Live look in my brain on an 80 degree NYC day
I will not day drink during work hours
I will not day drink during work hours
I will not day drink during work hours
Extremely specific life advice: you can convert Fahrenheit to Celsius with the stops on the 6 train.
33 St =0°
42 St=5°
51 St=10°
59 St=15°
Works to 96th St!
He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly biological training runs, then burning mountains of electricity to build synthetic intelligence starts to feel not only equal, but superior, even if it negatively impacts actual humans.
That is the dystopian. It makes human development sound like a bug in the system, and it makes sacrificing human and creational flourishing for more computational power sound logical. To him, the grid gets strained, prices go up, ecosystems get hit, but hey, humans eat too, so what's the difference?
The difference is that humans aren't an inefficient line item. They're the point. If your worldview can look at a child growing into an adult and describe it as energy spent to train intelligence, you haven't said something profound. You've revealed a horrifically rotten worldview.
I do not want more snow. I want to sit on St. Marks street with my ankles and a little bit of chest hair showing, and drink Modelo with my boys. Please, I’m begging. This is that rat fuck groundhog’s fault.
A Lindy life hack I learned from the French at a French wedding:
If you are going to be drinking a lot — eat a copius amount of raw cheese beforehand. Cheese coats the stomach and alcohol enters the bloodstream more slowly. Blunts the effect noticeably.
Remember the show must go on. You’ve got to keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. You owe it to yourself to see what happens. Change is the only guarantee here. What goes up has to come down. Stay humble. If you’re in the pits, stay hopeful. The tables will turn. The tables always turn. So if you can’t run, walk. One step at a time. The path will reveal itself as you go. Just keep going.