I mean, if you can't trust criminals, who can you trust?!?

I moderately to heavily use AI for my work because it is capable of speeding up routine time-consuming tasks. I do that so I can use my time more effectively on other productive tasks. However, I did rough calculation and it costs about 4$/hour in tokens for that. That is subsidized costs where LLMs are offered at a loss to capture market share. True costs are easily double that. This is not trivial cost if everyone in a company starts doing that.

I know people that still expose their lives to Google, but I am not one of them. Especially now, at the start of the age of AI where all information is used to profile you and used against you, from salary negotiation to loan applications, it is absolutely crazy to want any product at any price, including free, from Google.

"Chromebook" sounded kind of cool.

"GoogleBook" just sounds odd.

Ok thanks for the SPR definition, etc.

Yes, we are more car dependent than the 70's, but thats only because we're a larger country, more populace more cities than the 70s

I grew up in the 70's....and to my eyes, it isn't much different as far as requiring a car to live....never in my lifetime has there been any meaningful public transit anywhere I've lived across the US, but it isn't like anyone I've ever known missed it, etc.

Just normal way of life here.....I started working at restaurants when I was about 16yrs....saved my money and bought my first car (with some parental help) as a senior in High School.....and got that first taste of independence ..

I just thank GOD there was no social media back then and we didn't have cameras everywhere....ugh.

But the US has always in modern times been car centric....to see when it was not you'd likely have to look back about 100 years....

So ... kind of like something that would happen at what was, or should be, a non-profit?

The myth that AI data centers are using up all the water comes from some incorrect citations that have then swept through sensationalist and poorly fact-checked (looking at you Washington Post) news stories. One major contributor was Karen Hat's "Empire of AI" which overstated the usage by three orders of magnitude. (She did publicly correct that, but you can guess how many people are interested in the non-sensational numbers).

For proportion, California almond growers use 90x the fresh water of all US data centers combined.

Which is not to say that a data center can't still be a strain for some communities, but not in a more extraordinary way than e.g. the local university wanting to maintain a golf course.

But "AI IS SUCKING UP ALL THE WATER PEOPLE NEED TO SURVIVE!!!" is a wonderfully concrete - if completely false - complaint for people uneasy about the recent advances in technology to latch onto

So this has nothing to do with the building being a "data center" at all. The water used if for construction and it could just as well be a stadium or an apartment complex. But since people are talking about data centers using water we'll take any opportunity to jump in on that even if it's amplifying a misconception by mentioning it in adjacency to unrelated events.

1. Too expensive 2. Range 3. Charging network, especially for those who live in apartments Pretty much anyone that wanted one, has one. For urban areas, they aren't a bad thing. But for people that live in flyover country, where you live and or work on a farm etc, it's just not practicle. Personally, I'm waiting for Doc Brown to develop the flux capacitor & the Mr. Fusion reactor. ;)

Whelp, guess she's wrong! I mean students booed, so that settles it!

If your thesis is correct, then that means the big businesses will be very ineffective, with them not having the right number of human workers.

So you can start a new company and hire all their laid off staff, and outcompete the big businesses that laid them off.

You after all understand labor and production output better than all the big businesses that laid off the workers.

This is great. You will become fabulously wealthy. Which big business will you be going after first?

>"They aren't printing every single part of the gun, but yeah, they are printing guns."

Well, no. They are printing parts of guns, not a whole gun. The barrel is certainly not printed. Nor are springs, fasteners, striker, etc.

>"You can make your own rifled barrels with EDM"

At least for now, [essentially] nobody has an EDM machine at home. And this is no different from just making parts with metal machining tools. Are we going to ban/restrict metal lathes and such? Or force computers on them so they can somehow detect you are manually making a barrel, trigger, firing pin, charger, springs, etc?

>"so you actually can manufacture every part of the firearm yourself."

Right. You could always do that. This new stuff doesn't really change that much. And it doesn't replace needing metal work. It might make some things easier, but still requires a lot of work/time and some expertise.

Gloria lives in a bubble, and made the mistake of thinking her extremely comfortable, highly secure bubble was the whole world. That's not surprising. Gloria only moves among other bubble people, from one gated bubble pad to the next, in her bubble transport system, where they don't talk about the turbo-fans and ICE V8's that power it all, or the staggering quantity of power it takes to climate control everything in her bubble world.

That's not new. We're ruled by such bubble folk, indulging their bubble concerns, pursing their moral panics, signaling their virtues, and carefully ignoring all else beyond the bubble.

What's new here is this: the consequences of this have reached the privileged students of our prestigious academic system. Suddenly it's not just the hoi polloi on the shit end of the stick. Johnny Winston-Blake IV is also having his future deleted by the bubble people. And he's mad about it.

A few years back, I went to a local community college...paid a few dollars to "apply" to take some grad courses.....sent transcripts, etc....I think a total of maybe $50 to apply.

For that I got a student ID with picture...and NO DATEs on it.

I also got an .edu email address. I've not used that in ages, but likely could reactivate it with some phone calls.

But that ID alone has saved me a TON of money over the years getting educational rates and prices.

Check to see what your local colleges put on their IDs and you might find it worth it to do the same.

It's going to get substantially higher than $4. I think it could end up pushing 7 bucks. Historically, the US has tolerated recessions more lightly than it has gas above 5 bucks. So this is a really really big deal, not least because demand destruction through mode shifting is much less tenable than in the 70s due to greater car dependency, and the SPR is already extensively drawn down ahead of winter. A whacking great recession may well be on the way.

Maybe that high in the "weird" states that overtax and have massive regulations on formulation, etc.....but here in the New Orleans...TX area, I don't see it getting that expensive.....

I don't get from you response one thing clearly...are you saying we had greater car dependency in the 70's or we have it now?

Also, what is "SPR" please?

I just don't see an electric bike/motorcycle holding any interest whatsoever to me...I LOVE my regular motorcycle....the sounds, smells, mechanical vibrations and with all the controls, clutches, going through gears, etc....it's all part of a visceral feel that you only get from a real motorcycle.....

Just pulling a throttle on a silent EV "motorcycle"....even though it might launch you into the future....will not have the same appeal...