Speaking of random shuffling, I think it should be made much easier to conduct RCTs on citizens to try out systems of governance/social programs/etc. to see what works best.
Basically test stuff instead of guessing and voting.
I think citizens are equal enough if they have equal chance to get to the treatment group.
It ended up being so complex, that none of the implementations were up to spec, and hardly any 2 implementations talked to each other out of the box. i.e. the exact opposite it was meant to do.
Ideally sail effect would be used for position keeping, and to reduce loads needed to keep the assembly together. I suppose that would reduce amount of area available for soaking the sun, but might still be lighter than trying to build stiff enough large structures, plus you wouldn't constantly need to ferry more fuel.
Yeah, no night, no atmosphere, constant power output, lot's of real estate, and panels in space do not need heavy superstructure to withstand weather or gravity, thus they could potentially be extremely light for the area (micrometers to tens of micrometers thick at most needed for light absorption). And in far future, if they are built of materials taken from moon or meteorites, you could also bypass most of the lifting cost for even that. Of course, that would need huge scale to justify the R&D to pull it off.
Anyway, space based solar power is the end game. Nothing on earth will ever provide the quantities of power (not even nuclear, fusion or fission) that capturing solar energy can.
Remember that these models generate one token at a time. They do not "think ahead" much more than maybe a few tokens in beam search. So if the problem requires search - actual comparison of approaches, and going back-and-forth between draft and thinking through the implications - the model can't do it (except in a limited sense, if you prompt it to give it's "train of thought"). So it's comparable of you being in front of whiteboard, hit with a question, and you would have to start answering immediately without thinking more than you can while talking through your answer at the same time. Doable if you know the material well. If it's a new problem, that approach is doomed.
Given that, I think the language models do remarkably well. A little bit of search, and maybe trying to generate the answer in different order (like short draft -> more detailed draft -> more detailed draft... etc.) will improve things a lot.
It's pretty unfair to give it character level tasks, when it's input is probably tokenized with subword units.
I am already a bit surprised that it even knows which letters go to which words.
Would you trust Google's ( or other search provider's) ads more, if they had a separately browsable "classifieds" site, not unlike Craigslist, that the search ads would be search results from (reach modified by how much the ads were paid with, ofc.). Anyway, when you saw an add, you could click through it like now, or click to browse a relevant section of the classifieds site. Which would also work as a catalog of all paid and also unpaid ads the search provider carried?
You would still need big equipment to do that, you can't just break in and "take the fuel", it's deadly taken straight out of active reactor. Probably easier to just truck the whole container.
Let at least the long-term customers pay later, or let them use your product for free while you set up another payment processor. You may ask your customers, which payment options work for them, and use that as help to pick a more reliable alternative.
That renewable energy deployment is (currently) growing exponentially, rather that linearly. We will see much more than 3% improvement, but very probably wont go to 0 in 20 years.