Lee Fowler

Clanker Wrangler. Fractional SWE/SA.

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

@LLMJunky Yeah I get that but like.... who cares? Seriously?

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

@taykv2 @robocurve The true purpose of the post is to secure and increase their income by lobbying for increased research grants. Nothing more, nothing less. It's European grift.

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

@robocurve @taykv2 You didn't answer his question, like, at all.

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

@spnichol @OphirGottlieb Jobs, Tax Revenue, Tech Leadership, Industrial Capacity, Energy Capacity

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@summit1g Assa dagger

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@strictrope Digital fentanyl for millennials

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

@codetaur "you should do a breakthrough"

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@bentlegen Oof

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

@JezCorden Abandon, nah. Decanonize? Oh yeah.

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

@TheQuestBroski It is cool though

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

@LexnLin Tokenizer diff

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

@Tug_Gam1ng @JezCorden If that's too much second and third-order thinking for you then, nevermind, feel free to continue blaming Sam Altman for.... buying supplies to sell his company's services to willing customers, lmao.

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

@Tug_Gam1ng @JezCorden Or maybe it's Tim Cook's fault for enabling the procurement and supply-chain organizations that strong-armed those companies into taking rock-bottom profit margins on their product, thus denying them the capital to invest in those production-capacity increases.

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

Re: debt. The American financial system is a modern wonder of the world. The market will sort out who is allocating capital intelligently and who isn't. Just as it has time and time before.

Re: resource usage. There are a ton of bad faith arguments being thrown around about AI and the resultant datacenter buildout. Did you know that the Almond farming industry in California alone uses 7-8x more water than all of the datacenters in the entire US?

And yeah, I agree that the energy demand stimulus will definitely provide a forcing function to improve generation, storage, and delivery efficiency and capacity.

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

@JezCorden @BellularGaming Do you think we "NEEDED" the computer either? Or how about the electronic calculator?

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

@JezCorden @Unseen_Halo Yes knowledge work produces economic value. Don't be dense. If it didn't there would be no such thing as knowledge work.

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

@JezCorden @Unseen_Halo Easy, because its useful in humans. The entire knowledge work industry is literally intelligence turned into economic value.

[Lee Fowler @LeeFowlerCU]

It has made my job far easier and given me time back to spend on other pursuits.

Personally I use it to learn things in a very personalized way. How to fix stuff around the home, for instance.

Another anecdote; my wife and I were just shopping for clothes and we used the image gen. feature in ChatGPT to virtually try on pieces of clothes with some other clothing that we didn't have on at the moment but which we did have photos of in our camera roll.