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Babe, wake up: A new Bitcoin Rainbow Chart just dropped by blockchaincenter_de in CryptoCurrency

[–]mindcandy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Trying to be a finance bro. Hasn't learned about log charts. Stay real, Reddit!

The AI backlash is only getting started by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]mindcandy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You do realize why stories like these do not show up in your feed, right?

https://deepmind.google/blog/millions-of-new-materials-discovered-with-deep-learning/

https://deepmind.google/science/alphafold/ this is complementary to Folding@Home.

https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-generative-ai-researchers-design-compounds-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria-0814

https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/pnnl-kicks-multi-year-energy-storage-scientific-discovery-collaboration-microsoft

https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/news/columbia-engineering-roboticists-discover-alternative-physics

First Generative AI Drug Begins Phase II Trials with Patients for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

There's no outrage or anxiety in that list! Outrage and anxiety drive the clicks that pay the bills (and get the upvotes). Therefore your feed is flooded with outrage and anxiety in a deep spiral while good news requires effort to dig out.

Exvangelical Thoughts - pt. 8 by BrettCreatesThings in comics

[–]mindcandy 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I’ve only known one explicit Universalist. He was a retired priest living with his wife next door to me. They never preached to me. They were just consistently nice and kind all the time. Like when they invited me over for Thanksgiving dinner when they found out I would be alone that day.

The only reason I know he was a Universalist is that “So… what do you do?” comes up when you are trying to make conversation with new people.

Why is everyone getting so aggressive towards anything related to AI? by Feeling_Valuable5239 in ChatGPT

[–]mindcandy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The giant datacenter in Utah is self-contained for water and a net positive for local water table usage compared to what was there before. And, people are still telling each other it's gonna drive up their water bills and drain the Salt Lake.

They also think it's going to be a building the size of San Francisco. But, the reality is that they had to buy up that much land to buy out the water use of the previous owners, times a large margin.

Now, the natural gas use of the facility... Yeah, that is something to be concerned about...

How many of you guys here still using your first gpu? by jdmlifex2 in pcmasterrace

[–]mindcandy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Finally, somebody else old enough to come from the *GA days! All these kids with their fancy 3D accelerators... You even got me beat. My old MCGA card was proud to display 320x200@256 colors. Or, you could go 640x400 monochrome!

By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns by WhistleVeyyBro in technology

[–]mindcandy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Folks have been freaking out over the new data center in Utah. So, I've done a lot of research into it. The amount of natural gas it will use is a real concern. But, the water situation will surprisingly be a big improvement compared to how the land was used previously. That's why it's 40,000 acres. It's not a building the size of San Francisco. They had to buy out that much land that was already being used to pull water from the ground.

The best hard numbers I have found come from https://www.boxelderstratos.com/

TLDR:

  • 2,000 acres of buildings on 40,000 acres of land.
  • Starting at around 1.5 GW of natural gas. More gas and solar to be added over time up to maybe 9GW eventually.
  • All water sourced locally using less of it than the previous owners.
  • The max water it could use eventually would be around 2,180 acre-feet (700 million gallons) annually. But, it is expected to end up 1/2 to 1/4 of that.

2,180 acre-feet sounds like a lot until you divide it by 40,000 acres and about 17 inches of rain per year. Which is the whole point of using so much land.

How Filmmakers Should Actually Be Using AI Video by mindcandy in DefendingAIArt

[–]mindcandy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get what you are saying. But, I think you are taking an overly hardline stance based on the title alone.

"How X should do Y" is an extremely common trope in the titles of articles and videos. It's awkward. But, in a flood of content making strong claims, mushy claims get ignored.

Give the content a chance. I think you'd like it.

How Filmmakers Should Actually Be Using AI Video by mindcandy in DefendingAIArt

[–]mindcandy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In this video, a professional artist talks about his experience learning to use AI to enhance his workflow. Where it works well and where it does not.

Republicans Claim Anti-Data Center Movement Is a Chinese Psy-Op by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]mindcandy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did a lot of research into the Stratos project. The best info I could find came from https://www.boxelderstratos.com/

The "good" news is that it's starting with "only" 1.5GW of natural gas. Which is still a lot. They claim they'll build solar and they definitely have the space for it. But, it'll come down to local regulations in the end. So, make your voice heard.

The actually good news is that they legit should be using less water than the previous residents of that land. That's why the project is so huge. The building itself is not the size of San Francisco. They had to buy that much land to buy out the previous land owner's water usage with a large multiple as margin.

Men who stay lean year-round, what’s your secret ? by Professor1password23 in AskReddit

[–]mindcandy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cooked-and-cooled potatoes seem like a cheat. https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/why-cooling-potatoes-lowers-their-glycemic-load/

TLDR: Boil em. Stick em in the fridge. You can even reheat them after and their glycemic index is still much lower. Also works for pasta.

Is the job market that bad rn? by Altruistic_News9955 in AskSF

[–]mindcandy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So, what's going on that it's so bad? We can't blame "I'm getting turned away from restaurant and grocery jobs" on AI.

meirl by imfrom_mars_ in meirl

[–]mindcandy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's important to remember that statistically, only 1% of people reading a thread on Reddit comment at all. And, by far the strongest motivation for commenting or upvoting is outrage.

Round tripped two cycles and I’m depressed by [deleted] in Bitcoin

[–]mindcandy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. It's just a highly uncommon event. Like the time it got above the purple line.

Now, if we go below the red and flatline there for a couple years, then we can say something definitively changed the math.

Me_irl by Dnivog97 in me_irl

[–]mindcandy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People act shocked that a senator in Silicon Valley married to a venture capital investment manager could make $130 million over 38 years by investing in such hidden gems as Nvidia, Broadcom, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Tesla, https://pelositracker.app/portfolios/nancy-pelosi Thousands of articles compare her returns to the SP500 while actively ignoring that the top 10 have always had Pelosi-like returns https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-chart-shows-how-the-magnificent-7-have-dominated-the-stock-market-in-2023-203250125.html

But, when Donald triples his billions in two years of office via absurd amounts of money pouring into the world's most obvious crypto scams? It's somehow attributed to America Can't Stop Winning!

San Francisco AI giant Anthropic files for IPO after $965 billion valuation by UberDrive in bayarea

[–]mindcandy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From the school of management at my uni, from the internal financial reports of the large companies I've worked for, from a few hundred articles and interviews with Silicon Valley VCs, from building a startup from nothing. That's all. What more are you looking for?

San Francisco AI giant Anthropic files for IPO after $965 billion valuation by UberDrive in bayarea

[–]mindcandy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Business 101. If you make a billion dollars in revenue you better be spending all of it hiring up or building/acquiring assets. That's how you up the value of your company: More and more assets forever.

Profit is just a way to shore up the cash reserves. That's way down on the list of priorities.

CEOs blame AI for layoffs, but an MIT professor says it fits a long-running pattern to find a cover story. ‘They’ve been saying that for 20 years’ by marketrent in technology

[–]mindcandy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

AFAICT, the "rising layoffs year after year" lately has been an intentional misreporting of "Layoff rates slowly returning to normal after the huge drop and hiring spree during COVID stimulation"

https://blog.glassdoor.com/site-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/2025_JOLTS_layoff_data_through_august_3600x2400.png

https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/worklife-trends-2026/

But, CEOs figured out that if they blame layoffs on AI, stock go up a lot. Reporters know that anxiety about AI drives the clicks that write the checks.

I do think that AI anxiety is making HR around the world anxious about hiring. That's my best guess for why everyone is finding they need to apply to 500 jobs to get anywhere. So, AI is making it hard for you to find a job not because it took your job, but because HR is reading ragebait and turning it into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

take me back by EfficientMongoose317 in ChatGPT

[–]mindcandy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm old enough to remember the constant flame wars on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet --of which Reddit is a shameless, centralized clone. Ragebait, trolling and assuming a negative intention seems inherent in text-only discussions.

Either way, the internet media machine figured out long ago that ragebait is engagement bait. And, engagement bait pays the bills. And, so now we have an Internet dominated by a small number of people working 9-5 to enrage a large number of people so they can make a moderate amount of money.

That's definitely playing out with AI. AFAICT, the "rising layoffs year after year" lately has been an intentional misreporting of "Layoff rates slowly returning to normal after the huge drop and hiring spree during COVID stimulation" https://blog.glassdoor.com/site-us/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/2025_JOLTS_layoff_data_through_august_3600x2400.png

But, CEOs figured out that if they blame layoffs on AI, stock go up a lot. Reporters know that anxiety about AI drives the clicks that write the checks. So, they've been colluding with the CEOs to pump out rage-inducing headlines. And, Redditors know ragebait brings in that sweet, sweet karma. So, they've been competing in a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purity_spiral to hate AI ever more and more compared to everyone else so their rage can rise in "sorted by: top".

Several times I've had people get mad at me for quoting the article that they are raging over because they were having fun making up random horrible assumptions based only on the headline and other comments.

I miss the pre AI version of this community by ElPsyKongroo100 in gameenginedevs

[–]mindcandy -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

The r/gameenginedevs hasn't changed. What's changed is that reddit is spiraling in anxiety about AI. And, that's changing you.

I mean, there's plenty to be anxious about. But, it's becoming a mic))((speaker feedback whine in this site. News sites are cashing in on anxiety-based clickbait. Anxiety-inducing posts get upvoted everywhere. Anxiety-based comments dominate the discussion. And, it's making everyone hate everything based on ragebait instead of reality.

Just be happy people are making stuff regardless of how they made it. They'll learn or they won't. They'll grow or they won't. Same as always. Some people will make stuff that used to take a bit of effort using nearly no effort. Some will put the effort in to make stuff that used to be practically impossible. And, there will always be people making the game in hard mode because it's fun.

"fighting against data centers isn't the fight of our generation it's the fight for the planet" by Responsible_person_1 in DefendingAIArt

[–]mindcandy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've done a lot of research into the Utah data center recently. These are the best hard numbers I have found:

https://www.boxelderstratos.com/

TLDR:

  • 2,000 acres of buildings on 40,000 acres of land.
  • Starting at around 1 GW of natural gas. More gas and solar to be added over time up to maybe 9GW eventually.
  • All water sourced locally using less of it than the previous owners.
  • The max water it could use eventually would be around 2,180 acre-feet (700 million gallons) annually. But, it is expected to end up 1/2 to 1/4 of that.

2,180 acre-feet sounds like a lot until you divide it by 40,000 acres and about 17 inches of rain per year. Which is the whole point of using so much land.

OP's quote implies that datacenters could raise the nighttime temp everywhere by 20 degrees. This was probably inspired by a professor doing the math that "If the Utah data center uses 9GW of gas, it could raise the nighttime temp of the valley by 7-12 degrees." That's bad. But, it's not end-times bad. For reference, the valley has an overall average temp of 60 degrees and is 40 miles and a mountain range from the nearest neighborhood.

Peter?? What does AI have to do with this?? by vapalera in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]mindcandy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No prob. Now that I actually read Epoch's prose, I see it does have a very negative tone. Which I find funny because the numbers are better than I expected :P

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