubtful that matches the cost to collect it and get it to the people who want it.

Someone needs to put them in tanks for long time and make something very valuable like this:

https://en.excaliburshop.com/catalog/item/8951/fleret-merunk...

That is just a subreddit, I don't really see where it describes the problem.

Anyway: It's because on the Mercator projection, it is a small point in the bottom right that easily gets overlooked or accidently cropped out.

You're right I should have explained rather than throwing a link. Poor Tasmania suffers the same fate, even among Australians though I think the reason is more cultural