But if I were someone who was cutting costs a common tactic is to announce cuts and then see if anyone screams, if they scream loud enough then don't cut it. I think there is some of that going on. The NOAA cuts were ridiculous, and it killed people

We shouldn't be giving all our data to google anyway. But they are shooting themselves in the foot, I'll bet they lose marketshare to some amount at least in the small percentages. The web is unusable without an ad blocker, some pages have ads in between paragraphs, its shocking if you are used to an ad blocker and you then turn it off.

Yeah, there isn't a good way to store electricity. Batteries are expensive, some of that will come down in the future with different battery tech.

You talk to coworkers or answer email. Or browse the web. But you can't increment the work until you get the results. The productivity gains come from anything you save time on. I've had spreadsheet operations run 20x what I could do by hand, but if you are just watching the gears spin while a couple of bots are running then there aren't as much productivity gains

But Meta will waste money on AI, and not provide any useful products and then buy out any companies that do provide AI and threaten Zucks moat, and the bought out government regulators will let them.

UK Scientists funded by big tech See Little Evidence for Claims Smartphones Are Rewiring Kids' Brains

The evidence is obvious, and even if it isn't rewiring kids brains it's definitely causing societal changes that are not good. Another thing is the tech companies just serve up ads at an increasing rate and polerize society, so down with them.

Not to mention that the datacenter needs have priced in AGI, which is a tech that they haven't even come up with. I'm sure most of the datacenters are scaled so they have phases in projects, but right now with LLM's the datacenter demand is sub 10% of what is already built out (just ask gemini). If this is true then the market will drop out.

At some point it will also be cheaper to use humans than AGI because the calories of a human brain running is like 180 calories/hr which is ~200W/hr and anywhere from ~20$ to 300$ to run per hour depending on the task. So if your AI is running multiples of 200W/hr for AGI then it's not going to be profitable.

A 1 hour video with AI is roughly 1000$, I'll bet that AGI would have to be more expensive than that by 10X multiples at least for token cost.

Publicly (in news) nuclear typically describes fission and fusion describes fusion. But yeah good to distinguish.

With wind you also have to include the cost of the battery, batteries add about ~60c per kwh. You do this because fusion is 24/7 and wind is not to compare the costs.

You need to be able to distinguish between nuclear and fusion, they are completely different processes.

if you are saying you are coming up with a battery, and people ask, you need a battery.

One property of crypto is if it goes to 0 it will never come back, think about that for a while.

better than gold...

Condensation is really the only mechanism. I want to see this in action before I believe their claims

First AGI, now this. We're at a point were the realities of the tech are going to take over. If investors where figure out that the spend on data centers and energy will eclipse revenue and not be recouped, AIs boom is over. There are already cracks in the wall, company spend on AI in some companies is being rolled back. The next 3 to 6 months will show the real data from productivity studies and revenue.