In my experience, it just ends up requiring replacement of the starter battery more often, and the batteries required are larger, AGM type batteries that tend to be more expensive than smaller/flooded lead acid type batteries, (if you care about battery cost). Now, I suppose, if you sit in traffic a lot, and don't need A/C or heat too much, don't have a lot of accessories that are on a lot, (like heated or cooled seats, radio, etc.), and are absolutely wanting to save that last $2/month on gas, then go ahead. All I would ask is that the button *remember* the setting, between on/off ignition cycles, so if I turn it off, it just stays Off. I have installed a few harness adapters that connect to the harness going to the start/stop button so that it can 'remember' it's setting and only enables if the button is pressed to enable it back on. That is how it should have been from the factory.

I genuinely don't think the circle-jerk deals are the real force behind this. Microsoft "investing" in OpenAI doesn't inherently create datacenter demand. OpenAI "investing" in nVidia doesn't either. What does create demand is all the people asking CoPilot to summarize an e-mail for them. Or to write a paragraph of code they could Google the results of. Or create a picture of their wife's head on a walrus. The load is what's screwing us. All the useless, pointless, wasteful load.

I hope you do not plan to give that code any publicly available interfaces. Because LLMs are absolute crap at writing secure code. Probably because most people that proudly put their code on the net as "examples" are too.

This "I don't understand what money is" ranting is rather sad to see.

There is no cap on money, because money represents only one thing. Trust in value. It has no value in of itself. This is why "gold standard" societies either gave it up or failed after hitting large growth spikes. Because if trust in value is tied to a specific metal, you need enough supply to expand the value of medium of exchange to keep up with societal trends. It's what killed Spanish Empire for example. They grew so fast, they couldn't mint enough coins to keep trade lubricated.

Same rule applies here. The money merely represents trust in value of whatever is being made. If what is being made is valuable, amount of money will expand to match that value so that trade remains possible for the entire value that is created and is in use.

And if AI goes as hard as it seems to be going in terms of value generation, we have a good chance of seeing value of things created by humanity go into quadrillions of today's dollars in our lifetimes.

People on slashdot who are luddites are hilarious to me. AI is the next stage of human evolution (as soon as we can integrate it into our brains), and yet they resist. Reminds me of how VR/AR is a logical step to cybernetics, and yet they resist. The real beta tests for that, ghost in the shell cybernetic utopia future, were google glass etc, but the beta testers were called glassholes, when all they were, were visionaries who were a few decades too early to a future that is coming.