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A perfect cryptocurrency needs to have uncensorability, certainty of supply, and transferability as a store of value.
Bitcoin faces challenges with decreasing security spend and centralization of hashrate, impacting its resilience to attacks.
Issues in Bitcoin such as affordability, speed, and scalability make it less efficient as a medium of exchange, while alternative cryptocurrencies offer better solutions.

AI could serve the same role as law clerks by reviewing briefs, summarizing arguments, and drafting judicial opinions quickly and accurately.
Using AI in judicial decision-making can lead to faster justice, reducing delays that impact litigants, fact-finding quality, litigation expenses, and overall decision-making quality.
The combination of human judges and AI working together is more likely to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of judicial decision-making compared to human judges working alone or solely relying on human law clerks.

This fine-tuning makes the model specialized for specific tasks, not to learn new things easily.
Training costs for the fine-tuned GPT-3.5 are relatively low at $0.008 per 1K tokens.
Using the fine-tuned model is 8x more expensive than the base GPT-3.5-Turbo.

Startups prioritize speed for short-term gains but may suffer in the long run if quality is sacrificed.
There are two main kinds of shortcuts: reducing quality and reducing scope. It is advised to prioritize reducing scope over sacrificing quality.
Quality shortcuts can result in increased costs for startups, impacting speed and effectiveness. It might be better to invest in sustainable practices upfront.

Widespread testing for Covid-19 requires cheap tests and fast results to isolate infected individuals quickly.
Lowering costs and increasing speed of testing are essential for successful mitigation of Covid-19 spread.
Using a strategic testing approach, combining low-cost, rapid tests with high sensitivity tests, can significantly enhance the effectiveness of mitigation strategies.

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