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by dgellow 2mo ago
I’m indeed a fleshy human :) What I meant is that I’ve seen people complaining that the negativity towards AI on HN is manufactured and astroturfed. So we have people complaining on both ends of the debate. I would bet that the AI booster s
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by dgellow 2mo ago
Nothing in the article is expressing surprise
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by dgellow 2mo ago
The article already states that distinction. It doesn’t say that everything is written by AI, the heatmap even has a legend with different colors for “article about ai” and “written by ai”
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by dgellow 2mo ago
Nobody is surprised
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by dgellow 2mo ago
Why would that be caused by astroturfing? The HN audience is the exact people I would expect to be looking at alternative to mainstream AI providers
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by dgellow 2mo ago
FWIW I’ve seen people complaining of the exact opposite. Difficult to say without measuring
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by dgellow 2mo ago
Do you have lobsters invites?
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by dgellow 2mo ago
> It'd require some kind of ecofascist totalitarian That’s correct and eventually that will have to happen. There aren’t much other actual options. It’s mostly a question of how long that can be avoided. We developed a system that b
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by dgellow 2mo ago
We are already in a very bad situation regarding climate change. Do you really think we have the buffer for an increase in percentage points of energy consumption?
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by dgellow 2mo ago
> the US helped subsidize it to the point where they were an economically viable source of energy Something one specific party has been fighting against for decades
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by dgellow 2mo ago
It’s not like the current villains we have care about their reputation
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by dgellow 2mo ago
> Instead of politics and blame we need to focus on markets and let them take care of the problem. This is already happening with solar. Markets do not care about externalities. That’s the whole issue. Markets by themselves cannot work f
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by dgellow 2mo ago
Older people matter, given they vote
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by dgellow 2mo ago
It’s far from being only an EU or European issue. It’s not like Europe can by itself do something to avoid the collapse of the Atlantic Gulf Stream.
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by dgellow 2mo ago
Crazy how long Apple has been able to keep their lead, there is so much money trying to catch up
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by dgellow 2mo ago
Laziness and cynicism?
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by dgellow 2mo ago
Correct, yes, aggregate numbers aren’t too meaningful. I mentioned it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434170 Though you can also be mad at the industry as a whole, an industry where leaders scream as loud as po
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by dgellow 2mo ago
Agreed, reporting on anything technical like DCs is very surface level. Just some aggregated numbers and a list of grievances or random quotes from someone with conflict of interests
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by dgellow 2mo ago
Correct, which is why we went through the initial dotcom bubble, the initial enthusiasm didn’t match the ROI and resulted in a massive resource misallocation. A tiny bit like the AI rollout?
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by dgellow 2mo ago
Imagine a world where 20% of the world compute is allocated to cheerleader-agents encouraging the other agents, and that’s the actual secret recipe to build an AGI
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by dgellow 2mo ago
Do I understand correctly that means there is no AI ROI to show off yet? If correct that’s pretty bad, no?
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by dgellow 2mo ago
Oracle maybe?
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by dgellow 2mo ago
Oh right, thanks for catching that
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by dgellow 2mo ago
The question is how much is returned to the original source. Given that the water is ~100% evaporated in the case of DCs it’s a genuine and reasonable question to ask
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by dgellow 2mo ago
I hate almonds and agree with you
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by dgellow 2mo ago
You have to look at the local level, water isn’t distributed the same way around a country as large as the US. Some regions have no water problems while others have a lot of consumption and competition to get access to it
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by dgellow 2mo ago
It’s more nuanced, the water consumption can be a real local problem. The evaporated water doesn’t necessarily come back to the original source, and if the water supply was already stressed you’re adding even more pressure to it. You have t
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by dgellow 2mo ago
There is also the issue that evaporated water doesn’t necessarily go back to the original water source
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by dgellow 2mo ago
They use closed loop systems. That reduces the water consumption on-site, but you still need to move the energy out of the DC, which requires a lot of energy. That extra energy itself is likely produced by upstream power plants evaporating
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by dgellow 2mo ago
I’m not a user myself but find it not great for your customers to announce such a change for the next day. Cannot they announce a few days in advance?

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