humanspiral

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  for solar, a 5km diameter solar farm might hold 10m square meters of panels. at 250w each, 2.5gw solar farm. 4 times a full moon, is 1/100000th the rated capacity (noon at equator) of panels, and so 25kw of power. At 10c/kwh electricity revenue potential, such a farm (exists only in China) could break even offering to rent night light at $2.50/hour.

  Batteries charged by solar can deliver profitable electricity at night for far less than 10c/kwh.

  If you just want more light somewhere, it would be far cheaper to do from ground systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple specifically is provably charging countries without tariffs: iphone-worldwide.com

  Have the world subsidize US sales, just because they’re used to paying a little more. Not surprised that other goods would use same strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  why does “AI” need so much CPU RAM

  It doesn’t really, though CPU inference is possible/slow at 256+gb. The problem is that they are making HBM (AI) ram instead of ddr4/5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  could be a bios setting that allows your ram to work at lower speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed awful. AFAIU, it is stockpiling HBM memory ahead of next generation “GPUs”, rather than existing product volume. I’m especially disgusted that prices in non-tariff countries are higher than in US. If this were to last, gddr5/6 computer ram would start to make sense. NVIDIA has been behind starving memory supplies for competing platforms (usually AMD) in the past.

  This pricing is both huge inflation, but also huge drop in sales, because we have to wait for it to get sensible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obamacare enrollee sees premium spike over 300% as sign-up period begins: 'This will devastate us'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  both your insurance payments and healthcare costs/wages count as GDP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obamacare enrollee sees premium spike over 300% as sign-up period begins: 'This will devastate us'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This has the potential for a death spiral on all of the US economy. 1. its highly inflationary. 2. People choosing to not have health insurance is a drop in GDP, and a cause of hospital closures which is another drop in GDP, and access to healthcare. People dying hurts GDP too.

  US economy already is highly inflated due to 5% points of GDP higher than every other nation spent on healthcare. Obamacare/ACA was a republican compromise to prevent Berniecare/mediare for all. The GOP criticisms that public subsidies for private extortion just makes the private extortion harsher. But only Berniecare is the answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vive la république⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Macron hates the right wing, and so keeps choosing them as sacrifice to the cannibals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  any chance this can be done through your router/modem, where your phone app connects to external ip of router and is the “server end point” for your doorbell?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US says 4 killed in new strike on alleged Pacific drug boat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cowardice. Anyone who speaks out will get similar treatment to Canada.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US says 4 killed in new strike on alleged Pacific drug boat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI, Venezuela has no Pacific coast line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  democracy exterminates nothing. Any democracy that does, isn’t much of a democracy.

  Permitting genocidal and economic fraud speech/lies, means that money is not just speech. Money is terrorism, fascism, fraud. Those with the most money determine establishment through media control, and permitted electability. Exterminating genocide advocacy (replacement theory is genocide of immigrants before their kids can be allowed to vote for universal healthcare), and exterminating trickle down oligarchist fascism lies, is the only option for democracy. People are fundamentally too stupid to vote, when evil speech determines their suicide, and it is the opposite of authoritarianism, when fake democracy establishment only permits authoritarian perspectives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you want to give them that power?

  Democracy is supposed to be allowed to exterminate evil. A theoretical outcome of democracy is less fascism with laws that prevent fascist power, with political campaigns promissing to erradicate demonic supremacist foreign control over the nation. It is genuinely that simple: Proposed laws to exterminate evil influence over establishment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Our problem is that the establishment supports evil speech and suppresses truth. Yes, we’ve failed as a society. The establishment has always had the power to control speech. It’s not because we gave them that power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  more development on offline services

  There is absolutely massive development on open weight models that can be used offline/privately. Minimax M2, most recent one, has comparable benchmark scores to the private US megatech models at 1/12th the cost, and at higher token throughput. Qwen, GLM, deepseek have comparable models to M2, and have smaller models more easily used on very modest hardware.

  Closed megatech datacenter AI strategy is partnership with US government/military for oppressive control of humanity. Spending 12x more per token while empowering big tech/US empire to steal from and oppress you is not worth a small fraction in benchmark/quality improvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the smaller the share, the smaller the quarterly losses. Other sources have included that MSFT now gets a 20% royalty on openAI revenue, but its not in that PR. It’s not clear why else MSFT share would have fallen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC, OpenAI lost $12b for all of 2024. CNBC reported that OpenAI restructuring this week, has MSFT not only with 27% equity stake, but a 20% royalty rate on revenue going forward which is certainly a nearly impossible hole for OpenAI to get out of.

  OpenAI has published analytics on “suicide interactions” which proves that they mine their users data. Support for US military and Israel ensures that their mission is to destroy humanity, unless humanity pays it more to be more loyal to it. Everyone’s “don’t be evil” actually means “don’t be evil unless fascism pays more”

  The Israel/US empire needs OpenAI to build ever bigger/more comprehensive models that are even more expensive to use than ChatGPT/Sora’s status as most expensive models. They need the analytics function to oppress population, and the empire is certain to side with OpenAI if it seeks revenue enhancement through theft of IP, including their users’ IP. It is dangerous for anyone to use OpenAI services because theft and oppression by empire condoned symbiosis is by design. But the race for ever larger more expensive models means trashing the previous generation models quickly, which means no time for ROI from development.

  OpenAI will need massive military/government contracts to support its $1T in investment promises. All of those are to opppress Americans/humanity. Meanwhile, government has just sponsored 9 independent supercomputer projects, and so OpenAI must commit to unrestrained evil in order to get their fair share of the oppression mission, and survive. Expect US government contracts to develop models for it, but with OpenAI profitting from government and private surveillance use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely appropriate to ban genocidal and fraudulent speech. In our case it is permitted to protect our establishment. A defense for such speech is that instead of the speaker being an antihuman hateful liar in service of higher demons accumulation of power, they could simply be cognitively impaired, despite any impassioned ability to rationalize hateful lies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dwarf Tyrant vs Tyrant^2: Who would win?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet on tyrant^2^ pecking the lizard’s eyes out and staying out of range of the short arms. Find the ear holes and eat the walnut brain. Checkmate, your carlink ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI behavioral analysis on factory workers, every step is monitored including attention detection from facial expressions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  monitoring facial expressions

  The AI derived reprimands will continue until you smile more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eel butts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this is such a great sub. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI, about half of Nvidia cards are assembled in China. The PCB, cooling, capacitors and voltage regulators are made in China, regardless of assembly location.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  bluetti is grossly overpriced and heavy, and does not even have the features of comparable models from last year. It’s not because there isn’t mass avaialbility of cells/packs they could build from. It’s just overcharging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can buy them in relatively small quantities now online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sodium ion is great, but

  While batteries have enabled passenger car developments, they have been somewhat stymied in large mobile power applications like shipping and electric trucks. That day is gone now. At these costs, electric shipping is achievable and the debate over alternative fuels will fall off quickly as applications are realized.

  heavy transport is not the right application. Very heavy, and LFP has similar advantages while only being medium heavy. heating vehicle batteries is a solved problem.

  …made-in-china.com/…/China-Grade-a-Catl-EV-Sodium…

  Great that you can get a home power 48v 33.6kwh system for well under $3000. (afaik, it comes with connector plates for 112x100ahx3v for $2340. Don’t know about shipping or a box)

  For 10% more, on that site, LFP is 33% lighter. Can affect shipping costs.

  Sodium ion has extra applications/advantages. Not requiring a heated space could place them under solar panels in the field.

  At $100/kwh or less, “retail”, offgrid even oversized solar+ batteries is far cheaper than any utility service. At low charge/discharge rates (4+ hour charge from solar, and 16 hours of discharge (even with 0.25c peak discharge), 10000 cycles is achievable with both chemistries. $0.01/kwh/cycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  roadster and model 3/y were ahead of everything else when released.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was there ever a hope that the customers buying the robots would control them?

  MechaHitler controlled robot in my home or business is not a good marketing plan. Chinese companies are well ahead in robotics, and they have manufacturing customers, battery and motor research/leadership, lower bill of materials, plenty of AI skill. No reason to believe Tesla will be first or better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird question. Not clear anything you can do.

  First, AI bubble means datacenter bubble. Nvidida, AMD, TSMC, Chinese equivalents will do fine, as they have options to make products for non datacenter use.

  Scenarios:

  1. No mass corporate uptake for datacenters, or requirement to encrypt upload/download traffic to corporate owned models hosted by datacenters. Amazon/Google/MSFT can win relatively such a race if they allow private encrypted models instead of their own, and can buy distressed assets from failures. It just means slower than announced deployment rates, with only losers those datacenters who get married to losers.

  2. CPU enhanced AI (knowledge graphs) with/or smaller LLMs. Datacenters can still provide corporate users, but mix of regular and gpu datacenters, Datacenters can lose big if next big thing requires replacing hardware, and they were too early. Shift in winners and losers, but not an AI/datacenter bubble.

  3. Few of the announced datacenters are ever built, or 5 year+ delays. Public company investments will go down a little, but nothing catastrophic for big tech, who can make it up in other areas. Power company histeria is an associated bubble that does poorly. This is a very likely scenario.

  4. Datacenters are successful and aggressively built. No AI bubble, because government surveillance revenue is obtained, and heavy government use of LLMs to keep population pro Israel/oligarchy/militarism. A freedom and jobs bubble is not better than an AI bubble.

  Meme stock mania means even the biggest losers can rebound strongly. An everyone else bubble happens whether or not AI datacenters are successful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC removes Lina Khan-era posts about AI risks and open source⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Open weight models are good (kind of)” is still up here ftc.gov/…/remarks-by-chair-lina-m-khan-at-y-combi…

  The objectively best part about them is scaling them small enough to run privately. The problem with AI as a “National Security” strategy is that it is a Skynet datacenter strategy. The reason to remove government content that it is ok for you to use AI for your purposes is that Skynet won’t be able to control you. The motivation for all of the datacenter investments is that the US government will buy all of the datacenter time to ensure Israel’s rule over the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s specifically saying that “one day” it will be made untrustworthy.