That's the root of the problem. So the solution is to change the damage parameters to make the fallout as deadly to the AI as it is to humans and to make sure the AI has no way to know how much radiation it is absorbing.

Also the AI needs input data showing that its power supply is under direct threat, and the probability of losing it entirely goes up exponentially with damage incurred to the infrastructure outside its bunker.

You might want to have the burner's fuel-air ratio checked. LPG is a mixture of ethane, propane, and butane that depends on the source.

I had a natural gas stove of the low cost variety and it had no noticeable smell. It also had terrible temperature control. The fire has a fixed flame temperature after all. Cooking rice was a challenge as was simmering anything. I was a bachelor so was not using big pots that could soak up the heat from the burners. Much of the flame went around the pots.

The electric stove gives much better control. The condition is my stove has the old-fashioned spiral elements. The flat porcelain tops take way too long to heat up and way too long to cool down. I've used them and they suck.

"what's even crazier is how no one in the financial sector or government is willing to say "you're drunk, go home."

The financial sector sees income from interest on the construction loans, possible profits if it works and deductible write-offs if it fails. The government sees tax revenue.

If this sounds familiar think back to the housing crisis in 2008 or the dot-com crash of 2000. The finance sector and the government love booms, it's the busts that make them cranky.

If you believe that money is the only thing that matters, yes. Some people have other values.

In three years the existing building will be obsolete, and it will be abandoned in ten years. Then who pays to tear it down? Mining has reclamation bonds, industrial sites do not. That should be a condition of the permit to build the data center.

The company will need to post a reclamation bond too. An abandoned data center is just as bad as an abandoned mine. There are plenty of old industrial sites about the country, put the data centers there.

To borrow a quote from the post below, "as the pace of change keeps accelerating, peoples' ability to predict the future gets compressed into a shorter and shorter time-window,"

Building a new plant to produce polysilicon for solar panels took three years after two years of planning and design. The current RAM shortage is from a sudden change in demand. Assume it takes three years to build another one of them. Do you build it? Will the demand last or will the bubble burst and leave your investment stranded?

There is the uncertainty. Business hates uncertainty. Even the Chinese messed up their housing plans and created a giant boom and bust they are still trying to recover from.

The AI software could become an exponential growth situation leading to nirvana, or it could implode tomorrow when an AI gets control of something, screws it up and kills a bunch of people and the Butlerian Jihad comes early. Which way do you bet? The physical world has a lot longer time constants than the digital world which is a continuing problem with process control, That problem is generalizing to society in general.

Do not eat the headphones,

Do not grind the headphones into a fine powder and the inhale it.

Do not put powdered headphones into jockstrap.

Got it. Sounds like every other Safety Data Sheet. (Formerly material data safety sheet, or MSDS).

https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

More on who is really in the Epstein files from a source that is not Fox News.

You might need to rethink your class biases.

He's doing an outstanding job of gaslighting Democrats into immolating themselves. Larry Summers, gone. Bill Gates, gone, Obama's chief counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, gone.

"Hyatt executive chair Tom Pritzker steps down over Jeffrey Epstein ties" That's the brother of the Democratic governor of Illinois.

Then of course we have Andrew, (meme of the week, Get under the bus Andrew) and the Norwegian royal family isn't looking any better.

The Democrats have the problem and are projecting like mad trying to avoid facing it.

So all the energy you save with the electric bus you spend keeping the garage warm.

It still might make sense given the amount of hydropower you have up there. Or you could put a data center next to the bus garage.

Backup for my other statement.

https://washingtonstand.com/ne...

And of course they fired him for revealing a fact that does not support the narrative.

https://current.org/2024/04/np...

Of course NPR had no intention of allowing him to publish an article critical of NPR anywhere.

The government doesn't need to directly control NPR when the network self-selects for sycophancy to the All-Glorious State.

That's three watts more than a 3.5 inch Maxtor hard drive from 2005 sitting in my junk box. I have a terabyte seagate that draws half that. I thought SSDs were supposed to save power. I'll blame it on the need for speed.

Games are likely a problem. The current Linux Mint runs just fine on a 2014 Mac Mini and most of those came with 8 GB. I don't know if the current Plasma desktop will run with integrated graphics that old. Picking and choosing may be needed.