This is the kind of data I would like to see on ourworldindata.org. They have good tools for visualising data and comparing between countries.

This is a good point - in the space shuttle era, the SRBs were recovered, refurbished and re-flown. The boosters flown on Artemis 1 and 2 are now lost. There are only enough space shuttle era parts to fly another seven SLS rockets and the current plan to replace them with new hardware is still on-going.

I could not find out exactly why the SRBs of SLS are not worth recovering. If anyone knows why, that would be interesting to find out.

Nothing has been agreed yet except a 2 week ceasefire.

It seems a little unfair to include the circle and metropolitan lines as they use the same rolling stock and run on the same tracks in the centre of the city.

I couldn't tell them apart

And yet I could tell them apart with pretty good confidence. Why?

You got lucky and thought it was skill?

Is this not a more restricted version of OpenRouter? With OpenRouter you pay for credits that can be used to run any commercial or open-source model and you only pay for what you use.

OpenRouter is a little different. We are trying to experiment with maximizing a single GPU cluster.

It seems crazy to me that the "Join" button does not have a price on it and yet clicking it simply forwards you to a Stripe page again with no price information on it. How am I supposed to know how much I'm about to be charged?

That was an error on our part lol. We'll update with the price.

Thanks - it's very nice to have a progress bar that you can scrub through to see where and when they have been and will be later in the mission.

Even if you know that cars consist of a single wiring harness, it's not implied that they aren't modular and the individual cables cannot be purchased separately.

Cars usually consist of multiple harnesses -- as it is in this case as well. The harnesses are the cables in a car. That is the part you can purchase because that is the part.

There's a list of them here: https://service.tesla.com/docs/Model3/ServiceManual/2024/en-...

You're missing an important part of the negotiation - Trump must benefit personally in some way. In this case, Greg Brockman has given by far the biggest single donation ($25m) to Trump's MAGA PAC in September last year.

They should be collecting signatures from employees at xAI. I think they're probably most likely to fill the space left by Anthropic.

XAI has already announced they are 100% in

https://x.ai/news/us-gov-dept-of-war

All the more reason to collect their employees' signatures.

This kind of screams desperation, but I guess that's what happens when you're niche AI.

niche is a polite way to put it

No. The US needs automated weapons China will attack Taiwan, Hamas will go on another murder rampage.

Everyone knows anyone who signs this from xAI will be a former employee by tomorrow.

My guess is their HR is already monitoring it with instant termination processes in place.

You're assuming a lot about Elon's ability to assemble and execute a process competently. They will probably end up hiring people off this list and firing them later.

I think what is much more interesting is what OpenAI and Google will do. There's probably some threshold of signatories where the companies in question do not fire everyone when they decide they want the DoD's business, the question will be how many people have to sign to cross it... and will enough people sign.

I don't think Google would bat an eye at firing 500 people to secure a DoD contract, but would they fire 5,000?

You can sign the form anonymously.

Both the automated verification methods depend on Google servers and Google can almost certainly retrieve that data if they want to regardless of if the signers or verifiers delete it.

There is a specific kind of person that joins xAI over the other companies and it is definitely not a moral one.

It's hard to deny an offer to become a millionaire in the next 3 years if you just hang tight at xAI, especially if you don't have any offers from competing AI labs. Also, LLMs are converging into an easy-to-replicate commodity. It doesn't matter much who wastes their money on you to build them.

If you can get an offer at xAI you can get an offer anywhere. All the labs and top players will make you a millionaire in 3 years.

xAI is a pure choice. Their people have the ability to work at Anthropic but choose xAI.

I am sure some people can. I got pretty far in the interview process at xAI, but couldn't get anyone at other AI labs to even reply my emails, though...

(I dropped out at the end because there were issues with HR not wanting to hire in certain geos, and me not wanting to relocate to the USA or London)