I've never heard of anyone extracting a key from a TPM chip, and no doubt Apple will be using a similar mechanism. This is pretty secure that way. The problem I have with it is it places verification in the hands of one company, Apple. And it requires a whole certificate infrastructure, similar to what SSL has. We'll have to have public lists of signed keys for verification, revocation lists, etc. If every camera maker adopts a similar system, will we have one big compatible system (sort of like SSL), or will it be lots of silos?

But yeah you're right about taking a picture of the screen or whatever.

Indeed. I say bring in the Chinese EVs at a 50% tariff rate. They will still be reasonably priced, but hopefully will grant domestic[1] auto makers a chance to change their ways.

[1] by that I mean American. Here in Canada we may make cars, but all factories are owned by and work for American companies. There is no Canadian auto sector in truth.

It's always been about American dominance at any cost, including doing exactly what China does. Sounds like they've learned from the best! The US can scream all they want about others playing fair when they have never been fair themselves. This whole idea the world economy is a zero sum game is highly detrimental to everyone.

I'm not sure what "superintelligence" means. I'm sure the term means different things to different people. I don't see any way to ban what you can't define.

But on the other hand I'm probably okay with a Butlerian Jihad. Bring back real computers!

Why is one data center that uses hydro power relevant to the the original poster's point? Do you dispute the fact that data center demand far outstrips any amount of renewable energy being produced in the US (at least according to his numbers)?

Why would you think that? Can you answer that question with yet more questions?

As I understand it, the base model displays speed and other information in the center display (turn your head to look at it). The paid option puts it on the dash screen in front of the driver. If that's true, that's worth the outrage. I could see them wanting to charge a subscription for this "service" which would be even more outrageous.

He didn't say it would. He said it would offset it in cases where the lack of proper insulation means the ac needs to run more.

I don't think these systems are intended to sell power to the grid. There's no provision for a two way meter. My understanding is this is about offsetting household usage only. And 1200 watts is quite small.

Things changed. Demand keeps growing, and hardware availability is constrained.
Minis and Studios can do the work, and MacOS has enough of the Linux-ey bits.

Apple shows that when loaded with memory, they can do it really well.
Plus the bonus of being tiny and not a space heater under load.

So yeah. A new market opened up.

Yes in many respects it's quite astounding it got to 250 years without something like this happening before. We're definitely in a new phase of American history. While the United States will continue in some form (Rome continued for a long time after the en of the republic), it's now a very different country now, and it isn't going to go back to normal.

Both the agent and the LLM model are running locally. There is nowhere to send the data for harvesting or training. That's the beauty of the local models. That's also the downside. They are frozen in time, their knowledge set at the time of original training. You have to download new versions every so often to get the latest updates, latest training.

They don't offer their 128 GB versions anymore do they? For the good models, 128 GB is kind of the sweet spot. 256 would be ideal. Back when they offered 128 GB models, they were $10k.

Currently sort of looking at a computer with the AMD Rizen AI Mac 395 with 128 GB of RAM. Price is slowly climbing. When I last checked a few months ago it was a solid $3k. $3k pays for a fair amount of Claude Pro which is all I use right now. I would love to play with local models though.

I've been watching the youtube channel "No Place Like Localhost" and he's been trying out the various open weight models available now and they are getting a lot better and catching up to the "frontier" models.

So the solution is... more money? If $5000 a year for a median Chinese person gets as much as $63000 a year in America, who is really ahead? By your logic quantitative easing has made America massively wealthy through inflation. High income and high prices don't necessarily mean someone is rich. And the opposite doesn't mean they are "poor."

If we all must be renters to motivate us to work, that is a pretty bleak future for America.

Of course they are. But doesn't mean the home-grown rage isn't real. They probably are egging on the AI companies to build more data centers and waste resources and get into further debt.