In America there's a very sharp geographical distinction between which people oppose the melting pot and which see it as a core part of the American experience.
People from the big immigrant cities like NYC, SF, LA are more likely to hold the latter position.
I hate to make the worn out AI to RNG comparison, but this kind of simultaneous "collusion" is really like assuming that everyone is using the same RNG seed to make their calls.
The issue wasn't specifically allowing NSFW content, it was allowing anyone to get grok to openly make NSFW deepfakes of anyone without even an attempt at policing things.
I still insist on the higher bitrate stuff. I don't expect to notice the difference, I just think that music where the artists have bothered to prepare those files is probably recorded with more care than otherwise. I'm not generally listening to big artists where this can just be expected, and while I don't have any evidence to support my belief, I choose to continue believing it.
I'm not interested in finetuning everything in my life for efficiency.
I feel like this is an inverted interpretation? Transmission tech uses those methods because the math shows the desired properties.
Linear algebra is used everywhere, orthogonalization, SVD, eigenvalues etc are valuable because the resulting properties are very useful in many places.
I don't fully agree, you just need the Nauvis base to be able to build a ship to Vulcanus. All key ship parts are essentially free on Vulcanus, it's much better suited to being the base you scale up to get space-based logistics really going.
But is that also accounting for any regulatory pressure/investigations that might have otherwise hit those donors? Perhaps just the promise of not being prosecuted for their crimes if/when their scam collapses is sufficient ROI for them.
Probably not worthwhile. If you just leave it in orbit you're going to have to track it and worry about debris/micrometeoroid strikes. The ideal would be to stick it in some permanently shadowed crater on the Moon, it'd be a stable environment without wild temperature swings and much lower risk of somehow ending up where people are. But that's a long way to go and a lot more risk to take for now.
And then he betrayed all of that when he decided to IPO SpaceX and pivoted to space datacenters. Putting aside all the other things he's done over the past few years to betray his own stated ideals or plans.
We know from the graveyard of companies that reached orbit with their small rockets and ran out of funding before they got to be reliable, that reliably flying even a small rocket is pretty good.
Why would they need our permission to take it? They can grab the seeds from anywhere on the planet, and they can just watch any farmer and/or forest for a couple of years and see how it works.
Of course this is putting aside any ideas of deciphering our books or tapping into the internet. Not much we'd be able to do to species that can travel the stars.
People from the big immigrant cities like NYC, SF, LA are more likely to hold the latter position.