Cephii @cephii1 - Twitter Profile

This is where we are right now. Our greatest tech CEOs with access to the most valuable chips on earth can't protect themselves from hot Chinese women brainwashing them. Meanwhile our adversaries have every incentive to flood American feeds with de-growth leftism, becaus they are seeing real time results. They have almost completely convinced young people that building anything is evil and you can get them to protest their own country into poverty. Imagine being Beijing and watching Americans organize against the infrastructure you’re desperately trying to build more of, and worshipping Zohran for making economically illiterate tiktoks. We have people demanding an exceptional standard of living they consider a “basic human right” while losing their fucking minds over the energy, data centers, and AI that could help deliver it. They want cheap everything, zero cuts in spending, world class healthcare, a four and then three day workweek, but apparently the entire thing has to run off of an infinite money glitch and the least capable people of running anything controlling the means of production. Americans are averaging six hours of short form video content scrolling per day on a device full of advanced semiconductors convincing americans that all technological progress needs to stop, and that they are oppressed while living better than 90% of the world. We have seemingly given up on enforcing national security and it would be a safe bet to think every major company and government agency has foreign agents on the inside now. We are capable of building extraordinary things. We are also capable of letting a town meeting full of Facebook conspiracy theorists and tiktok Communist Gen Z idiots fuck the everything up for everyone. China doesn’t have to beat us at everything if we keep volunteering to sabotage the things we’re actually good at, and we blame Elon for being successful at building tangible things, but have no problem with CA Government "building" a non existent train after spending $15 Billion dollars on it. There could very well come a day when Americans need to belt tighten, and it will be entirely self inflicted, and almost nobody will be ready for a sliver of real struggle in this country and I believe it will result to violence, because we have embraced degeneracy and made excuses for it for decades. And everyone has a gun. Sorry to blackpill.

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Devon Eriksen

@Devon_Eriksen_

about 13 hours ago

If you think the problem with data centers is just stupid people, think harder. The problem is perverse incentives. To a shallow analysis, data centers win on cost-benefit every time. But if you wedge the term "incentive" firmly into your brain before you do that analysis, you can see what they problem is, because it reminds you to think about just who each cost and benefit applies to. Nuclear plants have local costs and local benefits. Data centers have local costs and global benefits. That's why proving that the benefits outweigh the costs isn't enough. You have to fix it so the benefits to the guy next door outweigh the costs to the guy next door. There are several ways to do this. First, you can put the DC where no one lives, so local costs don't matter. The very fact that benefits of DCs are global means that, unlike nuclear plants, they don't have to be nearby to be useful. So put them in space if you can. Power is free in space anyway. Second, you can hold DC owners responsible for mitigating local costs. Make them bring their own power and water. Use regulations to make them mitigate noise, light, and air pollution. Structure land purchases or leases to mitigate real estate market and property tax impact. Also, deport "Georgists" to Antarctica, then tax them heavily for not building casinos there. Third, you can make DC owners bribe locals, preferably with recurring profit sharing schemes. For example, you could make them lease land from the local community for a percentage of DC gross income, rather than buying it outright. Then spend that money on the local community, or just distribute it as dividend checks. In other words, take some of the global benefits and convert them into local benefits. Otherwise you're not going to win. It's easy to object to solutions like this on principle, if your principles are retarded, and oversimplify the problem. For example, double-digit IQ libertarians like to argue that drug use and addiction is entirely a private matter involving personal choice. That's because their model isn't sophisticated enough to ask what happens to your personal liberty when your city is filled with feral drug zombies. If you want to model problems using libertarian, capitalist, or free market principles, that's great, but you have to model all aspects of the problem that actually exist and effect people, not just the ones that occur to you in thirty seconds of sitting at your desk thinking about it. If you don't localize some of those benefits, then people are going to start asking why they have to pay more for power and water, and live next to a permanent rave, so that people in Hyderabad can bombard boomers in Florida with a higher density of scam emails. Calling them stupid will not change this perspective. Changing the actual incentives that apply to them will.

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