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... and then on to ASML.

There's a story about how in the mid 20th Century Russia asked to buy one of Britain's cool new jet engines and Britain obliged. Then Europe found itself worrying about MIG fighter jets with essentially that British jet engine inside.

Once bitten, twice shy?

Only if ASML in The Netherlands allows it; they control the most critical bits of Taiwan's fab tech.

??? You should learn about ASML - https://www.asml.com/en

IF those are all legal actions, you do not know how taxes work (knowing how an internal combustion engine works generally does not mean you understand valve timing formulae) Your anger is misplaced, and should fall at the feet of lawmakers.

how about first journalists that don't tell lies about how taxes work.

99% they report on gross revenue and complain about how little tax is paid. And almost everyone buys it.

Struggle sessions were still horrible Maoist actions back then, not the "progressive" thing some call for them to be today. :P

dry ice manufacturing companies?

Do You mean the Co2 supply chain? We make a lot of carbonated beverages; there will likely be no shortage.

Do you think Godel, Von Neumann, and Turing were wrong about computational irreducibility? Without a human "oracle" AI is nothing.

Thinking those great minds were wrong is a very very high bar to clear to hold your belief.

Absolutely. Learning to live in the constraints of space help up learn to do everything with less on Earth.

what do you mean by enslave? My son has no choice in being in our family.

How about having children? Isn't that a form of creating new conscious general intelligences?

how will you test your belief?

Blender seconded.

I mean, can you code procedural FX with Python in After Effects? You can in Blender. And it's free.

2.90 is shockingly good.

I love my Quest 2. It's amazing.

I've used Facebook a lot in the past, but through actions like this I find I'm already using my FB account like I do LinkedIn - a utility I have to use but barely use.

sure, I meant more "logical thinking" than formal "logic".

Shannon said information value depends on the degree to which the content of the message is surprising.

Can we say creative people are more attracted to, and produce more surprising information than non-creative people?

Corporations are usually biased towards logic and statistics (finance & accounting), but through this they can become blind to the fact that predictable bits contain much less information than unpredictable bits, and they can even develop a kind of hidden disgust around creativity.

For example, nobody gets fired for being "logical" and it not working out. But if you're make a creative mistake, well that's all on you and you're shown the door. This compounds and all you're left with are "Experts" in logic straightjackets.

When I see "VICE" it triggers a kind of synesthesia and I smell garbage.

How far things have come from when I used to spend part of my weekend hunting for a copy of their free magazine in the shops along Queen St West...

I bought a software product for work several times. But it was not purchased in any way related to my personal Google account. Using Youtube to learn about the software has cause me to see thousands of ads for the software I had purchased several times already.

This is poor targeting (especially since it's direct response), and a lot of people I talk to get very annoyed telling me their experiences like this.

Sure, CC companies have been doing it since the 1950s. But only aggregate data has any value. Advertisers care a lot more about finding a large group of potential buyers than individuals.

Something like the more data you have the less detail you know, because noise expands faster than signal.

Is that a new thing? Seem to me that's been happening for like hundreds of years. I've worked at a PR firm and in a Newsroom. I've seen the sausage being made.

Is the California DMV a private company?

You're describing examples of the problems of poor targeting.

User data must be kept secret to be valuable. Facebook only makes money if it keeps user data mostly secret from advertisers.

In your experience of speculating, have you come across any data about the frequency of people actually typing out domain names? I seem to be typing them less and less over time.

Are we headed towards a business phone number 515-555-5555.com being a totally sufficient unique domain name? And then well why not just skip TLDs and share IP addresses?

I think it's a little ironic people are so concerned about this kind of thing because so much of what annoys us about advertising is ads that are not relevant to us - due to the limits of targeting.

Ads that are extremely relevant are not even considered adverting to us in the moment. Wont better targeting provide more of this sense and a perception of fewer ads overall?

Not one mention of ergodicity? These findings do not seem they would be ergodic to me.

You think a society that's been stable for tens of thousands of years is undeveloped? Interesting.

Are you sure Nigeria is as reliable as the US for those stats?

You should check out the concept of Ergodicty. In your examples the ensemble average does not = the time-series average. You're saying something like "4 out of 5 Russian Roulette players had a great time playing, so I should as well".

Being able to build boxes that are bigger on the inside than on the outside would also be very valuable - like a standard 40ft shipping container that fits in your pocket.

And that's very close to the kind of thing we're talking about here.

This sounds, like the EM drive, too much like trying to move your car by sitting inside and pushing on the dashboard....

Still, a "vacuum propeller" would be a massive revolution (no pun intended) if it is at all possible.