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I always wonder what the politicians are really thinking here.

Is Albo like "this is optics for the plebs, just a bit of window dressing bureaucracy on top of the normal market mechanisms where the data centre buying electricity will stimulate supply"

Or is he like "without these rules, data scenters will shoot themselves and the market in the foot and there won't be enough supply"?

I feel like 20 or 30 years ago, the average person seemed to have more disposable income.

Big if true but is it true?

If AIs become smart enough to outperform a critical mass of humans across the board, that's the singularity and whilst the economic model says all humans out of jobs means no consumers, the model isn't really valid anymore because the underlying assumptions are just broken too, so you can't take the model too seriously. Obviously it would be very disruptive but the demand destruction economic model just isn't making useful predictions anymore.

When I watched a very short clip juxtaposed next to a clip of a nazi salute, then it looked like one to me.

But when I watched it in context, it looked like a man putting a hand on his heart and then proffering his thanks to the audience.

My belief is that it was most likely not a nazi salute and is not relevant evidence in the important task of assessing Musk's political stances.

The way you learn is totally different from the way a novice learns; they don't have a vast memorised store of knowledge, let alone the connected structure over that memorised knowledge. When you learn something, it gets incoporated thanks to these foundations.

But the foundations start with memorisation.

Projects are less efficient for learning foundational skills. They have their place, but with infinite funds I would still give my children an education with a bedrock of boring drill and testing and memorisation.

I just went and had a flutter at being a high school math teacher. I went in saying 'I never used math to create until my honours year, I want different for my students'.

I soon changed my mind; I think those of us who become expert have often have really rich memories of a project where we learnt so much, but we just don't remember episodically all the accumulated learning that happened in boring classrooms to enable the project-induced higher order synthesis.

Okay, but you can do the same in dynamically typed Python

But the rust code is still safer, e.g. you haven't checked for an `AttributeError` in case `req.cookies`, the point is Rust protects you from this rabbit-hole, if you're prepared to pay the price of wrestling the compiler.

I'm feeling a bit cheated it's 2025 and I just bought a brand new car that does not drive itself and runs on dead dinosaurs.

Given that we can't yet predict our reality from the fundamental up, it seems like a failure of imagination to assert that you couldn't get some high-level-similar-to-our-cognition sentient beings under a separate set of coincidences.

I'm willing to run with the 3% figure... But I take issue with the linearity assumption that torturing 34 shrimp is thus worse than torturing a human!