So Amazon is going to give money to OpenAI so OpenAI can buy chips from Amazon. And Nvidia is giving OpenAI money to buy chips from Nvidia. And AMD is doing some weird thing giving OpenAI stock warrants so OpenAI can sell the stock and buy chips from AMD. How the hell is Sam Altman convincing people to keep this house of cards standing? Is he really a genius running a company so amazing that this makes sense behind closed doors?

And how is OpenAI making its code work well on all these different platforms? Everybody else seems to be writing their code to run on one architecture. Does OpenAI have three teams of programmers adapting their latest code to work on three chip architectures?

As long as they can tell themselves that it was at least a teenager they think it's fine.

A depressingly large number of men in their 20s hit on high school girls because they are vulnerable and easy pickins. Now Trump went after girls as young as 13 with an emphasis on ones that looked Young. I think Trump is an actual full-blown clinical pedophile. And that's just the clinical definition he's certainly a pedophile by any reasonable person's definition.

But as long as there is the slightest amount of wiggle room people are going to give Trump a pass.

The men are going to do it because of what they did when they were young.

What's depressing is the women doing it. There's a thing humans do where if they suffer they want other people to suffer the same way. So women who are taking advantage of when they were young are going to sometimes be okay with other women having the same thing happening to them...

I have a trans friend who was briefly upset that younger trans girls were getting better treatment than she did when she was young. The funny thing was she knew what she was feeling was wrong but she couldn't help herself feeling it. To her credit she knew it was wrong.

It's just a thing humans do. Misery loves company. The sad thing is that thanks to the Republican trans panic my friend can no longer say the younger generation has it better...

I see, so if they can pass the data center inflicted extra costs on a large customer base, then it is okay. Thanks for showing just how thought-constipated is your reasoning.

The free market gave us rather dangerous smog in several cities and dangerous water before the EPA got on the case*. The private insurance industry (among others) is responsible for out of control medical costs, and it is not going to fix the problem or be part of a solution. OSHA shut down dangerous workplace practices that those nice corporation inflict on their workers*. NHTSA got rid of many dangerous practices*. Should I continue or are you so mired in "free market" double-speak that you are beyond reason.

*Well, they did before the current alleged administration.

Living in California which has a huge Hispanic population I've never seen any evidence of this in action. What I do see all the time is kids who speak English far better than their parents and are used as interpreters.

As far as I can tell claims like yours are just another right wing myth used to demonize immigrant populations they don't like with as much supporting evidence as Trump's fake immigrant crime wave. Maybe a few anecdotes with no broad supporting trends.

There are plenty of countries where it's American English that is learned and spoken when taught as it's just more practical given the US' greater global reach. The only reason British English has legs outside of neighboring Europe is the UK's colonial history. If you look at a global map of who speaks which it looks a bit like a British colonial map from the 19th century.

Not really, they just have different words they don't pronounce phonetically. Not to mention there's plenty of words both the US and UK use that aren't. They don't pronounce the 'k' in knife for instance just like we don't.

There's also no globally "correct" way to speak English, there's only "correct" ways to speak it within countries.

The leaching is not just iron, it is also other metals, some of them quite dangerous to fish and people. We do not yet know what the effect will be.

You can check the Wikipedia article on Trump's sexual assault claims and eight of them involve children.

That's in addition to 20 that at least involved adult women.

Now the first time a woman accuses a man of raping her when she was a child that's bad but he's famous and maybe... The second time you have to start to wonder but again maybe... By the third time we've got a pattern and by the 5th I don't think any reasonable person would not be believing the women. By the 8th he's practically a Catholic priest.

And again this is an addition to the other 20 women who came forward.

I am also not going to buy it that those women are just trying to get money out of him or fame. Trump has well-known mafia ties and lots of fixers that make credible threats. These are the 28 women who came forward despite all that. I think it's safe to say there are plenty more.

The only reason Trump isn't in prison right now is the statute of limitations. He has absolutely been convicted of raping a woman only under New York law it was an adjudicated conviction because of the statute of limitations and it wasn't technically rape because New York law says if you didn't do it with your dick it's just sexual assault. Which is actually kind of fucked up when you think about it.

So yeah Trump's a pedophile. There isn't a single reasonable person who would not come to that conclusion. The fact that he managed to escape consequences isn't going to change that.

Is Facebook makes 180 billion dollars every year. And most of that is pure profit since they just don't need that many employees relative to that revenue.

That is way too much money for one single person to command.

It's not about some nebulous income inequality bullshit that you hear the left wing go on about at that point you're just being ordered around because somebody with that much money gets to decide what you do and how you live your life whether you like to admit it or not

Honestly I don't think the sexists are the biggest problem. They suck don't get me wrong.

But there's a group of voters that doesn't seem willing to vote for a woman to be president even though they will cheerfully vote for a woman all the way up to Senate.

It's not a big group but thanks to voter suppression American elections are so close that they can swing the election in favor of Republicans.

The thing about getting Trump into office in the first place let alone a second term, it required every single system of American society, economics and politics to break down on a fundamental level.

It's kind of weird because relatively small effects were needed in combination to get us into this giant fucking mess. If any one of those effects hadn't been there our civilization would have survived.

They are slowing down the deployments so that they can position themselves to be in control of it.

The people currently in control of our energy supply are going to make damn sure they stay that way. And we're going to help them because we are more easily distracted than a Chihuahua at a fireworks convention.

It's just going to string along a whole bunch of instructions from random tutorials that it ingested.

What's going to get interesting is in a few years those websites and forums that have been used to train the AI are going to dry up. GitHub is going to dry up too because a lot of the projects they are are from people either in college or putting together a portfolio to get a job and is just not going to be enough jobs for people to be bothered with either of those two things. Anyone going to college is either going to try to get an engineering degree, a math degree or more likely law or medicine. Maybe accounting.

Basically the training data is going to dry up.

I'm not sure it's going to matter that much when it happens. I could see companies just running with old technology that's already working and leaving it at that rather than hiring people or you know, having a functioning economy.

I have to admit I didn't expect to see capitalism destroyed by capitalists and billionaires. And in the worst way possible. Instead of fully automated space communism we're going to get a techno feudal hellscape dystopian.

Of course we're going to put idiots in charge of everything and keep the nuclear weapons around so you know, it's a problem that will solve itself. The only real question now is whether it's going to be the raccoons or the beavers that evolve in advance civilization after we're gone. Could be ferrets I suppose. All three of them are pretty close to having opposable thumbs I think.

Would be deep blue states without the voter suppression. Texas stands out especially because they have more registered Democrats than Republicans but virtually no Democrat representation. Heavy duty Gerrymandering combined with constant challenges for signatures and voter registrations in blue districts and of course multi-hour waits to vote in those districts mean that the Republicans can stay in power without actually representing the will of the people. Hilariously if you watch how they campaign they campaign is outsiders pushing Back against The Establishment even though they've been in charge for over 30 years.

There's a whole shitload of old people who think they're going to get away with letting America become an oligarchy in exchange for whatever stupid little promises of culture War bullshit they get from the Republican party.

If you're over 65 you might very well die before the shit hits the fan for you personally. And anyone who is thinking like this could care less about what happens to their kids and grandkids. Those little shits never visit anyway right?

But even if you're over 65 you don't really know how long you're going to live especially with modern medical care.

Or without it. Donald Trump has started using AI to deny Medicare claims. The company he has contracted with gets to keep any savings from denying the claims. A couple of my buddies were old enough for Medicare have already had trouble getting basic pills of the kind that they need to stay alive. Basically the heart medications that are the only reason they're not dead.

I'm sure it'll be fine. Nothing bad has ever happened when the German people have been under severe economic stress... And it's a good thing we aren't doing the same thing to the country with the world's largest military and the most nukes.

But on the plus side you can say Merry Christmas now.