Signs that the bubble is about to burst. They are now claiming AGI despite being fundamentally away from it. An LLM can not ever achieve AGI. It may reasonably well PRETEND to be AGI, but at the core it's just a highly successfull letter-prediction machine. Or as a metaphor: It is "intelligence" in the sense that a toddler carefully placing one foot in front of the other while trying hard to not fall over is "running". Nope, isn't and never will be. You need a qualitative change to get there.

If they now CLAIM that they've achieved AGI, it's a sign we're nearing the end of LLM development and they're getting desperate selling the latest incremental updates. Which means the illusion is about to come crashing down.

Which is good news. Fewer data centers and lower memory prices will benefit us all.

"the waste heat that's dumped outside has some potential to worsen local urban climate"

Do datacenters use more efficient cooling than residential AC (Copilot says yes)?
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Why don't heat dome doomers mention that the AC they recommend you turn on makes the heat dome that much worse?

Why doesn't google publish the top search item on a continuous basis like the debt clock?

Why was it a secret? Is this a case of manufactured scarcity incentivizing arbitrage, so is your real problem with capitalism itself?

What if AI makes fewer hallucinations on average than humans, like self-driving cars have fewer accidents on average than humans?

Can smug comments on slashdot stop AI from holodecking us each a customizable VR where each of us is a sandboxed king simultaneously?

Does it seem hypocritical to treat electricity as beneficial when your creature comforts (not mine, AC gives me headaches) are tickled, yet claim electricity is scarce when datacenters which likely use less than AC anyway (Copilot says AC is 5-7x datacenter usage) are involved? Do you see how one might think your reasoning is motivated, by creature comforts that don't comfort me?

What if we're not feeble and have learned that it is physically healthier to sleep outdoors despite arbitrary social stigmatization? Why do you force air conditioning on me in hotel rooms for example, where windows don't even open anymore? Is this survival of the feeblest?

Anyone who says we need to do X to solve climate change is wrong, because there is no one "X" that does it.

We need renewables, nuclear, electrification, synthetic fuels, forestation, mangroves, direct air capture, BECCS, biochar, enhanced rock weathering, cloud enhancement to increase albedo, possibly orbital solar shading, ocean alkalinity enhancement, and more that I don't know about including things maybe no one has yet thought of.

We created this problem through a wide variety of mechanisms, burning many different kinds of fossil fuels in many different contexts, and we're going to need an even wider variety to fix it.

And even if they happened faster, it still wouldn't be enough. The focus on emissions reduction to the exclusion of everything else is going to kill a lot of people.

The only way we're going to fix this is to get to net negative, and while emissions reduction can help it will never be enough. That being the case, we should be investing a lot into capture and sequestration research.

Absolutely. We should admit that we're in for some more CO2 rise before we can make it fall, no matter what we do, and invest in geoengineering research focused on techniques to directly reduce insolation and ocean acidification.

None of this is either/or. We need to be doing all of this in parallel: Electrification, renewables, nuclear, and synthetic fuels to reduce burning of fossil fuels, carbon recapture, especially at high-intensity carbon sourced (e.g. cement plants), but also from the atmosphere, and geoengineering to directly cool the planet and increase ocean pH. And we can... but the laser focus on renewables and electrification and renewables is harming the future.

That seems like it would be relatively easy, and safe as long as no one makes a suicide cord and tries to use it to power the house. I don't know if any of this class of equipment provides it.

Nothing will change until lots of people die (not just from the effects of such, but also things like "the boomer generation fuck off"), and/or the billionaires get hit in the wallet.

Same old story.

What if the datacenter is in Quincy Washington using hydropower that would otherwise be curtailed due to massive oversupply?

Isn't air conditioning partly to blame for getting us into this mess in the first place?

Need? There are lots of things you don't "need". But this seems like something that could legitimately improve my oral hygiene because -- like most people, I suspect -- I don't floss nearly as often as I should. Having it integrated into the brushing process would mean I do it 2-3 times per day, rather than once every few days. Is that worth $500? I guess it depends on how important $500 is to you. I'm not very price-sensitive and I am very lazy.

I'll wait until these have been available for a while and see what the reviews look like... but if the reviews are positive I'd say there's about a 95% chance I'll buy one.

I have one, and I don't use it enough. It takes time and effort to fill, use and clean up. Did I mention I'm lazy?