FINALLY! A use for all those VR headsets.

Repair? Not really. Swap memory and drives? All the time. I upgrade memory and drives in older laptops to keep them viable a little longer. Not possible with Apples, and it seems more brands have headed that direction over the years. You sorta have to hunt to find options that allow this to happen these days.

That's a fair series of questions, though I'd like to add my own into the mix. What happens to all the currently planned datacenters when there's some paradigm shift on required compute for performance? That moment will only further drive down demand for datacenter usage, when we're already planning datacenters for compute that we may never actually need.

Next? Diagonal tabs. They just plaster the tabs right across the browser window corner to corner. You can, however, choose which diagonal course it takes. Left lower to right upper, or left upper to right lower. True configurable innovation!

The truth lies somewhere between "all AI will crash out demand" and "there's a need for all these new datacenters being built and the demand will continue to outpace build-out." I'd say there are approximately zero chances that all the datacenters we're currently contemplating building out will remain useful once the overall AI market begins the course correction that's bound to happen when some of the more nebulous fantasyland nonsense doesn't come to pass quickly enough to serve the business sectors that are currently driving the future demand, while there will remain a segment of the AI currently in use that will remain useful. I just don't think the fantasies are all supportable, nor do I think AI will just *POOF* disappear.

But this "AI will replace all jobs and take over the world" thing will come crashing down at some point. Even as the owner class clings desperately to it in the hopes of no longer having to rely on labor to continue to build wealth. That fantasy can only propel itself so far. It remains to be seen if it will be far enough to actually start decimating the labor market, or if the correction via unrealized gains will slam into us before that point.

You clearly didn't get the new dick measuring spec sheets. We clearly ARE trying to waste as much energy as possible. Along with all other resources available. That's what AI is. An outward manifestation of the greed we have worshipped for forty years or more in the United States. Even the framing of it is based on greed. "We have to, or someone else might." It's as tribal and greedy as anything we've ever done. Gotta climb aboard, or you'll get run over by it. Or so we keep getting told.

Motion seconded. But, you know, while on the mission, Sam Altman's parents, Mark Zuckerberg's, Jeff Bezos', you know what, we'll compile a list and get it to you before mission launch.

So, by Doc Brown's units of power, that would be just shy of three lightning strikes, but continuous. Great Scott!

While there may be a meaningful difference in theory, in reality it seems the difference is measurable in single-digit numbers against the entire class of folks who become billionaires. And while that's not a huge number in general, it's still enough to be classified beyond "concerning."

Not to call myself out, but this could be a correlation vs causation thing. Maybe the wiring that leads to becoming a billionaire has a strong correlation to the wiring that leads one to becoming a molester/rapist. Both seem to suggest a lack of concern for the well being of others, and a very strong desire to take what you want, regardless of the affect it has on those around you.

As fun as it is to blame the rich for everything, and there is some truth to what you say, journalistic outlets were turning away from journalism long before the consolidation began. The consolidation was an end-result of journalistic outlets reaching for profit about truth-telling. It started with seeking profits, and eventually turned into chasing twitter trends and other online bullshit just to try to keep grabbing eyeballs. Once profit becomes your only motivation, all other matters cease to be a priority, and the consolidation of media outlets was bound to happen once they all got caught up in the profit first game.

A better question would be how Reagan's policies somehow became an entire religious experience for the country, and possibly the entire world. Profit above all is destroying us. And while it took nearly forty years to gain momentum, we're at a point now where the worship of profit also leads to the worship of the rich, so even attempting to fix it sends people of all classes into a complete tailspin of panic because they don't want to see their new gods punished for what they call success. Though it remains to be seen if you can be that "successful" while gutting the foundation layer of the populace further and further. Typically, taking out a foundation makes the whole building crumble.

Maybe the uber rich have found enough ways to isolate themselves that it won't go down that way this time. Unless they manage to actually unleash the AI God they want to believe will free them from the need for the labor classes. That could be very entertaining to witness. Too bad my class will likely be wiped out before the elite get to face the consequences of their actions. I'd love to be a fly on the wall to see when their toys turn on them.

Hello, friend!

Didn't they announce a plan to simplify, remove bloat, and make Windows behave a little more like what people wanted? This doesn't seem to be fitting that announcement. Though it does seem to fit Microsoft's nominal trajectory.

One of two things in most cases. 1) You get a massive number of nag boxes telling you your machine isn't compliant and is now vulnerable and the only solution is to "upgrade" to a newer system. 2) Try to install anyway and fail, leaving you trying to sort out how to roll back to a known-good configuration from before the attempted update.

The AI companies have figured out the game. They're promising rich people they can continue to become richer without having to pay poor people even the little bit they pay them today. Those rich folks can, in turn, rig the game so that the AI companies can continue to suck down resources ever faster, including tying governments into it, using regulations only to prop up the biggest players, and hold out the smallest players, and creating propaganda that far too many believe that if you try to slow them down, you must be the enemy due to AI now being a national security concern. Honestly, if you can separate from being a human being having to live through this period of time, it's both brilliant in its building momentum, and monumentally stupid because it seems the only way it stops is when we completely run out of resources to feed it. Which is probably not going to be a fun moment in time.

Funny how understanding and maintaining have seemed to be opposing forces in this timeline.