It is actually pretty deep with AI. Long ago here I was writing about how memory that minimizes erasure should use less energy than flash memory with its erase cycles, and that is what MRAM does. Spin changes only consume energy with bit change instead of full erase voltage discharge. (Landauerâ(TM)s principle) If you look a brain architecture (20 watts) vs AI simulations (200,000 watts to do similar) on difference is the brain maximizes non erasure. Thoughts are combinatorics selections that fire others based off learned weights. Only in learning (weight change) are things erased. The computed simulation of the same erases from processors with each step. So thereâ(TM)s that. Then the other thing is for general compute, AI is a statistical stochastic process modeled deterministically with fake randomness added. There is probably a way energy cheaper way to do it using natural noise and randomness.

The computer architecture we use for AI given what it does and how much of it is probabilistic is really dumb and wasteful, spintronics is one candidate to speed it up if a few problems are solved.

No, we were/are screwed. The 4 women with 5 kids is misleading, with their husbands it is 8 people with 5 kids. Replacement with no growth is 2.1, which suggests 9 children for 8 people or 4 women, and 1 will not breed or die. This is a long term leading indicator for population collapse (still rising due to boomers living long) and GDP collapse, and concentration of national debt to unsustainable levels, not to mention collapse of social security, etc.

Expect the stock market and k-shaped economy to keep going up, as claims of investors parasitize productive workers more and more. They call it Late Capitalism. We are actually toast. Meet Jesus and read Marx.

Yeah, that is correct. People are choosing not to have kids. Fertility rate is medical.

$50/hr to buy $400k house in 8,000 hours, like minimum wage workers in 1950s.

Yep. 8,000 hours of 1950 minimum wage bought median 1950s house, 56,000 hours of current minimum wage buys current median house. Even states with higher minimum wage, itâ(TM)s 20,000 hours plus. Minimum wage would have to be $50 an hour to buy median ($400k) house with it.

Amen. Bizarro. No one analyzes it from the lens of incentives. X will receive an incentive if Y dies or goes bankrupt or gets blown up.

From my background as a nutty conspiracy theorist and UAP researcher, I think it will work.

My research indicates UK is a UAP producing country. This means they have the classified tech to bend spacetime. This would the secret sauce for making confinement fusion work, both magnetic and inertial, you induce small but intense spacetime curvature near the target point.

I believe itâ(TM)s been known for ages, but secret. I also believe there has been a debate in the black projects area about the value of keeping it secret, endless free fusion energy vs secret saucers. The recent events with Hormuz, which work to starve EU of energy, and disintegration of NATO (with possible Türkiye conflict with Israel) are the tipping points that end the debate for the UK. Their national security requires the fusion reactors now more than the saucers. So they are doing it. This secret is why you do not see this as ITER funding, they are doing something different and all their own. What will they tell the world when they do?

Probably they will claim a fusion breakthrough with some kind of dangerous weapons making potential, so the details need to remain secret, except to close EU allies. Regardless, my conspiracy theoretic prediction is the UK will have fusion within several years. Mark my words!

God was saving it for them, their only redemption for bringing fossil fuel motors to the world.

Ironic that Claude is killing people in Iran as we speak.

Sure you can! After the leak comes out from your head of safety to a major paper, as it did. You can also orchestrate theatrics that attempt to remove responsibility for it.

Actually uses are very well known. Anthropic banned uses that automate targeting or do mass surveillance of Americans, and that drove the break. So use actually means Claude is handling decisions to who to kill and where.

Why are you cheerleading the Starmer approach of ID for every website when people can surf anonymously if parents just enable the young age group for phones and computers? This is way better legislation.

The actual timeline: The safety head quit from morals, and leaked the involvement with the Venezuela killings to NYT. THEN Amodei had his moral panic as public backlash set in. The odds are pretty high Amodei pushed for a PR boost justified with national security that the involvements be kept secret going forward, and the rest is theater, allowing Claude to be a bad boy bot who gathers intelligence on everybody for the back channels.

Unfortunately the beloved Claude we once knew died in Venezuela.

My old man worked as a school psychologist till retirement, which is to say analyzing all the test results for whole districts over decades and he saw the same.