Wrt. the memory efficiency - considering that AI is going to be the main workload by far and thus will vacuum in majority of the available optimization resources - be it humans or coding AI - i think it will be even less chances that any meaningful resources will be spent on optimizing on the fringe, ie. the users' OS/browser/etc.

exactly. it is just $4K/person. Whereis current US national debt is $120K/person.

i think fixing the plumbing there may be a treatment for a bunch of issues given that for example the whole volume of the cerebrospinal fluid is normally refreshed 3-4 times a day (imagine changing oil in your car engine 3-4 times a day :) - i.e. any hiccup in the plumbing (even a temporarily one and even in the healthy people like a bad sleeping position) and you already may get headache, etc. One can imagine that any chronic performance degradation of the plumbing may lead to a bunch of issues (similar to say what happens in any other organ/limb when blood or lymphatic flow is degraded)

Specifically for Alzheimer's - we do know about direct importance of that plumbing system here - poor sleep is well correlated with Alzheimer's as during deep slow-wave sleep, the brain's glymphatic system actively washes away metabolic waste and toxic proteins, including Alzheimer-related plaques while chronic sleep deprivation increases the buildup of toxic brain proteins like amyloid-beta and tau.

That Alzheimer's surgery brings up another very important and pretty fascinating aspect - not only the Alzheier's may be not permanently damaging the brain, we may speculate that various things we observe as age related brain degradation may be not actual brain cells/core degradation and instead similarly fixable issues of just some utilitarian subsystems.

I personally welcome such spiraling offense-defense cycles as it is one of the main drivers of the technological progress.

I'm all for the datacenters, the more the better, it is the great race of acceleration of our civilization. Yet, it is pretty clear, and with history being the witness, that the tech-bros and MBAs will build it without any regard for the well-being of impacted communities. Thus we have the game of what communities will [be forced to] take a one for the team.

And this is why space base datacenters will be a thing :)

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Anyway, that demonstrates another way of datacenters getting modularized. The point is that the actual volume of datacenters to be produced calls for the mass production assembly line style. The one-off custom built approach becomes unsustainable.

In such a module-based construction you can optimize layout and the fabrication sequence so that the labor is minimized and simplified - like for example you'd be simply laying down wire instead of running it.

Thus the modules can be fabricated where the labor is cheap and plentiful and with high degree of robots usage while only final assembly would require high cost labor at the target location.

For an exec to talk about therapy - that is allowed only to the top dogs, like CEO, who can pass any personal crap upon his reports.