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.
Timothy B. Lee
@binarybits
Reporting on AI and the future of the economy.
CS masters degree from Princeton.
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- "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.
- 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.
- For years AI doomers have been frustrated that people were ignoring their warnings. But I think the last couple of months (data centers and Mythos) make it clear that the public and policymakers will take threats seriously once they materialize. 2023 was just way too early.
