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TechTakes @awful.systems

Kicking Robots, by James Vincent

  • favorite one so far! It's like graduate-level 1-900 Hotdog

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    ‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants

  • I get what you're saying.

    I hate when they make us untangle these linguistic knots. I think this is a motte-and-bailey1 situation, like how the oppo respond to AI (LLM) criticism by implying we don't like AI (ML i.e. the old thing that works).

    They likewise want datacenters (Big Hot Steaming Shitbox of GPUs...IN SPACE) not datacenters (radiation hardened, multiply-redundant, low-power industrial CPU clusters...IN SPACE)

    1 ugh sorry having a brain fart and cant think of a better term

    Edit: I am reliably informed that I let one go over my head. Apologies!

    In my defense, I would be entirely unsurprised if you turned out to be an expert in this stuff lol

  • Yes i know the kid in the omelas hole gets tortured each time i use the woe engine to generate an email. Is that bad?

  • In the land of the blind the one-eyed man will make a killling as an independent contractor cleaning up after this disaster concludes.

  • The one thing all of these people have in common is that they are miserable

  • Me too. Unfortunately I don’t get to pick my intrusive thoughts.

    Heh

    there's one for the comeback vault

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