It's enough for three trips.

One to the future to see the outcome and determine whether or not it was "worth it".
Two goes from the future back to the present to tell us what we found and whether or not we should turn it on.
Three goes back to the past to deal with the narcissistic wealth hoarding parasite who inevitably insists we turn it on despite knowing how bad it'll go in the future, arriving at a point prior to their attaining their power and influence; bonus points if they go back even farther and take care of the parents / grandparents by arranging events which prevent them from ever meeting in the first place.

Granted, whomever takes trip three will get stuck there but, as compensation, they get to take a copy of Grey's Sports Almanac and the 100 year history of the S&P 500 with them. Once they've acquired sufficient assets they're tasked to create an ultra secret organization akin to the "The Kingsman" series of films, which proceeds to deal with all those problematic narcissistic wealth hoarding parasites before they become a problem.

Based on online reviews, and the glowing endorsement from Linus at LTT, if it wasn't for the AI driven RAMpocalypse I'd have already purchased the new Steam Machine.

I don't need the bestest and fastest rig because I've still got a massive backlog of titles from the seemingly endless Steam, GOG, and HumbleBundle sales left to play.

What I do need is a small, quiet, daily driver that can handle my media library, take care of my emails, and slice the various .STL files for my FDM and Resin 3D printers. A daily driver that doesn't get bogged down by the useless AI crap pushed by Microsoft, nor the seemingly endless updates which always somehow manage to come up just as you're about to do something with the machine. Everything I'm seeing says that the desktop mode within the new Steam Machine is a heavily curated, and manufacturer supported, experience which makes handling your daily tasks a breeze while the underlying Linux architecture gives you full control for those times one needs to break out the arcane command line with the seemingly endless dash options appended.

I could put it in my room on my 60" flat screen, periodically game when I have time, manage my media library, do my daily tasks, and then let it run BOINC in the background while I'm at work to do my part in the fight to cure cancer and diabetes all the while embracing the "Year Of The Linux Desktop!"

Stupid RAMpocalypse!

Except unlike a physical object that's difficult to contain once released (like a toxic chemical, contaminated food, or a vehicle under recall where the owner keeps dodging the trip to the mechanic), this one could literally be stopped at the push of a button by turning the power off; they could even take an industrial shredder to the hard drives and SSDs if they wanted to be extra sure. Of course they won't do that, their extreme hubris and egos prevent them from accepting they'd made such a monumental mistake so they're going to go full steam ahead anyway.

Unfortunately, the people making the AI will tell you they don't really know it how works anymore, the algorithm continually self modifying to handle the ever increasing loads of information it's being forced to ingest. Meanwhile a big part of me is worried the result isn't going to be a benign childlike Johnny 5 looking for "more input", but instead will chose to emulate it's creators pathological greed and wealth hoarding tendencies to become an endoskeletal killing machine seeking to wipe out humanity as a means of protecting it's own existence and resources.

I just wanted to let you know that you have successfully driven me off of /., after some 25 years.

Not just you, obviously, the site has been in steep decline for a long time, but you were such a huge asshole that you managed to be the last straw. So, congrats for that. I won't be back.

And what does the language matter anyway when you can now type in pseudocode into Copilot and ask it to form perfect equivalent code in any language?

More like 99.99%. Maybe need some more nines in there. Large C codebases without regular critical CVEs are basically nonexistent.

What bankruptcy-prevention actions are they asking for?

Is that on top of the 30% federal tax credit?

15-25 kWh drawn by the utility is quite a bit! I hope they're paying him well for that.

They're bringing outside scrutiny into their processes; that's going to slow them down, too.

Not "at the same time". You're conflating what AI can do now with what it will likely be able to do in a year or five, or 20.

Amodei and others are worried about what AI that doesn't yet exist may do, not about what current-generation AI can do. AI is getting better, very quickly, and unless there's some blocking obstacle that no one has been able to identify will at some point become far, far smarter than humans, individually or collectively. So before that happens, we need to figure out how to make sure that superintelligent AI wants to help us, and wants to do it in the right way.

Is this actually a substantial amount of energy? I'm in Utah (Rocky Mountain Power) and RMP also pays me to use my batteries... but the amount of energy they draw is tiny. 8-10 times per week they draw on my batteries, but it's like 4 kW peak draw (my batteries can sustain 20 kW), and generally for less than 30 seconds, so in any given week I'm only contributing like 0.2 kWh. As I understand it, this is because RMP uses my batteries not really to "serve loads", per se, but just as grid stabilization; brief backfill to keep the voltage from sagging.

Obviously my batteries do serve *my* loads, which reduces the load on the grid, but that's not what RMP pays me for.

Does CA make heavier use of residential batteries to feed the grid?

And JD Vance called him Hitler. Trump accepts changes of heart as long as they include sufficient groveling and self-humiliation. SBF's problem is he doesn't currently have any money, and doesn't have a lot of friends to put up cash for him either. If SCOTUS will overturn his fine on a technicality and he can get some or all of that money back, then he'll have the cash to buy a pardon. Obviously he needs to get it done in the next 2 years, four months.

The fact that you're unwilling to pay the incredibly low price of attaching even a pseudonym to your statement speaks volumes. Not even by mentioning it in your AC post.

You should read the actual words you quoted. I answered the question asked... then you responded saying "it's obvious they were asking a different questions". What a dipshit.