That regulatory capture con strangled more emerging economies than most like to admit. =3
"The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics" (Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith)
I have been extremely skeptical and dismissive of LLMs for a long time, but after a certain level of improvement you have to realize that at least for programming the advantages are substantial.
The scale of AI energy consumption is quite unique from what I heard, and there’s a lot of money flowing into that direction. So that seems to me a decent reason to think about that.
I haven’t heard yet that food production is constrained by these kind of things.
It appears to make that you’re just taking a cheap jab at AI.
and what communications you find lacking?
Handling food waste is another issue.
Climate related shortage are coming soon for us (at the moment they only manifest as punctual price hikes - mustard a few years ago, coffee and chocolate more recently, etc...
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/02/13/goodbye-gouda-and-...
https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/adverse-climatic-conditi...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/noelfletcher/2024/11/03/how-cli...
I don't know if the electricity going into compute centers could be put to better use, to help alleviate climate change impacts, or to create more resilient and distributed supply chains, etc...
But I would not say that this is "not a problem", or that it's completely obvious that allocating those resources instead to improving chatbots is smart.
I understand why we allocate resource to improving chatbots - first world consumers are using them, and the stock markets assume this usage is soon going to be monetized. So it's not that different from "using electricity to build radios / movie theater / TVs / 3D gaming cards, etc... instead of desalinating water / pulling CO2 out of the air / transporting beans, etc...
But at least Nvidia did not have the "toupet" to claim that using electricity to play Quake in higher res would solve world hunger, as some people claim:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwerner/2024/05/03/sam-altma...
Having both forms of generation available at the same time is the best solution. Once you put a data center on the grid you can mix the fuel however you want upstream. This should be the ultimate goal and I believe it is for all current AI projects. I am not aware of any data center builds that intend to operate on parking lot generators indefinitely.
Should they be close to the solar arrays (that is, in the desert, with data networks connecting them to were the tokens are used)
Or close to their customers (which mean far from the solar arrays, with electricity networks)
He's talking a lot about removing movable parts, but aren't the wires going to be an limiting factor ?
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