I think it can be a valuable insight for many. Having that sort of wake-up call. Yeah, maybe most people have figured this out by now, but its possible many are still going on that sort of autopilot mode where they keep being harsh on themselves due to learned and instilled behaviors
LLM are good at certain things, especially involving language (unsurprisingly). They're tools. They're not the be-all-end-all like a lot of tech bros proselytize them as, but they are useful if you know their limitations
If you use them properly, they can be a valuable addition to one's search for information. The problem is that I don't think most users use them properly.
I do also want to point out that stuff like "The conservation of energy" law, in other words, that energy cannot be created or destroyed, does not hold for our universe with our current models. An expanding universe violates the time-translation symmetry
This is our current models. This is what our current physics says. And we know it's incomplete.
When it comes to scientific predictions, you always, always, need the caveat, "under our current model of".
For what is essentially top-of-the-line gear? Yes. That is cheap. Remember, I am talking about the upper limit here. As in, there's no more money you can reasonably spend than that, as you won't get any further benefit. Top-of-the-line GPU, CPU, 64GB of RAM, the best OLED you can get, extra budged for cheaper elements such as additional side monitors, etc. in practice you can get by with much less
I mean, just look at the prices of any other hobby. Hobbies aren't cheap! A "fun" car and its mantainance isn't cheap. And what about a really good bike? Or a good instrument and music lessions? A small fishing boat, with fishing gear, and a way to transport and store it all, won't cost little either. We could even talk about practical hobbies such as woodworking, working with metal, leather working, but those definitively can be very expensive, especially in material costs. And especially if you include the space they require as part of the price.
You need to keep in mind maintenance costs, or the money it takes to partake in hobbies over time, as well. For video games this is low compared to other hobbies. Even I, who considers video games to be my main hobby, rarely spend more than a few tens of dollars a month on new games on average, and I feel like I play new stuff constantly. A lot of the games I like to play are simply not AAA prices, I play replayable/long-playable games I already own a good amount, and I simply don't have enough time to play through games quickly enough to spend more
Of course, you can do a lot of hobbies cheaply, but not if you go for high-end stuff. You can do video games cheaply as well. You probably need a computer for work anyway, so spend like 200$ extra, and you got something that can play a lot of interesting games.
A web browser is already basically a "virtual machine". You can even run what basically amounts to native code using WebAssembly (yeah it's closed to JVM but you get what I'm trying to say).
No wonder veritasium has felt "off" for me for a good while as well. A few years ago I deliberately stopped watching that channel, seems there was a deeper reason behind my superficial reasons and gut feelings
In case you are being serious, auditory hallucinations when falling asleep/waking up are fairly common, and not usually a sign of anything more. It's more that the in-between states are kinda weird lol
"we can't ensure the data is safe because there's too much of it"
..sounds like an especially big reason to figure something out, huh? Not to mention, 858 TB isn't even that much for a whole ass government. For a consumer it might be 10$ per TB for a new drive, so it would be less when you're a government, which makes it just a bit under 10 000 USD for a full backup. That's it. Even if you budget in having to replace all drives once a year, 10 000 USD/yr is a bargain
To be fair, you definitively can decentralized parts of it using protocols such as torrents, which work great for that purpose. It ensures multiple locations having redundant data, a means of retrieving that data again, and constant checks for corruption
And actually come to think of this, this already does indeed happen, though only for a subset of the data. It's much more tricky legally when it comes to copyrighted works.
If anyone has some spare terabytes of storage space, I do recommend you to see where you can contribute that space with torrents of this sort. It's better to use that free space for good than just letting it sit idly by
An issue with focusing too much on a single topic, is, "if you look for it, you will find it". With enough time and effort spent, you will find a signal. Not a true signal, just one that appeared from randomness, and if you would do an analysis of all the studies, the signal would disappear again, but they're definitively not beyond pick and choosing their studies
I think it can be a valuable insight for many. Having that sort of wake-up call. Yeah, maybe most people have figured this out by now, but its possible many are still going on that sort of autopilot mode where they keep being harsh on themselves due to learned and instilled behaviors