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It also doesn't necessarily matter if the data centers actually raise electricity rates.

Regardless of whether or not they do, you can block their construction and try to horse-trade it for relief on energy prices.

Data centers are conflated with rising energy costs.

It's partly about people's nominal objections, but mostly an attempt to hold them hostage to extract some energy bill subsidies (and general cost of living relief).

You're not getting it into an urban brownfield unless it comes with price controls on energy.

I live amongst the urban brownfields of Baltimore and our politicians are under tons of pressure to stop data center projects (and to tar and feather utility executives).

I think the main strength of the AI is just that its schedule is not a constraint.

Anyone can get a decision now-ish, without filtering through tiers of middle management.

The AI mode on Google search is pretty impressive. Helped me figure out what a bunch of stuff I was seeing out the window was while traveling.

Every parent groans haha

For one thing I think “art” doesn’t encompass informational content, or discussion.

Like it doesn’t fit podcasts at all really.

Yeah it certainly feels like the harnesses are pretty minimal value add on the token pipe

The vim mode in that text box was a mess for sure

Replicating Parasolid in OSS is hard

My American-Israeli wife says the opposite FWIW

I’d start with “platform on which it’s possible to become an Influencer” and work backwards.

Perhaps theoretically, with good practice, but at my job it’s fucking brutal.

But to your larger point I would much rather work on improving that than let it drive me back to C fetishism.

Oh, I get that.

That’s what I’m saying. I hear “Better C” and my initial reaction is “what’s the point”. Like, why would you aim for “Worse C++”?

I mean, compile times. That’s fair.

A day or two ago someone posted about abandoning Haskell because compilation times had become a bottleneck with Agents. FWIW

Yeah, I mean … as a C++ dev I have those same existential “what’s the point” questions about Zig.

My point is that it’s a non-decision. You can use AI later, when the models are better.

In the short term, you can address the anti-AI market.

In particular, I just don’t buy into the “left behind unless” framework.

Perhaps Anthropic will create God in the Machine. Not foreclosing on that. But will it matter so much who was fucking around with Opus five e-folding times ago?

Either ClauDeus is benevolent and lifts you up (not left behind) or it isn’t, or not to you, and you are culled by a drone (left behind regardless).

Serenity Prayer time.

Sure. That’s why I said “short-term” and “change your mind later”.

The thing about laggards is their money spends the same as everyone else’s.

The risk here is that a deep-pocketed entity elects to forgo funding Zig development because they don’t want to sign up for this level of dirty laundry airing if things go poorly.

I don’t disagree with your characterization.

But from a purely Machiavellian perspective I don’t see a lot of downside in courting this group in the short term.

What is managing legal and PR risk if not professional?

Nor is polemic against financiers.

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I think he also wants to attack Anthropic by proxy.

Childish or no, anti-AI sentiment is ubiquitous and growing.

From a PR perspective there’s a lot to gain in the short term by picking the “anti-AI” lane. And you can always change your mind later.

It accuses him of presiding over “a shitshow”, and basically seems to imply he’s a greedy narcissist.

So, yes, I find that line laughably disingenuous.

I mean you can outsource it to users, which also allows you to organically make exceptions for AI music that is actually popular.

You really just want your users, who hate AI, to see a big "REPORT AI" button they can click. The problem you are trying to solve is the perception among your users that your platform is dominated by AI slop. So at the end of the day the only thing you actually have to figure out is what your users think is AI slop, have a quick trigger on un-popular stuff, and basically never enforce on popular stuff unless there is actually some controversy.

That seems pretty uncommon to me, for most people. The most popular musicians in the world are basically celebrity characters, with the music as a key ingredient, not the only one. Do Taylor Swift fans or Kanye fans or [musician] fans just listen to the music and not follow the person? Pretty unlikely IMO.

Yes, and AI music generation (like auto-tune before it) enables people to choose their celebrities from a wider pool than "the type of dork who practices guitar for 10000 hours".

I think a lot of songs about bad break-ups were written by talented musicians without actual experience of a bad break-up, riffing on the corpus of songs they'd heard about bad break-ups.

Like, a lot of times you're just engaging with someone's desire to have made a song, and what they felt about some songs that someone else made.