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The same way a layperson knows how to get any medical intervention: taking the advice of a reputable qualified professional

For context, UK domestic energy suppliers don’t actually do any generation or distribution - they just retail electricity produced and distributed by others. So they can buy wholesale energy and attempt to compete on price, customer service, or other innovative products (eg Octopus’s dynamic pricing).

Normally I’d expect Tesla to do an Uber-style approach of subsiding the prices for the first couple of years to try to capture market share, as well as the more obvious vertical integration with their cars. But in this market, switching suppliers is too easy to make that worthwhile

A possible protection for OP and anyone else reading this could be to upload a draft of a report to a repository at osf.io (Open Science Foundation). You can keep the repository hidden for now, but it’ll be there with a date stamp on it should the worst happen and somebody rip off the work

Solar and AC is a great combo. Almost by definition, when you need AC you know the sun is shining and so the energy to run the AC is therefore free

Yep. I’m using a used ThinkPad X1 Carbon. 8 years old and running Linux like a dream

Because they tried leaving it to the private sector and people got unhealthy from eating cheap refined carbs?

I think there’s a really important distinction between “getting the same result” when that outcome is guaranteed and when it isn’t. Using a brick instead of a hammer to squash something will get you the same result every time. But with an LLM there’s no guarantee you’re going to get any specific outcome - will it hallucinate this time or not? - and so even if it gives you what you wanted this time, you have to account for the probability that existed it would not have done (and that you wouldn’t have known it let you down)

I was questioning the use of the word “prolly”

“Prolly”

Totally unrelated though, and just a coincidence. The word meme in the way we use it today was coined by Richard Dawkins in (IIRC) The Extended Phenotype. I presume it’s an abbreviation of Mental Gene, or something like that. The idea was that a meme is an idea or concept that can fight for survival amongst other ideas, just as a gene tries to survive being being a good fit to its environment

They are the goodest space dogs

Great thread from Ed Zitron with some thoughts on this, and extracts from the suit

The idea of general intelligence (g) is that you’ve got some overall capacity that can be turned to any task. Human intelligence is probably much more like a big toolbox of skills, though, and I can’t see a version of computer “intelligence” that’s any different to that. I worry that people who get excited about AI are kidding themselves a bit as it isn’t going to be general - it’s going to be a toolbox at best: an LLM for writing, a totally different system for drawing, another for identifying birdsong, and and yet another for maths… And at that point you’ve not got some special interesting AGI - you’ve just reinvented the idea of apps

If AGI is made of components, you could argue that it isn’t “general”. Which would be fine, as most psychologists would say the same about human intelligence

I can’t remember who said it, but somebody once framed this as “You can make a place easy to drive around or you can make it worth visiting, but you can’t do both”

A few years ago I’d have jokes about data ports being the same fitting as power sockets, but USB-C has ruined that

I’m guessing there were three authors on this study, based on the “human” dots

Oh, this looks good! Thanks

It’s a very American style thing. UK English media don’t do this, and it always feels strange when I see it in US media