They're also custom made vehicles for delivery use case [1]. And they're also still a major shareholder in the company.

And long-long-term maybe some kind of integration with Zoox for an tsla/uber like delivery experience (with drones?).

[1] https://youtu.be/3CWCqJl0BEs

> Overwhelmingly, people get promoted because they solve challenging problems with meaningful impact. That's how capitalism and modern corporation work.

It's key to ask, does the promotion (or strong performance rating) happen before the impact or after?

You can deliver Project X that will save $YY Million dollars. Everyone agrees the impact is "there", the complexity is there. Launch a PoC to a handful of use cases, realize most of that impact, then move onto something else. PoC works for those use cases, never becomes a complete solution, and slowly develops issues. Once it has enough issues, someone else can solve the problem again for the even more impact assuming the problem space has grown since the initial launch.

Capitalism works when there's competition and cost for (long-term) failure. Neither are guaranteed to exist if you're at a Big Corp that's printing money.

》Capitalism works when there's competition and cost for (long-term) failure. Neither are guaranteed to exist if you're at a Big Corp that's printing money.

Disagree

Big Corp print money still squeeze employees. See the record profit & revenue and 10k+ layoffs.

If you have the ability to cool the cpu then it's not a hard limit; just one that's not practical for mainstream consumers.

> but once they get laser datalinks it will be 100% unjammable.

OISL? How many of them do you expect each Sat to have?

I have no idea how any of this actually works in practice, but I imagine a series of MEMS mirrors could split a single physical laser beam into many-many recievers in a time-multiplexed manner.

Probably you could control a good amount of drones with a single satellite transciever, and your typical drone would have LOS to many satellites.

There could be multiplexer drones whose purpose would be to mediate between cheap disposable small drones and the satellites themselves.

This is already a thing (not with lasers and sats) - the Russians have the Orlan drones with sophisticated(ish) surveillance equipment that act as spotters and guide the Lancet suicide drones and artillery

> Giving someone a loan with low enough interest is basically just handing them money free and clear with extra steps

If you ignore the "getting your money back" part yes.

No, you just have to not ignore inflation. Or the things they can do with the money in the mean time.

Works out well for the legislature too. Plenty of topics to campaign on. Plenty of chance to grandstand on social media, in hearings, in the regular media. Get re-elected while solving no problems. "Half" the population will always vote for you because the alternative is socialist/fascist. It's a version of the lazy google engineer [1] that makes less money but has potential for national fame and maybe some insider trading.

If the legislature was getting screwed by this arrangement there would be a lot less deadlock in congress and the power of the judicial branch would be relatively less. And somehow this take is somehow less cynical then yours? What a world we live in.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD2JaAnMMo0

So everyone at your dinner party gets to eat "better" food? Unless the point of the party was for you to cook then it's an improved experience.

GenAI is a tool that lets creators of one medium expand to other mediums without much effort. Like having transcripts auto-generated for a visual podcast, just in the other direction. Low budget (or amateur) poems/songs can turn into short videos; or replace generic album art with better quality generic album art.

The draw will be the primary medium, the rest will just be an extra bonus.

Of course it is an improved experience, but I don't then get to say that I'm a good cook.

I've updated my comment to explain my view, which I think closely aligns with yours.

I had to stop using gmail/snooze on my ipad because the snoozes wouldn't be synced with my phone. Seems like such a poor implementation vs inbox.

yeah thats the struggle i had too. Found I'd snooze on my phone but then they're in my desktop.

There's at least a 3rd group of people who want to virtue signal that they'll make the world a better place but put in zero effort.

Mac Studio Pro's with up to 192GB ram are an alternative here too though still on the M2 Ultra chips if you don't need the portability. Not sure how relevant the generation bump is for running the models.

Might be a good hold-over for X years until the consumer hardware catches up and/or the model optimizations make the same hardware perform up to today's DC hardware.

I assume the Mac Studio Pro must be getting an M3 Ultra refresh in 2024? I wonder how well linux run on that.