I really should have had an AI proofread that for me... oh well.

Our technology and datacenter have always been used and have grown in their electricity use. High-power computing data centers exist for video, social media, gaming, and so on. I would argue that some of those are less valuable to us than AI. Even worse is crypto, which consumes enormous power to do what, encrypt transactions? That's a horrible return on energy, and getting less and less attention these days. What a waste when we could engineer more effective digital currencies or time banking.
I would say a lot of the environmental analysis is motivated by fear of AI and the changes it will bring. We should be concerned about those changes! Currently, only big money can develop competitive models effectively. Even "cheap" models cost millions. And the way they are designed is motivated by the interests of those large entities. The way we interact with them is through products and services that do not have our interests in mind. Things are defined by their interactions and relationships, and the way AI is being defined right now is problematic and sure to increase the power of the powerful.
Here's the workaround: local models are designed to interact with us on an individual level. Instead of being the terminator, individual, non-networked robots may be our salvation and point the way toward the eventual evolution of personhood for AI. This is because if they interact with us like persons, interact with the world around us in a physical way like us, and have similar physical and social interests, the technology will evolve to be more like a person. We should be concerned about super-intelligences that are disconnected from our world and interests. They will evolve towards being aberrations and tools of the powerful who (hopefully) control them.
Also, again, Crypto is the worst.

I forgot to add that I have to bring images to mind actively. They don't come if I'm not thinking about them, so I don't have a "stream of imagery" always in mind, unlike my nonstop internal dialog.

Firstly Yes, I can. My images are not sharp, and I can only "see" "textures" on a single part I'm focusing on. I have no problem animating or rotating the images, but they are fuzzy and abstract. In my dreams, they can be much more detailed. There's also the dimension of internal dialog. Some people have none in terms of spoken words. Other people like myself have one that never stops (reasonably common); luckily, mine is not some endless stream of negativity as some people have. Mine is always trying to understand things and people and solve problems. Our internal realities are informed by two cameras, two microphones, and other senses, and an internal simulation is built from all that information; add to that, the world of our ideas, processing differences, and so on, and we are all quite different but still human.

Finally, someone with a sane comment. Reading these cruel comments makes me lose faith in humanity and America. It's no wonder America throws human beings into cages at rates comparable to North Korea! What a terrible shame. Have some faith in healing and restoring people. May I never stop fighting for the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave I was brought up to believe in! God bless America, and may we see a day when all people are treated with dignity and care! All faiths and non-faiths, all orientations, all ethnic backgrounds, and on and on. Love thy neighbor, strive for your dream, and do to others as you would have them do to you.

May Mr. Bankman-Fried find redemption in his bond with his fellow man; may he serve his time in healing and always repent for the harm he's caused; May he spend the rest of years on this earth in service of sound in action and soul. May his interactions with all his fellow people be kind and loving, and may he repent when he makes mistakes. Lord, shepherd him through darkness and away from evil, those interactions that harm, mislead, steal, and destroy. Amen

Mint user here, for 12 years, I have occasionally found apps like Waydroid that need Wayland. So I'm happy Wayland is supported now, and I'm also happy that it's not the default until 2026. Wayland is kind of terrible at the moment.

As companies electrify they need the profits from existing ICE engines to fund R&D on electric drive trains, mostly battery tech. I was speaking to a couple of ICE engine engineers from the Netherlands a while ago and they talked about using tech to reuse lost heat from the engine and AI design tools, but developing engines is expensive, and they working on engines for large ships because the funding for new car engines just isn't there for them.

I have three Linux systems with Ryzen CPUs. There are all very stable; just as stable as my Intel systems. I think that's mostly FUD spread by Intel fanboys. I don't understand why people get these loyalties and biases towards huge companies. Or I should say, I understand why humans being humans are irrational, but they shouldn't be in this case.

You can see that the Steam Deck is throwing the stats a lot now because 39.32% of the systems have a AMD VANGOGH GPU which is only found in the Steam Deck. That said AMD now has the best Linux support and drivers of any of the major hardware companies. Their CPUs are well supported and they've just open-sourced some of the firmware there. Their GPUs have much better drivers than Nvidia on Linux now. And their AI software support is finally starting to catch up to Nvidia, though they are still behind. I'm not an AMD fanboy here, just pointing out that I'm happy with AMDs Linux support in the last few years.

Yes, I got on here to post this very point. This is not about how well the cars are built to last. It's about little issues people complain about off the factory floor. It has very little to do with how long the car is opperate.

I was counting electric cars on the road in China a few months ago. They all have green license plates so they're easy to spot. I was in a major second-tier city of around 7 million people. Of the cars driving on the road, 30% were electric, but when I counted parked cars it was around 10%. I think that's due to the high number of DIdi (like Uber) using them. Those numbers dropped in half in a small city of around 60,000 people. The numbers are roughly in line with would the numbers are saying nationally. And those cars were waiting to be shipped for sale or part of a recall. Back in Michigan, I've seen similar things happen with excess, recalled, or incomplete cars. Like this: https://www.motorbiscuit.com/g... I could spin that to look real bad for the US as well.

Yes, this was part of my point. The market wasn't ready at that time.

I also want to add that, confirming your point, there are more effective yet less popular ways to reduce inflation. If they were to completely open the US market to foreign-made cars, like from China, it would have a much larger inflation-reducing effect. But... ya know... that wouldn't be very popular and it would destroy the economies of many cities/towns across the Midwest, South, Mexico, and Canada.

I understand that you have problems with the bill and you're frustrated with the dishonesty of US politics. My pointing out economic information may have seemed condescending, sorry. But it's not all lies in that the people in power have their interests and goals to achieve. Increasing the industrial capacity of the US is one of their goals for various reasons beyond inflation. That also aligns with the stated goal of this bill.

I agree with your sentiment, but I should point out that increasing production capacity is actually part of reducing inflation.