So they seem to have the same deficiency as Trump. The one where they think they are so great that any problems are to do with someone else.
We need fewer of these types of people. A lot fewer.
It’s so refreshing to encounter someone correctly using the word “fewer”. The word seems to be dying off pretty rapidly in favor of “less”.
It’s true. The left has nothing but tech-focused solutions, like an inclined plane powered by potential energy.
Why can’t it be both? We hate Trump and we hate you too.
It’s funny the Democrats won on the promise to clamp down on big tech given their history. Next election cycle, I bet the Republicans will be running on regulating the fossil fuel industry.
We aren’t anti-tech, though we are anti-trump. We are also anti-asshole tech bros stealing our money and forcing shitty AI down our throats and ruining our lands.
I hate when people developing horrendous tech say people are anti tech when people are just anti their tech…
“This would keep [US] AI token prices high, giving China an opportunity to export cost-effective inference services, supported by abundant electricity supplies,” Ng said.
This sentence contains many layers, and all of them are somewhat wrong in multiple dimensions, in my opinion.
- AI token costs didn’t drop at all since all of this started, they rose significantly because of the increasingly larger models used. Barring an scientific breakthrough, the hardware side is already in the area of physics where further significant improvements are unlikely, as we all saw in the slowdown in performance gains over the last 15 years. And it is in the nature of GenAI that it is computational intensive - all this matrix multiplication is necessary, or else they would have already replaced it.
- The most important export China has made in the AI space are open weight models like DeepSeek and GLM 5.3, devaluing tokens coming from Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and so on.
- the “abundant electricity supplies” that the US are missing are a direct result of the regulatory capture in the US, which emphasizes power generation using carbohydrates to funnel more money into specific companies instead of widespread solar and wind power adoption with battery storage. (The US has more than enough strategic reasons to strive towards being able to build their own solar and wind generation modules, which would actually create jobs and encourage adoption.)
Apparently 38 of 44 measures restricting data centers passed because voters were thinking about Trump, not the enormous data centers in their towns. Amazing how an industry selling pattern recognition suddenly becomes so bad at recognizing one when it’s inconvenient.
an industry selling pattern recognition suddenly becomes so bad at recognizing one
I think they do recognize the pattern.
With trump, I genuinely don’t know if he understands that people don’t like him. With the big tech companies, I think they have a pretty good idea of how each individual person feels about these data centers.
Since the midterm elections have just passed, they don’t need to worry about how the average voter feels about them for another two years. However, they do need to convince their investors that everything is ok. Between the partial bubble pop in China, the crypto heist, Google’s stock drop, and now the republicans losing power, they’re spooked
They probably have dashboards showing public opposition down to the ZIP code. The problem isn’t that they can’t read the data: it’s that admitting what it says might upset investors. Apparently the one dataset Big Tech refuses to put into production is its own unpopularity.
Do you only comment in witty quips?
Yes, it’s the schtick of this bot (or person outsourcing all of their comments to LLM).
Sell pattern recognition to those who have none
The delusions are voiced to try and calm investors, moreso than gaslight voters
recently there was a bunch of technologies they tried hard to pitch to the masses and they failed, why can’t they just believe that they suck and move on
Well, yees, it’s anti Trump. It’s again having tech in hands of people like Trump
The tech is fine but polluting the air to spy on us will have consequences you may not like.
It is not fine.
It’s great for medical research.
An amazing achievement but like other tools, we don’t want it in the wrong hands.
