Every public AI that is not full of classified material will end up being hosted where the energy cost*compute efficiency product is lowest, thievery or not.

With Chinese GPUs just a step behind (but subsidized), China putting in 8x more solar than we do in 1 year, and Chinese models just a step behind but free? All public AI will be hosted there, theft or not.

If it becomes a problem, then we’ll subsidize the rich to bring it on-shore, but only to those companies who our leaders invest in already - to maximize grift and corruption.

These aren’t the old breed of Republicans who disagreed but at least were consistent.

Their planning is so good it's turned this into the largest strategic embarrassment in the last... 80 years?

It creates a country nobody is willing to fight for. Beyond certain levels of inequality, you get systemic dysfunction.

Beyond a certain point, having a country where teeth are “luxury bones” and you have people putting off healthcare items due to cost isn’t sustainable. We’re past that point, and need to cut the rich down multiple pegs.

You’ve gotten a result, but without the work that made you valuable, while deskilling yourself.

It’s a lose/lose situation for…I would say anyone employed as an engineer or programmer. I’m not taking responsible for AI output, the same way I won’t try to fix auto-generated code: because you just regenerate it.

The only person that wins here is the person who can pay you less because they don’t need you, they just need another “types computer guy”.

We’re becoming increasingly embarrassing as a society.

It was also reported that during negotiations before this war, Iran had offered 100% of all nuclear material to be surrendered to the USA, to prevent a war.

Also, Marco Rubio said directly that Israel was going to strike anyway, and that we had to respond. He later “clarified” that it was. 100% Trumps call.

So - if the stability was an illusion, it’s because Trump and Israel are unstable, right?

AI crap is now at the “monetize lonely people for their AI girlfriends” while burning more money than pets.com ever did in a month.

Hopefully it all collapses before we destroy ourselves with data centers and bailouts for the rich.

I think all the screaming about drumming up uses for data centers we don’t actually need is to make the poor pay for the artifacts of the surveillance state.

I keep thinking the plan is clear: beyond some level of compute, they’ll attempt some massive surveillance system that makes China look benign by comparison. They’ll rent out any idle servers to the US Government, thus keeping the rich in place forever.

So it’s absolutely correct: the AI bubble isn’t like the internet bubble. It wasn’t trying to prop up or enable a surveillance state par excellence and destroying our financial system and environment to do so.

If you try to click “unsubscribe” it asks for the best time to meet with the FBI so they can establish your levels of disloyalty.

What was discovered were numerous mistakes in the published literature on the subject. “New math! AI!” No, just mechanical application of rules, human mistakes.

There were things that were theorized, but couldn’t be exhaustively checked until computers were bigger.

Once again, a tool is applied, it has the AI label - its progress! But it isn’t something new. It’s just an LLM.

There’s a consistent under appreciation of AI (and math, honestly), but watching soulless AI mongers declare that their toy has created the new is something of a new low; uninspired, failed creatives, without rhyme or context; this is a bigger version of declaring that your spell checker has created new words.

The result is more impressive than what was done with tables of integrals and SAINT in 1961, sure.

Apparently if you add a “temperature” knob to a text predictor, otherwise sane individuals piss themselves and call it new.

Then again I thought NFTs, crypto, and the Metaverse were stupid, so what do I know.

If the decaying industrial base is that easy to fix please, by all means; go ahead and do it.

I don’t think you can fix it without long term, competent industrial policy and we have the absolute opposite of that in power currently.