"American politics became toxic because some Democrats were rude to Mitt Romney in 2012" — completely unhinged take.
Timothy B. Lee
@binarybits
Reporting on AI and the future of the economy.
CS masters degree from Princeton.
Newsletter: understandingai.org
Podcast: aisummer.org
- This wasn't even the best Romney parody music video of 2012. That would be youtube.com/watch?v=bxch-y…
- I still find it insane that I can get up to speed on a complicated technical paper by just cutting and pasting random sentences I don't understand and telling ChatGPT to explain them to me.
- "That excess energy needs to go somewhere. Right now it is going into data centers. It almost has to. Where else could it go? The Claude logo?" transformernews.ai/p/the-data-cen…
- Also I think doomers are way too optimistic about complicated compute governance schemes. They might make sense on paper but the world is nowhere close to having the elite buy-in or state capacity to implement them the way advocates envision. Sometimes crude measures work better.Honestly I think doomers are too negative about the data center backlash. They wanted a mass movement against AI. Yes this one is kind of dumb but mass movements usually are! It still might move the ball in the right direction, from their perspective.
