I have FTL and Into The Breach installed so even if the rest of my library vanishes I think I’ll be alright.

iirc the power is not very doable, You’d need hundreds of times as many solar pannels as are on the ISS to power a single modest data centre.

Just waiting for Trump to invade Panema and bring about the final collapse of the US.

There was kinda that whole bit in between where all the unemployed workers crowded into cities and everyone died of cholera though…

Do I get to include the gargantuan cooling system for the data centre and all the infastructure required to keep that going?

So my GPU is about 300 watts and a still blatantly stupid LLM can write a little faster than me. Take off 100w to bring that down to my own writing speed then make it 10x slower to turn that 200 watts into 20 watts. Even with that heavy bias in the LLMs favour (forgiving it the entire power cost of my PCs other components that it partially utilizes) what we get is something slow, dumb, and incapable of learning because any local model is statically weighted.

To be fair, run an LLM on a machine with an equivelent power requirement to the human brain and we might se some different results on that one.

Except these people are turning around and burningdown the libraries once they’ve read all the books.

The US was doing horrific shit 20 years ago, 20 years from now it will still have been doing horrific shit 20 years ago.

I still have my suspicions about how that 49% is being measured, because if it counts any ‘use’ then technically using most search engines is using an LLM regardless of wether you want to or not, a lot of people are now also forced by their employers regardless of wether they want to or not.