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@h3artbl33d

So like every street address is now a website?

@PaulaToThePeople

More like zero day and seeing stars.

@hypolite @benfulton

To the extent that addressing the climate crisis looks anything like austerity the richest must go first and take the biggest hit.

That's just ... fair.

@hypolite @benfulton

I agree. But I also think it will be hard, unreasonable even to expect everyone to adapt to pull the breaks on the climate crisis as long as a bunch of the richest jerks you can think of keep flying around in jets.

We need to replace shorter plane flights with trains for example. Some people will think that's a downgrade (it's not but whatever)

It's symbolically important.

@hypolite @benfulton

IDK per person they are pretty bad.

What a nightmare. “the perpetual future” sounds like the title of a cyberpunk horror novel.

@dx

I am but a simple school teacher, so perhaps I’m missing something these businesses-folk see that I do not— however: why do they think the price would go down? I thought this stage of the AI business model was like the early days of uber and amazon wherein they corner the market, addict the consumer and then the hammer comes down and big profits emerge (or not)

@dx

Is that what’s making all the terrible websites that come up in search?

@dx

what happens when they raise the price? are they indispensable? or all these things "chat bots" that try to talk to you while you use a website that could be easily scrapped?

@dx

Compared to the level of investment there just aren't as many people diving in. And some who dive in will find out it's not doing much and pull out.

@darkling

yeah...

i am the goblin who eats the homework feed me! nom nom nom

Another overlapping perspective. There is an AI bubble. The "High Yield" video makes these data centers sound inevitable and unstoppable. But, what if all of this infrastructure isn't really producing any value? Or enough value?

OpenAI has only a handful of customers and most of them are using it to do their homework for them. We discussed "Vibe Coding" last week and no one can agree on if it saves any time or not.

Ed Zitro makes the case for the bubble on MR.

Here is a good overview on trends in datacenters. (Did you know they are planning on firing up 3 mile island again? Truly, we live in a 1970s revival)

When you try to solve a problem but ignore the obvious solution everyone just starts reading things off of their wish list of things they always wanted to do anyway. In this case it's some kind of call to either kill or otherwise silence "the left."

If I can't get fewer guns I guess I'll go for "Build a center in every city where people can study insects."

What's on your wish list?

It's literally the candles budget meme.

"Can someone who is good with understanding violence please help? My country is dying.

USA Budget

Food 400
Transportation 50
Guns 900000"

"Have fewer guns."

"NO."

@gbargoud

And make no mistake that's part of what this is about. Trafficking guns and making a lot of money on it along with an indifference to the safety of children.

@gbargoud

If the whole country had gun laws like NYC a large portion of murders would simply not happen. People might try to use a knife, or act out in other ways but fewer people would be dead. The people who really want to own a gun could still own them and the illegal trade would dry up.

It might even be fine to have hunting guns sold more casually in rural areas. I don't think anyone but those who benefit from trafficking guns into cities would be bothered.

@gbargoud

Most crimes committed with guns involve illegally obtained guns from out of state.

Most young men do not have a car, few can drive, the fact that you can't just buy a gun at Walmart in NYC is a good thing! To buy a gun you need to file with your local police department and take a class. It's expensive and time consuming.

People desperate for a gun will obtain them from the black market and this is risky and there are heavy legal penalties.

@gbargoud

This has been correct so far. To some degree the extreme saturation of surveillance in NYC may make it a less appealing target for anyone who thinks a little about doing such a crime. And it's not easy for people who live in the city to buy guns from a store. Doing it legally remains very hard, but this can be avoided by just going over the border to another state and the NRA has been chipping away at our few remaining gun regulations.