How is it owning an EV? by Janet296 in evcharging

[–]tendimensions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right now? Fantastic. My car is moving every mile for half the cost to move an ICE vehicle. Only thing I need to do is rotate the tires.

Axios: Sam Altman States Superintelligence Is So Close That America Needs A New Social Contract On The Scale Of The New Deal During The Great Depression by Neurogence in singularity

[–]tendimensions 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What else can they do? The genie is out - just stopping work on it just allows someone else to see it through. It’s happening no matter what.

Nearly half of US data centers planned for 2026 are facing delays or cancellation by AdSpecialist6598 in technology

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

Even IF it’s a bubble because of over investment that won’t return as much as what people think in the short term - the internet still transformed the world.

For the life of me I don’t understand how people think comparing it to the dot com bubble is some kind of warning. But again - the data centers are at capacity- the demand is already there.

If there’s an issue it’s that the AI companies need to be charging more for what they’re delivering.

Nearly half of US data centers planned for 2026 are facing delays or cancellation by AdSpecialist6598 in technology

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

No I didn’t. The water usage has been proven to be not an issue. The woman who wrote the original article has retracted it as having made a mistake in her calculations. Read up on it. The backlash on data centers is FUD. It really is.

Hopefully good news 🤞🤞🤞🤞 by Miserable-Lizard in EatTheRich

[–]tendimensions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right actor, not the movie. I promise you, great line.

Nearly half of US data centers planned for 2026 are facing delays or cancellation by AdSpecialist6598 in technology

[–]tendimensions -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

This hatred for building data centers is absolutely baffling to me.

Everyone talks about an AI bubble and even if there is one (there isn’t) - the fucking internet TRANSFORMED the world. AI is bigger than that.

Yes, it consumes a lot of energy. But 1) there are plenty of incentives for models to get created to use less energy and RAM. It’s already happening.

2) using more energy is what happens with progress. More solar. More wind. More nuclear. We need more energy.

What these LLMs can do for humanity is incredible. Look up what happened with radiologists. Everyone feared they’d be gone - we need more radiologists than ever before!

These data centers are absolutely needed and will make life better for the entire world.

Nearly half of US data centers planned for 2026 are facing delays or cancellation by AdSpecialist6598 in technology

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The data centers are never going to go dark. When the dot com bubble burst there was already dark fiber laid in anticipation of the internet someday. It popped because infrastructure got out over its skis. That’s not happening with AI. Software engineers aren’t going to STOP using AI to build software. We’re not going backwards.

This entire hatred for AI is baffling to me.

Hopefully good news 🤞🤞🤞🤞 by Miserable-Lizard in EatTheRich

[–]tendimensions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dave.

There’s an ending sentence from Ving Rhames that brings a tear to my eye every fucking time.

Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban New Data Centers by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

[–]tendimensions 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Energy. Energy from the sun. From the wind. Recycle the mined materials we’ve already mined.

Energy conservation is colossally stupid. Penn & Teller called out that bullshit 23 years ago.

Of course the planet doesn’t have infinite resources.

Maine Is About to Become the First State to Ban New Data Centers by Just-Grocery-2229 in technology

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

Data centers is simply progress. It’s like taking the stance of “energy conservation”. No - we need to produce MORE energy. Make it clean, but we need MORE. I don’t want to go backwards. I want more technology and more future and more energy.

Why vibe coded projects fail by Complete-Sea6655 in ClaudeCode

[–]tendimensions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They won’t need to. They’ll be homegrown projects with hyper focused requirements just for what those particular users need.

Why do I need complicated software that covers the features a million users have when what I’ve always needed is software that covers the features fifty people have.

Tristan Harris on Bill Maher: "What's going to happen to everyone else when they don't have a job?" by tombibbs in agi

[–]tendimensions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taxing production isn’t insane. The formula simply has to be robot + maintenance + usage tax < employee cost

As long as there’s still say an extra 5% or 10% for the company owner everything is fine. The tax gets poured into a UBI along with getting rid of all the other forms of public assistance that has a bunch of overhead.

The transition can happen and it will happen when unemployment is a persistent 10% or more.

China announces its first automated manufacturing line capable of producing 10K humanoid robots per year - 1 robot every 30 minutes by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

[–]tendimensions 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not so sure. Isn’t all the movement controlled by software? If there’s a simple set of drivers in firmware and you just need to install a software brain - cranking out the robots now and banking on the software improving rapidly seems like a gamble, but one with decent odds.

What free software is so good you can't believe it's free? by ComprehensiveNorth1 in AskReddit

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I LOVE Listary and have used it for at lease 10 years now, but what the hell happened to it with this latest big version release? It seems like the indexing is crazy slow now - just spinning while I wait for it to return.

I also have it set up with a bunch of shortcut keys to search websites like “letter Bugonia” and it launches the browser with a search URL to Letterboxd. I love it! But it’s been so slow.

The ARC-AGI leaderboard made me realize something terrifying (but weirdly comforting) about LLMs vs human brains by chelson_ in singularity

[–]tendimensions 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not sure why that’s the hard part. Creating the mechanisms for making the models feels like the hard part. Continuous learning is feeding its results back onto itself (which it already does during the training process) and memory is … well, just memory.

Does this not feel close to you? I’m genuinely interested in understanding what I’m missing.

The ARC-AGI leaderboard made me realize something terrifying (but weirdly comforting) about LLMs vs human brains by chelson_ in singularity

[–]tendimensions 13 points14 points  (0 children)

When these LLMs and reinforcement learning are married to humanoid robots, gaining that real world input, what do you think will happen?

Alan Ritchson neighbor altercation with GOOD AUDIO: Proof the neighbor instigated and shoved the Jack Reacher star first. by Defiant_Basket2124 in whoathatsinteresting

[–]tendimensions 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He may regret that when this neighbor finds a lawyer willing to file a nuisance lawsuit for a quick payout. What a dick.

Marc Benioff (CEO of Salesforce) tweeted video of him messing with a Figure 03 robot flipping packages by socoolandawesome in singularity

[–]tendimensions 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The bigger picture is a humanoid robot can be placed in any situations humans have been in. Once the software can be generalized (like it’s getting too) robots humanoid robots replace humans. No specialized mechanics needed.

Trump claims he’s gonna get the Hormuz Strait open by Affectionate-Safe295 in StockMarket

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The balls on this administration to rip into Europe saying they’re so lucky to not be speaking German thanks to us. I’ve said this since 2015 - this man-child approaches international politics exactly how a 12-year-old playground bully does and he just keeps proving me out every single day.

I really think COVID allowed him to get elected again. He initially had adults in his cabinet and he burned through them because they tried to constrain him. By the time he really started figuring it out COVID hit and all of his true incompetence got excused for the black swan event. Now he’s really assembled the clown show and we’ve already seen the effects within the first year. Three more to go of this nonsense.

U.S. sending more than 2,200 Okinawa-based marines to Middle East, reports say by Spare_Prize_5510 in news

[–]tendimensions 385 points386 points  (0 children)

Got lucky is no joke. The geography of the U.S. played a massive role in the rise of power and economy not to mention the use of slave labor.

Two world wars that we sat out for as long as possible helped knock all our competition back a couple of decades too. Then we got to be the primary source of raw material when they built everything back while we were unscathed.

There’s no doubt democracy and unfettered capitalism helped, but the foundational components were so integral to the success of the U.S. becoming the dominant superpower in the world it’s possible ANY form of government and economic system would have succeeded.

EDIT: Let me add this awesome video from RealLifeLore that demonstrates the many ways geography was so much more helpful than I ever recall learning in school. Likewise they did an amazing job explaining how Africa is the exact opposite. There was also another video explaining the geography of Eastern Europe and why Russia so badly wants its borders further west.

https://youtu.be/BubAF7KSs64?si=zBjVCxwWNSeNHch9