The difference between the AI slop machine and Amazon or Uber is that even when those were losing money, it was none the less clear that if they scaled up then scaling efficiencies would yield a lower cost/unit and they'd become profitable. The pathway to making money instead of setting it on fire clearly existed. It also existed because it was clear even before they super-scaled that Amazon and Uber were doing something useful for which where existed a demand.

So far all we are seeing with the generative AI delusion is an exponentially exploding waste of resources in order to pollute my Youtube feed with slop. Every enterprise is trying "AI" and essentially all of them are finding it does not do what the people selling the tin claim it can.

There were no Amazon, or Uber or Internet evangelists trying to convince everyone that those things were useful or invent uses for them because there was no need: the value was obvious and real.

After decades of sci-fi movies warning us of the danger of runaway AI, it is now clear to see that we are living through exactly such an event: The social poison called "social media" is an out-of-control "AI" designed exclusively to maximize the amount of attention it gets, and it will gleefully steer civilization off a Nazi cliff to do it.

I love how the idea that nuclear power taking 100% account for its waste products up front, as they are produced, is portrayed as a NEGATIVE.

You know, as opposed to throwing billions of tons of pollution up into the air, along with so much mercury that everyone in the world now has a lifetime allowance for seafish, not to mention all the radioactivity from the uranium in the coal, or the fly ash piles that would set off the alarms at most nuclear plants and destroy entire ecosystems when they get rained on and burst.

Guess what everyone - we're all gonna pay a WAY higher price for burning all the buried carbon than we EVER will for all the world's atomic waste. It just won't be on a fucking beancounter's spreadsheet labelled "cost of CO2 release."

Planetary temperatures are measured using satellites. Which measure the temperature of the entire planet's surface, every day. On-ground weather stations are nice as far as providing high time resolution data for points, but that's all.

What do you even say this level of malignant, willful ignorance?

More of, just 25 years for another 0.5C of warming.

Most projections show that we blew past 1.5* a few years ago, and the perpetual growth delusionists still have our foot firmly holding the gas pedal to the floor in terms of emissions. Solar and wind power output is growing incredibly rapidly, but it's not going to happen in time to prevent absolute catastrophe by the end of the century. If Q snapped his fingers and all power was renewable tomorrow, just the warming that's going to happen due to past emissions will take us to or just past +2* by 2100.

What delusional world do you live in where "we've been running zero emissions cars from most vehicles for a while now?" Even in Norway, which leads the world in this by leaps and bounds (the great majority of new cars there are EVs), only an estimated 30% of the vehicle fleet is electric.

I'm not going to bother talking about what smog is and isn't.

Both attacks use a small piece of hardware, known as an interposer, that sits between CPU silicon and the memory module.

Yeah, I got bad news, if someone is able to get access to your hardware for long enough to install an interposer AND get it to work (the signal integrity engineering at modern RAM speeds borders on magic, and an interposer throws God* only knows how many nanohenries of mutual inductance wrenches into the machinery), they've got time to do a LOT of things.

*and by God I mean the million-dollar FDTD simulation engines

People love to imagine that Hitler was some kind of tricky super genius that fooled everyone before doing the horrible things. Because they really do not like what the truth says about people: Hitler did not seize power through tricking everyone, he was able to seize power because enough people wanted a Hitler in power.

It's the same situation with the Orange Pedophile: People want to believe there must be some conspiracy around him, because the alternative - there are enough degraded, horrible people to elect such an absolute monster to the Presidency not once but twice - says some extremely ugly things about America.

There's definitely not "no way," but the CCP is almost bottomlessly willing to pour their money down the drain to destroy (via subsidizing Chinese production that competitors cannot possibly compete with in an otherwise competitive market) economic competition in chosen markets.

You think you're going to bring a new supply of rare earths to market? Watch the supply from China suddenly flood the market, crash the price and make your mine a money loser for as long as it takes for you to go under. You think you're going to fab solar panels? LOL. You think you're going to introduce a new cheap battery that doesn't rely on the rare earths from China? ...

Yeah, it's hard enough to get a significant fraction of drivers to pay anything resembling proper attention when they know full well they have to do 100% of the driving. Telling them the car can 98% drive itself and expecting them to still pay enough attention to do anything that will help when an oh-shit happens, as opposed to grabbing the wheel in a panic and overturning? Oh good lord.

How is it even POSSIBLE to have cruise control not work properly? This has literally been a solved problem for decades now. Literally the only thing you need is a second throttle cable, a servo to pull on it, and a $2 microcontroller that runs the PID loop to control the servo.

Or am I to gather that it has now been "innovated" into a spectacularly complex fuckaroo that doesn't work with a shit by comparison?

Objective reality has a well known liberal bias.

Remember when machines were going to do all of the hard, dirty, dangerous work and free people to learn, do science and create art?

Instead the corporatists are determined to use AI to fire everyone whose job is more than minimum wage with no benefits (except the C suite of course), while grudgingly paying the humans they hate to do jobs AI can't do yet. Now listen to this latest collection of AI slop while you stand out in the sun directing traffic past the construction zone on a summer day.

I mean, if we're going to talk about what's legal, PedoPresident's entire thing of "I HEREBY DECLARE MOAR TARIFFS" is plainly illegal right on its face because Article I section 8 of the Constitution explicitly gives to Congress the power to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises." Even his presence on the ballot was illegal because insurrectionist traitors are not allowed to hold any office in the United States.

Neither this nor any of the other crimes he's committed / is committing right now / will commit matter because the Roberts Kangaroo Court's majority have made it very clear that they don't give a damn what the law is or was intended to be by the founders.