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New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

jimmyjazz14 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:22:17 +0000

sure but that is still less than the total users of electricity.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

jimmyjazz14 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:37:37 +0000

Yes but for most people electricity is an absolute necessity, the average person could easily live without AI should it disappear from their lives.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

jimmyjazz14 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:22:17 +0000

I never said I wouldn't miss it or that is is useless, just that in comparison to other services I pay for (or the company I work for pays for) I could easily live without it. I have to ask though, are these lines of code making you money? If so will you continue to need to produce this amount of code over the next 2 to 5 years to continue to profit from your work? I also would point out this argument could be applied to choosing some open source framework over another because of the number of lines of code it contains which doesn't make sense.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

jimmyjazz14 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:42:10 +0000

I can't think of any use case for AI that is a necessity for myself (or people I know), even if coding agents (which I use every day) disappeared tomorrow it would only be a minor inconvenience that I had to write my own code again. Now lets contrast that with electricity or internet, if either of those went offline I would be on a call trying to get them restored asap, now as far as I know neither of those industries bring in $6T in revenue.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs"

jimmyjazz14 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:47:18 +0000

> We must move past vague discussions of “AI” and instead isolate the specific types of systems that are creating problems.

This is absolutely correct and its surprising how rarely you see commenters in the media push to go into the specifics on this. AI is just matrix math and its what you connect that math to that matters, we should talk a little more about what we are willing to connect AI to and little less about how scary or capable the models appear.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites"

jimmyjazz14 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:05:00 +0000

yeah that part seems weird, I mean if its a public api thats literally the use case it was designed for.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "AI Protest in Montreal"

jimmyjazz14 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:18:36 +0000

I'm really hoping AI does not become the next political culture war thing, but I'm afraid it probably already is moving in that direction; though it does at least seem that the dividing lines won't be red vs blue this time.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Astra for Law"

jimmyjazz14 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:45:03 +0000

I really hope the bar associations continues to hold lawyers to high standards but I have feeling they may not be ready to handle fallout of AI slop-law.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

jimmyjazz14 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:58:32 +0000

Can someone who has insight explain why all these "leaders" are making these bold proclamations of doom all the sudden, whats the endgame here?

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

jimmyjazz14 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:12:11 +0000

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. I have tried coming back to the game multiple times and every time I just feel bored and underwhelmed by the whole experience.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "An Alien Mind"

jimmyjazz14 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:00:49 +0000

I feel like if these people actually bought their sci-fi views about AI's future, creating a more powerful AI to wins the arms race would not be their solution.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

jimmyjazz14 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:59:00 +0000

Really puts the marvels of modern life into perspective, most people did not live long or happy lives for much of human history.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

jimmyjazz14 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:18:35 +0000

There is part of me who would love to see the style of internet created by companies like Meta regulated out of existence but the logical part of my mind recognizes this could lead to things like age verification laws, online surveillance and other much worse government controls over the internet.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

jimmyjazz14 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:02:26 +0000

The difference is asbestos clearly and directly caused harm, the social media addiction stuff stand on pretty dubious science to say the least.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

jimmyjazz14 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:57:19 +0000

The system isn't tricking anyone, if an individual is not aware of how social media algorithms work that is due to willful ignorance (in the case of children that falls on the parents willful ignorance).

I do personally believe banning the algorithms begins to fall into the realm of free speech regulation. I can hate the algorithm crap without thinking the government should regulate the internet.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

jimmyjazz14 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:29:04 +0000

Agreed, this is just setting the stage for requiring age verification (and surveillance) under the pretense of "saving the children".

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

jimmyjazz14 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:26:51 +0000

Why not just ban all non government approved speech, less we hear something that might hurt our feelings or make us engage in wrongthink.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "AI Boosted Homework Scores by 18% – Then Exam Scores Dropped 20%, Study Shows"

jimmyjazz14 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:09:36 +0000

Learning how to do "boring" things is probably one of the more important skill a child can learn, most things worth doing tend to be kinda boring at least at some point.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

jimmyjazz14 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:10:12 +0000

Wouldn't a better title be "don't give out information that you wouldn't want used by bad actors"? Seems less about technology and more about privacy.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

jimmyjazz14 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:25:24 +0000

Its cute how people who don't live here have the worst ideas for how we should run our country, like we don't see what they are trying to do.