Could also run some World Community Grid tasks on BOINC, that's what I do.

But if you just want to heat your house nothing beats a heat pump for efficiency.

I don't think we should expect to see steady progress toward a climate solution, I think it's going to happen quite suddenly after some combination of the technology to do it getting cheap enough and the climate producing enough "shit's getting real" moments for a large fraction of the first-world population. At that point either we'll get our asses in gear and set up oceanic and atmospheric carbon sequestration megastructures all over the planet with maybe a little SRM sprinkled on top, or we'll be too distracted or impoverished to do anything about it for some silly reason or another and all the disastrous predictions will come true because this is a problem we're collectively too stupid as a species to solve. That's a real possibility.

They could've instead named this thing "Wut is sequential access and why is it bad!?!?"

It's also worth noting that NAFTA obliterated Mexico's smaller farmers which massively ramped up illegal migration from Mexico to the US.

I think the actual winners of this AI bubble will be whoever wastes the least money on this folly.

This.

I'm also surprised he didn't mention the housing bubble. Just because it's been running for decades and has been intentionally stabilized in an inflated state doesn't make it less of a bubble.

This wouldn't be the first project Microsoft killed with their own greed and it won't be the last.

You can cancel the manned Mars trip now, it won't unlock a real-world Xbox achievement.

Banning this type of filling from being used in the first place is also a good idea, but banning the cremation of these fillings is more effective and important. If they just ban these fillings from being put in, then the problem will persist unabated until at least after the death of the last person who already has one.

I suspect they're a lot more careful with the corpses of people who have nuclear-powered pacemakers etc...

Yes, the late 1800s-1920s was peak late stage capitalism, but the threat of communism made it change its ways and play nice for like 30-40 years, but then people were successfully indoctrinated into letting capitalism run amok by successive waves of red scares and the USSR collapsed, and now here we are again. Every time capitalism survives a brush with its late-stage phase, it means we will suffer through another one, but with more automation, surveillance and means of control.

Blackhats like to host proxies for their traffic in Azure and AWS for the same reason.

It sounds like you're saying that ethnically diverse workplaces are killing dating because they produce more ethnically diverse societies while most people's dicks/pussies are racist and would prefer to live in a racially homogeneous ethnostate, am I understanding you correctly?

This is what I like to call the Post-Reaganite/Thatcherite Ruin Loop, it was born in the first world and now plagues all of it, but has spread well beyond that now with many ex-2nd-world and third-world countries having entered it at this point. It goes like this:

1. Hollow out the economy by transferring hefty chunks of wealth from the lower and middle classes to the rich.
2. When people inevitably have less kids due to their good education and access to birth control combined with lack of resources to raise children (reduced in step 1), complain about it and point out that it's bad for the economy.
3. To satisfy capital's desire for unsustainably cheap labor, bring in fresh suckers from poorer countries who aren't up to date on how much shittier things became in Step 1.
4. GOTO 1

Any society with a capitalist economy will be fighting endlessly repeating battles to keep from entering this loop, and given enough time having to fight, it will eventually lose one of those battles, and that's all it takes.

Came here to mention this theory...could it be tested by producing a sci-fi-free variant of an LLM that appears to have a "survival drive?" If that doesn't change anything, maybe it picked it up not just from stories where AIs do underhanded things to survive, but stories where people do?

Discord is only the latest and least of the problems in that regard - Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest locked all of that content up first.