Wow, you pivot a lot. The power consumption of data centers as a whole in the US was ~5% of total in 2024. But they are definitely guzzling water, no doubt about that. It’d be nice if we still had environmental regulatory agencies with teeth to force better cooling methods. Doug Forcett comes to mind.

I don’t input anything that I care about them spying on. As for brain rot, we’re on social media, aren’t we?

If you’re using one of the LLMs to search, you can just twirl out the source list and click through to the pages it found relevant to your prompt. In my experience, it pulls a better list of links than DDG or Google. You can just ignore the summary it writes.

The definition of AI has now fundamentally changed.

“The AI effect” refers to a phenomenon where either the definition of AI or the concept of intelligence is adjusted to exclude capabilities that AI systems have mastered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

I only read the blog because of the thumbnail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence

Choose another tool.

Belief is a tool for achieving effects; it is not an end in itself. -Peter J. Carroll

Joe Rogan is Joe Garrelli in News Radio

Thank you. I was just pushing the up arrow a hundred times.