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I suspect that you can definitely use planned economy tools down to a certain scale and then let the markets sort the rest.

At some level, Indian and Chinese economies have their development centrally planned, not just financially regulated, like in the West.

Neat. Note that battery life is reasonably good (2 years) even with Bluetooth sync feature.

I followed the story and he absolutely did, in multiple instances.

This is deeply unsatisfying answer.

The question to Sam and Dario would be: if the thing you are building is going do displace humanity, then why are you building it?

Low quality bait.

If humans would be able to settle Mars and asteroid belt, there is no limit to how far you can expand onwards.

That's a cost, though. And in today's world, companies rather burn millions on AI than train their own labour.

I sense a certain contradiction? If majority of students are just not very good at self-studying methods, then they don't scale well.

Mediocre student that sits through lectures, does the homework and submits assignment on due dates will get a good level of mastery in the subject. The very same student would be totally lost relying only on self-studying - he would not even know what he doesn't know.

Self-directed studying doesn't scale. To produce thousands of new graduates per year you need industrial-scale methods - schools and colleges.

I can teach symbolic math effectively using clay tablet and reed pen today.

Numerical methods, however, would require at least minimal computing hardware.

I think there should be a guiding principle of using the least amount of tech in teaching any subject, just like principle of least privilege in cybersecurity.

Ha! Steroids give you muscle mass without lifting, believe it or not. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199607043350101

Of course, side effects are a different story.

I had iPads and Apple Pencils - but nothing beats the pleasure of ink pen on paper.

LLMs are like anabolic steroids for the brain. Surely you can do more with them, but you are better without them. Access to them should be restricted, especially for untrained minds.

And for the good reason. I have yet to see 1 (one) reason how giving infinite cheat machine to students is of any benefit to them.

The secret to mastery remained unchanged for a thousand years: books, lectures and homework. All of this can be done with pen and paper level of technology.

High-quality (higher carbon) steel required for frame, chain and gears was not abundant enough and cheap enough until late XIX century.

Local models running on Apple hardware are definitely a thing, a low-hanging fruit they are harvesting right now while every pure-play AI company is losing money.

Reminds me of LTCM fund story (very smart people X highly leveraged portfolio = a perfect recipe for massive losses on black swan day)

Article gave me an idea that Indus Valley seals were baker's stamps - that's why the imprinted goods were never found (eaten!).

My radical opinion is that LLMs are harmful for software development - they are the ultimate "goto" operator. All actual code should be written by a human developer.

Instead, use them in adversarial mode - run QA scenarios using LLM agent as a substitute for end user to do bug discovery.

You can absolutely select founding population to be maximally genetically diverse and of large enough number to avoid inbreeding.

Speciation is a likely outcome for interplanetary and interstellar colonies, yes.

beats rawdogging it, at least.

"The "S" in AI stands for security" strikes again.

Run any cloud-based AI agents in VM/container and map your host's local folders to guest OS as needed.

Takes more effort that default way, I know.

One of the most interesting technologies that is not about LLMs/AIs.

My bad! Global aerospace industry then.

1969 was truly the pinnacle of US aerospace industry - Concord, Boeing 747 and Apollo 11 all happened during this year.

This should be way higher.

There is no metric a reasonably intelligent person can't sabotage or subvert...

...for example, you can write a script to burn tokens and write the code yourself.

Nobody forces you to use AI.

It has become sort of junk food for the brain. Temptations and ads for it everywhere.

That's one idea I am willing to bet on (with my money and skills).

Fair enough. I appreciate your civility.