Michelle and Barak Obama produce Netflix content through their production company, Higher Ground Productions.

That's one of their their post-POTUS grifts.

> a 30 TB Iron Wolf Pro HDD is ~$1 600.

And that's at AI Bubble prices, not the prices these people would have been paying. I bought some 20TB drives last year and they were about $300 each... so for $2000 they could have had a local RAID with more than 50TB capacity.

Backups are only difficult on Windows because apps store data in random places all over the system instead of in your Documents folder. If Windows was a real operating system you'd just backup your home folder and that would be everything you might need.

I moved all the user folders from C: (a small boot SSD) to d: (an 8TB SSD) and it's insanely hard to stop programs still writing to C: because "obviously that's where the user files are".

He made a choice. If he had had the sort of gall typically exhibited by these grievance grifters he could be on the his martyrdom tour right now, jetting around to hob nob and make poignant videos with all his celebrity supporters, while they litigation financed his next decade of income suing everyone involved. One call to Obama and Netflix would make a 5 episode biopic, and spend a couple hundred million doing it. That's probably still going to happen, btw.

Apparently he lacked the fortitude for it.

And whenever you have blind hiring based on merit, it turns out to be RACIST because companies mostly hire white men.

Equality is obvious nonsense, but the left will cling to it to the bitter end because their entire ideology is based on the false claim that people are or can be equal.

Arday wasn't a dummy. He knew who he could get away with plagiarizing. He plagiarized minor academics; people that didn't have the power to shift authorities. People that were vulnerable to jackboots investigation "threats." He knew better than to plagiarize someone that mattered.

Why are you stealing? That is what everyone asks me. Let's be honest here. If I took donations, nobody would donate to me. That's why I steal.

Has the same vibe to it. Smh.

I presume it's because Muh Rule Of Law says that Trump can't ban them but can put tariffs on them.

"Rule of Law" makes everything stupid.

If students are being subjected to 4 GPa of pressure (40,000 bar), that's a real problem. I mean, that would crush their bodies beyond the limits of molecular cohesion, rupturing all cell membranes and turning all of their bodies' water into high-density ice. If the university is regularly murdering students this way, they should be stopped.

I'm not sure how pass/fail grades help, though.

Doesn't Microsoft now make almost all its money from "The Cloud" (aka renting out servers)?

Windows only matters to the extent that they can steal your data and force you to rent servers from them to access it.

Intelligent people have warned for decades about the perils of exporting industry to hostile countries. It's the midwits who thought it was great to ship everything to China because Muh Efficiency.

Trump is trying to bring that manufacturing back, but it's far too late. The 'elite' are far too corrupt and far too incompetent to actually rebuild a working society.

> You're skipping the step where the failing empire undergoes a period of rapid military expansionism in order to fill its coffers by looting other countries.

Did you miss the last fifty years?

We're past the military building phase of collapse and well into the loot-the-treasury phase. There's no way to unite America into a massive military buildup because half the population are immigrants who would leave and the other half have no desire to fight for the Epstein Regime.

Investors are chasing a company that achieves some kind of AI singularity. Let's set aside the fact that there's no reason to believe there is anything but diminishing marginal returns by making marginal refinements to current frontier models. Let's imagine someone hits the jackpot and gets, not even AGI, but a system that's as far ahead of today's frontier model are ahead of 2020's GPT 2.0 in performance.

Globally AI revenues are 150 billion, against a cumulative burn rate of 450 billion. A model that is a generation ahead of others would almost certainly capture the lion's share of that revenue.

If AGI magically appears as a Sam Altman has promised investors it will, a hundred million is way too low. Add, maybe, another zero to the revenues.

Conservatively, a safer assumption is that frontier models will get marginally better based on refinements in training and reinforcement and the other bits and bobs that go into these systems. The nobody is winning the lion's share of anything, at least overnight. But you have to define "safe". By "safe" I mean unlikely to lose money. But some investors are clearly defining "safe" as "having the greatest chance of owning a piece of the biggest thing ever."

I'm not following this super-closely, but if Anthropic is pursuing adding multi-step model based reasoning to their system, that could be the basis of a generational leap in capability. But if that is an approach that looks like it has a chance of working, then their competitors are no doubt pursuing the same thing. In that case you'd expect the revenue pie to grow as the scope of model utilty increases, but that growth to be split among several competitors. This could credibly result in a revenue stream for some of them that is as big as the entire industry's revenue stream today. But there's going to be hell to pay on the data center impacts end of things.

Time to turn in your geek card. A "watt" is a unit of *power*. People pay for *energy*. Energy = power X time.

Electricity is often sold in energy units called kWh (which is 3.6 megajoules). At a retail price of 20 cents/kWh, five dollars of electric ital energy is 25 kWh.

With a power consumption rate of 1000 kW, that amount of energy is used in 90 seconds. Presumably, the 1MW peak power rate was only used briefly, just like a car with a 300hp peak power engine usually cruises around only generating a couple of dozen hp.

It's a good question, but I think framing it as what humans need to do to be able to live alongside ASI is the wrong way to look at it. The right way to look at it is "What do humans need to learn how to do to have fulfilling lives?".

Of course that question also depends on what makes sense for humans in a world run by benevolent ASI. We don't need to bother thinking about humans' role in a world run by malevolent or even disinterested ASI because there will be no role.