It feels like a sleight of hand, either to not spook OpenAI employees (I.e. the audience of this post), or allow some later minor change in contract or interpretation or customer deployment posture to suddenly permit fully autonomous weapons.
Fair - my "millions" note is wrt SpaceX filing with the FCC to launch 1 million satellites, and the Google viability study deals with large constellations rather than monolithic stations. Public communications from companies purporting to go into orbital data centers have made every appearance that they think virtually all compute can go to space.
Per the Zen of Python, there should always be exactly one sensible way to do something, but unfortunately this is not often the case. List comprehension can be achieved just the same with functools, itertools, explicit for loops, etc.
That said, I do tend to have that mantra a little more present in my head when I'm working with Python.
I was surprised to learn that this has got to be one of the only languages which is easier to compile than interpret. When compiled the language reduces to basically a single-register assembly with a one-to-one character-to-line ratio. Bracket branching can be extremely easily implemented with jump labels and `test` + `jnz` statements without having to worry about things like parsing and jump table construction at all.
It's pretty freaking easy to interpret, as well... I implemented an interpreter in Go (which I had never used before) in an hour or so; most of the time spent was learning the two languages (Go and BF).
I should start asking interview candidates to write a BF interpreter...
