I think you're thinking about the wrong decade. I have seen little of consequences or shame in the last 10 years.

While universal basic income is a useful policy tool and I think we WILL reach it eventually, there are economics papers out there that demonstrate that, sans Pigouvian transaction tax, AI is a race to the bottom.

The AI Layoff Trap by Brett Hemenway Falk and Gerry Tsoukalas is still sitting on my desktop. A quick Google search reveals they are not the only ones who are pursuing this line of thinking.

BUt here in the U.S. "muh freedumb" will ensure that we run that race till the bottom falls out. Hopefully Asia and Europe play this transition a bit smarter, so something of our society continues.

Yeah, I'm gonna guess it's a lot more than double. My company's enterprise agreement with MS has Claude Opus 4.7 now at 15x token consumption. I bet that's approaching what it actually costs but still not quite it.

When has legality of actions stopped this administration in the past, specifically on creation of unpopular, protectionist (very communist market control) policies?

That's never how this works out. Water is cheaper than electricity for cooling so the more water you use the less you spend, whether that's literally just dumping water back into the sanitary sewer system or through evaporative chillers. In nearly every circumstance these facilities are doing the calculations to figure out which is cheapest and what they can get away with.

Trusing what comes out of Blackstone publicity persons mouth is painfully naieve in any context, bur especially so in light of the history of how these facilities operate.

I think it's a LOT less than zero sum in favor of the market makers who are close enough to the house in this context that it's a difference without a distinction.

You're replying to someone who doesn't know what they're talking about. The platforms and other large trading houses are market making on these platforms. So that's how the first bet is made and it's very much not zero sum.

It is not zero sum. The usual suspects are market making as well at the platforms themselves. This is a critically important fact to know if you're trying to reason about how this all works.

No, they won't. The small percentage of people losing the most money are credulous morons and gambling addicts who think they have "a system" or some other kind of edge and just need one more to hit the big one.

That's comepletely unnecessary. Before theorycrafting perhaps learn the problem domain.

You can print directly to these printers, even using bambu software, if you have the right firmware level and software, all from Bambu. Because they're not trustworthy you can ditch the Bambu slicer and use their proxy software to print directly to the printer from another slicer. But that's still their junk software that may autoupdate and stop allowing you to do that. So those of us who bought these things before they went off the deep end are running custom firmware with the printer blocked from accessing the internet and printing directly to them using orcaslicer.

The problem is not "no cloud".

I've used their cloud printing once, decided that was a bad idea going forward (time has proved me correct), blocked the MAC address of that printer from ever reaching the internet and have been printing locally with Orca and X1+ ever since. Yes, it does work work great locally.

The market IS white hot right now, but the Hormuz hit is just starting to land. Demand at the edges is what sets the price - if all southeast Asian gamers are spending the GPU money on gas, that cools the rush. And I have no confidence any of these datacenter announcements are going to lead to actual builds. Companies talked a great game, but the political heat is on, the electric and water constraints are real, and advances like TurboQuant, which conservatively speaking offers a 4x boost to existing GPUs ... now layer the U.S. economic hit from Hormuz, which will only be a little bit behind the Asian blowout.

The AI/datacenter/GPU self dealing circle looks more like the derivative traders of 2008 with each passing day. Just like CDOs, that "money" is all conditional, and when conditions change, it's all gone. Society got some nice frontier models and advances in manufacturing out of it, now if corporate America takes even half a step back on the rush ... the market won't just vanish, because there IS a lot of benefit to using LLMs, but the demand may only match what's already been built. We'll take the hit from it, then the economy will rebound from a bunch of startups pillaging the existing firms that are politically incapable of making the needed culture change.

I spend my days working on the system for my startup. Since I had a computer science education and a bunch of time in grade running ISP systems, I bring that distributed systems engineer vibe to my vibe coding. It'll need work once it's funded, but the MVP will be functional and secure.

I was using X tokens/week via Claude Code. They stumbled on the Opus 4.7 rollout and I got busy tuning my setup. I added LSP Enforcement Kit + Serena, CodeSight, and OptiVault. This made Claude more or less behave ... while cutting my usage about 80%.

Companies that are using token burn as a metric, if they are not providing top quality tooling for the people using it, are basing their performance reviews on who can tolerate some highly random LLM over an efficient, well thought out harness.

Meta foisted a digital cesspool on us and it would not hurt my feeling a bit to see it completely desiccated. I do feel badly for the legions of humans that are going to be forced to wade through the increasingly crusty muck while the company attempts to figure out what to do about AI. There are rumblings out there about what is happening to the advertising based internet we all know (and despise). Meta clearly can't execute with AI and they may well get bowled over by it.

GM needs to be made to disgorge every dime they made selling that data.

They need to disclose who purchased the data and what the price was.

Every victim of this privacy violation needs legal recourse and class action seems like it would be best for the masses.

Anyone who can show significant harm should aggressively pursue all parties involved.

The only way this behavior will stop is when engaging in it brings bitter pain.

There may well be a legit issue that Bambu is facing, there's a bunch of "think of the children" stuff in play right now, it's mostly about ghost guns from what I have seen. They are perhaps under pressure and maybe they will be compelled to do things in terms of identity of users and/or items being printed. This is another instance of gun nuts ruining things for the rest of us.

But the chickendroppings manner in which they approached this merits a vigorous walloping. If they HAVE to do it due to some government pressure, be upfront, tell all of us, and maybe we'll put a stop to it. What they did here just smacks of ... well ... besides being just plain stupid when dealing with FOSS developers, it smacks ... and they should receive some smacks in return.