snarkolepsy

Future life of code janitors: Who checked this in? A.I. Who designed this? A.I. What does it do? I don't know..

@BonkDaCarnivore You also don't seem to understand how datacenters work. Many are transitioning to a closed loop system. Your knowledge is a decade old. Additionally - Why do people need to work in datacenters? Go.

Mike seems to not know how datacenters work, so allow me to tell you: The employ almost no people. Back in my VC days, one of the companies we had under our wing, by necessity, built out 2 massive ones for data processing. We're talking damn near a city block big. Each one, aside from initial construction, employed less than 50 people because of remote hands & paid almost no taxes thanks to municipal and state level tax breaks to bring the facilities to bear. Today they would need even fewer workers. That was over a decade ago. Today, the story with these AI datacenters is largely the same, with one big difference: Now they get sweetheart electricity/water pricing, subsidized by the local residents. Meaning these AI datacenters actually cost the local populace hard money out of their wallets. Actual photo of one when I toured it below. Note how it's not exactly abuzz with workers.

@AlexIljaszewicz @CyberRobooo TY. I just feel like one coffee spill is going to make it look ragged over time.

@snarkolepsy @CyberRobooo It's washable but to what extent stain-resistant/repellent? and you can customise its outfit too

The left one’s the boss. lol Two adorable NEO humanoid robots made their debut at Milan Design Week. This is NEO’s first appearance in Europe.

@Dan_Jeffries1 @tyillc This is exactly what I've been screaming about for a week. All these wall street guys making these absolutely retarded posts. They are making an already depressed workforce feel hopeless! Its not right. They suck.

Jensen is one the smartest and most far seeing folks the world. "If an AI scientist warns people that AI is going to permeate across radiology and radiologists are going to get wiped out, it might seem helpful but it's hurtful. If we convince everybody not to be radiologists and we now need radiologists, that actually is hurtful to society. "It is hurtful to convince all the young college graduates not to study software engineering because we are going to need more software engineers than ever. That's hurtful." "Scaring people with nonsensical things, which are not going to happen, that this is an existential threat, there's a 20% chance that is is existential, that's ridiculous. "That it's going to wipe out 50% of college level jobs. "That is it going to completely destroy democracy. "These kinds of comments are not helpful. They are made by...CEOS. And you become a CEO, maybe you adopt a God complex and somehow you know everything." Brutal. And right.

@BrianRoemmele If anyone is wondering why ur feed is wall 2 wall robots, its because whatever CES displays in JAN. makes it 2 market by summer. Flat screen tvs,curved tvs,transparent tvs. If they r displaying it at CES, thats what the market will b flooded with that year. Guess whut 2026 was.

The vast scale of robotic systems is an individual liberation. YOU will own and deploy the means of production at scale and locally. While other run around in fear you and I are building the new world where once acquiring the tools… WE BUILD.

@nathaps_ @PTrubey It's not just the space. How much does that stupid box add to the cost? But also - even rich people frown on having a box one third of the size of a car - doing nothing but taking up space.

@snarkolepsy @PTrubey If you buy a Neo, it's because you have enough space at home.

1X really does have good design taste. And here the CEO tells us how a home robot should be shipped. He’s 100% correct.

@wholemars Don't tell anyone

San Francisco is actually really beautiful. The zombie apocalypse is really only in one small part of town

@Cernovich You're trolling right? Because the land is more expensive.

If data centers are so good, why don't Big Tech executives put them into their own neighborhoods.

@LLMpsycho @Scobleizer @ethankongee @BerntBornich Very funny comment.

@Scobleizer @ethankongee @snarkolepsy @BerntBornich Hayward is basically Palo Alto’s garage.

Introducing NEO Factory | Hayward, CA Scaling manufacturing was always the plan- but after receiving 10,000+ preorders in the first 5 days, we accelerated everything to urgently increase production capacity to fulfill demand. In just 3 months we built America’s most vertically integrated humanoid robot factory, right here in the Bay Area.

@merlinscapital Good because you certainly do not believe this right? It took cell phone adoption 20-30 years. Computers 15- 20. All these bullshit posts are making people fearful in an already horrid job market. It's not right. Just so you can pay your rent. STOP IT

@snarkolepsy The people want me to run for office. I have no ambitions however.

Unequivocally, we are at the end of an era where jobs may be ending. It also partially explains the collapse of birth rates. Not enough jobs to go around. Only a few may survive.

@MarwaEldiwiny Honestly... I would believe it more if I saw it walk one old person around one block. Until they are able to do a simple task like that, its doesn't matter how much kungfoo they do.

This is cinema… it feels like the director finished filming at Figure and jumped to 1X… It would be cooler if you showed us some real data, wear and tear, limitations etc. It feels like these production films are not needed.

@ethankongee @BerntBornich @Scobleizer No. Tri valley real estate in some cases is more expensive than the valley. Hayward is considered that last great shithole of the bay area.

@snarkolepsy @BerntBornich @Scobleizer What about Tri Valley? Is it too far for startups?

@gvtcontractor I think this is a lie. As someone who's had to fix hvac a couple of times -unless your dad knows a smidgen of electrical, you are going to cause someone to get electrocuted. It is VERY irresponsible to make people believe this bullshit. Does no one on this app have real life exp?

How can you be long HVAC companies when your 70 year old dad sends you texts like this?

@1GamewithDave1 Sigh. This is not true at all. These pupas think the world started in the 2000s. We got to learn first hand what the word stress meant. The last care free days were in the 60s. Also in the 90s there had been wide scale adoption of computers so shut up.

The reason people miss the 90s isn’t just nostalgia. Life was slower. Quieter. Less demanding. We weren’t designed to process constant noise, updates, and stimulation all day.

@Scobleizer @ethankongee @BerntBornich If vtols were ready for prime time, they could hop from Palo alto airport to hayward airport. Might be a genius move in a few years. Everyone else - hayward has a ton of empty real estate if you need a home.

@ethankongee @snarkolepsy @BerntBornich Yeah, most of the employees are in Palo Alto headquarters, so gotta be able to drive to the factory within a reasonable amount of time. Hayward isn't far.

@ethankongee @BerntBornich @Scobleizer It's the last place in the valley with cheap land.

@BerntBornich @Scobleizer Is there a reason why you are picking Hayward?

@amicus_x @rationalaussie Oh wow. That's the first time I've seen that. An Australian bot with 0 followers.

@snarkolepsy @rationalaussie I replaced the work of 32 people with two weeks of work by building an algorithmic system which ingests and manages data better and faster than them in a specialised field. How long do you think it'll take me to scale that to replace the work of thousands? You are ignorant.

I am deeply concerned people do not appreciate how fucked the impacts of AI are going to be on the economy, not just in Australia but globally. The entire global economy will collapse through an aggregate demand shock. Many theoretical papers have been written about this now already. It is a global prisoner's dilemma. Businesses are incentivised to cut costs and replace people with AI or their competitors will. Employees are forced to use AI otherwise they will be replaced. Consumers end up with less money to spend because they are unemployed. Because they are unemployed businesses have less revenue and have to cut costs again. And on and on it goes. What is the government doing to address this, you might ask? Importing millions of Indians to replace you. Yeah, the word I am looking for starts with T.

@BartSimpson9021 @RetroBayArea But old white dudes are scaring people away because THEY are afraid of things that will make peoples jobs easier. Young guys are going to love working with robotics. Old dudes are on twitter saying its the end of the world.

@BartSimpson9021 @RetroBayArea You draw all the wrong takes on everything. Maybe they just enforced it better. Your "family members" were able to do that because computers were new and we had an acute worker shortage. When technologies are new, people are more able to go from blue-white collar. Like now (cont)

Mountain View before Google. Before Google moved in and transformed it, Mountain View was a quiet and working class suburb, the kind of place that in the 1980s felt like the setting of Stranger Things. 🧵1/4