Would you see a contradiction in someone putting their hand into a tank filled with piranha? It might seem like a bad idea, but does it indicate their hand is a separate entity? Or what if I let you delete my /. account? If I believed it would save your soul, I'd absolutely let you kill the extension of my self in this little universe.

I suppose you might be right about that, though I'd hope they weren't so stupid that they'd drive away all of their customers first.

Just another reason to reign in private equity I guess. I don't know why we let that happen again, they're just the trusts we broke a hundred years ago.

As I recall, they have a much lower rate of tone deafness than the rest of the world, and a higher number of people with perfect pitch. Similarly, the mutation that makes Cilantro taste like soap is much more rare in places where it is a common part of the diet.

Anyhow, you left out how "Lingua Franca" literally means "(the) French language", as they were the dominant force for a time. It remained the language for diplomacy well into the era of British dominance.

Note that most of the world uses the Latin alphabet, while the Chinese lexigraphy is an absurdity. Also, that analytic languages are mostly limited to China and its neighbors to the Southeast, and they suck. Synthetic languages, like almost all the rest, are far more flexible, expressive, and comprehensible. Plus, the rate of falling tones ending in 'ng', 'o', or 'eu' is much lower. I hate hate hate those sounds.

I just don't think it's likely that a Chinese language (Mandarin is dominant, they've suppressed Cantonese and the costal languages) will ever be the Lingua Franca. Look at the rate at which English adopted Japanese loanwords vs Chinese. Everyone knows what karaoke is, but what Chinese loanwords do we have? Some martial arts and Feng Sui?

Your suggestion is logical, but I don't think you considered industrial use. That smelter or fertilizer factory will get impacted as well...distribution centers, even ice hockey rinks. Lots of industries use a lot of electricity...it's just they provide actual value, unlike this AI Rush. Most of these are the backbone of your local economy. Not everyone can be an engineer at a big tech company...someone has to make raw materials, houses, grow your food, etc

In my view, the AI bubble is a cancer we just have to accept and accommodate. TMK, investing in electrical infrastructure is not a bad idea. There's no way to separate pointless computation, like bitcoin or most LLMs, vs legit cloud computing, which we want to encourage. And as many have pointed out, once investors realize LLMs are not going to provide the value promised, all that cloud computing capacity can just be repurposed for technology growth that I would consider much more practical. Once the bubble pops...once all the servers bought are obsolete....you still have an upgraded grid and distribution system to support EVs or whatever technology increases our electricity consumption in the future.

The story here is that local suppliers need to step up to make demand. The answer is to shame them, not the customers who want to buy electricity.

If you aren't sure what I'm talking about - https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

An open-source project many depended upon, maintained by employees of Kubernetes, and dropped because neither Kubernetes nor anyone else wanted to fund it. And here is an open-source project people may come to depend upon, maintained by not a Steam employee, but fully funded by Steam because they recognize they, and others, will need it.

Is Steam the better company?

Are you talking about how they used the possessive, "its", instead of the contraction, "it's"? That is annoying.

At least they didn't say, "And because there open-source".

"analyze your output"
Nice one!

I like it when we agree. I'm unable to fathom why this guy thinks the images should be encrypted in a way that makes it impossible to provide the service. I'm forced to guess that the answer is sensationalism.

I don't know. I'm baffled by the complaint. I see data encrypted in transit and at rest and say, "good enough".

if they win they become God-Kings who's slightest whim is made real to the limits of human civilization.

If they lose they just go to their graves insanely wealthy.

There is a *very* small chance they get thrown out of a window or poisoned by a Stalin or a Mao, but it's very, very unlikely. They have their own private armies to protect them.

It'll be about 3-5 years but more or less.

That's how long analysts think the AI build out will last. It's why nobody is building more capacity.

the reason gas prices have been stable is we keep pushing for more fuel economy keeping demand down. EVs help some too, but the huge push for fuel economy is why the national average is only $3/gallon.

I'm saying that those people aren't going down without a fight, and they'll kill a lot of the people who try to kill them.

When the violence starts we all get dragged into it. Nobody gets to sit back and watch the 'parasites' get taken out to their amusement. It doesn't work like that.

Although about 30-40% of the country seems to think it does.

Since 1980 were taken by automation not outsourcing. Google it.

The Trump administration is heavily pushing even more automation.

His commerce Secretary has already admitted that even if tariffs magically brought the factories back the jobs wouldn't come with them because they would be automated.

We are going to have to do something about this. In the very near future, in the life of most of the people reading this, about a quarter of the population is going to be rendered completely useless. We will not have any useful work they are capable of doing.

We are not going to give them money to sit around playing Xbox and getting drunk on Friday night. Nobody is going to tolerate going to work for 40 to 60 hours a week when somebody else doesn't have to. It won't feel Fair and it will make people very angry.

At the same time we are talking about 30 to 40 million people we just have no use for. It's too many to stick in work camps or to kill.

We are going to have a huge conflict between the people who still need to do work and the people who there is no useful work to do. And there is no magical super job that's going to come along and employ them. Read the history on the two industrial revolutions, we had massive amounts of technological unemployment during both of them that your high school history books glossed over. We had 25% unemployment in the lead up to world war II.

I don't know what the solution is. I think what's going to happen is we're going to have another world war and it's going to go nuclear possibly ending the species. But if there's a third option we better figure it out and fast.

The billionaires have decided we're going to have feudalism and are working on dismantling capitalism so that they know longer depend on consumers and employees for their wealth and prestige and power. They are creating a world where they do not need you to buy their products. So they already have a solution to the problem it's just their solution doesn't include you.

My wife thinks it knows when she gets up to go to the kitchen or bathroom because that's when the ads start. I'm thinking it's just coincidence. And hoping I'm right.

You think that they couldn't still send you a list of every video you've ever watched?