We don't know how long it takes to evolve our level and kind of intelligence, nor if intelligence like ours implies successful expansion such that it could eventually be noticed from the kinds of distances we can sense with our tech, nor how fast it would actually expand.
If the first in any light cone dominates that light cone, expanding at a high fraction of c, then almost everyone starts off thinking they're the first.
We may be the first in our own light cone, and that light cone may be just about to start intersecting with that of a galaxy where every star has been completely Dyson'd by a Kardeshev 3 civilisation.
If the civilisation is two million years older than us, that galaxy could even be the Andromeda galaxy.
No, it actually seems to be the most likely explanation. The universe is so young yet. It's just a cosmic blip of time since the current generation of stars has began forming.
It looks like this service may be intended to have a significant off label use as a professional networking / online matchmaking app, judging by the choice of human pairs given in the stock images on the website. They're all male/ female pairings of similar age groups.
It's curious that the list of suggested activities includes conventional headshot-framed work activities as well as full body view stuff like exercise routines.
That seems like a stretch to me from the landing page, and is absolutely not my experience from using it. It’s also explicitly discouraged in all their documentation, e.g. this is from their FAQ:
Can I chat with my partner?
No. Talking with your partner is only allowed at the beginning and end of your session. At the beginning, you’re encouraged to say hello to your partner and share what you plan to work on. At the end, you should check in and ask your partner how the session went. If you’d like to talk to your partner more, you can suggest or offer it at the end of your session. Please bear in mind, no selling or propositions (business or otherwise) are allowed during Focusmate sessions.
How does this chip, and your wonderfully whimsical mega SoC implementation of it, compare to the claims (and the even more fantastical dreadnought-class workstation scenario) of the Cerebras WSE3?
The WSE3 is very different - it has no shared memory between the processing units - and would require a different, and very interesting, distributed OS. A MI300A can immediately run Linux.
> My heart can exist independently of me, and be transplanted into other people, but does it mean that it is alive?
Interesting analogy, made more interesting still if one replaces "heart" with "brain."
And what if you reverse mitochondria and host cell? If you remove the mitochondria, is the host cell still alive? The analogy would be to remove the heart from its 'host' environment, and asking if the remaining body still can be called alive.
"for a man cut open is, so far, not a man. And if you do not sew him up speedily you will not see organs, but death."
Very early in my experimentation with some of the GPT family, one of the first things I noticed was that at no point did the model ask questions of its own, except (perhaps - I don't quite recall if I'm the one hallucinating here ) to indicate that further clarification of a previous prompt would improve a response.
I haven't touched them in quite a long time and I don't know if they now do this, but it struck me that their lack of (even simulated) curiosity was a major void in the popular dialogue about whether they are or are not "intelligent."
Calculus 3 in the U.S. is multi-variable calculus. Sometimes and introduction to linear algebra is given in this course. Calculus 4 is differential equations. It’s almost never officially called Calculus 4. Sometimes an introduction to linear algebra is given in this course.
Okay that makes sense, that's how the classes went for me in the US, with Calc 3 being multi variable (and as you say, a brush with linear alg via vector-valued functions), and 2 sideways steps from there, one being a course on PDEs and the other on linear algebra, both called by those names rather than listed as a step in the calculus sequence itself.
TikTok's market function burns the internet's race-to-the-bottom candle at both ends: depth of the typical content piece and attention span of the typical content consumer dynamically reinforce each other's approach to a common local mimimum of zero, a point which forms a saddle with the local maximum of exploitability and profit.
Wealth is a proxy for having options, even if you do not exercise them. There are thus many forms of wealth, and some do not translate directly across domain boundaries.
Arnold Schwarzenegger famously explained that he remains committed to a demanding bodybuilding regimen even long after becoming fabulously wealthy precisely because his physique is a form of wealth that cannot be bought at any price, and is available to almost anyone who wants it badly enough. A billionaire facing an acute and aggressive terminal cancer diagnosis has all the options anyone could want, but one.
Someone has to be first (in our speed-of-causality bubble), maybe it's us?