Years to build?

The multi-trillion dollar American AI mega-project working 24/7/365 is a reminder of the gettin' shit motherfuckin' DONE kind of timeline.

Shocking what happens when the schedule is powered by Greed. You act as if a new American chip factory wouldn't be profitable from hour one when the fucking building alone demands an IPO at the ribbon cutting..

Every windows licensee will be given a share in the Brooklyn bridge.

Nobody claimed the US doesn't do it. That's exactly the kind of distraction technique we are talking about - ignoring the point and attacking a strawman. What I claimed is that one of the few clear data points we have show that the scale of political manipulation in support of Russian, Chinese and Iranian viewpoints is massively bigger than currently ongoing US manipulation. Admittedly that's on Xitter and might not show the full picture of more local / physical manipulation, however for the online manipulation we're talking about it paints a clear picture.

You certainly aren't wrong. The imposition of authoritarian measures in Western countries, like Chat Control in the EU and age verification in the UK is very much to do with the need of AI companies to be able to identify who are real people and which "people" are actually other AIs so that the latter don't poison their training data.

It has been coming for decades. It will be coming decades from now. Nuclear power is very expensive and unable to compete with more reliable and stable alternatives like battery backed wind power. Plant efficiency improves with scale, reducing this problem, and so gigawatt level power plants up to 5GW are just inevitable. The exception will be military applications and possibly small special cases such as mid sized isolated islands or the Antarctic.

This is exactly the point. Sure, everybody does propaganda. However, Trump telling everyone he's the greatest because he "aced" three dementia tests doesn't have exactly the same effect as troll centers of thousands of people and bots commenting all over the internet.

When X opened up the locations their accounts were based in we didn't suddenly discover millions of US based accounts pretending to be Chinese or Indian. We did find thousands of accounts from India and other China and Russia friendly, low law enforcement countries all pretending to be European and American and all pushing propaganda against the West.

None of the other social media has done anything equivalent because it doesn't' suit them. However we know the same is going on everywhere.

I think it ended in the 90s as a method for evaluation. The best way is to look at the work your programmers have done, but not all managers can do that. A lot of Agile managers use velocity as a proxy to make up for the fact they can't look at code and understand it. So get a lot of story points.

I'm not a great believer in a massive rush for AI data centres. They will be overbuilt and building early increases the damage. However, there are clearly better ares for them - for example Scotland and there are clearly worse ares for them - for example the US has such a disfunctional power system that it is having to increase coal power in order to build this up.

Having this outside interference means that data centres will be built in a panic in the US, where long term it's impossible to provide cheap power to keep them going and in places like Scotland where they would make sense and could benefit from hugely cheap electricity in the long term we won't be doing it because of public protest.

Nobody is benefitting from this. Not the AI companies that will be bankrupted by data centres with too high energy costs; not the local people where we will end up with ghost data centres. Not the people in areas where they actually fit who will miss out on the (admittedly limited numbers of) long term jobs they provide and not the power grids which could be using this to build up the cheap energy sources like Wind that we need for the future.

Even people in China will likely end up having their lives damaged by needless global warming that could have been reduced.

Oh yes, but any experienced professional will have developed (consciously or subconsciously) methods for maxxing out whatever metric is being used to evaluate them. Lines of code, whatever. If you are evaluated on LoC I recommend double-spacing.

The difference between the "hacker" (MIT definition) and the professional is revealing. Each is trying to write code that maximizes the perceived requirement. The hacker making the code elegant (in this case, brief), and the professional maximizing LoC.

The search continues for a job that AI can do that will justify the price.

It is certainly not bookkeeping, that is a job that requires high accuracy, and is mostly automatable by traditional automation techniques.

That's an irritating way to say you disagree with him. Just give your counter-argument, don't insult him.

Are you trying to make the point that AI easily gives you high quality code reviews? It's not clear what your point is or why you don't like Linus.

No, not anyone can join the CCP, it's very selective and only a small percentage of Chinese citizens have that privilege.

Without freedom of speech, it doesn't matter how good their election system is, it's not a fair system.

Well now, according to the programming career matrix, he has now made it to middle manager. We look forward to his approach to CEO.

As an aside, I now see where my career went wrong. I never made it to "Seasoned Professional." I need to make my code harder to read.

I'll be honest, I'd rather work in a kitchen than filling in spreadsheets. I can't do much about popping out kids, though.

Yeap.