Comment Re: The AI bubble (Score 1) 68
That's the argument some use.
That's the argument some use.
The primary concern is that AI-driven behavior could "accelerate future crises," the survey showed.
Wall Street very much comes to mind.
Most jobs in a bureaucracy are useless and not productive.
That was DOGE's mantra. Didn't seem to work out like planned.
Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge covers well water management in a changing world.
...so that the minority does not continue to control all three branches of government with no need to compromise or listen to science and facts.
The Rwandan Genocide (1994)
The Hutu majority (about 85% of the population) dominated the political structures.
When extremist Hutu politicians gained power, they fueled propaganda leading to:
Mass violence against the Tutsi minority,
One of the fastest and deadliest genocides in modern history.
Here, majority rule enabled atrocities rather than preventing them.
Weimar Germany (1930–1933)
The Nazi Party never won an outright majority in a free election—they topped out at ~37%—but they did build coalitions with majority support in parliament to pass measures: The Enabling Act, which effectively dismantled democracy, passed with a majority vote. Majoritarian support was weaponized to strip rights from minorities. This is a classic case where the majority’s fears, resentments, and nationalism were the driving force behind self-destruction of the system.
So, no majority doesn't guarantee a better system. Sometimes same old in just a different flavor.
Might want to run that by a lawyer because the US isn't the world even if it acts like it.
Reading carefully and working the math it's a very big deal in a lot of metrics (time too) as well as lessening environmental destruction. And not just in Africa but other countries as well. This is a viable path from poverty.
Interesting a battery plant in a country run by a regime that believes in "clean coal" and sabotages everything renewable.
If they're using the enclaves built into Intel and AMD, there may be side-channel issues to deal with. ARM is closer to what Apple is trying with their enclave.
What about Grok with Nazi enhancements?
I'm running the insider version. No threadripper here (I wish).
You say it like it's a bad thing. In case people forgot mining rigs went on the market, cheap putting an end to the starvation before. Same will happen with those AI rigs.
Three months into his presidency. We are now into month eleven. People might want to look again because our president hasn't become a better person during it.
Plus our immigrant stance as well as cuts for potential jobs (don't forget the visa hikes) means even if educated over here, they're not going to stay.
If right-to-repair covers software, then it'll be interesting to see Palantir's stance.
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