[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Somebody please come tell me why this company is crazy.

Does the basic math pencil out? Is it even possible to ship the wafers and materials to space and back for less than the current chip construction cost?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If they were hoarding cats, or rusty cars, or old refrigerators, or piles of scrap metal, etc., the authorities would intervene, and get them help for their mental illness.

    This is a common misconception.

    “The authorities” (USA viewpoint) are really extremely unlikely to intervene in any way at all with hoarding, and even more extremely unlikely to provide any kind of useful mental health intervention.

    If the hoarding is causing a public safety hazard then the authorities may eventually start fining the hoarder until they do whatever is minimally required to clear the hazard.

    Much much more likely, if the hoarder is renting, the landlord may evict them which is one of the many paths to homelessness.

    But by far the most common outcome is that the authorities do nothing whatsoever to stop or help with harmful hoarding behavior.

    In this way, crazy aunt Florence and Elon Musk are similar.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The output would be a string containing the proof, which a deterministic, non-LLM proof-checker could decide whether it’s correct or not.

    This part seems like an optimistic statement. Do we have LLMs outputting proofs in a consistently correct format that prof checkers can accept?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    They make those, that’s totally a thing. Even, when my grandmother moved into a retirement condo the stove there didn’t even have a setting for “stay on” — you had to set a timer to turn it in at all.

    All it takes is great gobs of money to buy a new one.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I suppose I’m not sure but I doubt it. Usually when they block something it comes with a big red warning that you’re violating corporate blah-blah by even thinking about this page and you should reconsider your questionable decision-making or some words to that effect.

    For Imgur the site loads and the all-important ads load, but the images just time out.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Man I loved Moby Dick. The detail on the whaling ships, technology, life aboard, etc was great. The philosophy was not that interesting but easy to skim through.

    Then years later I read somebody’s cutting response to something or other online, “That’s like reading Moby Dick and thinking it’s about whaling.”

    … huh.

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