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I think it would be ok with a Carrington. It might fry the data centers but you can build more now we have the knowledge. A Chicxulub event might do the job.

more discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969073

Scams on the internet long predate AI. Though I guess it's understandable scammers would use it. Bring back homemade organic scams I say.

That said I don't really see them due to ad blockers and the like but my flatmate who likes tiktok for some weird reason comes up with some.

Everything is kind of maxed out. The main guy going with jet engines is Musk who got in late after Altman et al had signed up most spare power. In a more sane world the government would regulate it but the current president doesn't seem keep apart from banning the term AI.

>This is apparently incomprehensible to many AI proponents

like who? I think most people recognise the problems?

Depends where you are but bikes are actually kind of fun. It doesn't mean you can't have cars. I have both but bikes are more practical around central London at any rate.

First pic in the article is a pedestrian street without cars. Not sure it's fixed anything.

I don't think the idea is better data so much as algorithmic improvements.

It's not even good satire.

Partly true but only partly. I think a democrat congress will help make things more sane.

> Had LLMs first been presented as a "better IntelliSense"... very few people would have been upset.

Presenting AI as something it isn't doesn't change the reality which is like the Wait But Why thing https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revol...

That was written in 2015 before LLMs were much of a thing and has been fairly spot on so far. This is not just about LLMs any more than the industrial revolution was just about steam engines.

Yeah me too as a Brit. The whole Trump buddying up with Putin to try to save his invasion was a bit of a worry.

It wasn't just the repeated gaffe, it was a general impression.

No the bulk of the public invests in some form and much of industry gets funding. It would probably function better without the assholes.

The biggest shareholder I think is PG and he opposes the fascist shit https://x.com/paulg/status/1851200055220306378

I don't like Trump but he comes across as fairly high IQ if a bit corrupt and demented. I say this as a random Brit who sees odd bits on the internet.

I followed democratic strategist James Carville a bit and he said when Biden proved gaga that they should have a townhall for prospective candidates and choose the best and it was unamerican to just anoint some insider. If they had actually done that I think they would have found someone competent and won, but no and we have the current nightmare.

I think there needs to be a return to selecting people who are honest competent and represent the majority.

Harris was pretty bad. See

>Harris had a more leftist voting record in Senate than Sanders https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jul/28/kamala-harr...

and came across as rather dim. I watched her twice saying 300 million Americans died of covid. The figure was 300 k but if you can't do thousand vs million and not realise 300 million dying was unlikely should you be president?

I think that's the wrong interpretation. HN users are probably more democrat than republican but kind of anti HN being about politics.

Yeah but the people who started those wars aren't doing that great. Both Putin and Trump have issues with popularity and their economy.

I think this is largely a Trump thing as bullying is kind of his schtick. I mean he was the model for the bully in Back to the Future (1985). I hope we can return to civillity before too long.

The fire was largely started by the US - first Clinton getting Ukriane to give their nukes to Russia in return for US/UK security assurances, then Nuland lobbying for them to overthrow their Putin puppet then Biden being wishy washy about any defending.

And now Trump's cut all the aid so Europe + Ukraine is having to deal with putting it out.

Human brains are not so good at dealing with a sea of thousands of numbers. Not that it's impossible but there are usually easier ways for us.

I don't think reminding will do much. The answer is probably to have a second option, usually mobile data.

>AI hasn’t benefited the bottom line of any big corporations outside the tech industry

If you get two companies that reduce their costs 50% but due to competition have to pass on their savings by reducing prices, the profits may remain the same even if AI works.

I think it's safe to say it's satire. Though satire often gets a bit lost on HN.

In my flat in central London (W1) I've only got the old school copper wire into the flat. I've been hoping they'll install something else as the broadband over it is quite bad. Fingers crossed it doesn't all go wrong in Jan.

(update - googling seems they just turn off the phone service but keep the data on the same copper wires)

Not sure it'd be my cup of tea. I prefer a bit of privacy. This was the one I checked out in Pompeii https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/10/14/47/8e/...

The ones at Sketch near me are funky https://live.staticflickr.com/881/42433327302_280548ddd2_b.j...

It is like satire. I wonder if he can try bullying the olympics into giving him a 100m gold medal next.

I'm not sure he gets AI very well. The people building it have always said there are risks. He bases the allegation they are lying mostly on not really understanding what he's talking about.

He does have a point that sales may slow as token maxing goes.

Under which legal system?