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Comment Re:How the fuck? (Score 1) 50

RTFA but even 6 months seems like it should have triggered something. unless they rely on AI to monitor the alerts, and if you know the model you can game it.

I wonder if you did a slowly accelerating transfer if it would just be shrugged off as a natural escalation of something. What, wouldn't know, but folks tend to get really stupid when something starts at a trickle and builds slowly over time.

Comment Re:lsof -i ? (Score 3, Interesting) 49

I guess this will be logging that type of data, so another data logger.

Combined with entries for whichever of the various firewall tools you may be using for the "one click to block" part. People like their visual tools. I'd prefer the command line myself, but I won't complain too much about somebody coming to Linux and creating their own utility right off the bat. Seems very in the right frame of mind at least.

Comment Re:Plex has 120 employees? (Score 1) 106

What do 120 employees at Plex do all day?

Did you not even read the summary? If all tech companies did this instead of finding new and interesting ways to fuck up society, I'd be all for it. Honeypot those big thinkers into endurance competitions of stupidity? Hell yeah. This idea has potential.

Comment Re:Do people really repair laptops that much? (Score 2) 56

I don't think I've attempted to repair a laptop in 20 years. Few laptops these days are very serviceable. They are also sufficiently reliable that it's pretty rare for anything to break unless they are physically dropped.

Repair? Not really. Swap memory and drives? All the time. I upgrade memory and drives in older laptops to keep them viable a little longer. Not possible with Apples, and it seems more brands have headed that direction over the years. You sorta have to hunt to find options that allow this to happen these days.

Comment Re:Enstuffification of AI? (Score 1) 47

What is the revenue model? Selling what you disclose to the AI?

Or will anything beyond the most brain-dead AI be a big monthly subscription?

Will your employer insist that you not use their paid-for AI for personal use in the way of Cyber Monday that you weren't supposed to use your work Internet to purchase your Christmas presents but people did this anyway?

Or will AI gradually become useless owing to who pays the most coin to train the neural networks a certain way, becoming useless like Web search?

That's a fair series of questions, though I'd like to add my own into the mix. What happens to all the currently planned datacenters when there's some paradigm shift on required compute for performance? That moment will only further drive down demand for datacenter usage, when we're already planning datacenters for compute that we may never actually need.

Comment Re:Wait... (Score 1) 47

And the really annoying thing about this is that when the AI bubble inevitably crashes, it's going to be difficult to repurpose all of these specialized AI processors into something useful..

This won't be like the 2018-2023 crypto bubble, where we end up with a ton of cheap used GPU's and power supplies available for resale. This stuff with mostly end up in the landfill and scavenged for their raw materials.

"Inevitably crashes"? And how exactly do you think is THAT going to happen? All those people using claude are all of a sudden going to abandon it? At worst some stock market bubbles will burst, but your fantasy of everyone of their users going "oh geee, I've been using claude for 6 months but I just read this random guy on slashdot saying it can't count 'r' in 'strawberry', and now I see the light and I'm dropping it THIS INSTANT" is not going to happen. And even speaking of the stock market, I doubt you're actually putting your money where your mouth is and are shorting Anthropic, are you? No of course not, bet you have some excuse about "market staying irrational longer than you can stay solvent" or something.

The truth lies somewhere between "all AI will crash out demand" and "there's a need for all these new datacenters being built and the demand will continue to outpace build-out." I'd say there are approximately zero chances that all the datacenters we're currently contemplating building out will remain useful once the overall AI market begins the course correction that's bound to happen when some of the more nebulous fantasyland nonsense doesn't come to pass quickly enough to serve the business sectors that are currently driving the future demand, while there will remain a segment of the AI currently in use that will remain useful. I just don't think the fantasies are all supportable, nor do I think AI will just *POOF* disappear.

But this "AI will replace all jobs and take over the world" thing will come crashing down at some point. Even as the owner class clings desperately to it in the hopes of no longer having to rely on labor to continue to build wealth. That fantasy can only propel itself so far. It remains to be seen if it will be far enough to actually start decimating the labor market, or if the correction via unrealized gains will slam into us before that point.

Comment Re:Wait... (Score 1) 47

We're measuring CPUs in gigawatts, not megabytes or operations per second now? Dudes, the goal isn't to waste as much energy as possible! That's the most disgusting dick size measuring contest ever!

You clearly didn't get the new dick measuring spec sheets. We clearly ARE trying to waste as much energy as possible. Along with all other resources available. That's what AI is. An outward manifestation of the greed we have worshipped for forty years or more in the United States. Even the framing of it is based on greed. "We have to, or someone else might." It's as tribal and greedy as anything we've ever done. Gotta climb aboard, or you'll get run over by it. Or so we keep getting told.

Comment Re:3.5 Gigawatts? (Score 2) 47

Can somebody please travel back in time and make sure Dario Amodei's parents never meet? Thanks, I'd appreciate it.

Motion seconded. But, you know, while on the mission, Sam Altman's parents, Mark Zuckerberg's, Jeff Bezos', you know what, we'll compile a list and get it to you before mission launch.

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