The article is the opposite of informative, it meaningless comparing an industrial growth sector to residential. 40k residents use a million times more toilet paper a year. It uses about the same amount of energy as a similarly sized steel mill. There were multiple mills that churned out ~3GW a piece 24/7 IN UTAH! The research has been done, but the article won't inform you on that because they want to pander to brainless boomer NIMBY's that would have been gunned down 200 years ago rule over the country like tyrants far outside their worth or rights.

There is only so much we can compress information, especially the spatiotemporal information that leads to breakthroughs in mathematics.

Still doesn't mean we can't have 99% of the benefits of current 10T models in a 1B+search

Bad idea. Unneeded infrastructure isn't cheap to maintain. It would have to be a bike trail and it's still of limited usefulness when the internet exists and there is no infrastructure to maintain vehicles.

What Africa needs is sustained investment. That will drive people to leave villages, but Western investors (and governments) are as short sighted as they can possibly be.

To invest, you literally have to come in with a security team / truckload of weapons or someone is paid (Wagner / Chinese government) to do it. The invested operation has to be vertically integrated with hand-picked assets, human resources, and supply chain. Very difficult situation to do in a way where the general populace benefits. In cases like Zimbabwe where farmers came in and did sustained investment, it did work having the tribal populace as helping hands but as soon as the reigns were handed over they immediately gutted everything and it went to shit followed by hyperinflation and mass starvation.

Very difficult problem that no one has really figured out. Kenya and Rwanda some of the more interesting leading edges in sub-saharan mainland africa as far as economics are looking.

This is the demographic equivalent of overuse of pesticides in the US. People have to stop advocating for shorttermism policies that have been shown to fail over and over again.

There needs to be a very high elementary school flunk rate, banned from school on failure, for girls that slowly decreases over time

Again, no silver bullet. You will have to know what tasks it's capable of and how to elicit that solution. The bottleneck was never code the bottleneck still is solving the right problem in the right way.

Company/State bends to the mindless whims of boomers yet again.

There's no way you actually like the giant iPad.

This complaint is factually false. Click on the ask button and you get a Gemini chat instance that can recommend qualitatively similar videos with a description.

Running with the c compiler example why not go the forge hosting the project, look at the contributors and forks, scrape all their socials and download their profiles/videos.

Is this a serious suggestion? Gave me a chuckle at least

And why would they? Google has Gemini even if nothing else happens it is patently obvious that the best current LLM will capture a multi trillion dollar advertising market zero sum. That right there is more than enough to justify Google continuing investment for the next decade since they simply cannot afford to lose that market. I wish we lived in a sane country were you can't invest in your competition but whatever.