But even MORE impressive is the current raptor engines cost between $1m to $2m each with a target cost of $500k when in full production. The F-1 cost an inflation adjusted $85m-$100m each.
These weren’t true Marxism. When me and my communist buddies take over next time you will see a real people’s utopia. Not like the last 47 times. I promise. Word of honor. Everyone will get a pony.
von Neumann also advocated for an immediate, surprise U.S. nuclear first strike on the Soviet Union: “If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at 5 o’clock, I say why not one o’clock?”. According to game theory you see, it was only rational.
You might enjoy the Tom Wolfe book, From Bauhaus to Our House.
In it he tries to explain the observations you make. Very lively, funny writing and you know he is on the right track because he was universally panned by modern architects.
No. Since there is a lot of disagreement about this in the surrounding comments, I just watched 20m of an old Russell Brand YT video. As of a few minutes ago there were no YT ads in the video. That includes the very beginning and the end. However there were Brand narrated promotions in the video.
The video was actually much easier to watch without the blasted YT ads that normally pop up every 5 minutes. And I suppose Brand still gets paid 100% for the embedded promos he narrated and negotiated with the advertisers.
Siri rarely disappointed me because my expectations were always low and I trained myself on how to talk to it.
But now after some remarkable experiences using GPT-4 I find I’ve lost a lot of patience with all the different voice assistants. They are just so stupid in comparison. How much longer before LLMs and projects like Whisper run the backend?
Austin has 2.57 murders and nonnegligent manslaughters per 100K. Same year, SF has 6.35 per 100K. So SF is twice as bad as Austin. Your right about Miami though.
But 6.35 isn't bad. The murder rate in St Louis (for comparision to the US city with the worst) is 66.07 per 100K. And Colima Mexico (worst in the world maybe) is 182 murders per 100K.
When automation, computers and offshoring were hollowing out the jobs of factory workers, miners and the low-to-medium skilled all we heard was "Learn to code!" from the laptop class of knowledge workers.
My advice to all the upper-middle-class professionals (teachers, lawyers, engineers, managers, accountants, doctors) out there who will soon be disintermediated by an LLM is "Learn to weld!"
GTP4, rewrite the above message to be less brusque
I hope you don't mind me sharing a different perspective for the sake of discussion. I might be mistaken, and I'm not entirely sure how much I believe in the argument I'm presenting.
It's true that ChatGPT doesn't only provide answers based on what it has been taught, but it also uses the structure of those answers to create statistically similar responses. However, when it comes to demonstrating novelty, I think we might be underestimating the vast amount of information and variety that humans have written about and shared online. While anything we ask ChatGPT to do might be new to us personally, it's highly likely that it has already been thought of and documented online, and ChatGPT is simply providing a similar response based on its prior knowledge.
This phenomenon, where ChatGPT has significantly more training data and experience than any single human, leading to the illusion of originality, is quite intriguing. For instance, when it comes to image generation, we might experience a period of "artistic inbreeding" because we, as individuals, are not aware of everything others have done. We may perceive something like Midjourney's output as moving and original, when in reality, it could just be a slight variation of someone else's work that we haven't seen before.
Please don't take this as me being confrontational; I genuinely respect your opinion and experiences, and I'm enjoying our conversation.
I agree and have always wondered how people with these extreme views think modern society would function without roads. You can't build (or maintain) a house, a hospital, a factory, a school or an office building without roads to accommodate the trucks pouring the foundation, deliverying the lumber and shingles. How do I get food, funiture and appliances to my apartment with only bike paths? What if I need an ambulance or police, do they roll up on electric bikes?
Nothing is going to get build and everyday life is not possible without real roads that accomadate vehicles doing real work. And if you have that already why not use then for real personal vehicles that can be used by everyone and not just young, healthy hacker news subscribers.
“The screenplay was written by Kubrick and science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, and was inspired by Clarke's 1951 short story "The Sentinel" and other short stories by Clarke. Clarke also published a novelisation of the film, in part written concurrently with the screenplay, after the film's release.”
The film — written by Kubrick and Clarke — came first. The book is a novelization of the movie. So watch the movie. It’s unlikely you will be disappointed.