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If all the talk is true that something approximating human intelligence can be scaled simply by building more datacenters.

How can an "approximation of human intelligence" be "scaled by building more datacenters"? That doesn't even make sense. You don't need more datacenters to demonstrate that you have an "approximation of human intelligence", all you need is a lab and at most 1 (one) datacenter. Only after you've demonstrated you know how to deliver the goods, you can think about scaling, retail and marketing.

The demand for the current "approximation" is out there for all to see, it's nothing like the "most desired commodity in the world", in fact, it needs huge inflationary subsidies in order to sustain some sort of demand-for-show.

I don't think ethics exists anywhere other than impressionate minds and words on paper.

Same as law. The only difference is enforcement.

This is a conjecture that ethics emanates from the whole of society and somehow keeps the things from falling apart

If something doesn't emanate from the whole of society and doesn't keep it from falling apart - the society will fall apart and seize to exist as a whole. We may call that "something" ethics just to give a clear meaning to that word and repair some of the immeasurable damage done to it by modern philosophy. Only then ethics can be used as one of the foundations of law.

and then explains it to have cyclical nature.

The hopes of self-repairing cyclical nature are a coping mechanism that seeks to avoid the reality of self-destructive cycles - the repairs are never complete, destruction accumulates until repairs are no longer possible.

The GDPR states that websites that serve EU citizens are subject to it,

The GDPR can state that they're the masters of the universe but that doesn't make it true. They lack jurisdiction, they can't sue in US court. The EU suing an US entity, in US court, for breaking EU law sounds like a great comedy I really want to see.

If the EU doesn't want EU citizens to use some service located in another country, they should stop their citizens from going there, like at the border, like blocking the IP, domain, etc.

It's like modeling a living cell in a computer building upon the basic maths of physics.

During COVID computer modeling of cell chemistry became an established mode of study, in-silico is now used before in-vitro with great results.

One has to be careful to not fall in the trap presented as an alternative to the rationalist one - it sounds like, "there's no truth" or "the truth is too hard, just give up and accept what you're told to accept".

The lack of truth isn't due to it being hard or unachievable, there's enough of it to solve all major problems, it's not being pursued because of conflicts of interest.

That doesn't change the fact that P(A|B) = P(B|A)P(A)/P(B).

It didn't take long before a strawman got pulled out of nowhere. That's so typical, if one disagrees with the wild conjectures of the rationalists, which they call "axioms", they blame you for rejecting the Pythagorean Theorem or some such. Dishonesty is the defining feature of that "movement"

Oh, yeah, how didn't I think of it before. We can grow our own tomatoes, apples, peppers, and onions and build our own cars, EVs, data centers, planes and nuclear power plants and on and on - in our own backyards. Who needs a properly working market when we can do everything ourselves. \s

And who will buy the gold?

Wrong question. The real question is "Who and what will they buy with the gold?"

The golden rule is just the beginning, and no, there's nothing positive for the rest of us.

The government regulates the drug industry to give companies an exclusive period to recoup the costs before generics can jump in.

Sorry, no bailouts. Whatever drug companies negotiate, they do it in advance, it's called a deal. The purpose of regulation cannot be "recouping the costs" of everyone who's just figured out that they can't make it the way they've promised. If it was, everyone and their dog would ask for recouping the costs of dog poop management.

AI lacks that regulation which means frontiers are guaranteed to just bleed to death.

The lack of such regulation actually means that frontiers should slow down spending money they don't have in order to avoid bleeding themselves to death... what a novel idea, ha?

That's a really odd thing to point out, as even the earliest written records of the Odyssey are later interpretations of what was a story passed in oral tradition.

It's not at all odd to point out that a movie is at odds with the common interpretation. That interpretation and the tradition that made it common should not be tainted by incompatible takes, they should be respected in order to avoid confusion and prevent the use of well known sources as promotional vehicles for war-mongering pseudo-art.

If the makers of the modern movie wanted to promote a different idea, they should've named it differently without confusing the public that the original had anything to do with their fantasies.

(A) TSLA recently rechartered in Texas, which makes it very hard for shareholders to sue. (B) Presumably most of the TSLA shareholders today like Elon Musk.

If (B) was true before (A) happened, it's very likely it changed after that.

Could it be that the learning samples from the web are already censored

No, it couldn't. You've got to learn what LLM "alignment" is, the frontier labs are heavily invested in it.

I could argue that underinvestment in electrification and renewables are the true cause of price inflation

And I'll argue that yours is a rather uninformed and illogical statement. Inflation is the result of the opposite of underinvestment, trying to cure inflation with more investment is like trying to put out fires with gasoline.

The whole logic of raising interest rates is based on reducing the gasoline but that doesn't work for the present kinetic and AI wars which are fueled regardless of cost - interest or otherwise. There's your explanation for the persistent inflation.

If we electrified like China, there would not be the impact we see.

Chinese consumer inflation is below 1.3% Maybe they know something about not treating everything as a war?

If that's all you'd posted recently, the problem is not likely to be the content you posted.

The problem is exactly the content he posted, more specifically - links, any links to content produced out of the mainstream. My big-name free-email provider started deleting links to legit sites from emails I sent to my relatives.

This is a concerted effort of the established mainstream-ers, acting in a trust-like manner, to create a walled garden excluding any outside communication that doesn't originate from inside the trust.

There is a general malaise at prices and a target is needed. Data centers and the Trump-Bibi-Iran War are currently those targets seen as the primary driver of high prices,

Seen? They are the primary driver of high prices.

I guess if you buy an entire house without checking

We aren't talking about people buying hoses now, these fees weren't there before, so it becomes a typical bait and switch. "Congestion charge" means the starlink network lacks sufficient capacity to accommodate the areas that need it the most and where it was advertised the most.

https://tech.yahoo.com/transportation/articles/elon-musk-cha...

Jul 5, 2026The congestion charge was quietly added back in 2024, starting out as a one-time $100 fee, depending on location. By June 2025, that number grew to up to $1,000 in parts of the country, as PCMag reported at the time. As of last month, surcharges can hit $1,500.

the money printer can go brrrrr longer than everyone else can remain solvent.

No, it can't. You and me may not matter but the big money printer in Asia prints better, faster and longer, and that's all that matters. Hubris-driven magic thinking prevents seeing the real danger we are in, much to the delight of its architects and principal contractors.

if a robber pulls a gun on me in the street and demands my wallet,

You're jumping the gun here, and it's a bad habit, ask Putin about it. Framing consensual trade as armed robbery is exactly the self-righteous attitude that leads to preemptive wars and self-destruction.

As far as China, they provided exactly what they were asked to provide, in exchange for what they were offered to take. The problem is with the deal artists across the table who believe that lining their own pockets should automatically solve all problems, for everyone, and forever. Maybe they shouldn't have surrounded themselves with suck up economists who tell them what they want to hear.

then in what way must I blame myself?

I didn't ask you to blame yourself but to "find out how we can do better", I can only repeat that request.

If banks view and treat their customers like spammers and random callers, banking regulations are fundamentally broken. It's even worse to see people who don't see the problem with such policies.

You have a lot to learn about the Orient, they're different, that doesn't mean they are worse, they're just different.

One thing you can learn from them is to stop blaming others and look inside, find out how we can do better. Besides, it's also quite unamerican to whine and blame others, especially on the 4th of July, we have done and we can still do better than China, but it isn't going to happen without some real change.

We learned that free trade has costs, and we're adjusting.

I doubt it.

Learning too slow is sometimes worse than not learning at all. During the heyday of globalization I was repeating a single message - this is going too far, too fast, it'll hit a brick wall. Curiously enough that's exactly what I'm repeating these days too - this time about the wild, erratic swing to the side of isolationism.

We're still operating in the same market bubble conditions as before, driven by the same people, for the same reasons - globalization and shmobalization are just means to an end, the means might be different but the end is the same.

a quarter of the traffic is propagandists trying to destroy western tech/infrastructure/society

The most effective enemy propaganda is called "sticker shock". When the sticker goes up in a week, it's double propaganda. I'm fully onboard with the idea of stopping the propaganda producers from continuing to do it.

yet every third article posted to the front page is 800 comments beating off to a new Claude feature

In addition to the bot farms, many in the AI related fields have plenty of perverse incentives to participate - for reasons other than genuine interest. That's why I don't read those threads, although the marketing angle is easy to see it's also prevalent and laboring to filter out all 90% of it isn't worth the effort.

I just said basic truth - majority of people won’t change mind under influence of online strangers > You could of course provide me with data that this is not true

Actually, it's the other way around - you have to provide data showing that the majority of people won't change their minds under the influence of online strangers regardless of the quality of arguments and the time they spare to participate in discussions. That's how proper studies are done.

Look, I don’t even know why are we arguing over what exactly?... Seems like truisms

As I said, that depends on the semantics of "strongly held convictions". Do all people have them or are they just for bigots?

See, you fail to convince me not because you're stranger but because the quality of your arguments is lacking - you seem to conflate these and then, instead of finding a productive reason to participate in the discussion, you jump to the defensive "I'm just writing truisms".

Your analogy is wrong, here's the right version: You hire another babysitter in the community but she needs a car to commute, then under the guise of "public utility", all other babysitter customers are obliged to equally share the cost of the car and insurance although it would be serving you exclusively. I can see why you'd want something like that and why corrupt economists would pretend it's a fair game.

We're talking about capital and interest expenses for the benefit of a single customer but paid for by all other customers too. And also about Billions of $$ of commercial risk shifted to the shoulders of the public.

I am so tired of reading these stupid "why I am"

Don't read them. The rest of us may actually gain from another perspective, different from corporate marketing.

If "passing those costs on to other rate payers" is "the normal process of purchasing things" then the "normal process" is thoroughly and completely FUBAR-ed. That's a lot worse than some single, isolated case.

Nobody thinks this way about actual strong convictions they held like belief in god or abortion or polygamy.

There's no need to change that kind of strong convictions, what needs to change is the desire to use such convictions as justification for policies imposed onto others.

Even the same academics that would change their mind quickly about some theory would never actually change their mind on their strong ideological convictions

Again, that wouldn't be a problem if they recognized the right of others to think differently. Their propensity to invoke "science" to justify intrusive policies, one way or the other, is the real problem.

So I repeat again if you changed your mind under influence of an internet stranger then it wasn’t a very strong conviction.

To paraphrase Keynes here, those who don't change their minds when facts change are simply fools or trolls. And the realization of change may come from a single word, of people known or unknown, or even without words - it doesn't matter, change must take place when change is due.

We could argue about the semantics of "very strong convictions" until the cows come home, but it won't do any good if we haven't beforehand agreed upon "why we argue".

Fast neutron reactors can also "burn" waste from other reactors, the "ashes" are radioactive for only 300 years, there is no need for special storage after that. Untreated waste has to be kept in storage for around 100K years before it reaches safe levels of radioactivity.

Other than marketing propaganda, there isn't much real information about Mark-0. I'm assuming it's a sodium cooled, slow and hot pebble bed reactor. Hot pebble beds are well known but one with sodium cooling appears to be a first.

Why slow sodium? You get all the risks associated with sodium with none of the benefits of fast neutrons. There are operational, electricity producing, fast sodium reactors which do make some sense. I can't say the same for Mark-0.

Honestly these political rants contribute very little, no offence.

What do the other comments contribute? Do they solve inflation, wars, monopolization? Small-picture comments have small audience, like, how many people have access to nuclear materials and gear to make use of the information provided here? In other words "political rants" have their place and in many cases they are more valuable than the rest.

"Information is nukes" is also a good excuse for getting rid of free speech. The "models" have no more information than what's already online or in whatever books they were trained on.

AI is nukes to be funded by the taxpayer is another intersecting take which follows from you comment. If that's the case, include them in the military budget, not in a plan sold as some kind of generous giveaway.