It’s just that all your shit and users are there, like issue tracking in this case.

The original blog post is rather frank and to the point. Wish the engineering leadership I worked with communicated this well.

I think when the economics of destroying a thing is better than reusing a thing, we should maybe have some sort of incentives toward reuse.

I get that the logistics of setting up what’s basically a secondary supply chain is difficult, but I’ve got to believe it would be for the better.

That’s really disheartening. Not because of my want for cheap RAM, but for the sheer waste of it all.

For example, OpenAI’s new “Stargate” project reportedly signed deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for up to 900,000 wafers of DRAM per month to feed its AI clusters, which is an amount close to 40% of total global DRAM output if it’s ever met. That’s an absurd amount of DRAM.

Will these even be useful on the second hand market, or are these chips gonna be on specialized PCBs for these machines?

Lots of neat uncomfortable questions arise though. At what point is it conscious? If it never experienced autonomy, life, locomotion, or social human interaction, is it torture or just its natural state of being?

Not thermoelectrics, but sterling engines. But fair point about the heat.

In the UK, large stocks of civil nuclear waste contain significant quantities of americium-241. That makes the fuel not only long-lasting but also readily accessible. Instead of building new reactors to produce plutonium, agencies can extract Americium from existing waste, a form of recycling at a planetary scale.

Using it seems way more preferable to just letting it sit in casks.

Traditional RTGs utilize thermoelectrics, which are reliable but inefficient, often achieving only five percent efficiency. Stirling engines can convert heat to electricity with an efficiency of 25 percent or more. […] Stirling engines introduce moving parts, which also raises reliability concerns in space. However, Americium’s steady heat output enables RTG designs with multiple Stirling converters operating in tandem. If one fails, the others compensate, preserving power output.

That seems a little ridiculous though. All that friction requires a lube that’ll last “generations.” In space, without gravity, and at incredibly low temperatures.

GitCoin exists and has been pretty successful in the past.

Though I suspect it’s not what you’re looking for. I don’t see bounties on their site anymore and their focus has been mostly in the crypto space.

Yeah but like, if humans aren’t dying there’s no stakes. Eventually one robot army must chew through the other to get to the human soldiers or civilians. Then you just eventually just have a robot army massacring a populous with no internal morality.

The bill text of SB-212 seems pretty reasonable. Basically just says the government needs a good reason to create regulations on computation.

It even explicitly mentions good reasons may include things like fraud, deepfakes, and public nuisances of datacenters.

As a Montanan, I’m cool with it. Guess we’ll see how it’s used.

I’d rather be a free and open society than win any kind of industrial race.

Maybe like a Great Firewall. Seems like a great idea.

At that level why not just build your own?

The company says that 0.15% of ChatGPT’s active users in a given week have “conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.” Given that ChatGPT has more than 800 million weekly active users, that translates to more than a million people a week.

Split screen yo

From the OG Guardian article:

“It’s only software developers and drug dealers who call people users,” Kosmyna mutters at one point, frustrated at AI companies’ determination to push their products on to the public before we fully understand the psychological and cognitive costs.

I disagree for a ton of reasons but what a great line.

A truly open source (and functional) phone can’t come fast enough.

I mean, some parts of the protocols we use for the Internet need to be in the clear to work, DNS comes to mind. If you want that kept private as well you need to use something like tor.

Not really. We also have DNS over HTTPs, DNS over TLS, and DNSCrypt which are all becoming more popular. But that’s still application level data that I’m not really talking about.

But regardless, what people generally actually care about keeping secret is the content, not the protocol.

A lot of information can be gleaned from protocol metadata though. Source, destination, which applications are being used, maybe more depending on protocols. Not exactly information I want to be easily available to the public, but also not exactly critical either.

I should’ve been more clear, I didn’t mean the data, but at the protocol level it’s all open.

Same with the Internet traffic through these satellites.