Would you trust a computerless Sam Altman to raise a baby on his own?
Neither would I.
Yeah he had the UV treatment. Screamed the entire time. The cause at the time was attributed to prolonged rupture of membranes - my water broke but I didn’t go into labor, so I had to be induced, and was in the hospital for a long time before he was born. And then a longer time for the treatment.
This is what I mean by you don’t get a rulebook. There are too many variables to make this path predictable and smooth.
I find it hard to believe that Sam Altman wouldn’t have plenty of help with raising his kid without chatGBT.
That’s one of the nice things about turning 60. You slowly start to realize that no one knows what the fuck they’re doing. We’re all white knuckling it through life.
ETA - like, remember that time that thing happened and your dad came around and did that thing that worked and then the other stuff that he did things with stopped working but he came through in the end and everybody had a good time and dad was a hero? He had no fucking clue what he was doing.
^ This post is full of truth.
My brother was born with jaundice. He was definitely full term.
These days, I am that dad. And yes, most of the time I have no fucking clue what I am doing.
(Unless I’m fixing an IT problem, because odds are that I’m doing something I’ve done many times before, but whatever I’m doing, there was once a time when I was doing it for the first time, and I had no idea what I was doing then.)
Humans are adaptable. Some are even smart. That’s enough to have conquered this rock.
Now comes the question of whether we can hold it.
He probably only sees his kid for fifteen minutes a day. I love when these corporate guys start talking about how hard parenting is. Like your wife isn’t absorbing 95% of the burden. Or your wife and her five servants, or whatever.
Mainland China is communist only in the same way that North Korea is a Democratic Peoples’ Republic. It’s the most capitalistic country on the planet.
Every time I’m fixing an IT problem, I don’t know what I’m doing. I just rely on the fact that it’s a lot harder to screw up so badly that you make things worse, than most people realize. Sit down at a computer, plunk around a bit, did that solve the problem? No? Then plunk around some more.
Many times that still describes me.
At work I will often tell people, I never let ignorance get in the way of a solution.
I must be really talented, then; I managed to kill one of my email accounts in Outlook on a laptop by digging into the system to try to change one item in the settings. Even the computer shop couldn’t fix what I’d screwed up.
Fortunately I have another email provider which does do fine in Outlook on that machine, and I have the first account set up to forward to that account, while avoiding messing about with Outlook on my other laptop and two desktops.
In order to safely operate in all of the system’s tunnels, the trains have to be smaller than the tunnels themselves.
Of course, that’s not the actual issue, as it says immediately after:
But you’ve also got to have a buffer in the clearance — a safety mechanism. So that with the high voltage, there’s no dangerous arcing or buildup of static electricity.
But because of a measuring mistake, the new trains, as ordered, didn’t have enough of that buffer.
And the amount that the trains need to be shrunk is pretty small.
Metro officials said the extra clearance needed is very small: less than 40 millimeters, or the diameter of a ping pong ball.
So, while it’s a funny thought that they accidentally made trains bigger than the tunnels they need to go into, that isn’t what happened. They did make a boneheaded mistake, and measured incorrectly. But it wasn’t as boneheaded as the selective quoting implies.
Am I reading that right that they’re spending $400 million to upgrade 36 miles of track? 36 miles doesn’t sound like very much, to me…
The article says:
Fifty-five new trains with a price tag of more than $390 million. Many of the vehicles are as old as the system itself, officials said, speeding past their prime.
They’re not upgrading tracks, they’re replacing a bunch of trains.
Most of the cost is probably the HVAC system which has been either in development for more than three decades or the order was placed via time machine because, as the article says, it’s “made in Czechoslovakia.”
From an engineering point of view, it sounds as boneheaded as the quote.
Of course even a child could see you need the car to be less than 200 cm tall (just making up numbers here) if the tunnel is 198 cm tall, but for their engineers and such it should be as obvious.
Does the problem lie in the height or the width of the trains? Or both?
Because if it’s just the height, couldn’t they just put smaller wheels on the cars?
The article said that the solution involves rebuulding the HVAC systems on top of the trains, so it seems safe to assume that it’s a height issue.