I think a tool that lets one person do the work of 20 will result in 17 people being laid off, as the company triples its rate of work. (I can see triple being feasible and achievable in the software industry, but maybe not more)

It's getting damn near impossible to "just don't click on" AI; it's being stuck everywhere, whether we want it ot not. When I do a search, I want the search results, not a goddamn AI telling me what to think.

(Google searches keep getting worse. Now, likely as not, I get sites that don't contain your search term. Yes, even when I put the important terms in quotation marks.)

Apparently, the elite also own all the newline characters.

Pica FTW!

AMD bought ATI 20 years ago, back in 2006, to be the first company (or was it VIA first?) to have an integrated CPU-GPU offering.
They kept on talking about HSA 1.0 which would make it possible to pass pointers between the CPU and the GPU without the need to copy the actual data between the main memory and the graphics memory.
I cannot find the original reference, but I still found these:
https://hothardware.com/news/h...
https://forums.anandtech.com/t...

What happened after that? AMD stopped publishing any drivers that would allow running OpenCL on their APUs.
They actively blocked programmers from accessing the part that provides 99% of the processing power, just as Nvidia was taking off.
Obviously everyone working on AI flocked to CUDA and now that platform is entrenched.
Look at the HSA Foundation now, their most recent "news" are from 2020:
https://hsafoundation.com/
I wonder where we would be now if developers had the possibility to run OpenCL on the APUs of their laptops.

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.

Oh, and a "train" is a bit like 100 cars back to back.

As a matter of fact, yes. Specifically, to the Greenland region.

Although a golden bridge of grossly outsized proportions and festooned with tacky ornamentation would be much preferred.

"this belief is utterly false. To quote the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the recent Hobby Lobby case: 'Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.'"

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfo...

"We ... show that [the Shareholder Primacy Norm] is not a legal requirement, at least under the guise of shareholder value maximization. This is in contrast to the common assertion that managers are legally constrained from addressing corporate social responsibility issues if doing so would be inconsistent with the economic interests of shareholders."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p...

Exactly! Youtoob is bullshit.

If it's real, there's a link to an actual site with information

Can you answer the question of why he would lie about either exactly? What is his sourced motivation? How does that stack against his incentive to not blithely throw away his career as an accomplished academic?

The actual explanation is much simpler. He is a world-reknown biologist, not a computer scientist or philosopher. He sounds dumb talking about what he is not an expert in.

You (I assume) have some developed expertise in the AI tooling. You (quite obviously) do not have any expertise in biology, or even the context of Dawkins statements you are alluding to, so you sound at least as dumb characterizing what he has said as "anti-trans crap."

No.
In one case you have an effective API between the two separate address spaces.
They are not comparable.

I'm not familiar with the exact implementations, but it's actually not hard to imagine a scenario where 1 is needlessly vulnerable, and 1 is not.

For the "secure" model,
What immediately comes to mind is a multi-process design (which I know that Chrome does use, but not to what extent).
The ability to read/decrypt passwords would be kept in a separate process from whatever handled rendering the website and runnings its javascript (since that's the most exposed to security challenges).
The head process would only feed passwords to worker processes when they had a reason to have them.

For the insecure model- single process. Done.
Any compromise (or even the ability to leak locally mapped memory) of the renderer or javascript engine means easy access to all passwords.

Hah, I'd definitely agree it's probably recommended practice by any legitimate (my definition, not the DEAs) practitioner.

The normal rules require an in-person visit, but the post-COVID rules (extended again this year) allow for telehealth "visits", even to receive scheduled drugs- at least that's what I've been led to believe.

That's been my overall take of the situation with the guys I know.

I have no doubt there's a legitimate practice in there for people with legitimate problems. Ketamine is serious shit. You can really fuck yourself up with it, permanently, if you misuse it. Actual doctor supervision seems like a good idea if you give a fuck about your life.

As I read that sentence, what I think what you just said is "right, I didn't read the article, I just guessed what it said from the headline."