They would experience things on their timescale, just as we experience things on our own timescale even though it's much slower than e.g. hypothetical sub-atomic particle based life forms would.
Whether it could be considered meaningfully agentic depends on the timescales of the environment it reacts to. A galaxy lifeform wouldn't be able to meaningfully react to or experience something like a ball falling on Earth, no more than we can react to a particular hydrogen atom getting ionized. But if it's interacting with and influencing supergalactic clusters, that would feel no slower to it than we experience catching a ball.
I think that Gold/Platinum alloy is one of the plot points of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, and it's in relation to Newton's alchemical experiments.
I mean... A single 9950x core is going to struggle to do more than 16 GB/second of direct mem copy bandwidth. So being within an order of magnitude of that seems reasonable
I'm not doing that. I am equating on a spectrum not being able to, as a society, afford running water infrastructure to not being able to afford cars and infrastructure.
Note that this includes environmental arguments - saying that 8bil people cannot all live like people in Houston may be true but it's basically saying we cannot afford to have nice things.
But the thing is US, and especially major cities, currently can afford them!
Why would "rich people take public transit"? Except for extremely dense areas, driving is faster especially accounting for overhead; goes exactly where one needs, any time; and is way more comfortable. Only those who prefer extremely dense areas and also cannot live close to work/amenities (kind of the point of density) would want it.
The rugpull on Optane was incredibly frustrating. Intel developed a technology which made really meaningful improvements to workloads in an industry that is full of sticky late adopters (RDBMSes). They kept investing until the point where they had unequivocally made their point and the late adopters were just about getting it... and then killed it!
It's hard to understand how they could have played that particular hand more badly. Even a few years on, I'm missing Optane drives because there is still no functional alternative. If they just held out a bit longer, they would be making a killing.
It's a big pool of money that's great if you can get it. It's like getting embedded into F50. Once you are, it's long-term cash flow that will be there for decades.
I don't think transparency requires additional bureaucracy. I would also be a fan of removing requirements that the NSF align its mission with whichever political party is in power.
Then they appoint somebody else and wait until he dies and then appoint Pope Americus the First. The hypothesis is that they didn't want an American pope until America is in decline and that America is in decline due to the re-election of Donald Trump. I will admit the part about Donald Trump is something i assumed with no basis and it is possible that the OP did not mean to say that America is in decline solely as a result of this, but whenever i read about America losing its international influence it's always somebody complaining about the tariffs or insulting Canada or whatever.
Anyways, nothing can end America on such a short timescale. Even if Donald Trump's recent decisions will cause the downfall of America's global pseudo-empire we are not anywhere near a point of no return and he could give up on playing "5D chess" and fix this all within a month; some opportunities would be lost which leads to some unrecoverable economic damage but we'd still be largely in the same position as we were six months ago; consequentially, any fears they may have had about appointing an American pope during a period of global American hegemony are still valid.
I'll add the people that promoted it often said that amongst themselves while more publicly just talking about "diversity." They usually believed in imtersectionality, redistribution of wealth/power, etc. Their fix is systematic discrimination against specific groups to redistribute power to achieve the outcomes. And, if other groups become dominant, they still favor them over white people.
We've seen that these ideologies are conflict-oriented, racist, and less effective. They were forced on us by policy and law by people who in no way represented most of Americans' thinking. Now, a different group favoring no racism, equal opportunity, and generosity to all groups based on need is reversing the prior group's work. Everyone who had been discriminated against will appreciate ending that discrimination.
I don't think you really believe that edgelord fantasy. Was January 6th far too tame for your liking? How many police and politicians have you lynched?
If I have to read "the tree of Liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots" one more time I'm going to claw my eyes out. It is a rhetorical copout when faced with genuinely difficult of how to enact reform. Spend a month in Syria, Libya, or Sudan and then tell me that you support civil war, let alone every generation. If internet posturing ever turns into reality, people will be in for a rude awakening.
If enemy attacks you then you do not have to sit it out. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. But calling this "do" romantic is pure BS in my opinion, well unless somebody craves looking at mutilated corpses in "romantic" way.
>For audio, I think that would be a relatively easy lift with technologies like Dante. However, in most TV stations, you're going to need to literally plug upwards of 100 HDSDI video cables into a piece of hardware
I don't know the TV stations requirements, but you can maybe have 10 interconnected servers that manage 10 HDSDI flux each (and can send them on another if required for processing) ?
> socialists tend to be (perhaps even annoyingly) anti-racist and "woke" types who are largely cool with everyone being different.
That's why close to 100% of the POC walking away from these communities describe them as racist hell holes full of backstabbing and enjoy the "don't tell, don't care" approach of the opposition.
And good luck to you if the diversity you enjoy isn't genetic in nature, but a matter of non-approved opinion.
> the number of non-violent socialists I know is really high.
The problem is the number of violent ones being high, too. E.g. I don't see cars made by Jack Dorsey burning in the streets.
Also where is all the praise for Trump for being the only President since the 70s to not have started any new armed conflicts during his first term?
> And besides, what type of socialism? Communism? Anarchism? Democratic socialism? Syndicalism? Socialism encompases a MUCH wider space than Fascism does
Fun fact: Fascism is just Syndicalism combined with Engel's nationalist approach to Socialism. This includes Italian Fascism, Francoist Spain and Nazi Germany (who also slapped novel occultism on top).
I'd say "Socialism" are all of the ideologies spawned from the first two Internationals. Comintern didn't really allow for any divers thinking.
Also Anarchism isn't Socialism or left wing at all. Enforcing a Dictatorship of the Proletariat is impossible without a functioning state. Many of the self-declared "Anarchists" are but confused lazy Communists thinking they're going to be part of the Intelligenzia class.
Genuine Anarchism is the right most end of right wing extremism: A complete collapse of any organized society.
I think their point is the billions in private investment which preceded those millions.
I think this is a common issue in computer science, where credit is given to sexy "software applications" like AI when the real advances were in the hardware that enabled them, which everyone just views as an uninteresting commodity.
I might be missing your point, can you elaborate? If you want to write an if statement you just do it at the end of a component, after the hooks. It's a common pattern.
> not a great proportion of those profits go to the creators
That’s often started but misses the underlying reality is that the money is mostly spent on things which increase revenue. An unadvertised movie means less people pay for tickets, remove it and there’s less to go to everyone else.
> equally to (or better than) the distribution and marketing arms.
Obviously there’s fat to be cut from these industries but being a self published author isn’t some shortcut to success and would become even harder with very short copyright terms.
Some authors are finding success on Patreon etc, but it further limits the talent pool by requiring more than just being a good writer.
Not for lack of trying either, there was a JS SIMD proposal which got pretty far along (it was even implemented in V8 for a while) but then everyone came to their senses and scrapped it to focus on WASM SIMD instead.
Whether it could be considered meaningfully agentic depends on the timescales of the environment it reacts to. A galaxy lifeform wouldn't be able to meaningfully react to or experience something like a ball falling on Earth, no more than we can react to a particular hydrogen atom getting ionized. But if it's interacting with and influencing supergalactic clusters, that would feel no slower to it than we experience catching a ball.