Is that actually being suggested? My understanding is that only a portion of the electricity production will go to data centers in most cases, with much of the rest going to local communities. Microsoft is buying all of 3 mile island’s power, but that’s going to data centers, which do a lot more than AI.

Generally the US should start having a not shoddy electricity grid, brown- and blackouts and you call yourself a developed country?

I just want to say I’ve never had a brownout in my part of the US, and the only blackouts we’ve had are due to weather or a car hitting a pole or something. And our electricity is inexpensive.

I’ve mostly heard of these issues in California and Texas, because of unique issues with their power utilities.

And yeah, I think both the AI hype and disdain are stupid. It’s a tool that does less than proponents claim and more than detractors claim. Don’t blame all our problems on it, and don’t suggest it’ll solve all our problems.

I’d do zooks. If the X was capitalized, I’d say zoo-ex.

Right, which is likely why they’re only offered in border states.

I wonder if we’ll get something like NP Complete for AGI, as in a set of problems that humans can solve, or that common problems can be simplified down/converted to.

2004 or 2005, because my mom started working from home and got cable. Once I left home, it was fiber pretty much everywhere except the year or two I used DSL. I’m currently on a weird fiber backed Ethernet network (Ethernet to the home), and we’re rolling out real fiber over the next couple of years.

They do in the US if you live in a border state, but it’s only valid for Mexico/Canada. Think the idea is having space for physical visa stamps, but I don’t see why they’d prefer that to a digital visa tied to something unique in the passport.

It’s an average. The difference between two humans will be much less than the difference between humans and machines.

Pronounce it just like it’s spelled? Zoo + x. The name sucks, but it’s not hard to pronounce.

I have tracks near my house that I could take to work, if they bothered to extend the line. There are some parts that need repair, but the land exists and the rails are largely unused for freight and mostly used to store extra cars. It goes right through most of the city centers in my area, and a large company has already promised to create a ton of jobs if the line is built. Oh, and there’s crazy congestion on the highway that runs parallel to these tracks, and these tracks go right next to two professional sports stadiums.

So when are they starting construction? Not until 2050 at the earliest… Why? A handful of people in one small area of the line oppose it…

Do you regularly divide/multiply by 3600? That’s not something I typically do in my head, and there’s no reason to do it when everything is denominated in watts. What exactly is the benefit?

At least in the US, the electric company charges in kWh, computer parts are advertised in terms of watts, and batteries tend to be in amp hours, which is easy to convert to watt hours.

Joules just overcomplicates things.

Most liberals (progressives and classical liberals alike) agree our prison system is awful and probably creates more criminals than it “fixes.” And IMO, those that think it’s fine aren’t actually liberals (in the dictionary definition sense of liberalism).

$25/hr for a project manager seems low, but I don’t know what starting salaries in that field look like. I’m guessing there’s a pretty hefty “prison discount” here, but that’s still awesome. $30k and job experience is a fresh start.

That’s only true in some parts of the US, in many (most?) parts, you cannot force an inmate to work or tie that decision to adjustments to time served. Unfortunately, the eighth amendment isn’t enough to prevent this problem in far too many jurisdictions.

50W-ish idle? Ryzen 1700, 2 HDDs, and a GTX 750ti. My next upgrade will hopefully cut this in half.

Information theory is all about cutting through the waste of a given computation to compare apples to apples.

I’ll replicate an example I posted elsewhere:

Let’s say I make a machine that sums two numbers between 0-127, and returns the output. Let’s say this machine also only understands spoken French. According to information theory, this machine receives 14 bits of information (two 7-bit numbers with equal probability for all values) and returns 8 bits of information. The fact that it understands spoken French is irrelevant to the computation and is ignored.

That’s the same line of reasoning here, and the article makes this clear by indicating that brains take in billions of bits of sensory data. But they’re not looking at overall processing power, they’re looking at cognition, or active thought. Performing a given computational task is about 10 bits/s, which is completely separate from the billions of bits per second of background processing we do.

You’re misunderstanding the terminology used then.

In information theory, “bit” doesn’t mean “bitrate” like you’d see in networks, but something closer to “compressed bitrate.”

For example, let’s say I build a computer that only computes small sums, where the input is two positive numbers from 0-127. However, this computer only understands spoken French, and it will ignore anything that’s not a French number in that range. Information theory would say this machine receives 14 bits of information (two 7-bit numbers) and returns 8 bits. The extra processing of understanding French is waste and ignored for the purposes of calculating entropy.

The article also mentions that our brains take in billions of bits of sensory data, but that’s ignored for the calculation because we only care about the thought process (the useful computation), not all of the overhead of the system.

I was assuming they’re making the character look like themselves. It’s totally understandable if you’re RPing and seeing how your character looks in some getup.

I understand checking when first creating it, but I find it weird to check it after that. I don’t even make my avatar in games look anything like myself. It’s not that I’m bad looking or anything, I just don’t like looking at myself, and that includes pictures, videos, etc.