Twitter’s biggest asset is its market dominance. People can’t leave Twitter because all their followers are also on Twitter. If Twitter were to be banned in the EU, that would be a big market share where a competitor could emerge. Since said competitor would not be constrained to the EU, once a new market leader of the EU market emerges, it would soon challenge Twitter in the US and internationally.
More like a terabyte.
In addition, we haven’t even come up with a definition of intelligence.
Well, we’re still at least one breakthrough away from AGI, and we don’t even know how it will go from there. Could be that humans are already near the maximum of what is possible intelligence wise. As in, the smartest being possible is not that much smarter than the average human. In which case, AGI taking over the world would not be a given.
Essentially, talking about the threat posed by ASI is like talking about the threat posed by Cthulhu.
AI companies are buying up all of the RAM in a futile bit to reach AGI.
Same way you short anything else, you borrow it, sell it, and then buy it back once the price has dropped, and return it.
Investors could be bailed out. As in you invested 10e11$, so now the government gives you that money back.
Market cap is just share price times the number of shares. Can potentially be completely divorced from how well your company is actually doing. Conversely, a drop or rise in market cap doesn’t have to mean your company is doing better or worse. If you’re selling shovels, you still have the money when the music stops.
In a gold rush, the real money is in selling shovels. But you have to take cash upfront.
Just launch a ton of ball bearings into orbit, and end space flight for ever. Or at least for the forseeable future.
Edit: Bearing balls, actually. Ball bearings is where the bearing balls are. But we want them in orbit.
They’re the ones selling shovels in this gold rush, though.
And the AFD in Germany.
Yeah. The big advantage of the fediverse is that “if you don’t like it, leave” is practical advise instead of a way for the powerful to shut down arguments.
I’d like to see the reaction, though.
What if we’re not smart enough to build something like that?
Suggestion, try the perfect society again, but ritualistically torture a child to death once a year. Obviously, the ritual would be a sham, with the child being actually an agent, but we’ll make the humans think that it’s real.
The game is a grand strategy game set in space, and it let’s you do some horrific stuff. It let’s you set the rights of every species in your empire, and one of the options is “undesirables”, which means they are going to be the victims of genocide. The game even let’s you pick what method of genocide you prefer. There’s extermination, where they are hunted down by extermination squads and presumably shot on the spot. Then there’s forced labor, where they are worked to death. You can also turn them into food, energy if you’re a machine intelligence, or paperclips, if you’re that kind of machine intelligence. If you prefer a softer approach, you can forcibly sterilize them, so that they die out. Alternatively, you can displace them.
Problem with Starlink is that the satellites need to be replaced every 5 years or so.
What’s that, and why should it be destroyed?