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I didn’t say don’t use AI.
I didn’t say don’t use AI.
That’s completely besides the point.
Blizzard isn’t asking taxpayers to subsidize them billions “to advance humanity”.
As you say yourself, there are way better models than what is being funded right now, and what is likely to get the monopoly on energy, at our expense.
That’s cool and all, but we’re talking about the AI companies that are trying to get valuated at trillions of dollars and want taxpayers to pay for the upgrades to the grid. The sad part is it’s likely going to work
Usefulness is one thing, but it costs an astronomical amount of energy.
These companies are trying to make taxpayers pay for their infrastructure by pretending it’s to benefit everyone. It won’t benefit everyone that’s for sure.
I like to compare these amounts as time.
1 million seconds is about 11 days. 1 billion seconds is almost 32 years.
I was just pumping gas the other day, and while I’m at it there’s this cellphone speaker music that starts really loudly, like the phone is at 400% audio.
Motherfucking screen started playing an ad I couldn’t skip. Soon theyre just going to loop audible ads everywhere we go, in public spaces.
Since then I’ve avoided this brand of gas station and affiliates, but I won’t be able to hide for long.
I wander what it means
First all companies were afraid of giving access to these models, for trade secret issues and security. But then they basically all met at the white house to agree that they would make way more fucking money stealing it than they would pay in restitution or damages to people and small businesses.
Suddenly everybody had a chatbot and generated art ready for commercial sale. They also had to make the shift quickly enough before official laws and protections (mostly from the EU) came in.
Now AI is plateauing a bit so they must hurry to get valuated at 10 trillion dollars and get their energy needs subsidized and have taxpayers invest into the nation’s energy requirements on their behalf.
And like, why are people surprised it’s only getting worse? Of course it is, we knew long ago the removal of 3rd party app was the beginning of the master plan to monetize our communities.
I know how to opt out! I can opt out of buying a honda!
“Aerospace firm” is pretty generous. They’re a defense contractor.
The worlds video game industry*.
They got really buffed on investments during the pandemic like we were going to stay in our house for the rest of our lives.
Now interest is high and investors aren’t as excited. It wouldn’t hurt for the industry to crash and get rid of these moneygrabbers who are in for a short peak, we’d have better games
Literally what he did with the cars. “If we don’t put good technology in them we don’t have to pay for anything!”.
Same with Twitter.
That’s just the nature of linux though. Most common distros run without issue. But people have such a wide variety of hardware and software needs that someone somewhere will tell you they had issues with that distro.
Much easier to boot them and get a feel for the one you like, you are not likely to have an issue, and if you do it will take minutes to fix on a common distro.
And for 100% of distros someone will come and say: “except for this where you gotta do this and that but then it works fine”.
Yeah that was kinda my point. All that matters is what the spreadsheet looks like now. It would have probably been a net positive to keep me given they are only going to grow and spend a fortune on hiring and new stocks. That’s a different spreadsheet though, I also live in a country where it’s expensive to fire full time employees collectively, so it’s not like they are paying these kinds of sums for everyone. It’s pretty cheap to make things look good on paper.
They make 5 billion a year, thats less than 2.5% of the money they make every year, it’s a rounding error to make the spreadsheets look real good to the money lenders .
My company just let me go with a 6 figure package (x amount of pay + stocks). They could have easily kept me there for another year, but that’s not as good for the spreadsheets.
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This just in: broken clock is right twice a day.
So youve donated a bunch and now stopped? Right? Anakin?