If you're going to attempt something outrageous that is almost certain to fail, why not a Space Elevator? On the off-chance you do succeed, that would be a hell of a lot more valuable.

Why isn't there ever a hate button?

There is! Its up the top of the browser window, and looks like a little [x] in the tab next to the tab name

A baby in a cradle is the wrong analogy -- a better analogy is an internal organ inside a body. Yes, you can (with advanced technology and at great expense) remove the internal organ from the body and keep it alive externally for some time, but it's going to be unpleasant for everyone involved, and sooner or later the disembodied organ will wither and die, unless it is returned to the environment it was specifically evolved to live within.

Hell, its a major part of Star Trek Lore. Khan and his band of genetically engineered evil super soldiers. All of which lead to the federation banning genetic engineering (something the show has been trying to walk back ever since Roddenberry passed away since, well ... there actually IS medically useful non eugenic uses for gene therapy, and it seems a bit arse backwards if the federation is letting people die of trivially solveable diseases (trivial for a civilization thats racing around space on warp ships, that is).

A good example of Trek realising they kind of cocked that one up is the Julian Bashir arc where its realised he's so damn smart because his parents had secretly gotten him illegal medical treatment after he was born with significant cognitive impairment from shady space doctors. The end result being he ends up a super genius. But a good one, not a khan!. In the most recent series its realised that "Number 1" is heavily genetically engineered, because she's from a species that practices it routinely, and the show then wrestles with the fact it'd basically be biggoted discrimination to punish her for something she didnt choose and is part of her species native culture.

Except now they've done it on purpose, knowing that the earlier harms would return, and the lawsuits will be bigger.

Oh mark my words, the fallout from this ludicrously malicious administration will be felt for a generation, just not by the generation that got the administration into power.

The odd thing is, I could have sworn that C was used for the original Unix, and was written for that purpose. Apparently not.

Guess I had a few of those facts mixed up in my head since Unix and C had so much mutual history together.

But why does it matter. Why not let China get there first and buy it from them?

Why should any of us give a shit which set of worthless billionaires get there first?

Regardless of whether its the west coast or the east coast thats to blame for this mess, the reality is;- its a fucken mess.

And yes, theres a particular cohort of SF zillionares, Musk, Thiel, that weird psycho who loves to rant about killing people at Palantir, Zuck, Larry Elison, and the Nvidia dude, who are very clearly of the opinion that there is no cost too high, including the errosion of civil liberties, democracy, and public sanity to achieve AI supremacy while the rest of us are left wondering "Who actually gives a shit if China gets there first? Is it worth burning down the planet and causing massive poverty to avoid that?!"

Theres a simple way to clean this shit up that would end this kind of thing overnight.

Put Meta financially on the hook for these scams. If facebook convinces some poor old lady with low tech literacy to hand over her retirement fund, then facebook should be on the hook to repay her. Facebook then can, at their own leisure, chase the scammer down to pay them back, but facebook must be held accountable.

Do that, and those scam ads end overnight.

Sir, you are infringing on my trademark of Micro Softwad.

Sorry, but the only person here with Stockholm's Syndrome is you. You are held hostage to your failed beliefs that communism and socialism are the only way forward when history has shown that they simply lead to authoritarianism.

Well they sure as hell aren't when we get so intellectually lazy we dub anything to the right of ghengis khan "COMMUNISM".

Is Keynsianism too "communist" for you? Theres a solid and battle tested set of principles that build wealth while protecting the little guys.

If it is, then maybe just follow Adam Smiths advice and regulate capitalism in the interest of the common man. Is Adam Smith too communist for you?

What IS your baseline here beyond vapid libertarian-ish slogans?

No. Like any software, AI requires maintenance, and that maintenance costs money, lots of money.

It does not. Models need nothing more than the storage of some gigs of weights, and a GPU capable of running them.

If you mean "the information goes stale", one, that doesn't happen at all with RAG. And two, updating information with a finetune or even LORA is not a resource-intense task. It's making new foundations that is immensely resource intensive.

Can you integrate it into your products and work flow?

Yes, with precisely the difficulty level of any other API.

Can you train it on your own data?

With much less difficulty than trying to do that with a closed model.

This whole speech of his seems like

"AI isnt profitable, so we'll need you to raise electricity prices on voters so you can give us free power".

Maybe, radical suggestion I know, but maybe they can just fuck off....

The faster the bubble bursts so all these shitbirds lose all their money the happier I will be.

As far as I know, there has never been any proof that dark energy actually exists, only theories only conjectures.

Dark Energy , and Dark Matter, aren't really theories in the sense we usually use in science. They are placeholders to describe missing variables in the math used to describe gravitational behavior as it deviates from the otherwise highly reliable Einsteinian and Newtonian accounts for it.

Dark Matter, because the maths and observations seem to show a *lot* more mass in galaxies than we can account for.

And Dark Energy, because something appears to be accelerating expansion, and basic physics tells us that if something is accelerating, theres a force being applied *somehow*.

But we dont know what that missing mass in galaxies, or the missing energy in expansion, is, so its "Dark". Its not a conjecture, or a theory, its literally scientists saying "We dont know whats going on here".

And you cant disprove that, because your trying to disprove that scientists dont know whats happening. But most assuredly they dont know whats happening, and THAT is what Dark Energy literally is. The giant question mark surrounding a fudge factor in the maths.

And my point is that AI wouldn't just stop being used even if the bubble imploded so heavily that all of the major AI providers of today went under. It's just too easy to run today. The average person who wants something free would on average use a worse-quality model, but they're not going to just stop using models. And inference costs for higher-end models would crash if the big AI companies were no longer monopolozing the giant datacentres (which will not simply vanish just because their owners lose their shirts; power is only about a third the cost of a datacentre, and it gets even cheaper if you idle datacentres during their local electricity peak-demand times).