That’s the plan. The AI industry and its dependents will never make enough money to cover their current CapEx and then replace everything in five years when the chips are obsolete and components are breaking down. But if they tank every company that's using AI software will be fucked and the NASDAQ will tank. So the Fed will print a trillion dollars to bail them all out and everyone else will end up with higher grocery prices.

Itâ(TM)s easy to bribe one president to keep the federal government from reigning in a bad corporate actor. Itâ(TM)s hard to bribe fifty state AGs who all aspire to higher office and need big wins to show off on the campaign trail.

Four simple apps that do four different things. Or one bloated app that tries to cram four apps’ worth of functions into one messy UI. Nintendo made the right decision.

The third solution is a revolution. It’s going to get really crazy when people in the USA realize that there’s not enough food, a couple big Wall Street companies own all the housing, and there are 400 millions guns in private hands.

I totally understand where you’re coming from. The algorithms default to feeding users people crap, and if you haven’t been watching the same stuff on YouTube for a long time it won’t match you to the good, nonsensational stuff. And that’s a shame.

At this point most of the money being thrown at AI is for scientific and discovery purposes. Because nobody really knows what AI will turn out to be capable of.They have plans for what they want it to do, but that’s all early stage stuff. In 25 years AI will probably be used for stuff few people imagined. What the AI companies have managed to do is get big investors to throw hundreds of billions of dollars at huge private research institutes instead of being fractured into dozens of small programs where everybody spends half of their working hours writing papers and grant applications. Some of these institutes will never make enough money to survive their insane capital expenditures. But the R&D they’re doing now is laying the groundwork for future generations. It’s similar to the US government throwing billions of dollars a year at the space program and people later finding earthbound uses for the science dreamed up to support NASA missions.

We don't want to be associated with a fascist regime when the wind changes.

There absolutely is misinformation on YouTube. But it’s easy to avoid if you have common sense. The problem is that most people are fucking idiots who will believe anything.

It depends. The guy who does the Chinese business analysis quotes his sources and lists them, with links when possible, in his video descriptions. I like videos by a j-vlogger who’s been in Japan for over a decade and in his serious videos he actually goes out and interviews people so I know he isn’t just talking out of his ass. And when someone with lots of followers lies in a video they’re usually called out by other YouTubers and YouTube will put those videos right into my feed. So while YouTube doesn’t have the gatekeepers that The PBS News Hour or 60 Minutes does, it’s still got some quality control in place if you know how to look for it.

I trust Windows Server 2003 more than I trust Windows 11. It's less stable, but Microsoft isn't in control of your machine.

I'm 47 and I love YouTube. It has serious intellectual content by people who succeed based on brains instead of looks. I get insightful coverage of stuff going on all over the world by experts who can analyze what's going on and what it means. No TV news channel is going to analyze two years of news reports and think tank papers to tell me what's really going on with Chinese business and political trends. There's a guy on YouTube who does that two or three times a week. Last week I found an Indian university's channel that serves up master's level video courses. Why would I waste my time on network sitcoms or streaming prestige dramas when I can educate myself every day?

The turbines are a sunk cost and so there's value in conversion than turning them to scrap and building fuel cells.

There are no sunk costs around the turbines. The existing turbines will be replaced. From TFS:

In their place, the DWP will install new combined-cycle turbines that are expected to operate on a mixture of natural gas and at least 30% hydrogen with the ultimate goal of running entirely on hydrogen as more supply becomes available.

They're reusing the land and part of the existing structure on it. Almost everything else is getting replaced.

Modern combined-cycle gas turbines are much more efficient than that. Most new installations now get around 60% efficiency if not better, and the current record is 64.18%, set by a Siemens turbine at Keadby Unit 2 Power Station in the UK. The end result won't be 68%, but it also won't be 34%. Given the losses associated with electrolysis, the net is likely to be around 50%, which still makes it a bad idea.

Tomorrow we'll find out that Jeff Bezos is investing $38 billion in OpenAI.

The man bought a vacuum cleaner that required an internet connection, and that didn't make him suspicious?

Not so clever I reckon...