It was.

Trains don't get stuck in traffic, and some of them have restrooms and space to walk around in. They're also better for the people outside of the vehicle.

Present me with the option to ban generative AI worldwide, and I will show you what my revealed preference is.

Also in high performance magnetic steel, as well as SmCo magnets.

This really isn't the case in Japan. It's extremely easy to develop new rental housing, and rents are fairly low.

However, it can be difficult for foreigners without a Japanese support network (like a blue-chip employer) to rent property in Japan at market price, because of discrimination by landlords. This isn't because of government policy, it's because building managers have the impression, mistaken or otherwise, that foreign tenants won't respect the rules, will be difficult to communicate with, or might skip town with unpaid rent.

I have to say though, the abundant authentic, high-quality and low-cost Indian and Nepalese restaurants across the country was a real quality of life benefit for people living in Japan.

I tend to be pretty sympathetic to anyone who does the insanely hard work of operating an actual restaurant.

I posted this comment on the other thread, but it deserves mention here too, because Anthropic also asked for this ~10 days ago, separately from the post linked in the article.

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improveme...

> We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology.

In their subsequent post this week responding to the announcement of the export ban, Anthropic wrote:

> If this standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers.

Which is what they said would be good.

Great, so let's have the government apply the standard across the industry and see whether Anthropic sticks to their stated beliefs.

the link appears to be broken. Only shows a 404 poem :(

It's missing a "nt:" https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improveme...

Even a truthful answer can require a lot of long-winded disclaimers because an interview is a new relationship without shared context. You have to state the obvious because nothing can be taken for granted.

Do you know about how many transistors are needed to implement the adder (or the FPU as a whole)? And how it scales with the width of the numbers (16 bit, 32 bit, etc)?

I've been curious about transistor counts for floating point units for a while, but it's hard to find information about them.

I count approximately 2014 transistors (including pull-ups) for the 69-bit adder. Each block of four bits takes approximately 117 transistors.

Yes, it's marketing straight out of the Big Tobacco playbook. Convince everyone your product is dangerous, get government to ban it, and then... uh... pivot into adjacent market segments?

Not a good analogy. Fable/Mythos are unsustainably expensive for Anthropic. They want/need the world to be nerfed to remain solvent. They didn't have to turn off -all- models