If you can hear that hum then your property values are basically toast. You're not the only one thinking, I can't wait to move in a few years...

On the other hand once you get used to the smell of rendered hog fat you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

It's going to dump 26 atomic bombs worth of heat into the air every single day and use more electricity than the state is currently using in total.

If that thing goes online and it looks like it will because it's backed by a billionaire at a corrupt state then there will be water and electricity shortages.

And yes that includes water shortages. Data centers don't need to use clean drinking water but it's cheaper for them to do so and when they're done with it it can't easily be recycled because they pump it with chemicals to prevent it from corroding their cooling systems.

We spent the last 45 years giving all the money and power to billionaires are stupid reasons. Bad things are going to happen now and they're going to happen so fast the old farts that voted to allow this shit might not have a chance to die before it bites them in the ass

To power the DC you first need to have the Nuke power plant, and that will take longer to build.

Qualcomm on their latest phones makes really high quality modems that have much better connectivity.

If you buy one of the cheaper mediatek phones, some of which get up to about $500, they have good performance on the soc but the modems suck and they don't maintain connectivity.

The Google modems stunk too, I've heard some people say the very latest ones are better but I haven't tried them. If I'm going to drop $700 on a modem I can just pick up a OnePlus 15r with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and an x85 modem to go with it.

That's for Android. For iOS The actual Apple modems when they use their own really suck. Although I think they still use Qualcomm modems in a lot of their hardware. You do have to pay attention though.

For years I'd connectivity problems and my kid on iOS didn't and it was the modem more than anything else. Finally switching to a Qualcomm based chipset and modem solved to those connectivity problems. The downside is you really want at least the x75 modem just because one of the other problems is 5G was rolled out in completely and a lot of early 5G phone modems really suck and are missing tons of important features.

Well, FWIW, I've never found a site *through* substack. They were always referrals from something else I was reading, which might have been *on* substack.

But that answer is false.

By what they did to help my family and my country.

I'm not even going to waste my time listing the differences between Biden and trump. If you are so full of TDS that you cannot see the Trump is bad news you are a lost cause. Just somebody who traded their future and their children's future for an identity called maga.

My experience with maga is there so old they're going to die before the worst of it and they never really liked their kids anyway. So it was totally worth it. For them at least.

Write a paragraph about periwinkles.

Your post was quite reasonable, and probably true, until you wrote "AIs aren't capable of reasoning". There *are* definitions of reasoning for which that it true, but they aren't the ones in common use. Cicero would use that kind of definition in his "school of rhetoric", where he taught people how to win arguments". Socrates would not. He was trying to find truth.

Clearly AIs have limited reason. They can (at least in principle) do perfect logic, but the difference between that an reason is not well defined. (And logic can prove that you can't prove algebra to be self-consistent.) To me reason is evaluating a set of data and a goal, and using logic to plot a nearly-optimal path to achieve the goal. I think where AIs are generally most deficient is in their goals, though obviously they also have an imperfect understanding of the current state. (Well, so do people.)

That said, there are many areas where current AIs seem deficient when compared with people. This doesn't mean or imply that they don't have a modest amount of the features that they are deficient in, but merely that we expect them to have more. Think of capabilities as being gradients rather than boolean variables. This is commonly called "jagged capabilities". They're better at some things than most people are, and worse at other things than most people are.

How do you know?
I will grant that there are definitions of "feelings" that would make your statement true by definition, but I will guarantee that most people don't use those definitions.

If you want to claim "it's synthetic, therefore it can't be a feeling", you've deprived your mind of a tool for thinking in this space. Submarines don't swim, but airplanes fly. Perhaps it's not useful to think of submarines as swimming, and perhaps it's useful to think of airplanes as flying. And perhaps it's useful to think of LLMs as having feelings. (Also perhaps it isn't, but just asserting that isn't useful, you need to demonstate it. My wife found it useful to attribute feelings to her car. The model didn't work for me, but it worked for her.)

A quick search didn't provide an answer, but the indications were that the cosmic voids are much of the universe. The search of turned up things like https://link.springer.com/arti... , but didn't actually reveal the proportion of the volume of the universe that is contained within cosmic voids, but did *indicate* that it sure wasn't trivial.

Well, I'm no expert in the field, but that's what I've read.

Months and months ago. What few groups of those statistics have accurate numbers are heavily heavily cooked using averages and baskets of goods and all manner of tricks to make the numbers look good enough that we can get to the midterms and keep the Republicans in charge.

People are just fucked but they keep asking themselves, maybe it's just me and I'm the problem? And because the news media is billionaire owned that narrative is reinforced.

I get it you are living in a trump branded form of reality. You won't admit it of course because well, for the same reason people don't like being called a redneck we have associated those words and communities with idiots.

If you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas. At least until you do something about all the fleas on your dogs.

In this case you lied down with a bunch of pedophile grifters. I don't think any amount of flea dip is going to fix that. You just have to ask yourself why you keep doing it.

The billionaires are pushing this and they have unlimited money. And they don't particularly care about profit anymore.

I know that sounds counterintuitive but they have so much money now, literally some of them are approaching trillions, that they are beyond profit..

What they want right now is automation and they don't care how they get it or what it costs.

People keep asking me, if they don't employ anyone who is going to buy their products?

Now if you read that sentence again you're going to realize there's a dependency there.

Elon Musk is dependent on you to buy his cars and his satellite internet and his rocket launches and whatever else he is selling.

This gives you, however small, a measure of control over Mr Musk. The same is true for all of his employees. They could theoretically withhold their labor from him collapsing his companies.

People like to say billionaires have all their worth and value on paper and that they are not technically that rich. This is a common apologetic for allowing them to command basically limitless money and power.

It implies a check and balance system where if the billionaire oppresses and hurts us we can withhold our labor and consumer purchases in order to exercise control over them.

If you don't think the Epstein class is upset about that check and balance and the dependencies above you have not been paying attention for the last 50 years.

We replaced monarchy with a semi hereditary merchant class. We are in the process of replacing that semi hereditary merchant class with a new class of monarchy. Techno feudalism. Everything old is New again.

Opening AI was testing how they could bias their algorithm against specific groups that the owners of the company didn't like without the AI going after groups that you're not allowed to attack like the Jews or black people... Currently anyway.

When you see one of these massive AI companies doing something that looks cute it's usually actually pretty fucking sinister when you stop to think about it and what they are planning to do with it.