I got a firsthand demo of this yesterday when I wanted to see how a .NET DLL full of CIL bytecode was put together and how it fit into a larger application. I asked Opus 4.6 for a disassembly, and it basically regenerated a fully-commented C# source file that looked like it came from the company's private repo. Amazing.
Too soon to say "Everything is open-source now," but that's where we're headed.
For example, most companies would swear they were decided on cutting carbon emissions, just to forget everything when it comes to build data centers.
This doesn't seem contradictory if you consider that success at AGI will solve the problem of carbon emissions, one way or another. If one data center ultimately replaces a whole medium-sized city of commuters...
> If one data center ultimately replaces a whole medium-sized city of commuters...
Then we find out how long it takes for a medium sized city of commuters to start killing each other, elites and burning down data centers. Once they're hungry enough it'll happen for sure
Data centres should have plenty of good loot. Raw materials like copper or at least aluminium. Maybe even steel, but value proposition there is less likely. I suppose someone will be interested in example fuel too if there is fuel based backup generation.
Thinking about that, a world dominated by data centers will be relatively easy do disrupt, someone just needs to destroy a dozen or so datacenters to bring everything down.
I guess this is what Plato meant when he said that people would have to be dragged out of the cave kicking and screaming, and would then demand to be let back in.
Tektronix built a lot of test equipment based on color-shutter CRTs in the 1990s. It was simultaneously nifty and awful. They could render rich, well-defined color waveforms, but as soon as you moved your eyes, the illusion would break apart into rainbow-colored fragments. It was like watching a movie on a DLP projector, only much worse.
Meanwhile, HP OEM'ed a bunch of Trinitron monitors from Sony and called it a day.
The marketing people are the ones who tell you to not use terms like "federation," "instances," or "tooting" when designing a social networking product.
They're the ones who tell you not to force dark mode down everyone's throats by default, when usability studies going back to the 1980s say that's a bad idea.
The marketing people are sometimes wrong. But on the whole, not usually.
And if were true, Darwin would've already taken care of the problem.
Fact is, it's not true. The survey, whose authors work in a field where a 50% replication rate justifies breaking out the champagne, clearly didn't represent tens of millions of white and Latinx women in religious communities.
These women are almost literally bred to submit... and I say 'almost' only to contrast the recent past with the not-too-distant future. Who do you think put Trump over the top?
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