I think you're oversimplifying because the supply pattern for the renewable energy isn't that complicated. Depending on various factors, I'm thinking you could get relatively high usage numbers with relatively low expenditures on storage, but part of that optimization would involve idling some of the servers some of the time. However even in that case you would want to tweak the system to keep the best servers doing as much of the work as possible.

Eh? Now the spelling check has decided that videocide is problematic after all? Were my eyes napping before? Eh and double eh?

This branch confused me. Not the kind of efficiency that I was asking about. This would actually be an advantage for countries that have a lot of hydropower. I think the advantage on this one would be for America (and perhaps Japan or some other places?) over China.

However the efficiency question I was asking about was the cost of building computing capacity that sometimes waits idly for the wind to blow versus the cost of batteries to keep the computers running. But on reflection I think the calculation is more complicated than I was thinking. There is also a savings from the idle time in that the servers are not wearing themselves out when they are just waiting. Also need to consider the cost of adding new servers over time. In general the CPUs are getting less expensive, but then you need to consider the value of getting the answers faster, and then you need to consider the possible advantages of thinking more carefully about which questions to ask in the first place...

Just think how much control we'll have over what gets taught.

Accidentally I found myself reflecting on some parts of this topic as America and Israel start another round of war crimes. If there are any historians in the future, and I'm increasingly skeptical there will be, I think they will probably say that the high point of America, at least in moral terms, was probably when the nation accepted the reality of Vietnam and took the loss for higher morality...

Appealing to the YOB's sense of morality will be the joke, perhaps the terminal joke, in referring to America's current situation. But the teaching bots will be able to say whatever with a straight face. And the kids will never know any better. If there are any kids?

Dear child rape enthusiasts still supporting Donald Trump, please die immediately. Thank you.

Yeah, but you support trump, so we know you don't actually care about sexual anything. You're pro child rape.

It was a nice theory but it didn't pan out.

The design you're talking about is 250 years old. It's antique. Notably, the technology of legal language has come very far since. The constitution leaves many questions unanswered to the extent that today any fucking video game EULA is at least ten times more determinate.

It's not productive to use "retard" as an insult.

I propose using "rapeublican" instead.

It's a pragmatic FINANCIAL decision. Five of the top funders of the Linux foundation are hawking LLMs. Linus is typically compromised by the usual capitalistic conflict of interest.

I acknowledge that batteries exist and are significant, but the efficiency is significantly lower. I don't think it makes that much sense to do low priority stuff off of batteries and I regard most of the AI training as relatively low priority. However I have to acknowledge the other side of the inefficiency of building extra computing capacity that spends a lot of time waiting for the power...

Hmm... I just thought of a retired CPA who worked with this kind of stuff. Maybe he could work up the numbers? Or should I run it past a couple of AIs to see what they say? Bit of a funny story there. The flakiness of Gemini has been driving me to Bing these days. In one recent "incident", Bing decided to challenge my humanity and asked if I wanted to use a particular account or continue without logging in. So for grins and in hope of a less biased answer I selected the option of not logging in. Bing then continued by greeting me by my name. So much for opting out for privacy, eh?

Congratulations on the provocative FP, though I think it should have been moderated Funny over insightful. You evidently stirred up some major lying morons who had to leap to the YOB's defense with the change of Subject and the long diversion.

Unfortunately I have no joke for follow up. I think we've reached an age of Rumplicans versus Dumbocrats and "We can't get there from here", where "here" is where America is now and "there" is any better place. The orange-nosing Rumplicans are divided between cowards and sociopaths and wannabe fascists while the Dumbocrats are divided up based on which flying elephants they dream about or believe in.

Why are you laughing. The guidelines are quite clear. According to the YOB ethics rules, someone must now "donate" appropriate money to a YOB "charity" and a suitable pardon will be issued.

So did anyone see the video about the YOB saying what a great freeloader he is? Certainly not working for the US since he doesn't accept any of the salary. The particular video I saw then did the math on the YOB's charity compared to people who haven't pocketed billions of dollars recently. Turned out the presidential salary corresponds to about 10 bucks for normal pikers. Actually less if you use my recent income as the reference, but I did spend about ten bucks on lunch at a Chinese place yesterday...

(In related research I chatted with a couple of AI about the YOB's track record in business and the fluctuating value of his brand, but I couldn't dig up anything funny ha-ha, though there was plenty of monkey business.)

Instead we eventually hired someone who has only read Hitler's book to run our country

We already have, from a leadership perspective anyway