I thought and still think this will absolutely revolutionise the world and cause repair of the environment. But it looks like the market doesn't have faith in this.
first lab-grown beef burger debuted in 2013 at a staggering $330,000, they still need to fall to under $10 per kilo — roughly a tenth of current costs — to be competitive in the mass market
The amount that has fallen, in that time, compared to the amount remaining seems like it isn't that much.
Hopefully we just a little jump in the industry enough to build some hype and get things rolling again.
there are still some major challenges though. Not insurmountable, but challenges nonetheless. One of the most interesting I found is that you need to protect the meat from bacteria and fungi. A animal has an immune system (and a host of antibiotics pumped in to them). A piece of meat growing in vat hasn't. But it does have optimal conditions for growth of bacteria. So you need a clean lab environment. That's possible, but very hard to scale up.
I think the hype was there, but now is the moment the industry needs to mature and make it work in a way.
Singapore has a population of 5.6 million people and is only 12 times the size of Manhattan Island. Understandably they have little room for agriculture, particularly the land intensive agriculture that producing animals for food requires. Mostly they import that from Malaysia, which is next door.
I wonder if there are government officials in Singapore encouraging all of this with a view to food security? I often wonder the same with China and their efforts to accelerate renewables. That reduces one of their biggest vulnerabilities, that if there is ever a conflict over Taiwan that they might be militarily blockaded.
i have singaporean fiends and when they told me about the first thing that they were taught in the mandatory military service is that singapore is surrounded by big country and will fall fast. they even memeing on how they were defeated by japanese riding a bicycle. so they are paranoid about their integrity and security and rightly so.
You're looking at it wrong. This is a scheme to collect mass amounts of biometric data. What's the end goal? No idea, but I doubt it'll be to the benefit of mankind.
I don’t know why anyone would trust Sam Altman. He’s not, like, some noble visionary or great inventor. He’s just a business-side guy who seems to be able to network, raise a lot of money, and navigate corporate intrigue.
Which is perfectly fine. OpenAI needs someone who can network and raise loads of money. But I wouldn’t trust him any more than I’d trust a politician or car salesman.
“Everything comes from working hard. Without this culture, TSMC cannot be number one in the world,” he said with passion. “I want to support TSMC to be great. It’s my religion.”
This work "culture" of literally just having no self esteem is pure cancer. It's perfectly reasonable to not want to work at such a place if you have options
TSMC workers were asked to draw up reports and keep other documents in a PowerPoint format so that they could regularly make presentations to upper management. The Taiwanese employees were used to it, while the Americans became impatient with typing up weekly work reports. The Americans also resented that Taiwanese colleagues stayed late at the office for no good reason. “That pisses me off,” Bruce said. “They were just doing it for show.”
Five former employees from the U.S. told Rest of World that TSMC engineers sometimes falsified or cherry-picked data for customers and managers. Sometimes, the engineers said, staff would manipulate data from testing tools or wafers to please managers who had seemingly impossible expectations. Other times, one engineer said, “because the workers were spread so thin, anything they could do to get work off their plate they would do.” Four American employees described TSMC culture as “save face”: Workers would strive to make a team, a department, or the company look good at the expense of efficiency and employee wellbeing.
So the long hours aren't even necessary. Just shitty management and busy work.
It seems to me US wants to “transfer knowledge” from TSMC, and they know it, so they are intentionally talking Chinese and bullying them with no intention of giving up their trade secrets to Americans.
Some Taiwanese workers attended a class on U.S. culture, where they learned that Americans responded better to encouragement rather than criticism, according to an engineer who attended the session.
ah yes treating your underlings with basic respect is a cultural thing in the US, common misunderstanding really
One former American engineer said some local co-workers referred to him as a “white breeding pig,” implying he was only in Taiwan to sleep with local women. At a meeting, a manager said Americans were less desirable than Taiwanese and Indian workers, according to people who saw leaked notes, which circulated among trainees.
"Hi TSMC. Could you build a massive pseudo village/factory where you indoctrinate the locals with your toxic work culture, sending your managers to act as overlords for our under-educated workers? We will pay you."
"You want us to basically colonize a town in Arizona?"
Tbh it doesn't even sound like TSMC were trying to make it work. I wonder if these American plants are meant to be potemkin villages with low outputs just to please the American government. But seems like Intel is able to make fabrication facilities in the USA work, so it should be possible.
Yep, that's exactly what it sounds. Just another scheme to launder tax payer money into private hands. However, it is certainly interesting to read about the toxic work culture.
The company gets the government grants either way, and with the money they save from not funding the facility properly, they have spare cash to bribe politicians to secure more funding. It's the perfect system!
Wow, from reading the article, the taiwanese work culture sounds hellish. I am pretty sure that this type of work culture can be found where I live as well but damn I am lucky than I am not in a hell like the one described in the article.
Brazillian IBM have them classified as "comercial" workers, like shop assistants or cashiers, so they're part of that union that is not very good. They're fighting to be classified as the correct classification and be part of the correct union, with better perks I suppose.
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