I think the theory is that AI will remove most of the value from the custom software industry. So they don't see much value in entering that industry. It'd be like Tesla entering the oil refinery business or Waymo…
>But people aren’t necessarily great at intuitively understanding risk; nuclear _feels_ much scarier. Nuclear is much scarier. Your argument fails to account for the extreme effort spent in order to keep it safe! In the…
>i.e. 0.02677/kWh. Where would this measure as too high? Well, there are a few plants in the US (for example Kewaunee, rancho seco) that were closed for not being profitable. In one instance the owner took an over 300M…
>It's surprising to me that a massive project like a nuclear reactor costs 1/3 of the inflation-adjusted total construction cost per year in upkeep. My statement was based on findings from a few of the plants on this…
>Whereas if you're comparing the 1970s construction costs to the modern day operating costs to imply that the operating costs are high, that's obviously not a useful comparison to begin with. If we learn that making new…
>That includes paying principal and interest on the construction loans, right? One would think! But no, all US plants except Vogtle and Watts are paid off long ago. Now, why did you just throw that out there without…
>The primary cost for nuclear is the initial construction. That's a common claim but it's not really correct. Firstly, the average plant in the US spends it's construction costs every 2-3 years, I assume the situation…
I provided citations for my assertions, artificial interference in capitalism (by means of communism) has caused famine. What assertion are you lacking citation for? The hubble and webb telescopes vs the ??? communist…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%93... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
>It won't have to win by being better I agree but it's also better. On average for most programming tasks I think humans are as "defeated" as coders as we are as chess players. The machines will not only be as good or…
>Capitalism creates increasing levels of inequality over time while nominally providing "equal opportunity" to all. I think a better summary is that capitalism creates more opportunities for all. Not equal, just more.…
I liked those as well (I assume you meant "Show-Stopper!" about windows NT) and also remember "Dreaming in code" as a good one in the same-ish genre.
It could be argued that these megawatt-consuming agent runs leading to unforeseen chains of autonomy should be treated like toxic chemical experiments, and be similarly regulated by laws and government agencies. Right…
Both of course. The agent can do things unrelated to the prompt and the prompt can be written by another instance of the same agent. The end result can be basically full autonomy for all intents and purposes. This…
>And it's far from being higher than avg market prices today in Switzerland, where did you get this nonsense? It's not nonsense but you made a different statement than I. Switzerland doesn't use market prices.…
>So you are in a phase where coal is safer than nuclear? The permanent truth phase yes. Coal is so much safer than nuclear that a comparison is hardly meaningful. Let me put it this way - If coal power plants were run…
>So we're not counting natural disasters that cause power infrastructure failure? I take it you don't consider the events of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami to be a nuclear accident then. Of course not, if I did…
I like that this is an active area of consideration. I think there is lots of room for improvement. But I also think that what we have today in Gnome and KDE is pretty good, and a part of the problem is that people…
>It's cheap to operate. See https://www.kkg.ch/de/uns/geschaefts-nachhaltigkeitsberichte... It's not, the estimated production cost for existing swiss nuclear plants is 4-6 centimes per kWh, which is already expensive…
>Nuclear has no real cons other than time/cost of deployment, That's not true. It's extremely expensive to operate for one, so expensive in fact that nobody in the private sector wants to do it without having nation…
>Maybe things will change in the future, but I know where things stand right now It's not an either-or though, LLM generated text already provides lots of value in many situations right now. It's also used for fluff,…
>If it's able to guess those 700 bits correctly, then they aren't true semantic information, and you really only have 300 bits you want to transfer. A math teacher only has "this class is about math" to transfer, the…
>I am telling you again and again that other distros already do this.... "This" includes installing in a literal minute, having codex, claude code, vs code etc installed as easily as emacs with 0 extra config. Also…
The memory bandwidth is a small thing compared to the massive win you get by not having to move data between two memory pools at all.
Having unified memory is a real advantage though, it's not a reality distortion.
I think the theory is that AI will remove most of the value from the custom software industry. So they don't see much value in entering that industry. It'd be like Tesla entering the oil refinery business or Waymo…
>But people aren’t necessarily great at intuitively understanding risk; nuclear _feels_ much scarier. Nuclear is much scarier. Your argument fails to account for the extreme effort spent in order to keep it safe! In the…
>i.e. 0.02677/kWh. Where would this measure as too high? Well, there are a few plants in the US (for example Kewaunee, rancho seco) that were closed for not being profitable. In one instance the owner took an over 300M…
>It's surprising to me that a massive project like a nuclear reactor costs 1/3 of the inflation-adjusted total construction cost per year in upkeep. My statement was based on findings from a few of the plants on this…
>Whereas if you're comparing the 1970s construction costs to the modern day operating costs to imply that the operating costs are high, that's obviously not a useful comparison to begin with. If we learn that making new…
>That includes paying principal and interest on the construction loans, right? One would think! But no, all US plants except Vogtle and Watts are paid off long ago. Now, why did you just throw that out there without…
>The primary cost for nuclear is the initial construction. That's a common claim but it's not really correct. Firstly, the average plant in the US spends it's construction costs every 2-3 years, I assume the situation…
I provided citations for my assertions, artificial interference in capitalism (by means of communism) has caused famine. What assertion are you lacking citation for? The hubble and webb telescopes vs the ??? communist…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%93... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
>It won't have to win by being better I agree but it's also better. On average for most programming tasks I think humans are as "defeated" as coders as we are as chess players. The machines will not only be as good or…
>Capitalism creates increasing levels of inequality over time while nominally providing "equal opportunity" to all. I think a better summary is that capitalism creates more opportunities for all. Not equal, just more.…
I liked those as well (I assume you meant "Show-Stopper!" about windows NT) and also remember "Dreaming in code" as a good one in the same-ish genre.
It could be argued that these megawatt-consuming agent runs leading to unforeseen chains of autonomy should be treated like toxic chemical experiments, and be similarly regulated by laws and government agencies. Right…
Both of course. The agent can do things unrelated to the prompt and the prompt can be written by another instance of the same agent. The end result can be basically full autonomy for all intents and purposes. This…
>And it's far from being higher than avg market prices today in Switzerland, where did you get this nonsense? It's not nonsense but you made a different statement than I. Switzerland doesn't use market prices.…
>So you are in a phase where coal is safer than nuclear? The permanent truth phase yes. Coal is so much safer than nuclear that a comparison is hardly meaningful. Let me put it this way - If coal power plants were run…
>So we're not counting natural disasters that cause power infrastructure failure? I take it you don't consider the events of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami to be a nuclear accident then. Of course not, if I did…
I like that this is an active area of consideration. I think there is lots of room for improvement. But I also think that what we have today in Gnome and KDE is pretty good, and a part of the problem is that people…
>It's cheap to operate. See https://www.kkg.ch/de/uns/geschaefts-nachhaltigkeitsberichte... It's not, the estimated production cost for existing swiss nuclear plants is 4-6 centimes per kWh, which is already expensive…
>Nuclear has no real cons other than time/cost of deployment, That's not true. It's extremely expensive to operate for one, so expensive in fact that nobody in the private sector wants to do it without having nation…
>Maybe things will change in the future, but I know where things stand right now It's not an either-or though, LLM generated text already provides lots of value in many situations right now. It's also used for fluff,…
>If it's able to guess those 700 bits correctly, then they aren't true semantic information, and you really only have 300 bits you want to transfer. A math teacher only has "this class is about math" to transfer, the…
>I am telling you again and again that other distros already do this.... "This" includes installing in a literal minute, having codex, claude code, vs code etc installed as easily as emacs with 0 extra config. Also…
The memory bandwidth is a small thing compared to the massive win you get by not having to move data between two memory pools at all.
Having unified memory is a real advantage though, it's not a reality distortion.