Self-Fulfilling Prophecy is (or at least use to be) well known in teaching circles. That is, if you call out a child for being a certain way they will often change their behaviour to make that come true, whether positive or negative. It's interesting that the same thing seems true for AI models.

To quote a line from the OG Animaniacs, the best cartoon in history:

"Whoa. Dumber than advertised."

Isn't this guy supposed to be one of those super-respected "intellectuals?"

I think old age is getting to him.

I've had convos with some AI chat bots and all I can think is "it needs constant correction, outright makes shit up, this is really just a reflector and cross-referencer, this isn't 'smart' in any way."

Evaporative chillers are not necessary to cool a data center, certainly not in Michigan. We chill data centers in Arizona with no water usage at all. The data center designers / owners are just being cheap. Sure, if you can get the local municipality to give you water you can use that to lower your costs and increase your efficiency. But it's not necessary. All our data centers use 100% renewable power (if not available then we purchase credits), and we cool with air chillers, and despite these additional costs we're certainly not going bankrupt or being left with unsold capacity.

It's (as always) about the money. The fact that they are going ahead with the project anyway tells me that they will just switch to air chillers.

To directly respond to your comment (which is spot-on), a new facility being stood up for LANL is likely to be direct-to-chip liquid cooling. Generally we don't do full immersion because of the costs and complexity (a modern AI 52U rack is pushing 5000lbs now and fully immersing it will put additional structural strain on the slab floor), but the technology to distribute chilled water from the facility through CDUs (coolant distribution units) to manifolds in the racks and then directly to the chips needing to be cooled is finally getting mature.

I'm not the type to read the tripe the media in general produces or promotes.. but on my own, I recognized the cybershackle had been usurping my "me" time.

So now, I pretend the smartphone is just a phone, like in the old days: It stays at a fixed point in my house. If I'm in the cine watching anime brianrot, the phone's in the other room. If i'm at my desk, the phone's in the dining room.

I don't need to check email every 2 minutes. Or look something up every few minutes. With the phone in the other room, I just focus on what's in front of me.

If I'm on call, they'll call, and only phone calls ring through to my watch, where I can pick it up from. That's the only 'forward' from phone-to-watch. Texts, email, etc etc -- none of that shit matters anymore, so none of it rings through to the watch. Only phone calls do.

Such duplicity. Why didn't they do this (or if they did, why didn't the media trumpet it like they are now?) back in the deep dark days of 2022? Gas was more expensive then, than right now.

Anything to throw mud at the politicians they don't like, and you people play right into it.

I'm so tired of the manipulation.

Has it been "Fundamentally Changed" enough yet?

Do it. Reddit, and stop talking about it.

Throw that last coil of rope around your neck and kick the chair out.

I wish utter failure for any platform that engages in id verification.

So what?! CNN, MSNOW/MSNBC, and others were 100% state-ran media during the Biden and Obama years. And still are, they see themselves as "tHe reSiSTaNce"

Now the Right gets some more air capability and you're losing your shit?

Cry harder. Turnabout is fair play.

The damage done by consistently and solely pushing the Leftist talking points since *checks calendar* at least 2000 has consequences. Take a bath in those consequences.

It's time to start re-equalizing this nation. The Left runs the schools, the media, and much of the government. Lucky you that we have the system of government we have. Had we had a real King or a real Dictator, there would've been a pogrom the very first day. I mean a real pogrom -- not a single solitary Democrat left in DC. Not the softshoe bullshit we got with DOGE.

In this instance, I bemoan the loss of a broadcasting icon, an historical piece of radio heritage -- but make no mistake, I do not mourn the loss of another Leftist propaganda spreader.

I look forward to more Leftist whinging and tantrums as other outlets realize 20+ years of proselytizing a single political viewpoint is poisonous to their own bottom line.

Wish i had mod points.

No, the West wont' get it until the UK has an Islamic radical as PM, and the US a radical Islamic president.

The West won't get it until there's minarets in every city and town, calling you to prayer.

And by then it'll be too late.

The Left has managed to weaponize "Racist!" and "Islamophobe!" to the point where people are cowed into not speaking up and taking action.

We're thinking it.. but we're not saying it. Much. Yet.

It's time to say it, and say it loud enough that those with fingers in their ears and heads in the sand can hear us.

About 40 years ago a friend of mine stated that this problem had been solved and that slow motion photography proved that the cat used its tail to right itself. I actually had a tailless cat nearby (lost it in an accident with a car) which I retrieved, held out in front of him about two feet off the ground, and let go. It landed on its feet.

What's curious is how long this has been "studied" and how many different theories there have been!

You went to a theater, the theater had uniformed ushers ready to eject miscreants. There were curtains, not ads, covering the screen when not in use.

The sound was crisp, the picture clear.

People dressed fairly nice, and were polite.

Now, movies are like flying cattle-class in a low-cost airline. Pajamas, flipflops, and everyone's lighting up the theater with their retardophones.

Then there's the software. Hollyweird has shat on every tentpole property they have. They've reduced Star Wars to lesbian Force witches, they've reduced Star Trek to pew-pew idiocy

Ralph Broke The Internet was so bad, after the first one being so good, that I swore Disney off. I will only buy opened, used blu-rays of theirs now. I refuse to buy new from them.

Maybe the bigwigs oughta fix the presentation issue and also start realizing that if you make movies for the 80% of us, it'll sell. But when you make movies squarely aimed at a very small segment of the population, don't come crying with Pikachu face that "Waaah, no one's watching our movies!"

Make shit we want to watch and we'll watch. Pitch shit at a niche audience, enjoy the niche returns. Simple math.

Wish i had modpoints. Very helpful. Gracias.

This is all consequence of 50 years of Death to America, and kowtowing to those who say it.

If you burn my flag, spout you want me dead, and then take concrete steps to make it so, why should you be let into my country? Why? Because not doing so is Islamophobia?

Fucking ridiculous.

By extension, if your country (Most of europe, maybe all of it) is comfy with allowing muslim radicals to settle in and then start with the Death to America why shouldn't we scrutinize incomers from that country? UK, FR, GER, I"m speaking directly to you.

You people behave like the last 50 years didn't exist. Well, they did exist, still exist, and no amount of "buh buh buh that's raaaacist!" will stop it.

Only getting rid of those who constantly yell "Death to America!" will bring peace. Anything short of that will just bring pieces, because Islam is the religion of Pieces being scattered everywhere by sword and semtex.

Europe has been the #1 aider and abetter of all these raghead groups raising a ruckus. Time for their reckoning, too.

Besides, the instant things get too hot you'll come crawling back to us to help you, because Europe's armies are and always have been a shamble, and the UK even worse. i don't care what you did in the days of Charlemagne, i care about what you've done since we bailed you out twice in one century. Europe has become a comfortable bed for the worst of the radicals. You've taken victory and wwii and pissed it away by embracing the muslim rabble.

Kindly shut the fuck up and fuck off. i'm so fucking tired of all the pro-islam, pro-arab, pro-palestininan lipflapping coming from gasbag Europe and being exported to the US and forced down our throats by our own schools and media.

Wish Reagan would've dealt with Ayatalloah Assaholah back in the day. No one had the courage to do it, now it's done, and Europe's losing their minds over it. GOOOOOOOD! I love seeing it!

Europe is completely invaded and co-opted by Islam, and the US is next. Yell at me all you want, hide all you want from it, when you hear prayer calls from minarets in your town THEN you'll get it, and by then it'll far too late.

Ever feel "safety" is a Trojan Horse, used by governments to curtail your rights, track you, and / or just make your life a bit more complicated?

"it's for your own good.'

That's what my "mother" used to say before she'd make with the belt and try to "correct" me.

Governments' the same way. "It's for your own good" while over-complicating your car and simultaneously draining your wallet. And now, with added privacy loss for your embiggenment!

We need a Restoration. A movement to lead us back to Common Sense. This rulebook is getting impossible. Pretty soon we'll be forced into self-driving pods and forced to wear body airbags.

Oh, and just today, I found I can't buy corded blinds anymore. Now the bedroom blinds won't be like the blinds in the rest of the house. Yet more government intrusion into my space. Yay, Big Gov't! Protect me from myself! Wlaaaaaaah! I NEED GOVERNMENT TO KEEP ME SAFE, WAAAAH!

"woe is me, think of the poors" -- the author

It's just virtue-signalling, nothing you've not heard of before. Writers think if they throw in a bit of poor-appeal or disadvantaged-appeal or whatever-the-struggle-of-the-day-is appeal, readers will pay more attention or feel better.