The tractor beam effect could be from the black phosphorus impurities in the sample. That's ferromagnetic so you have two kinds of forces on the flake. Earlier I joked to my friend that this Beijing expert doesn't understand what he was seeing and we shouldn't laugh at his predicament.. an x-ray of his sample probably showed that there wasn't a lot of lk99.
The problem is that we dont have a net outflow of heat. Fossil fuels would not be a problem if we could dump that previously scurried away heat of ancient suns into space. The solution is to follow the modern greeks and paint every space facing surface in infrared window white. Barium Sulfate, brothers! And sisters! Even jungles are best grown under barium sulfate roofs. If barium is too rare, iridescent metasurfaces will do
Comedians and (great) sci-fi authors: apex disruptors, intermittently disrupting the self-styled disruptor-disruptors (i.e., philosophers, or maybe more accurately, epistemologists)
Love the parallels people these days draw between OpenAI and Oppenheimer (ok, the Manhattan Project, but maybe thats part why OpenAI call themselves that, to alliterate)
Especially the part where Sama is trying to gather in one place the most talented, uh, anti-fas?
That’s not actually true at all. The basic hardware required to run even a copy of GPT-3 is outside of the budgets of all but the wealthiest companies and individuals. The engineering talent required to wire it all up is also extremely scarce.
Training an original GPT-4 sized model would also cost on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars.
GPT3 is 800GB, which is about as large as the largest torrent files out there. GPT4 size is unknown, so I can't comment. While I haven't run the actual numbers (life is short), assuming a GPT3 torrent, my sense is that the cost of running it would be under $1M, possibly under $100k. Compared to (hundreds of?) $B for a state-level nuclear weapons program.
But yes, technically I was wrong. It is not 'practically free', it is 'within the budget of e.g. a race boat enthusiast'.
