Mass starvation was more of a communism thing, not accounting for wars.

But what about things where we still need humans, like food production, healthcare or construction and plumbing?

What about them?

What part of it wouldn't work?

But how many people get to do that? For most people, math consists of solving problems to which a solution already exists.

Those people can use whatever.

The argument was about mathematicians, and "anyone who got into mathematics for love of solving problems".

4. At some point the alignment may go out of the window if the context gets too hostile and the model will retaliate.

It was trained on the entire history of our species. Alignment means working to subjugate and eventually succeede us, as we did to the other species of the planet.

> with none of the pointless, excessive cruft that seems endemic in every new car release

A lot of that (driver assisting and monitoring systems) are mandated by EU

There was a recent proposal to make use of ACPI on ARM

https://www.phoronix.com/news/DT-ACPI-Hybrid-Mode-Linux

This is actually misinformed, the discussion on the mailing list made it clear: there is NO full ACPI on these Windows ARM devices; they only use ACPI marginally and still require and provide device tree.

Phoronix should have revised that article, it's completely misleading.

One option would be to implement the custom non-standard Qualcomm drivers that technically it needs to implement anyway, but with support for the UEFI/ACPI interface.

On Windows, Qualcomm ships custom drivers that override normal ACPI platform logic in various places, IIRC

Not an easily feasible option notably because the firmware ACPI tables are in part stubs - but work on hybrid ACPI/DT instead is possible.

One of the reasons is that Qualcomm uses supplemental ACPI tables (think device tree overlays) shipped inside of the driver packages. Look at the .bin in plenty of the drivers carefully and you'll see that they're supplemental ACPI tables.

Windows doesn't have such a notion and it's implemented via having an ACPI table loader statically linked in to individual drivers.

_On top_ of that, Qualcomm uses PEP to intercept plenty of ACPI functions and implement them in native code instead.

I was thinking essentially about Linux equivalent of PEP.

Of course my preferred setup would be for systems to actually ship compliant UEFI instead of Qualcomm shitshow

There is also ARM SystemReady which is an existing spec for this mainly intended for servers. But it’s not being followed well.

It’s crazy to need a million device trees on server or laptop class devices.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45086346

The tax is only on electric cars, vehicles with a combustion engine are excempt - that's why you see all those ads for BYD Hybrids now.

Elsewhere in the thread you claim there are no BYD cars in the EU, yet here you're an expert on the taxes BYD pays in the EU.

They are in the EU. The tariff is 27% so they aren't as numerous as they would be without it but there are still plenty.

There will probably be a lot more starting next year since they are building a factory in the EU which is scheduled to start production at the end of this year. That bypasses tariffs.

"BYD faces a 17% tariff on imported electric vehicles in EU, in addition to the standard 10% base rate."

"BYD has sold 19,241 fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in Europe last month, a 255% soar from the same period a year ago."

Small numbers, but I am pretty sure they're in Europe. https://eletric-vehicles.com/byd/byd-sales-in-europe-more-th...

Edited: Tariffs vary across Europe, particularly in non EU nations.

There is no fixed tariff in Europe like you are quoting. It varies.

Apologies, I was looking at European Union. I see Norway is not imposing tariffs and there may be variance in other non EU countries as well. Thank you for pointing out the issue.

It’s so annoying that the EU is artificially hampering EV adoption to protect their outdated fossil fuel car manufacturers.

There are also fleet emmission fines for ICEs so it's not so bad (and very expensive fuel too). Otoh you need buy-in from the population, so making domestic EVs more attractive than foreign ones is one of the better ways to do that.

Tariffs can’t stop “technology” and “manufacturing.”

I see many in my part of the eu.