Yeah but they’re not making any money, they’re not going to be able to keep this up from revenue from regular people, there just simply isn’t enough of them or enough interest in the technology.

Ok but if the democrats had shoved Ginsburg out of her seat and rammed through a supreme court justice at whatever price (even via -gasp- hypocrisy), then the world would be a lot different now. So I kinda wish the rage went into electing effective motherfuckers.

Yeah but that usage isn’t going to kill the planet, it pales in comparison to a single lazy system admin who uses it to generate all of his work or analyze through a company’s entire codebase. I don’t think the buildout is sustainable (or going to happen), and I think over time more people will shift into the usage model that you mention - running capable models locally on their own devices. They’re trying to essentially capture the entire industry before that happens.

I read that situation as the republicans had the democrats in complete checkmate and just did what they wanted to do. They made up arguments on the fly to suit their needs, and I think they will continue to do that in the future. The US is a system in which there will be constant elections, so try not to get too twisted about that?

your thesis is that people weren’t tuned into the election 2 weeks before the election?

there’s a big giant line between buying up 2.5 times the world’s capacity for data and gpu compute and speculatively trying to build thousands of community-destroying data centers because you have some deluded idea that it will ‘solve work’ or generate infinite value or whatever the fuck is going on with those people and someone using an LLM to summarize their fucking emails. If you seem them as being literally exactly the same, then I guess OP came to the right place, good lord. If you can acknowledge that when this hysteria passes there will still be tools out there that parse data and return it as text and that people will still use that and can do so without being cartoon villains, then I think OP should centralize his concerns around whether it’s actually harming him vs this henny penny bullshit.

In case you forgot, that wasn't a hypothetical. It actually occurred during Obama's admin. Enough people thought "yea that sounds right" to the point that there wasn't even a procedural change in SCOTUS selection

And then one of those ghouls, Barrett? was sworn in like 2 weeks before an election when it suited their needs.

It’s also normal for them to put christmas decorations out in some stores before thanksgiving and you’ll still get people whining that it’s too soon or whatever. This is all just a weird complaint, because it happens every election cycle, and, we’d ideally like to move on. The zombie corpse of Mitch McConnell can read a calendar and the political reality as much as anyone. They’ll use whatever tricks they have to fuck over as many people as they can as long as they can. But we need to start talking about whatever the post-Trump era will look like, nobody wants to stay mired in this.

In American electoral politics, it is ‘fucking normal’ to be talking about the next presidential election cycle following the midterms, and the midterms are in like 2 weeks. It’s ‘fucking normal’ to start marginalizing the current administration because they can’t run for re-election again and to start focusing on new people, and despite your hysterics, I think we could actually agree that paying less attention to Donald Trump would be a great thing for literally everybody, so calm your fucking tits.

talking about the next election (2028) is the fastest track to acknowleding the lame-ducked-ness of the current occupant. I say speculate away.

I don’t know what you’re talking about anymore, I’m sorry. You even quoted yourself, to demonstrate how much I think you’re just talking to yourself at this point.

As I suspected you’re just looking for agreement and not advice. So yeah, you’re right dude just keep pressing her on this, it would be a great idea.