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  • Yeah, lots of videos of it, looks wild.

  • The Burger Reich may have to delay their invasion of Iran because these idiots can't even build a functional plumbing system. 🤣

  • Yes, and my point is that operational cycle of the model dominates total energy consumption. And turns out that it's not actually that high in the grand scheme of things, and continues to improve all the time.

    Meanwhile, it's absolutely necessary to contextualize AI energy use in relation to the other ways we use energy to understand whether there's something exceptional happening here or not. All the information for figuring out how much energy AI is using is available. We know how much energy models use, and rough numbers of people using them. So, that's not a big mystery.

  • Exactly, and that's just one example of massive waste. Another one is the fact that around half the food produced is just thrown away because it's just more 'efficient' to do that. Capitalism is an absolutely insane system.

  • Energy UK, which represents more than 100 electricity generators and retailers, said business electricity costs remained 70% higher than before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while gas prices were 60% higher.

    I love how no direct connection is made between the start of sanctions on Russia and the outcome. They talk about it as if these are two unrelated events without even mentioning the sanctions or the economic war with Russia.

  • For sure that's a better analysis of the whole thing. Although, I do think it is worth noting how much energy is devoted to stuff like advertising, which is ultimately not productive use of energy. And if that wasn't done in the first place, there would be more energy to go around avoiding the problem of not having enough of it at peak ours.

  • Whether they're trained from scratch or not is very much material because it takes far more energy to do that. Meanwhile, we consume energy as a civilization in general. And frankly, a lot of energy is consumed on far dumber things like advertisements. If you count all the energy that goes into producing and displaying ads, that dwarfs AI energy use. So, it's kind of weird t0 single AI energy use out here as some form of exceptional evil.

  • Models training is a one off effort. Model usage is what matters because that's where energy is used continuously. Also, practically nobody trains models from scratch right now. People use existing base models to tune and extend them.

  • At this point, I'd trust the AI over the clowns running the Burger Reich.

  • It's comforting to know that anyone who opposes actually existing socialism is indeed a fascist.

  • Lack of education is a feature not a bug, it's a lot harder for the ruling class to manipulate educated people who might develop their own independent opinions. You need workers who are just smart enough to do their jobs.

  • and now you see why gulags are necessary after revolutions

  • I'm pretty excited to live to see western hegemony over the world finally breaking.

  • I get a strong impression that the whole extinction of humanity narrative is really just an astroturf marketing campaign by AI companies. They're basically scaremongering because it gets in the news, and the goal is to convince investors how smart these things are. It's the whole OpenAI claiming they're on the verge of AGI right before pivoting to doing horny chatbots. These are useful tools, and I also use them day to day, but the hype around them is absolutely incredible.

    I think we have plenty of real risks to humanity to worry about, like the US starting a nuclear holocaust. We don't need to waste time worrying about imaginary risks like AGI here.

    I'd also argue the whole energy consumption argument is very myopic. The reality is that these things have been getting more and more efficient, and there is little reason to think that's not going to be continue being the case going forward. It's completely new tech, and it's basically just moved past proof of concept stages. There's going to be a lot of optimization happening down the road. And even when you contextualize current energy usage, it's not as crazy as people seem to think https://www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01-20-cc-impact/

    We're also starting to see stuff like this happening https://www.anuragk.com/blog/posts/Taalas.html

  • it's a really handy technique that's really underrated I find, and dead simple to implement too

  • every thread about DPRK will have at least one fash in it

  • People tend to have a tendency to assume that their values, needs, and desires are universal. But in reality they're a product of their material conditions. People internalize the values of their society as they grow up, and that shapes their world view and their desires. People growing up in DRPK would necessarily have different world view from people growing up in a western society as a result. For somebody who's lived their whole life in the west, DPRK would likely not be a pleasant place to live. But that says absolutely nothing about people who come from that society.

  • The basic idea is pretty straight forward. Say you have a massive guest list but only a tiny sticky note to keep track of everyone. A Bloom filter is basically that note but with a clever bit of math that lets it lie to you in one specific direction. You take a name and run it through a few different hash functions. They tell you which spots to flip from 0 to 1 in a big array of bits. When you want to check if someone is on the list later you run their name again and see if those same spots are already 1s.

    The catch is that different names might end up flipping the same bits by pure coincidence. If you ask the filter if John Doe is there it might see all 1s and say yes even if John never showed up. That is a false positive and you just have to live with it. But if the filter sees even a single 0 it knows for a fact that John is not there. It never lies about a negative which is where the real magic happens for fast searches.

    When you want to avoid burning time on expensive lookups in a slow database, you stick the bloom filter in front of the slow stuff as a gatekeeper. If the filter says the data is not there you trust it and move on instantly without ever having to do IO. You only do the heavy lifting if the filter gives you a maybe. Using a bit of memory is often cheaper than doing a bunch of wasted database queries.

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    Howard Lutnick's family firm bought up the rights to tariff refunds for 20-30 cents on the dollar after Liberation Day last year. Today, for every $100 invested, Lutnick's sons just made 3-5x.

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    Amazon's internal agentic tool decided that existing code was inadequate and decided to replace it taking down a part of AWS for 13 hours, and was not the first time it had happened. 🤣

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    U.S. trade deficit totaled $901 billion in 2025, barely budging despite Trump's tariffs

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    CIA was reportedly informed early on of the plans of the Nord Stream attackers.

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