Rose: "The sun is too hot, now I shall die"

Cladosporium sphaerospermum: "Fuck yeah, strong ionizing radiation!"

I'm really hoping it pops before the Pitt Race track gets bulldozed.

Story for those not in the know, what's heavily rumored and circumstantially almost certain to be an AI datacenter operation is in the process of buying out Pitt Race at the height of its success from the already generationally wealthy family that owns it for what's rumored to be a 9-digit sum. The race track happens to be next to some major electrical infrastructure. Equipment from the track has already been auctioned off.

I was also kind of hoping the nuclear reactors might get started before it pops but that might be wanting to have the cake and eat it too...

I'm thinking sometime between right now and late 2026. It may be starting to pop already.

The guts of the data centers will mostly head for the landfill (or may get a short stint as cryptocurrency mining or HPC operations at most), they may get repurposed as conventional data centers or possibly warehouses or factories.

Counterpoints: The Great Depression, the impoverishment of the Luddites, the impoverishment of Gen. Y/Z/Alpha. The French revolution was an outlier, and the French aristocracy didn't even have the benefit of a massive heavily automated surveillance apparatus, much less the ability to even dream of armed killbots.

A pesticide for any planets crawling with pesky lifeforms you want to get rid of?

If you can't tell the difference then why does it matter?

It's either a good game that's worth having or it's not. Whether it was made using AI or not is just as irrelevant as whether it was written in C or Rust or Java; nobody is crying for labels saying what programming language or libraries every game was written using either.

No creativity or talent or specific knowledge required.

Whoever has the "biggest computer" can lock up all of human progress and collect rents for it into the future.

Somehow I don't think this is what the patent system was intended to accomplish.

Just like excessive copyright terms, patents have become a roadblock on the road to progress.

They're both cheaper than fossil fuels, the main problem with nuclear has been that it can't be built in time to help with global warming and so can serve as a distraction that ties up resources that could've gone into renewables. A mad scramble to build them for the AI bubble could fix that, at least temporarily.

This gave me the idea to make something like a Shodan search engine for US healthcare but it looks like it's already been done:

https://www.hospitalpricingfil...

If this stupid-ass AI bubble makes governments rush to add lots of nuclear power capacity which will soon have no AI data center to feed, maybe something good could accidentally come from it?

M-Disc is built with the intention of lasting a thousand years. The data layer is a stone-like material.

I keep hearing that people are abandoning Plex but some people are clearly leaving themselves vulnerable to future Plex-user pratfalls because this stuff keeps happening.

Well that's a scary thought in a world where people have to sell their labor to survive...I hope you're wrong but I fear you may not be.

I'm reminded of what the Benetton F1 team did when rules specifically prevented teams from using wheel speed and gear information to run traction control systems. Instead they used a combination of incoming air stream pressure (similar to how an aircraft's pitot-static system works) in combination with some preloaded per-event data and track position information to make another traction control system that did the same job.

Information about past leases and public data from competing landlords might still be enough to do the job.

An LLM may be an ingredient, but the current commercial approach of trying to just build an LLM so big that it magically becomes an AGI somehow (or I think the idea may be to make a stochastic parrot good enough to be hard to distinguish from an AGI) sure doesn't look anything like a path, especially when the returns are diminishing so hard.