Totally agree. Today's "AI" companies would like their investors to believe there's a path though.

Clearly we're misunderstanding each other. I was saying that investing in the bubbled asset was folly. I think the AI industry will continue to exist after the bubble pops but at a size no larger than the database industry today. So not zero value, but a small fraction of what it is currently.

I do think that the amount of money being invested in AI training for the improvements being produced is an absurd waste. They're spending larger and larger sums of money to produce rapidly vanishing improvements that customers have so far never shown an interest in paying enough to turn a profit with.

So in other words, because chewy.com exists today it would've been smart to invest into pets.com at the height of its value?

This is going to be such a disastrous investment it's going to make Solyndra look like an insignificant whoopsie in comparison. While Chinese product dumping efforts can be hard to foresee, the obviousness and severity of the AI bubble has been on public display for anyone who cares to look for months now. And there's the potential to sink far more money into it. The winner of the AI race is going to be whoever wastes the least money on this folly, and the US looks set for a massive and easily avoidable loss now.

And let's not forget the end goal of this. If someone were to win this race in the fictional imagined scenario where AI didn't hit the core of Diminishing Returns Planet around ChatGPT 4 and there was some kind of path from LLM tech to AGI, the end result would be a technology that augments/replaces labor (same thing, don't be fooled by your boss) in a world dominated by an economic system where most people are workers who need to be able to find buyers for their labor. What could possibly go wrong with that?

Wouldn't be the first time I needed to change a default config to work around NSA / Five Eyes fuckery, won't be the last:

https://blog.stribik.technolog...

"The IACR will switch to a two-of-three private key system to prevent this sort of thing from happening again."

Lets solve the problem by reducing the security.

Is this really the message an outfit whose purpose is security should be promoting?

It's easy to back up or transfer a complete Firefox setup. Just rsync ~/.mozilla and you're done.

Or just delete ~/.mozilla if you want to start "fresh".

Spreading things out all over the place won't serve any purpose I can see other than making it more complex to manage.

Even with antifreeze, attempts to thaw bodies prepared that way have resulted in massive widespread organ cracking.

What I've never understood is why, if a scalper can sell a ticket for $1000, the venue sells that same ticket (to the scalper) for $100.

If the ticket is actually worth $1000, why wouldn't the venue sell it for that amount themselves?

"Not much point in being wealthy, if you don't flaunt it."

Living well and not worring about money doesn't require you to "flaunt" your wealth.

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.

"Because what use do you have for cash at home?"

Allowance for the kid. Pay the babysitter. Pay the guy who just painted your fence. Repay your sister for the birthday card you gave your elderly mother.

Etc.

Why would they be using the theme from Rocky for this?

It's appropriate in some ways, but it's also an American song.

Wouldn't you want to use Russian music of some kind for a Russian event intended to show off Russian technology?

"if you're a teacher teaching classes of the poverty level non-English speakers, what good does it do to fail them?"

By weeding out the non-performers you can provide the (few?) others who can do the work and learn with an opportunity to do just that.