Theres also the upcomming Framework desktops with 128GB of unified ram for ~$2500

Why would you bother mind controlling bees in order to make them do the thing they would be doing anyway?

I havent interacted much with working scientists for the past 5-10 years, but when I was there definitely were right wing scientists in the “free markets are good, the state should be mostly hands off, dont make big sweeping changes too quickly” sense. I dont particularly agree with that viewpoint but its completely compatable with being a scientist.

But that sort of conservativism is essentially politically homless now (in the UK and USA at least).

Ok, given how this is a bot reposting everything posted to HN, how do you suppose complaining here is going to change anything?

Curate your own feed, if you dont want reposts from HN then dont subscribe to a comm that does that.

If you are just talking transitor density I believe it still is, but even if not, my point was that it had exponential growth spanning over many decades.

That said, exponentials don’t exist in the real world, we’re just seeing the middle of a sigmoid curve, which will soon yield diminishing returns.

Yes, but the tricky thing is we have no idea when the seemingly exponential growth will flip over into the plateuing phase. We could be there already or it could be another 30 years.

For comparison Moores law is almost certainly a sigmoid too, but weve been seeing exponential growth for 50 years now.

From historical data, you can calculate the maximum lull where neither are providing enough.

The difficulty there is that there are a lot of places where you frequently get multiple weeks of both solar and wind at <10% capacity (google for dunkelflaute) that would need an implausible amount of storage to cover.

The OP article is already talking about 5x overbuilding solar with 17h of storage to get to 97% in the most favourable conditions possible. I dont see how you can get to an acceptably stable grif in most places without dispatchable power.

97% is great (though that is just for vegas) but it is still a long way from enough. Its a truism of availability that each 9 of uptime is more difficult to get to than the last, i.e. 99.9% is significantly more difficult/expensive than 99%

Then get it from the sources that already exist.

The problem here is that you cant simultaneously say “Solar is so much better than everything else we should just build it” and “we’ll just use other sources to cover the gaps”. Either you calculate the costs needed to get solar up to very high availability or you advocate for mixed generation.

None of which is to say that solar shouldnt be deployed at scale, it should. We should be aware of its limitations howver and not fall prey to hype.

97% sounds impressive, but thats equivalent to almost an hour of blackout every day. Developed societies demand +99.99% availability from their grids.

One chat request to an LLM produces about as much CO2 as burning one droplet of gasoline (if it was from coal fired power, less if it comes from cleaner sources). It makes far less CO2 to talk to a chatbot for hours upon hours than a ten minute drive to see a therapist once a week.

I doubt anyone expected it to work completely, but it is interesting to see to what extent it worked and how it failed (halucinations and sycophancy)

Except it isnt, because the judge dismissed that part of the suit, saying that people have complete right to digitise and train on works they have a legitimate copy of. So those damages are for making the unauthorised copy, per book.

And it is not STEALING as you put it, it is making an unauthorised copy, no one loses anything from a copy being made, if I STEAL your phone you no longer have that phone. I do find it sad how many people have drunk the capitalist IP maximalist stance and have somehow convinced themselves that advocating for Disney and the publishing cartel being allowed to dictate how people use works they have is somehow sticking up for the little guy

You think that 150,000 dollars, or roughly 180 weeks of full time pretax wages at 15$ an hour, is a reasonable fine for making a copy of one book which doe no material harm to the copyright holder?

The problem isnt anthropic get to use that defense, its that others dont. The fact the the world is in a place where people can be fined 5+ years of a western European average salary for making a copy of one (1) book that does not materially effect the copyright holder in any way is insane and it is good to point that out no matter who does it.

Civil cases of copyright infringment are not theft, no matter what the MPIA have trained you to believe.

Gosh, its a good thing openAI and google dont do the same thing for the US government isnt it?

I havent tried kobold. I have tried silly tavern, which I think is similar, but that wasnt really what I wanted as I dont want to use the LLM as a character but as an editor.

Things like highlight sections, ask the llm to review something about it, include other files as context (worldbuilding, lore material backstory etc) and easily insert bits of the text back into the main body. As I said I’ve used pycharm with AI integration for doing this but then you’re using a code editor which doesnt really have features that would be nice for writing prose. I was wondering if there was anything off the shelf (or close to) that combined the two.

I’ll give it a try thanks.