doctorwho42

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by doctorwho42 3mo ago
Cool, and it's morally reprehensible to NOT support drastic action to curb the worst effects of climate change, and start trying our very best to prepare our children and grandchildren for an adulthood where they will be clawing back m
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by doctorwho42 3mo ago
Wow. Honestly I wish there was more emphasis on hardware people/startups than software. This is a prime example of why, the amount of time and effort that went into this clearly shows through to the end! Can't imagine LLM's r
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by doctorwho42 3mo ago
Yes, but corporations didn't bet the Capex of the entire GDP of the world on it
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by doctorwho42 3mo ago
We don't have to spend it on hardware with such short use-life to spend down those dragon hoards... The amount of money we are talking about could have given the entire US high speed commuter rail.
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by doctorwho42 3mo ago
Truly the response of a person of means who has never lived a life of do-withouts.
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by doctorwho42 3mo ago
As someone in academia, whos group currently gets 60% from primarily AMES and USONR. And I know it's not unique to us.
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by doctorwho42 3mo ago
It's kind of what China has been doing in the field of research for the last 15-20 years... And it's starting to pay dividends
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by doctorwho42 3mo ago
Simply because theory (computational) only gets you so far. As much as we'd like to think we have perfectly modeled everything, most of our models are just very good approximations
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by doctorwho42 3mo ago
Are you sure about that? Most people miss the fact that a sizeable % of our military budget is slated for research grants/funding. I'm a physicist in academia, and the amount of money we have gotten from DoD branches for things th
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by doctorwho42 3mo ago
Any how much available funding is there in the EU? One of the reasons that so many researchers come to the US, even with our decline in research funding over the last 30 years, is because the US makes available so much God damn funding in c
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by doctorwho42 3mo ago
Investor = speculator, similar to how silicon valley investors are speculating that these companies can go to the moon and 10x their money in under 5-7 years
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by doctorwho42 3mo ago
Wow this is a very weird way to mash a bunch of principles and ideas together to sound smart, but not actually say anything.
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by doctorwho42 3mo ago
What's being a millionaire in 20 years going to be worth?
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
In a world of monopolization, where there become fewer and fewer companies because they buy out their competition... If they can't pay for basic storage and delivery of goods, then who can? If I can individually pay for and maintain an
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
> Energy will probably get cheaper and cleaner though, can't deny that. I'll just need something to run on that energy. Citations needed. From what I see is (1) the demand for electricity is growing at an explosive rate (2) Th
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
Or, they already have a house/mortgage and thus do not know how much worse it has gotten. I.e. housing costs as a % of your take home salary.
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
How many AI companies do you own?
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
Fusion: well even if we had a reactor that could produce 5Q, just look at the power demands of the tech sector... They have an infinite appetite. Unless we demand/enforce optimization on them, their businesses, their code, their hardwa
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
The problem is bigger than it simply getting warmer... Too many to list here. Temperature by itself is just the easiest to observe
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
If it delivers a quarter of its promises, we enter the likes of the great depression. But instead of everyone feeling the squeeze, you will have literal breakdowns in society because our media-corps have been using the social lives of the w
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
Id say it's only natural when importance or value are placed on the outcome of the game. By it's very nature, games are supposed to be fun and bonding experience for a community of humans. But the modern interpretation is one of d
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
Who do you think is investing hundreds of billions into the capex? Who is pushing that?
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
Why do you think that the monied interests of billionaires and trillionaires are a better arbiter of what is necessary for humanity?
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
And a large amount of the energy for that comes from the sun, not burning fossil fuels. Again, the scale is the issue at hand. These data centers are consuming more supplies and power for something that is not necessary to human existence
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
I was never implying famine wasn't a thing, it has toppled empires... But to say one season of bad harvest will kill off everyone is ludicrous...
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
Who owns the machines and their output? I don't think anyone is saying that it wouldn't be great if we didn't have to work to survive and thrive. What they are saying is, based on current trends, we are more heading for one o
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
Someone in my career in the 1950's... In a heart beat, even if I didn't know what was coming next. High taxes lead to reinvestment.
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
Umm, have you ever heard of pickling? Root cellars? Canning? I hate this fake idea that everyone in the past was one bad harvest from starvation. They could survive a bad harvest every so often, its when the weather changed due to drought&#
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
Sooooo... We are doomed because we can predict the sun will rise tomorrow? We are doomed because we can predict the weather 7-10 days out with reasonable accuracy? We are doomed because we can predict the climate change based on models? We
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by doctorwho42 4mo ago
It does when you abstract it to our current situation. It's like having a caravan in which every oasis you pass you only get a miniscule amount of water to refill. While another caravan of one, that you never see or interact with direc

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