Asbestos is the miracle material it is advertised as. It really is great insulation, and really is absolutely fireproof. Thousands of industrial uses are readily apparent.

Despite this, because of its other effects, the cost to clean up and stop using asbestos is greater than the sum total of any benefit from all mined asbestos worldwide.

Even a miracle technology can still be a net disaster.

It's a good point I have to say

Even unprofitable farms can produce edible food. A datacenter is a machine that uses electricity to make heat and no other physical prouducts. That's a tough justification to make to people who live near one.

How many existing data centers do you think you rely on each day? Almonds do not realistically improve my life in nearly the way the internet does, but also who am I to say whether you should be allowed to farm almonds or build a datacenter?

I really dont get this. The US is nowhere close to facing a food shortage. If all the desert farms in the west closed beef and a few vegetables would get a tiny bit more expensive. People act like if we didnt do destructive desert farming we'd have to implement rationing.

Food prices rising has been a political hot topic for the last few years. Voters would have your head for any obvious action that made beef get more expensive, especially NIMBY groups and current ranchers.

Why should I think that I "own" or control a datacenter built in my town compared to one built in another country? It's pretty unlikely anything I do will have any effect on what goes on inside one even if I work there.

The greatest control I have is probably to have it not get built, though even that is minimal as it has failed to stop the one that is indeed being built in my town.

-4004 earth not found?

You seem to be under the mistaken belief that AI (or insert technology) is here to make your life easier and not to make your company's owners richer.

I do find it funny how mad some people get about this.

Meanwhile, among the yonger generations, "clanker" has been fully established a a term to disapprove of AI for at least a year. though it remains to be seen if it will stick or just be a passing meme, like tge eponymous "6-7" or the now nearly dead "skibidi"

But "corporations are people" and those types of markets have closed since 1865 in the united states.

I can't decide whether it's good or bad that it has included outside information clearly not present in the prompts to make the model. Clearly its the right thing to do if you want "the Pantheon" but I don't think any draftsman or engineer would find this acceptable work.

Exactly my experience with pretty much any Google LLM, they go above and beyond what you ask, even sometimes when you plead for them to not add comments they end doing so anyways, sometimes with "the user asked for X but it would be better if..." visible in the thinking/reasoning even, really strange behavior and exactly what I do not want from my agents.

When you fall on your ass at 63, it hurts for half a month instead of half an hour.

I'll be honest, covid wasn't much different than my usual routine. Maybe it would have been if I lived in a more densely populated area.

If not for modern comms, I am convinced that even in a cold war USA vs USSR style aniliation event, there would still be a handful of people on the far corners of the earth who would otherwise take weeks or months to learn anything happened.