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IRIS² looks on track? Granted, it is not a SpaceX competitor for consumer Internet. But it is an alternative for applications where reliance on SpaceX is not prudent.

It exists but only in the conceptual / R&D and politics funding stage right now. I hope it succeeds but they're going to need significant amounts of money and real world launch capability to catch up with SpaceX and Amazon Leo in live satellites. The contract for development and design of the satellites was just awarded on August 31st, which is a positive sign.

As far as I understand GAAP reporting standards actually require them to report gains on those positions as "earnings". But they do report non-GAAP earnings sometimes excluding them. E.g. Google earnings per share last quater is $9.11 GAAP vs $2.85 non-GAAP (mainly because of SpaceX shares).

There are enough people playing multiplayer games where this is not the case. Those are actually kind of annoying because ELO systems cause you to always loose about half the games (except if you are the top player of all the players) no matter how much better you get.

You could tune this to handicap the LLM such that the player wins 80% of the time or so and it should be more fun (except for the competitive aspect).


Thats a good point about multiplayer, I was really thinking single player only. I guess the main thrust of my point is that the reason there isn't more ML in games isn't related to performance, its that the goal of game design(single player anyway) isn't to make enemies into unbeatable gods so the usefulness of ML is somewhat limited.

Is that kind of argument something like where you count the number of cranks claiming P=NP and the number of cranks claiming P!=NP and then if you get 95% papers claiming P!=NP that one wins?

What? Not at all. I'm referring to things like discussing distributions of certain things or probabilities of things as we go towards infinity, etc. These are proper papers, not surveys.

But if a LLM writes such a paper, how do you know there aren't any issues in it that cause wrong probabilities/distributions?

You don't, that's why you review it (just how you would handle a real human submitting a paper). The main issue with LLM papers is that they tend to be very dense/circuitous or—because LLMs don't truly understand what they're doing—have the wrong focus. An LLM might spend pages on a trivial result, but quickly gloss over a truly remarkable finding.

Terry Tao talks about this challenge in some of his blog posts and interviews, it's pretty interesting.


That was adamddev1s point. It's a unreliable tool. You cannot copy & paste its results into a paper as proof. You could do this with e.g. Lean. To review what it writes you need to understand the topic to such an extend that you could have written it yourself (at least that is how it is for me when I review code).

Yes, for inspiration or search they are great tools.


>You don't, that's why you review it

Review enough of those without doing the proving yourself, and you'll soon lose the ability to review. And have LLMs do the course work for you at math school, and you might never acquire such ability to begin with anyway.


Is that with the One-Stop-Shop regulation or was that before that?

If it was before than, then the EU recognized the problem and implemented a fix for it.


Yeah, it only took 4 years for them to fix an obvious screw up. Only 4 years. Surely every business can survive that.


I don't think any EU One-stop-shop scheme covers "local" goods sales in other EU member states yet, i.e. an EU company has to register in all EU countries they hold stock in.

That is changing with the Single VAT Registration (SVR) legislation, effective in 2028.


This was 2017-2021. Not sure if One-Stop-Shop covers this as it mentions "cross-border sales" and the problem with Amazon fulfillment and storage was to make all sales local (not cross-border). But maybe it does cover it. I don't know.


Clearly Putin is playing 4D chess /s. Having all the main export infrastructure blown up by Ukraine is also part of the plan.


Please read the discussion before you comment. Infrastructure damage is because of Ukraine's actions, not because of trump. We were discussing trump's actions benefiting Russia. Not saying it's on purpose, probably incompetence.


The discussion is if Trump is Putins puppet or not. Seems like you agree with fidotron that is is just incompetence, so you should not have argued against him.


sure, but ukraine is not able to stop its own export infrastructure from being blown up, or defend itself from north korean missiles anymore.

europe and east asia whove been helping to fund and arm ukraine are also taking the real pressure from iran and the US halting energy exports from the gulf.

the oil price for high enough to where russia gets paid the same amount despite having most of its infrastructure blown up, vs having its infrastructure blown up and also the oil proce being low.


Yes, it has that effect. It is just IMO unlikely that this was planned and steered by Putin. If he was that smart he either would not have started the war with Ukraine or would have won the war with Ukraine.

The war with Ukraine is currently doing huge damage to Russia. Maybe Putin wants to be more securely in charge of a diminished Russia. IMO again, I doubt that.


Took me some thinking to figure out where this design is not optimal.

The first step is to separate the problems. The content addressable object storage and storing the refs. libgit2 has two backends for those already.

Then use appropriate distributed dbs for the two backends. With large scale something like Cassandra for the objects (AP) and FoundationDB (CP) for the refs (or the equivalent Amazon services).

For performance the objects need to be cached locally and requests routed to nodes where the objects are cached locally.


Part of the problem is that the API you're supposed to provide externally depends on git packs which you might have to reconstruct on the fly from such a system.


Exactly. I would love to see that design work, but it doesn't for any realistic workload.


Then the local cache system needs to provide or cache those git packs


For a while Amazon was good at discovering new books to read. Nowadays my ad-blocker blocks everything except for the book I am directly navigating to from the page. No discovery of new books is happening for me there anymore.

Another place to discover new books was Goodreads. Bought and left to rot by Amazon.

I don't buy many books anymore.


You could... change your adblocker? I use uBlock Origin, which doesn't block "customers also bought" widgets at all.


And before OpenAI, he was at FTX.


Why is anyone from FTX being trusted with money…


Not FTX the exchange, he was working at the FTX Future Fund which is part of the philanthropic foundation SBF created as part of his effective altruism commitment (the same SBF who also provided $500M to help Anthropic get started btw, just a few weeks before going bust).

As a side note, it’s pretty insane how many people of the AI industry have a relationship to effective altruism


Looking into the relationship a bit, I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL

> Gebru and Torres argue that these ideologies should be treated as an "interconnected and overlapping" group with shared origins. They claim these constitute a movement that allows its proponents to use the threat of human extinction to justify expensive or detrimental projects and consider it pervasive in social and academic circles in Silicon Valley centered on artificial intelligence. As such, the acronym is sometimes used to criticize a perceived belief system associated with Big Tech.


Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that page


New reddit also has blocking pop-ups after a while if you are not logged in since recently.


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