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Another overlapping perspective. There is an AI bubble. The "High Yield" video makes these data centers sound inevitable and unstoppable. But, what if all of this infrastructure isn't really producing any value? Or enough value?
OpenAI has only a handful of customers and most of them are using it to do their homework for them. We discussed "Vibe Coding" last week and no one can agree on if it saves any time or not.
Ed Zitro makes the case for the bubble on MR.
Here is a good overview on trends in datacenters. (Did you know they are planning on firing up 3 mile island again? Truly, we live in a 1970s revival)
When you try to solve a problem but ignore the obvious solution everyone just starts reading things off of their wish list of things they always wanted to do anyway. In this case it's some kind of call to either kill or otherwise silence "the left."
If I can't get fewer guns I guess I'll go for "Build a center in every city where people can study insects."
What's on your wish list?
It's literally the candles budget meme.
"Can someone who is good with understanding violence please help? My country is dying.
USA Budget
Food 400
Transportation 50
Guns 900000"
"Have fewer guns."
"NO."
And make no mistake that's part of what this is about. Trafficking guns and making a lot of money on it along with an indifference to the safety of children.
If the whole country had gun laws like NYC a large portion of murders would simply not happen. People might try to use a knife, or act out in other ways but fewer people would be dead. The people who really want to own a gun could still own them and the illegal trade would dry up.
It might even be fine to have hunting guns sold more casually in rural areas. I don't think anyone but those who benefit from trafficking guns into cities would be bothered.
Most crimes committed with guns involve illegally obtained guns from out of state.
Most young men do not have a car, few can drive, the fact that you can't just buy a gun at Walmart in NYC is a good thing! To buy a gun you need to file with your local police department and take a class. It's expensive and time consuming.
People desperate for a gun will obtain them from the black market and this is risky and there are heavy legal penalties.
This has been correct so far. To some degree the extreme saturation of surveillance in NYC may make it a less appealing target for anyone who thinks a little about doing such a crime. And it's not easy for people who live in the city to buy guns from a store. Doing it legally remains very hard, but this can be avoided by just going over the border to another state and the NRA has been chipping away at our few remaining gun regulations.
That's so scary. I'm glad that he made it and horrified he has to live with that experience. When schools first started doing these kinds of drills I thought it was maybe overreacting. But, the number of shootings kept going up and quickly I had to admit that it would be very irresponsible to be unprepared. We have to teach even the youngest children what to do.
This is something that touches everyone, it's changed the way that everyone lives. For what?
Well he could also just be American ... but it would mean embracing the multi-ethnic multi-cultural vision of being American.
Elon Musk doesn't really have an authentic national identity he is willing to embrace due to his racism.
To be South African? Awkward, complicated. One would need to recognize the past and help be a part of building a multi-ethnic future. To be American? He will always be an immigrant.
He's not "English" either.
Maybe that's why he's latched on to whiteness?
The UK should ban him from entering the country. He's not even from there.
That was a more self aware answer than I would have anticipated.
And I agree it's very disappointing and disturbing to think about all of the people with ties to that circle. Even if many of these people who know Epstein didn't commit any crimes many people knew or had to suspect what he was all about.
The "Birthday Books" make this very obvious. "Ha ha that's just how he is."
This is magnificent.
I'm thinking about how one would do this for ants... but so many parts of the ant are flexible and this is integral to their locomotion and mandible action (even their wings)
I kind of suspect this is why attempts at "robot bugs" feel so much more clumsy than the OGs: They aren't a jointed system of hard parts, but a jointed system of hard and flexible parts.
It's very surreal to read anything from him and not have any "that's not true at all" or "what is wrong with you" moments. This is ... fine. Too bad our recent actions don't align with it at all. Pretty words. Are there actions to match them?
I was kind of having fun hounding her about this. But, progress is.
Maybe if there were more trans people in his life this wouldn't have happened.
(I can do it too. If that is what we are doing now.)
This is the closest thing I've ever seen to an apology from this clown.
The trans person, who isn't confirmed to be his partner, chatted with him on discord and was disturbed enough to go to the police about it.
This is a nice way to thank them for doing the responsible thing about a possible murderer.
Between this an the threats about bolasrnaro falling flat the US is looking exceptionally bad at the moment.
Though it's a good thing the threats didn't work. But don't make threats that don't work. Looks weak.