Noice! Now gimme gimme

Incredible foresight really

Or we could try to not live and consume resources at the scale of the average US household (let alone the accursed millionaire and billionaire classes).

Plenty of stuff to go around actually

Likely translation: scaling their models is hitting diminishing returns, while the business world is slowly realizing the math ain’t mathing and they’re not suddenly 10x more efficient and profitable than before LLM adoption.

So Sammy and the others need a plausible cover story why capabilities aren’t evolving at break neck speed anymore, to prevent their beautiful bubbly bubble from crashing down on them

It sounds plausible enough, considering we apparently have physicists out there using lead from roman archeological artifacts in their contraptions 😅 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-roman-lead-physics-archaeology-controversy/

Bruh, this is literally like scientists scavenging metal from shipwrecks that predate the era of nuclear bomb testing, cause they need steel that isn’t contaminated by nuclear fallout for certain measuring equipment 😵‍💫😵‍💫

Great analogy for the shit we’re currently saturating our digital world with

Let me put it this way:

My grandparents built a brick house in the early 1950’s in northern Germany. My parents built on that foundation and doubled the size in the late 1980’s. Air conditioning was not a thing back then. You just didn’t need it at all.

For decades this house has kept a relatively cool 24-25°C (~75°F) during peak summer months. Just due to the way it was built.

That hasn’t been true for the past ~10 years anymore.

And it’s the same with almost all German infrastructure. Our traditional ways of building things are not fit for the frequent high heatwaves we’ve been experiencing this last decade. Even hospitals are generally not AC’d except for maybe ER and operating rooms. It’s fucking miserable

This seems very different to high-security data centers…

1. I wouldn’t want my (business) data handled like that
2. I wonder how well this could be defended against a roving gang of enterprising racoons that comes to liberate their precious RAM and GPUs 🦝

There was an article with a pretty compelling argument a while ago that basically said the true poverty line in the US is over 100.000$/year family income (when you look at what that number was originally supposed to measure). Below that you’re getting fucked left and right.

Every dollar a family earns between 40k and 100k makes them poorer, because it triggers benefit losses (like health care & child care) that exceed income gains.

So what the US reports as “the middle class” are actually the working poor