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ah yes, the EU shall continue to fade into irrelevance (except for as a dope vacation spot and some fine cheese)

One almost milk latte uses more water than tens of thousands of Chat GPT requests, by the way.

That's not an exaggeration.

And plenty of anti-datacenter folks are sipping that every day.

China is certainly thrilled with how this manufactured moral panic is playing out in the US. AI is going to be the most important technology in the world before long.

The water use panic is so ridiculous. The sheep pushing it do so while sipping almond milk lattes. One almond milk latte uses the same water as tens of thousands of chat gpt requests.

~80–90 liters for one typical almond milk latte vs. ~0.3–15 mL for one ChatGPT request. Using a mid-range AI figure of ~5 mL: one latte ≈ 16,000–18,000 ChatGPT requests. Using OpenAI’s ~0.32 mL figure: one latte ≈ 250,000+ requests. Even with a higher AI estimate of 50 mL: still roughly 1,600–1,800 requests per latte.

Didn't Norway just invest 1 billion in SpaceX via their sovereign wealth fund?

Nice reminder that even the most successful socialist societies still depend on someone somewhere being productive to generate wealth to redistribute. North Sea oil money doesn't hurt.

That's true, it's a spectrum. And the US has wayyy more free speech than even Great Britain.

I'm a fan of Snowden, but suggesting that we're living in an authoritarian state because he's in exile is a stretch, IMO.

Africa: what is law?

we have free speech, don't be so gullible. you think Chinese citizens can go out in the streets and say anything they want.

pathetically ignorant.

possibly the beginning of the recursive feedback as models begin to aid in their own improvement? especially algorithmic improvements, which seems to have a lot of wide open space for gains

laughable thinking the us govt is authoritarian. unless you were referring to some other govt

Once again, it is incredibly ignorant to suggest that just because it looks like a Nazi salute that was the intention. There’s no reality that suggests that was his intention. It’s just your political brainwashing.

Brainwashed. It’s creepy.

You’re just incapable of talking about these things honestly. It’s NOT ethnic cleansing. Your exaggeration of that war, and your calling Musk a Nazi is what gets people shot in the neck.

It is seriously absurd to believe he did it as a Nazi salute. But you just want to believe it.

Hell yeah

You can find pictures of AOC and Mamdani doing the exact same gesture. It’s obviously a common gesture when emoting to crowds. But you just want to believe the narrative. If you’re worried about Nazis, take a look at all the pro-Hamas people.

a lot of that compute is used for inference, which is demand-based

do you have any idea how much clickbait gets circulated because... Musk gets clicks? Just try it for yourself. Grok 4.6 is great (first impression)

Agreed, I've been using it on personal projects, and prefer it to Claude and GPT at the moment.

thought police on patrol. maybe look in the mirror and whisper "who is really the fascist?"

"no-one seems to be colonizing other systems"

seems like an odd thing to claim, given that we have no idea what's going on on any planet outside of our solar system

I've always thought it's pretty obvious how all this climate change stuff will play out:

- Yeah some govts reduce carbon emissions, but others don't care (china) or can't afford to focus on that (developing economies).

- Climate activists will continue to act like we're to literally ruin the world (this is stupid). Climate change deniers will say temperature changes are just cyclical (also stupid).

- On a global macro scale, fossil fuels continue to be consumed as long as it makes sense economically

- Solar eventually gets cheap enough to begin to truly displace fossil fuels. EVs also go mainstream. Both happening now.

- In the end... life will just go on as we just naturally move up the tech tree and fossil fuels become an ever smaller part of the energy mix

This anti-capitalism mind virus is concerning.

we'll see how it plays out. Tesla FSD is incredible. Robotaxis are coming, slowly for now, but then in a wave.

I don't support Israel's terrorism, nor Hamas's. Hamas is the only group in that conflict that consistently calls for genocide. If Israel wanted to commit genocide, they certainly could.

I meant it's cheaper when considering building an entirely new pumped storage facility, vs battery storage.

Okay debbie downer, it's still positive news

At least at this point solar can be driven by pure market forces, it doesn't need federal subsidies to make sense.

Large-scale battery storage is already expanding rapidly, and is way cheaper than pumped storage.

The fact that you think that somehow proves Tesla's FSD is dangerous is some impressive mental gymnastics.

It's the largest psychological barrier between the IPO price and $0.