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Comment Re:Gotta feed the AI Bubble (Score 1) 169

It's the exact opposite. Poor are the ones most benefiting from things like cheaper food, cheap power, and easily available housing. All things brought in by cheap power enabling them.

Chances are, there won't be many if any poor left by the measuring stick of "global warming will be able to harm more than benefit". It's why you see increasing panic in the alarmist circles, as poor are increasingly comprehending what fate alarmists have in store for them and are rejecting their degrowth nonsense outright.

Comment Re:Crazy that they didn't even include a screensho (Score 3, Interesting) 27

IMHO, the most interesting thing they did was with the palette. They were obsessed with getting not just images snapped by the satellite as the sky, but having them actually look good, and even a "smart" mapping algorithm to the in-game palette wasn't good enough for them. So they wrote an algo to simultaneously choose a palette for both the colours in the satellite image and the colours in the game's graphical assets so it would pick colours best for both of them, and then remapped both the satellite image and the game's assets to this new palette. Also, normally satellite images are denoised on the ground, but a partner had gotten a machine learning denoising algo running on the satellite.

One thing they weren't able to deal with was that the game tiles the sky background, which is fine because it's a tileable image, but obviously random pictures of Earth aren't (except the nighttime images, which are all black!). If they had had more time, I imagine they would have set up something like heal selection to merge the edges, but one of the problems was that in order to take images of Earth, the satellite had to be oriented in a way that increased its drag and accelerated its deentry... so ironically, playing DOOM was accelerating the satellite's doom.

Comment Re: Here is the explaination: (Score 1) 107

Though, you might think, there's a reason we don't count votes that were not cast. Ignoring the reality that the Electoral College actually elected the President/Vice President, the popular vote isn't decisive. It's interesting, yes. Participation in the US is not nearly as high as I would like, but I can't get a good read on what world change if participation increased, say, 30%. Consequently, it's easy to believe most complaints about participation and the popular vote are the stuff of Democrat angst. Yet I'm not at all certain that increased participation would favor one party more than the other. Polls on this topic aren't any more reliable than any others.

Comment Re:why not use some of the waste heat? (Score 1) 72

when they can just take your electricity away from you?

Who is going to let them just take it?

  • Utilities are generally allowed to demand payment for needed infrastructure improvement in advance.
  • AI electrical demand is high, but not likely to be dependable.
    Newer AI implementations are likely to be much more energy efficient*, reducing the anticipated payback for infrastructure.
  • Utilities are within their rights to demand deposits be placed in escrow to cover the impact of this phantom demand. Use it or lose it**.
  • If the initial demand predictions are unmet, the capital costs will still be covered: cheap or free grid improvements for consumers.

*Assuming that AI doesn't turn out to be a flash in the pan and disappear altogether.

**In some countries without credit-worthy customers, it is common practice to demand that they pay in advance. This is just a larger version of that.

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