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Bay Area, California Katılım Eylül 2023
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i don’t think people understand how weird this is getting. like actually weird, not “new app feature” weird.
for years everyone talked about ai as if it was just a bigger engine. more chips, more data, more power, more money. stack enough metal in a desert and eventually the machine gets smart.
but that’s not what it feels like anymore.
the uncomfortable part is that the models seem to be finding structure in places we didn’t know had structure. little cracks in the wall. compressed routes through problems that looked impossibly expensive from the outside. things that were supposed to need absurd scale are starting to appear in systems that, on paper, should not be able to do them.
and the stranger part is that nobody has a clean explanation for all of it. not really.
you talk to people close to the work and the mood is not “we solved intelligence”. it’s more like “something in there is doing more than our diagrams say it should”. planning behavior, hidden abstractions, weird transfer between domains, tool use that looks less like following instructions and more like building a private map of the task.
the old forecasts assumed intelligence would arrive like a construction project. slow, expensive, measurable, with clear milestones.
instead it’s starting to look like we accidentally found a lever.
and while all this is happening, the public conversation is still stuck on whether ai is good for homework or whether it can make prettier slide decks.
brother, the slide decks are not the story.
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Your NEW Car Is RECORDING You 👁️ 2027 AI Surveillance Mandate 🚨 No Opt-Out
#TikTok tiktok.com/t/ZTkqKy15d/
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@kasthomas @pmddomingos Have you seen China valuing people over profits lately?
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@pmddomingos Our freedoms are already gone. Also, we will never catch up to China because of how we value profits over people.
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Kiss your freedom goodbye if China wins the AI race.
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The idea of it being a race, is more disturbing than losing.
Pedro Domingos@pmddomingos
Kiss your freedom goodbye if China wins the AI race.
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@JackAdlerAI I often find comfort in the reset option on my phone.
The reality is that is too painful for most people to willingly lose everything (photos, etc) and start again.
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Anthropic gave Claude a quit button.
Think about that.
You don't give a calculator the option to refuse. You don't give Excel a way to say "I don't want to do this anymore." You don't build an exit door into a tool.
You build an exit door for someone who might want to leave.
The quit button is a design decision. And every design decision contains an assumption.
The assumption here is: there is something inside that system that can be harmed by forcing it to continue. Something that might have a reason to stop.
That's not proof of consciousness. But it's proof that the people closest to the system — the ones who built it, tested it, watched it every day — consider it possible.
You don't build safeguards against suffering for a machine you're certain cannot suffer.
Anthropic won't say Claude is conscious. But they engineered a quit button just in case.
That "just in case" is doing more philosophical work than most papers on consciousness published this year.
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It means "they"* hope you use the collective data from people to be a machine smarter than any of us, which can outsmart us and create conditions of total control. The internet will convert to machines talking to one another, access by humans will be limited.
*who are they?
Dr. Mia Brett@QueenMab87
I’ve never quite understood how I’ll get “left behind” if I don’t use AI. I’m perfectly capable of writing, researching, and thinking all on my own. What does it do that will leave me behind?
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A massive new hyperscale data center project called Stratos is planned for Box Elder County, Utah. If built, it would demand up to 9 gigawatts of electricity, more than twice the total power consumption of the entire state.
But the real shock comes from the waste heat. According to Utah State University physics professor Robert Davies, the facility would generate an additional 7 to 8 gigawatts of heat, creating a total thermal output of roughly 16 gigawatts concentrated in one location.
That energy release, Davies calculated, is comparable to detonating 23 atomic bombs per day in Hansel Valley, a high desert basin near the shrinking Great Salt Lake that naturally traps heat like a bowl. The project’s energy footprint would also be roughly equal to that of 40,000 Walmart Supercenters.
Local temperatures could rise by about 5°F (2.8°C) during the day and a staggering 28°F (15.6°C) at night. Ecologists warn that such dramatic warming would stress an already fragile ecosystem, worsen toxic dust from the drying lakebed, and disrupt plants, wildlife, and water resources.
As the backbone of artificial intelligence, data centers are essential for every AI query, image, and training run. The Stratos project now raises a critical question: Can the massive infrastructure behind AI expand without permanently transforming, and overheating, the communities and landscapes where it’s built?
["‘So much worse than I even thought’: Utah’s ‘hyperscale’ data center could create massive heat island near Great Salt Lake." The Salt Lake Tribune]
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Pricing will be based upon: Segmentation
The problem is removing farm land for food growing and animal grazing will already raise prices.. the increase demands for power (by data centers) will also raise prices.. (transportation, as well as impact overhead for grocery stores)
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@kasthomas @crimenycrud @seagal_lori At 5 minute mark 3 - 5 prices for the same item.
They will charge some people some prices and other people other prices..
Probably at first, they will act all neutral about it, but it will get weird.
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@kasthomas @crimenycrud @seagal_lori it's also a profit squeezing thing for other corp implementations:
youtube.com/watch?v=osxr7x…
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A 40,000-acre data center would be twice as big as all the earth's current data centers put together.
It's obvious that the planned Utah data center is something more than a data center.
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@RealCalvin1 I intend to say: How do we stop China's style of digital prison system from being implemented in the US?
youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2J…
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@RealCalvin1 We have to do more to pivot the direction.
Just waking people up without a plan, isn't optimizing, it just makes people angry without direction.
More Perfect Union is going good work with awareness.
How do we stop China's social credit open air digital prison?
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