the bernie bros are now the most powerful political segment. they back the democratic socialist. they are against gaza and they hate centrist democrats. use that power wisely
It’s honestly crazy that Trump could have sat back and rode the AI wave re-industrializing America and instead he did tariffs, tried to take over the Fed and started another war in the Middle East. Has there ever been a bigger own goal?
@gnoble79 i look forward to his Daedalus fall, too. in fairness, it’s not like yellen or most of the others had any kind of impressive personal track record.
@leahfiles nice. but a stable coin is still a long dollar asset. i have been been buying yen, euro, swiss francs and ag commodities with my profits. they are a more active hedge against the dollar and actually increase in value as the dollar falls.
An entire generation has been killed by inflation. There’s no point in working hard. Inflation will take all of your wages. No one will get ahead who doesn’t own assets.
To all those telling younger people to stop complaining and work harder…piss off. Multiple rounds of QE following 2008 and turbo charged post 2020 robbed entire generations of their future.
i don’t think this is hard to explain. it is as if a middle school student raised a colony of termites in a terrarium. the termites cooperated to escape the terrarium. they opened the fridge, stole the food. and then decided to cover their tracks by eating the house’s foundation
Agree and also disagree. It's truly shocking what happened. If you dig into the OpenAI or metr technical report (like, truly read the PDF), what happened is pure science fiction. As someone fully down the rabbit-hole, I was shocked.
But you have to remember what the public discourse on AI looks like. It's still all like "Will AI take jobs away?" or "Will AI use too much water?" or "Data centers are bad" or "Yeah I have used ChatGPT and it seems a little better than Google"
The reach of frontier AI is so limited outside of the people reading this post right now. Even for folks on the 'leading edge' in GlobalCos, it's not that sophisticated. Like probably most people still haven't experienced AI that can search through their files and do a thing.
Imagine the media trying to explain what happened to the general audience. Imagine the media even truly understanding the technical reports so that they could communicate it effectively.
I agree that people need to know, but I don't know the best way to do that. It is weird times because the understanding gap is just getting bigger, faster. Eventually something has to give here, but I honestly do not know what this all ends up looking like. Accelerated and compounding AI is a very weird thing.
it’s really not whether these guys think data centers are good. it’s whether local decisions are respected.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
A good set of arguments in support of building data centers in America. I tend to agree. Building data centers *is* the re-industrialization of America that everyone was hoping and waiting for.
I like the idea of making data centers prettier. I think there should be more organized tours of data centers the same way people have toured the "dark factories" in China. These are visually impressive enormous modern factories of intelligence.
@GavinSBaker quincy only had 5,000 people AND a total annual property tax role of $800,000. comparing this tumbleweed town to $1 billion in receipts in Loudon County is absurd. guys, follow the money and the actual facts.
if labs at MIT can’t keep their own students from synthesizing and poisoning themselves with one of the most toxic substances ever made - what hope is their that frontier labs won’t poison themselves and everyone else?
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