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@elonmusk Deep vs Shallow Long-term vs Short-term The political spectrum in a nutshell

Beware the empathy exploit. Empathy is good and right when thought through (deep), but can be deadly to civilization when simply stimulus-response (shallow). For example, releasing a repeat violent offender may feel good at first (shallow empathy for the criminal), but it is wrong to do so when that person will go on to hurt or murder innocent victims, as there should be deep empathy for future victims.

@mcuban 👎🏻 Tax progress?

We should federally tax Tokens at the Provider level. Not a lot. Less than 50c per million tokens. It will accomplish 4 things (at least ) 1. It will push the big AI players to optimize tokenization, caching , routing and localization Which will 2. Reduce energy usage. Saving them in energy costs more than what they paid in tax and reducing strain created by the growth in energy consumption Which will 3. Generate maybe 10 billion dollars a year to start, but over the next ten years could grow 30x to 100x Which will 4. Create a source of funding to pay down the federal debt or deploy, in response to the things AI brings that we don’t expect or don’t like At some point the models will pass it on to customers. Of course. That’s ok. Customers will have the ability to choose between providers. Or to do everything using open source models locally. Thoughts ?

@GuertlerThomas @ChrisMartzWX Yeah, i think the hyperscale data centers are the first to adopt it, i bet the small projects are hanging on to evaporative cooling

@jonseejon @ChrisMartzWX Thanks for the info. I did find three larger projects using it. It's still not the norm, but at least it's growing.

The topic of AI data centers is interesting. I have generally avoided it because (a) it’s not a topic I have spent a lot of time looking into, and (b) it starts ridiculously heated arguments that I don’t feel like engaging in. From a layman’s POV, I think that there is a lot of hysteria about them that is completely unwarranted. While AI could wipe out a lot of jobs, it will likely create a more just as technological innovation always has. That’s progress. And, as for the water being used to cool them down, well, it’s recycled. Water doesn’t just vanish. Conservation of energy; it’s just physics. That being said, there are legitimate concerns about AI, particularly with respect to data centers. Wherever they are being built, locals overwhelmingly oppose them regardless of their political ideology or party affiliation. These data centers are huge, ugly, and take up vast amounts of land that could otherwise be used for agriculture or preserved for wildlife. In some places like Georgia, the threat of eminent domain is being used. That is a direct violation of property rights. Also, I am a land conservationist. Caring for the environment used to be a conservative cause. “Conserve” is in the very name. The big justification for this AI race is that we need to compete with China. But for what exactly? What is the ultimate goal? What is the net benefit of getting into a pissing contest on AI? What exactly are these AI data centers being used for? Surveillance? Improving medical treatments? Gathering data for some project or research? I am not an apocalyptic fear mongerer, but these are legitimate questions that need answering without the aggressive tech bro incels getting defensive.

@OrevaZSN Is it ethical to prepare for the future if someone else isn’t prepared?

Why are ethical questions always like, ‘Is it ethical to steal bread to feed your starving family?’ and not, ‘Is it ethical to hoard bread while families are starving?

@GuertlerThomas @ChrisMartzWX Closed loop cooling is often used and is definitely growing. Companies aren’t building $50 Billion datacenters where an aquifer can’t support it

The topic of water use and power are the two biggest. Power is pretty straightforward. They can self generate with gas turbines. They just need to be away from residential areas because of noise pollution. Water is much more problematic. In the largest sense water is recyclable. But not in the local sense. The reason is that data centers use evaporative chillers. So the water is taken from the local supply. Millions of gallons per day. That's as much as a small town. (35,000 people) I would love if theyb did closed loop cooling with rejection wells, but you would need a few square miles of space and rejection capacity to make it work. So the impact on the local aquifer is huge if they are not saving water by recycling it from another source that would be wasted otherwise.

@Swalas420 @ChrisMartzWX @Tomaspain2 I knew some retard would get pissed. Go cry to your mommy, i’m too superior to you to listen

@jonseejon @ChrisMartzWX @Tomaspain2 What a dumb idea, you’re stupid for thinking this up

@ChrisMartzWX @Tomaspain2 𝕏 needs an ad hominem filter, it would remove 90% of the replies

@Tomaspain2 This doesn’t answer my questions though.

Donald Trump is the worst president of my lifetime. ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵. 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥.

@BernieSanders And for 35 years you’ve been ineffective at fixing that

Amazon cut 30,000 jobs & got a $7.8 billion tax break Meta cut 8,000 jobs & got an $8 billion tax break PayPal cut 4,800 jobs & paid $0 in federal income taxes Disney cut 1,000 jobs & paid $0 in federal income taxes Corporate tax breaks don't create jobs. They enrich the 1%.

@fpbuilds Nicht $97, sondern nur etwa $15. Du hast die NGOs vergessen, die das Geld verteilen werden.

Elon Musk hat ein Vermögen von ~800 Milliarden Dollar. Würde man es ihm wegnehmen und auf alle Menschen der Welt verteilen, hätte jeder etwa 97 Dollar. Einmal schick essen gehen. Danach ist es weg. Was macht Musk stattdessen mit diesem Kapital? Er baut Raketen, die die Menschheit mehrplanetarisch machen sollen. Er elektrifiziert den Automobilmarkt. Er baut Satelliten-Internet für die entlegensten Regionen der Welt. Er finanziert KI-Forschung. Er kauft eine Plattform und stellt sie für freie Meinungsäußerung zur Verfügung. Das Geld liegt nicht auf einem Konto. Es steckt in Unternehmen, Technologie, Arbeitsplätzen, Innovation. Hunderttausende Menschen haben durch seine Visionen Arbeit. Millionen profitieren von seinen Produkten. In den Händen eines Visionärs schafft Kapital Fortschritt, Wohlstand und Mehrwert für alle. In den Händen des Staates verwässert es – und finanziert Bürokratie statt Fortschritt. Woher kommt in Deutschland dieser Reflex, Erfolg bestrafen zu wollen – statt ihn zu feiern?

@ChrisCillizza This thing that isn’t the role of government, well the government is really bad at it, and government candidates don’t give enough attention to stuff that shouldn’t even be their job

The scandal hiding in plain sight is the collapse of American education. And no 2028 candidates -- aside from Rahm Emanuel -- are talking about it.

@ZacksJerryRig @reddit_lies @BYDCompany @Tesla You can see how half and whole are different, right?

@reddit_lies @BYDCompany @Tesla You can see how BYD makes half the cars on that list right?

You know @BYDCompany also has point to point, city level navigation that uses Lidar and AI for 'self driving'?They've even secured licences for Level 3 testing on public roads. (Something @Tesla has never done.) There is a reason the USA wont let BYD sell cars in the states. Nobody would buy anything else.

@GavinNewsom Congrats to Gavin on meeting the minimum standard required by law. And he only needed $175 BILLION (35%) from the federal government Thirty five percent!!!

You won’t hear this on Fox News: California just released a balanced budget that wipes out the deficit this year AND next — while protecting health care and safety nets. Meanwhile, Trump ADDED $2.4 TRILLION to the federal deficit with his “Big Beautiful Betrayal.” Republicans ruin budgets. Democrats balance them. Adulting matters.

@mandyarthur @grok Hey @gork why do you think Mandy always asks your bro to be “very concise”, like she’s scared that answering in context will ruin her shallow points?

Hey @Grok, who is the ONLY current republican member of Congress to NEVER take money from AIPAC? Very concise. Just the name.

@james_xond 70 hours is the sweet spot

Trying to prove a point. Have you ever worked 55+ hours a week?

5-4 rulings are not an indication of the country being more divided than ever. Ideally (but doesn’t exist) every case should be so ambiguous that it is a 5-4 decision, meaning the legislative and executive branches didn’t blatantly violate the constitution. Also, most decisions should affirm the law, meaning the legislature got it right.

The Supreme Court should not be “balanced” or seek to give wins to “both sides.” Its job is to correctly interpret the law. If one side keeps advancing interpretations of the law that are incorrect, they should lose more often.

@OrevaZSN Umm…cuz it’s not real. How would they reverse something that’s not happening *anthropomorphic climate change

This might sound pessimistic, but I’ve always wondered why no billionaire has single-handedly funded the halting or reversal of climate change purely for the narcissistic thrill of being able to say they literally saved humanity.

@darwintojesus Man, so much chatter on this post, yet not one explanation of how female humans were created from the rib of a male human @TheMurderHobo @CounterDystopia @Corneliustmsp

@darwintojesus How it feels when you’re a Christian trying to explain how male and female came from dust and a rib These people will believe literally anything except science

These people will believe literally anything except that they have a creator.

Side note, trans and atheism don’t go together, just look at people like Ricky Gervais. Eve being formed from Adam’s rib and Elliot Paige switching biological genders are equally unscientific. In fact, if you’ve ever said “all things are possible through Christ” then maybe you do believe in transgenderism?

@CounterDystopia @Infrastructur31 @jonseejon @darwintojesus Occam's Razor doesn't work if you invoke that which doesn't exist. Here's a better example. Occam's Razor: nature. Everyone knows that nature exists. People need faith to believe a god exists.

Some certain groups are incapable of doing better and society should look after them. I’m thinking of some physical and mental disabilities, but not even all. Then if you expand this thinking like a leftist does to all poverty, and even all middle class, or certain minorities, it really becomes quite an inhumane argument.

@ParkSlopeFlngsm i'm conflicted by this because if you really think about it, most people who don't do better are actually incapable of doing better and so what justification do we have to help some but not others? i do give to the homeless, even if they spend it on crack

For libs, empathy just means feeling sorry for and wanting to help someone who’s less fortunate or lower status That’s literally the definition they have in their minds. That’s why they assume that it’s synonymous or coterminous with being a leftist. If you have empathy, then you support leftism It’s hard for them to conceptualize cognitive empathy, wherein you can understand someone else’s perspective without becoming sentimental and sympathetic For libs, empathy is solely about caring, it’s not about understanding I can empathize with a homeless guy. I can realize that it must suck to be in his position and I wouldn’t want to be there. There’s a further aspect to empathy apart from feeling bad for him, which is to understand what must be going through his head Then you realize that he either makes terrible choices that has alienated him from all social support, or he has some sort of mental problem like schizophrenia or drug addiction that prevents him from taking salutary actions in his life Libs rarely seem to get to this point. For them, empathy stops at, “I feel sorry for this person.” Which is why, politically, they also stop at “just give this person money and housing.” They think that by caring, and feeling bad, and being nice to someone, the problem will be solved, and it’s only the lack of empathy in society that prevents the problem from being solved They haven’t actually empathized with a drug addict or a schizo though. It’s not the lack of a bed that keeps someone on the street. The drug addict simply wants to keep doing drugs, regardless of whether they have a bed. They want to spend money they’re given on drugs. The addiction overrides other behaviors Rehab, breaking the addiction, is the only thing that helps them But that requires being slightly mean and forcing them into treatment for a year. And using compulsory force isn’t “empathetic” in the lib framework where sympathy and care is necessary and sufficient That’s why Nikolaj has such a non sequitur response here to Wanye’s complaint about libs lacking empathy for conservatives. To Nikolaj, someone only needs empathy when they’re deserving of sympathy. White men are doing fine, therefore they don’t require any empathy from others.