> Bento is a discontinued database application for Mac OS X made by the former FileMaker Inc., since renamed to Claris.

So OP needs to rename their slideshow tool to Claris?

Because you will get sued by openai/anthropic

> I know people gnash their teeth at that, but I'm pretty convinced the ass-pain associated with getting a data center constructed on the planet with all the NIMBY stuff will be will incentivize space data centers too.

You can build solar panels practically anywhere with enough daylight. Space data centers will never make any sense and it's clearly bait for people who will believe anything.

I would have agreed with you a couple years ago... but not in the last year or so? People complaining about change and construction near them is a real factor. We can't even build houses during a housing crisis because of NIMBY nonsense and a wildly bloated set of rules for what and where you can build stuff.

See that detail of "near them"? Yeah it's a crucial one.

For some reason data center companies keep wanting to build data centers near existing utilities, near existing roads and transport infrastructure, and near existing electrical utilities.

Not in the middle of a desert. Or the antarctic. Or decommissioned oil fields.

Still cheaper to run power lines to a desert over run a data center in space

I think it may be cheaper to use Starship as a point-to-point delivery system to put solar panels and compute modules in a desert, than to put the same compute performance into space.

Mainly depends on how much of a mess Starship makes taking off and landing.

-We should put data centers where no one is!

/s

I certainly don't want him sent somewhere violent, but the life in prison for financial crimes is generally less harsh, when comparing experiences not reasons for imposition, than life in prison for other things.

Also, just off the top of my head I would expect many people getting life in prison for other things are younger than people getting life in prison for financial crimes, since financial crime tends to happen between mid 30s to mid 40s and violent crime tends to happen in teens and twenties. Assuming that the reason for skewing financial crime higher, because needing business connections and experience to pull off, holds with the size of crime without an stats to back me up I will say my naive expectation is the financial crimes that earn you life in prison would tend to be in the 50s, while the violent crimes mainly remain teens and twenties.

Obviously I don't mind anyone proving me wrong by going and doing the actual statistics work that I can't be bothered to do. I just have suppositions that I have not bothered to confirm as they do not significantly impact my life whether correct or incorrect.

money that is stolen from the public at a certain point is really damaging, especially when people think they can get away with it.

some non-violent offenders definitely need to be put into the same prison as violent ones

I don't think viewing the night sky is necessary for "human flourishing"

> Perhaps the last event was one million years ago and we are now (proverbially) 'due'.

Ironically this is a great example of the gambler's fallacy.

Hence the use of "proverbially" and "due" being in quotation marks.

Who is going to invest in your company when they could invest in the company that just makes the drugs you invent without the overhead of R&D?

If Julian Assange had taken his privacy principles and built a social network instead of leaking government secrets things might have turned out differently.

Moore's law isn't as relevant with parallel workloads. If you can keep building more lanes you don't have to worry about making faster cars.

Sure, but it doesn't lower the cost or increase the efficiency of the system

> LLMs don't get a free pass because they're also so good at writing typescript for beige CRUD apps and bedtime stories.

Plenty of useful things get free passes to be dangerous. Traffic accidents are the leading cause of accidental deaths in 11 states, but we don't ban cars because they're dangerous. There's plenty of safety features, but we acknowledge and accept that people will die. People like to pretend that they won't sacrifice safety for convenience, but they continue to do it time and time again.

Yeah, and in those cases there is strong governmental regulation surrounding what a "safe car" is. We don't have that with AI. Another analogy is with weapons manufacturing; American weapons manufacturers have some, but relatively little, regulation when it comes to selling weapons to Americans; but they are subject to significant regulation when it comes to shipping those weapons overseas.

We need legislation that empowers a Federal agency adjacent to the CDC or FTC with the power to enumerate specific capabilities models could exhibit that we deem dangerous, and require model manufacturers to guarantee that their models cannot exhibit these capabilities. The reality is, zero of the safeguard systems invented by the frontier labs today are sophisticated enough to do this. The labs are extremely, extremely bad at Safety, relative to both how much impact their products are having on the world and how good other industries like Medicine and Manufacturing have gotten at safety. I'm talking a total and complete culture shift.

Google had a "appoint Eric Schmidt as CEO" moment like this. There were kids running it before; make them rich, and retire them to an island somewhere, because the impact your products are having on the world cannot possibly be allowed to continue with your current leadership at the helm. Dario is that problem now. I think Sam/OpenAI can adapt and mature. I have zero faith that Dario and the furry EA cult in Anthropic leadership will. So, this is what being unable to mature looks like; the public will make your company safe, one way or another.