There's no magic involved, just as-yet-unexplained phenomena.

Everything in the chain of causality has some explanation or mechanism, understanding it step by step dissolves the illusion of "emergence".

  $1T  = 1,000,000,000,000
  
  $10m =        10,000,000
  
  *365 =     3,650,000,000
  
  *300 = 1,095,000,000,000

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Watching you.

All day.

every day.

@dang (not sure that's really a thing) any idea what's wrong with my comment on this thread?

it turns out that all of the things leaching into the water made it quite acidic and relatively toxic!

so, y'know, probably good to check what kind of mine it was before going for a swim!

it's a real cost, and a real benefit. I guess values vary on which is more important.

What do you do when a micrometeorite causes pinprick leaks in your radiator loop?

is LEO sufficiently shielded from cosmic and solar radiation?

I can imagine something like Dots being utterly invaluable for running a traditional brick and mortar business, streamlining all of the admin work, but until they're really safe and well integrated we'll have to wait...

I don't think it's because they're incompetent or lazy, but that the nature of the problem is that security vulnerabilities seem to scale superlinearly with complexity but model training scales linearly or logarithmically with complexity.

But the organization isn't allocating the resources accordingly, which would likely be economically unsustainable for the competitive environment they're in. Put simply, if the security team was more than twice the size of the research team, they might have a chance at keeping up.

and also curious how it's cheaper to send all the expensive silicon to space and throw it away when its obsolete compared to just racking it in the midwest somewhere?

So if you're the proud owner of "literally the only photo of a ridiculously unusual event in a highly public area" which is bounded to either a plausible 15-30 minute window or a sketchy March2026->Now window, people can do something like "hey, gee, did anyone else see that UFO over the golden gate bridge at 3pm?"

plus, you know, the confidence score from their secret neural network, which has an unknown scoring function.

It didn't help me get anything done, but it sure did look computery!

  "Mission. Fucking. Acccomplished."

The mat for the diary might be the times you consulted back to it for useful introspection and came out better for it, the mat for your health goal could be your blood test from the doctor, etc.

The point is that the mat doesn't care what you think of yourself. I would ask you: when you judged your progress from yesterday, was it with a mat - a brutally objective test - or was it with something less honest?

Whatever your goals are, if you really, truly care about them, and you understand what your true objective is, you'll value the mat. The mat is not about what other people think, it is about undeniably simple and real feedback on your objective.