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VTOL VR's Homesick mission is miserable.

"Oh no! ... This is going to have lasting consequences."

Faulkner. Though, depending on how you want to evaluate rationalism you could put the AI, having no other emotions or concerns, at the top.

Why not? The AI was the second most rational character in the movie.

At least taxes pretend to provide transparency and agency. Rent seeking prevents either.

It's a complex topic to discuss, so I try to reduce it to simple principals. In this case, the article leads with a dishonest statement that groups a large thing, the energy usage of all data centers, with a much smaller one, the usage by AI and crypto. In the body they make other illogical comparisons, such as the energy cost compared to a Google search, but presumably not a corresponding fraction of the dependent Google services, or those expended by anyone that they're indexing, or loading the page that was searched for, or whether the same value was ultimately provided by this single Google search. Once you see the pattern of cherry picking and logical fallacies, it becomes clear that if you actually care about the environment, this IMF article shouldn't be trusted. And really, any climate change article that isn't almost exclusively about the carbon based energy industries shouldn't be trusted, as these are most of the problem. Austerity (of any form other than pricing) is about control: more non carbon energy is the only real solution.

"Crypto mining and data centers now account for 2 percent of global electricity use"

Wow, that's an amazing bundle.

This kids pail and the ocean account for 99.999% of all the salt water in the world.

A rational person might ask what the relative contributions are.

The "next word predictor" model is pervasive and disappointingly ridiculous. If you present an LLM with a logic puzzle and it gives you the correct answer, how did it "predict the next word"? Yes, the output came in the form of additional tokens. But deciding which tokens were "most likely" required logical thought, and it's a mistake to take the "what" as the "how".

#LLM #AI

To control credit is to decide what is good.

It's a big country that's growing quickly, so it's easy to pick out flashy statistics. I think the bottom line is how they track compared to the US, and by that metric it's going well. Emerging countries could probably get a bit of a break, but otherwise everyone should be held to the same standards per-capita-ish.

Like going from 300 Kelvin to 600 Kelvin I'm sure. We can agree to disagree on that half: I think we both agree that more energy and less control is the better future.

China knows... this year they had about the same percentage of renewable generation as the US. The rate of change is a bit different though:

The data is pretty clear that there has been a dramatic change in atmospheric composition and climate stability. That said, austerity and fine grained control is a solution that only benefits a small number of people. Moar energy and basic, loophole free regulation is the solution that benefits everyone.