wrong. it’s literally just data centers. zero input from the community taken + zero mitigation to noise or water pollution.
how hard is that to understand
It’s time for everyone to realize that the fight against data centers has nothing to do with data centers.
They have become a proxy for the hate towards AI and the concentration and accumulation of wealth it’s creating.
Until those running the big LLMs understand this and start a community tour, not to explain the benefits of AI, it’s too late for that, but to help towns and cities that may be impacted by job losses (and I’m a believer their will be a net gains in a few years), this battle is only going to get more intense and let me tell you now , no matter how much money you pay to buy politicians and races, you will lose.
One thing I have learned is being hated is not good for business.
How can they help ? They will tell you. You will need to do what they ask. Billions of dollars is a lot of money across towns and city programs. Across the major LLMs, it’s a cost of doing business.
At the same time, I would go to LA and NYC and ask the arts and creative unions what kind of programs would help and protect their artists. DO NOT GO TO THE MUSIC OR FILM COMPANIES. that will make it worse.
Don’t try to pay famous people to endorse what you are doing. That’s dumb.
Talk to artists and ask them what you can do to provide financial and creative support. Every creative I know is TERRIFIED about what AI will do to their profession. You must meet them face to face and basically do what they say.
The big LLMs have lost the PR battle. Why ? Because they all suck at putting people first. They have an SV attitude that makes them all think they are John Galt saving the
world
Given the number of data centers and power that is needed, today and going forward , If you don’t kiss the asses of the people that go to work every day, and are just trying to pay their bills, you will fall far far short of the capacity you need to make your business work.
7am flight out of SFO
- Leave house 1h before flight leaves
- 13 min Uber to airport, views of the Bay
- TSA agent smiles asks if you like the Grateful Dead
- Ads for AI agents that cure cancer
- Multiple food options spanning global cuisines
- 2 min walk to gate
- Get upgraded to business class
- Depart 5 min early
7am flight out of JFK
- Leave house 3h before flight leaves
- 73 minute Uber to airport, bumper to bumper traffic
- TSA agent hates you
- Ads for underwear
- No food options besides Jamba Juice and hardboiled eggs
- 17 min walk to gate
- Get downgraded to seat next to bathroom
- Depart 2 hours late
what a fucking tragedy for nyc.
the same dumb resistance happened during the uber saga & now you’re watching the same shit play out again with autonomous cars.
the reality is that humans should not be operating metal death machines forever. esp in a city where taxis have spent decades gaming routes, ignoring pickups, driving like maniacs, & treating the meter like a side quest. uber fixed some of that, then slowly became expensive as hell, degraded, & unreliable in its own stupid way.
collective decision making of humans is often so so damn stupid.
Probably the realest thing I have heard Chamath say
"Possessions are BS. They are worthless. They are a sign of insecurity, a rampant ego, and an unsettled mind. And that is okay if you are going to be a mid."
Animals should not be used for radical transgender experiments.
This is not science. This is ideological cruelty paid for by the American taxpayers.
Our TRANS MICE Act ends it. No federal funds may be used to conduct, support, or fund research aimed at altering an animal's biological sex.
No hormones. No surgeries. No taxpayer dollars spent mutilating animals in the name of transgender ideology.
This legislation brings accountability, ends taxpayer-funded cruelty, and ensures science serves the public, not ideology.
In Indonesia there’s a local version of “Twilight” and “Teen Wolf” — a TV series called “Tiger Man”
It follows a schoolboy who, on his 17th birthday, discovers he can transform into a tiger-human hybrid.
From there he has to uncover the mystery of his origin, face rival clans of lion-people, and protect the girl he loves.
This is no doubt very cool tech, but in typical fashion healthcare tech does not realize/care how reality works. IMO this is how it's going to turn out for the vast majority of people:
Average, healthy, asymptomatic 30 year old gets a scan. They have absolutely no medical indication or reason to do so.
Person goes to primary care doc: "Hey doc I got this new Midjourney ultrasound scan and it showed "something" and they just told me to ask you what to do. What do?"
PCP: "Uhhh no idea what this is. This scan is actually not validated by research (yet) to really diagnose *anything* conclusively. Could just be nothing (artifact) or a benign finding, or something serious. The scan actually doesn't reveal any details. So we can just leave it for now or get a CT/MRI scan for more details."
Person: "Hmmmm I wanna know what it is. Get me a CT please"
CT done. Can't tell. Recommend MRI. MRI done. Some type of nodule but can't tell. Recommend biopsy.
Invasive biopsy done. Benign tissue. Cool. OR invasive biopsy done - Pneumothorax as a complication happens. Damn. Person has to deal with that.
Or biopsy done. Damn, equivocal. We should do surgery to excise this and really find out for sure.
Person undergoes invasive surgery. Turns out to be benign tissue. Or in the very rare case, malignancy.
Obviously, I would love it if i we could diagnose hidden/rare conditions in everyone who has them. But for every one of these, how many "normal/benign" findings clog up the entire system?
Y'all thought the healthcare system sucks now. Imagine how much more it will suck when PCP and ERs are inundated with people coming in with reports from these places in hand.
So apparently after Meta leadership:
- Force reassigned some of the best devs on teams to AI data labelling fulltime
- Laid off another 10%
- Started to record every dev’s screen in the US 24/7
They now realized that it has, indeed started to destroy their eng culture. And are now trying to walk back.
All of the above was unprompted, not forced by anything external or even business reasons (Meta recorded record revenue, record profits)
The biggest self-inflicted eng culture destruction I’ve seen in a matter of weeks
🚨 Daniel Cormier says he was hacked and the DM conversation with Eric Trump is NOT real
“Not real. I can’t believe you guys believed that. I got hacked or something.”
(via @NicholasBallasy)