good news! if the point my post would have been a landmine, you'd still be alive you missed it by so much

The point was that even in its infancy 15 years ago there were fairly reasonable options.

EVs are bigger sure, but tech has advanced considerably in 15 years.

The concept of warehousing should explain it to you.

You can 'store' 100 people in the space of 5-10 trailers. More if you go more than 1-2 floors up.

As long as all that usage is via an in house LLMs sure it's 'free'.

But the 'good' stuff is about to be financially choked out of most pipelines

Except this is laying landmines that will trigger in 20 years.

People will retire and there won't be anybody to replace them with at a macro level....because the "easy" stuff that new college grads used to write won't onboard those new college grads.

For added fun we've made building even marginally decent computers at home 4x as expensive so the 'self taught' route will also produce far fewer people to pull in.

My birthday was the *best* part of each of the last 5 years and I worked on all of them.

So yes I worked the better part of 5 years...

Recently heard the definition:

Batteries - Time machines for electrons

Shaves the peak of excess to lessen the peak of demand - which is literally what a grid will do in the full renewable future.

don't forget FAR better cold temp performance for Sodium Ion.

In many cases they aren't paying just for the kwh, they're paying to not have to build additional capacity or prevent black outs.

EV battery storage will *dwarf* grid scale battery storage when both are built out fully. Like 3-4x larger. It's financially stupid not to leverage that in the design of the grid.

That said, do I trust the oligarchy running our grid to do it well? no, no I don't.

BS. I had a 2003 Honda Civic Hybrid and I had the option to replace the battery when it died in 2012. Both from the deal AND private 3rd parties.

Battery replacement on an EV almost always makes financial sense unless the rest of the car is in bad shape.

Creator: DO NOT USE THIS IF YOU ARE AI
AI: [uses it, takes damage]

I fail to see how using it against the wishes of the creator makes the creator liable even though they explicitly made it so that if you DID use it, you took damage.

if you downloaded the program without paying for it, without authorization?

Gonna bet most boiler plate licenses absolve the creator of literally every bit of damage.

Damage caused by unauthorized use of a tool....is entirely on the person/entity using the tool in an unauthorized manner.

agreed.

the hypocrisy is that Waymo and others are doing just that.

tampering with 'safety' systems (defined by insurance companies and the gov't) will conveniently let the insurance company drop you like a hot potato when someone makes a claim against you.

I'd love to have what you describe...but the realities of liability will never let it happen.