It’s possible, although I have not verified, that the contract was written in such a way that Verizon was the only qualified applicant because of lobbying.

That said, I may have been reading misinformation and it’s only provided to ATC towers.

I think this is probably the key piece I didn’t consider. SpaceX’s previous work was done under heavy competitive pressure so they had to do good. Here it doesn’t matter what they do.

With Verizon, my doubts came from all of the reporting that’s happened on rural broadband funding. A lot of the companies, including Verizon, essentially took the money and ran without doing all of the work (from my understanding).

Please convince me why this view is incorrect, I am open to listen.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/where-our-na...

Eventually renewables will be all we use and eventually fossil fuels will no longer be needed. But between now and eventually, maintaining backup capacity is necessary and coal is probably the best option for that for the continental U.S. Nuclear only works as a base load, fracking/oil has even worse side effects, fusion isn’t ready, and we don’t have much untapped hydrothermal/geothermal

It is less environmentally damaging than maintaining fracking operations for oil/nat gas, extremely abundant in the U.S., and can be spun up or down on the order of hours so emissions can be kept minimal when plants are not needed.

You’re aware that that is exactly what the GP poster was arguing against, right?

The real world challenge is threefold. First, null tokens would be massively over represented in training and by extent, in outputs. Second, at a computational level, outputting a continuous stream of tokens would be absurdly expensive. Third, there is not nearly as much training data of interspersed conversations as of monologues (e.g. research papers, this comment, etc.).