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Human brains are not so good at dealing with a sea of thousands of numbers. Not that it's impossible but there are usually easier ways for us.
I don't think reminding will do much. The answer is probably to have a second option, usually mobile data.
>AI hasn’t benefited the bottom line of any big corporations outside the tech industry
If you get two companies that reduce their costs 50% but due to competition have to pass on their savings by reducing prices, the profits may remain the same even if AI works.
I think it's safe to say it's satire. Though satire often gets a bit lost on HN.
In my flat in central London (W1) I've only got the old school copper wire into the flat. I've been hoping they'll install something else as the broadband over it is quite bad. Fingers crossed it doesn't all go wrong in Jan.
(update - googling seems they just turn off the phone service but keep the data on the same copper wires)
It is like satire. I wonder if he can try bullying the olympics into giving him a 100m gold medal next.
I'm not sure he gets AI very well. The people building it have always said there are risks. He bases the allegation they are lying mostly on not really understanding what he's talking about.
He does have a point that sales may slow as token maxing goes.
Under which legal system?
The money is mostly paid by companies wanting to find customers and the AI companies like OpenAi and Antropic don't provide much of that. The biggest competitor is probably Facebook who I'm not sure are really booming at the moment?
It reduces the risk if they have other investors. It's not really their core business and needs a lot of funding.
Nursing homes are a thing. It's not easy taking care of people at the end when they start falling over, needing toilet assistance and the like. Most of my elderly family had professional care at the end and it's an expensive business. I think £5k per week for my Aunt recently (now passed away).
There are lots of ways to do the tech without a $0.10 fee. I think the issue is more the websites don't ask for that, probably because $10 a month in one easy annualised payment of $120 pays better.
I'm not sure if there's an actual website that did it? I've made micropayments for other things like PAYG phones and speculating on crypto.
If you look at the forensic evidence it seems more throttled with a wire by some other person.
A lot of the wealth generation can be productive. You start a company to cure cancer or something. It succeeds and the company is worth loads on paper although you don't buy any yachts or anything. Should you be eaten?
It's one of the things I think may be cool with AI robots when they get good at those. You should be able to build all sorts of fancy things.
I was thinking more that general progress in AI may lead to competent AI lawyers doctors managers etc.
Humans chuck out a bunch of next words too. Intelligence is more if they are any good.
>Things look about as good as they ever will.
That kind of assumes things are static and Anthropic won't get a first mover advantage in some new area. If you look at the recent progress in maths it seems unlikely AI has plateaued.
You can get a reasonable idea in the near term from the announcements of CATL and BYD who are building the things.
Like CATL announced a cost of $19 per kwh. https://electrek.co/2026/07/16/catl-sodium-ion-15000-cycle-g...
which I think is far cheaper than the prices in your links. I think they'll have a job going lower for a while as the raw materials are ~$10.
I think the actual cost to buy one now it more $40-60. The $19 is probably their target in a while.
If you spread $60 over 15000 cycles that's 0.4c per kwh stored and returned which is pretty cheap compared to what I pay for electicity (~$35c).
When I was in South Africa their pebble bed reactor was the thing. They were working on it from 1993 until 2009 then gave up. Not totally sure why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_Bed_Modular_ReactorThere was a German one too:
>constructed in 1960, grid connected in 1967 and shut down in 1988. It was a 15 MWe, 46 MWt test reactor used to develop and test a variety of fuels and machinery. ... Over its lifetime the reactor had many accidents, earning it the name "Shipwreck".
Not quite sure what goes wrong but they seem problematic.
Well some of them. You can always use another word for those. Socialist tends to get used. It's kind of funny how politics corrupts all terms from their original meaning.
I remember Japan's 5th gen language stuff in the 1980s. It was nothing like this.
Computer chess kept developing though even if it wasn't IBM doing it.
I'm interested in the immortality and anti aging stuff and it doesn't mean I'm terrified of dying. I'm probably pretty average that way.
I guess it's a question of perspective like I wiped out a bunch of bed bugs and I guess I'd be the evil destroyer from the bed bug perspective?
