Classic playbook of “don’t do this or, we’ll do exactly what we already do”. “Don’t tax churches, or they will get involved in politics”. Don’t raise minimum wage or the prices of things will go up".

The super wealthy don’t understand threats.

I can just imagine if they were terrorists with hostages.

“Bam Bam Bam Bam” “rich guy: OK I need a million dollars or I’m going to kill the hostages” “negotiator: You mean those corpses at your feet?”

though, he could actually be on to something in factuality. something that is noted is, there’s giant holes in flock camera coverage on deflock… mainly in super rich areas. If hypothetically the government actually chose to enforce rich people crimes as they do poor people crimes, they might fill in those holes. Of course, that’s also even assuming that if such a tax passed, it wouldn’t be half ass enforced like every other crime rich people do.

So much memories of Dexart in parks and recreation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji1XoTsd4DU

I think the point they are trying to make is… Huang may have seen a time when gamers were a part of their base… the new CEO will likely start from the position of datacenters only.

Lets put it this way, we’re downgrading from Mike Pence to JD Vance… yes the bar was on the floor… but they will find a way to go so much lower.

We lose money on every sale we make… but we make up for it in volume.

Well yes I wasn’t eliminating them, I was noting the 15% of them. you’ve got selfish people who are really rich that benefit from the tax cuts… and you’ve got morons who will get a lot worse off.

Will we see a GOP fracture, or a new post-religious right?

No there will never be a significant post-religious right. There overall views aren’t popular, without being able to turn to homophobia, transphobia, abortion, there numbers would be under 15%. Only borderline issue I can think of that isn’t highly dependent on religion is guns.

I do wonder if the reverse is as plausible though… psychologically people tend to view the president as a god and congress as nothing. Hence the strategy worked amazingly in turning people against the democratic party in the obama era. I do wonder if it will work the other way around though.

Yeah seems like it’s stupidly obvious. He used to talk as a strong progressive. Then he realized really fast that progressives don’t have a history of having sympathy or sticking by rapists, and he realized that if he wanted any hope of having any one on his side, he needed to change to the people that will stick by a rapist as long as he attacks the people they want to attack.

It’s stupid on so many levels… yeah first and foremost basically everything about space is terrible for data centers.

What are the 3 things a data center needs.

Power, cooling, good internet connection. Obviously power is complicated as heck, yeah solar is a bit more direct, but also hits total blackouts when it winds up in the shadow of things… and shielding etc… from all the radiation is a pain and a half, solar pannels will need to be drastically bigger and heavier than their earth counterparts, which is expensive as hell to send up there.

but the harder part… cooling. People think of space as cold, but that’s innacurate… there’s no air to be cold… things stay at the temperature they are… if you have something constantly pumping out heat… it’s insanely difficult to get the heat to radiate out.

probably, but don’t you know, everything in the cloud is the FuTuRe!! owning things yourself is the way of the past, it’s like physical disks you can resell or something.

Sad thing with the exception of price, it’s probably not that far off that most average people’s usages will be similar. but yeah the idea of paying by the hour or cpu grade etc… for a computer is going to suck… and be far more expensive for gamers, hobbyists etc…

mostly quoting their own people who are going out on the news and saying “yeah we really believe that there’s maybe a 10% chance we destroy the world with this”.

No, they just enabled Chinese LLMs to be the forefront of reverse engineering. Because people will do what they want to do.

Their goal is simple… everything they are doing right now is striving to make the US ban individual hardware.

Chinese models are open, anyone can get them… stopping the flow of data on private computers is impossible. Hardware however is getting more expensive, hardware manufacturers are already deciding to move out of the consumer market on their own. The US government is already establishing laws to prevent shipping foreign hardware into the country.

Altman’s giving the game away when he does this “it’s so sad that all this ram is sitting around in people’s home computers unappreciated when it could do so much more in a data center”.

The idea is to sell the message "AI is out of the bag, and it’s world ending technology. Basically they are going to imply that the guardrails in their data centers are the only thing that’s preventing all AIs from destroying the software industry, and teaching teenagers to build bombs and hacking the CIA, and the only possible response would be to stop all direct to consumer hardware sales with anything more than the bare minimum needed to stream a PC out of a data center.

False accusation is one of the more difficult things to write laws for, because it’s very difficult to prove. IE the problem is defining honest reasonable suspicions from blatent attacks… and differentiating cannot prove it from proven innocent. Perhaps in shoplifting I don’t care, but in other aspects of life, say rape or violence that I actually do care about. We don’t want someone to not report serious crimes because if they can’t prove beyond reasonable doubt the person is guilty, they open themselves up to the law swinging the other way. So it can’t directly be provably guilty that makes the line, which then goes to intent. Is the accuser making a reasonable claim that merits opening an investigation, or maliciously getting it wrong on purpose, which is almost impossible to prove one way or the other beyond them being dumb enough to brag about it on social media.

A 3rd choice would be even more niche, and all it would do is talk about how they left both reddit and lemmy.

You ask me this in 2022, I’m here for AOC 100%, In just sour on how my party treated Kamala. I don’t trust them to do AOC justice in a campaign after that.

I think with Kamela it’s a lot more complicated there though. She basically had the drawbacks of both being a newcomer and an incumbent at the same time.

Lets be fair, no woman can make a guy have an affair…

The real praise goes to Ethan Klein, for taking down Ethan Klein. Best thing he ever did.

Much like Jimmy Carr’s old joke. You can say a lot of bad things about Hitler, but you have to admit one accomplishment that if anyone else did it it would be considered such a good thing that it can erase almost anything bad… He killed Hitler.

I hear that area is so bad dihydrogen monoxide pours into the ground from the sky on a regular basis.

To me it’s going to wreck the economy one way or the other.

either it matches it’s hype and it recoups it’s trillions of dollars invested via taking half or more of the countries jobs for only half our sallaries. Or it’s going to implode and all of us are going to end up desperate for work when the financial crash wrecks everything 10x harsher than we’ve ever imagined.

To me the AI fear wouldn’t be as bad, if we were further dipping our toes in. UBI or an economic system where we didn’t have to work to live. Of course in america we’re seeing the opposite as they are adding work requirements to food stamps, medicaid etc…

https://newrepublic.com/post/202064/donald-trump-pete-hegseth-tie-your-mom

https://newrepublic.com/post/202021/karoline-leavitt-attacks-reporter-your-mom-comeback

Unintentionally accurate.