At this rate, Windows will never be ready for the desktop.

It’s not the only animal like this! The Iberian Ribbed Newt (Pleurodeles waltl) will push its own ribcage out of its chest (turning them into spikes) and secretes toxic venom through those bones…

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

Don’t ask questions when you know the answer is fowl.

Even if I find a clue, how will I know? I’ve yet to hear a notification sound nor do I have a cute little fairy whispering things in my ear 🤷

For all I know, I could’ve walked past thousands of clues throughout my life. I haven’t given up solving the mystery, though!

Oh right! I completely forgot.

It’s happening to the guy in front 👍

If your language requires an IDE to show you WTF is going on in the code, it’s a bad language.

Given, there’s ways to write poor code in any language, but some are much, much worse than others. Java and JavaScript being the kings of that kind of thing.

Some day, AI assisted coding will become so intelligent that it will look at your average “enterprise” Java code and ask the user, “WTF were they even trying to do here?” Which is the only correct response a lot of the time.

Thank you for posting this comment. I came here to write the exact same thing and now I don’t have to!

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Guy in the back is going to get his kneecaps kicked out.

Koalas have nearly identical fingerprints as well:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/koala-fingerprints/

So their AI prompts are like…

Women: “My boyfriend keeps looking at his phone instead of me!”

Men: “Explain the Bessemer process to me in case I get Isekai’d.”

?

Bah! I think birds are fowl.

Their… menace?

I love Canada Dry Zero. It tastes great if it’s really cold.

Zero sugar (uses aspartame)

Let me ask you a serious question: How would you limit the construction of AI data centers VS regular ones? Or even a data center inside of an existing office building? Or a data center that’s just a backup location (where half of the equipment might not even be turned on all the time)?

How do you enforce such a thing? I could build a totally normal data center, then install a bunch of Nvidia HBMs and no one would know. You’d need a specific legal entity, the Data Center Police that dictate how, when, and why any given type of hardware gets used.

On the face of it, it’s a huge violation of freedom of speech. Because you’d have to look into what specific software and data was being run/used on the hardware to see if it’s related to AI and not, say, a CGI rendering farm. Or protein folding. Or physics/medical research. All of which use the same exact hardware.

I’m not saying you can’t regulate data centers. You just can’t regulate what people do with any given hardware.

My recommendation: Regulate data centers in these ways:

• They must be powered by local renewable energy. None of this, “we bought carbon credits” bullshit.
• If they need water cooling, they must use water from local retention ponds. Not the local potable water supply (using reclaimed water would be OK though).

Implement those two requirements and no one would have any basis to be bitching about data centers, specifically. There’s much, much worse business/industrial buildings than data centers.

Aside: Data centers are just climate-controlled office buildings (with extra cooling). They just sit there. From a noise perspective, they’re on par with a warehouse. In fact, warehouses that stay open 24/7 are much, much worse because of the truck traffic and forklifts. While a data center is a 24/7, low-frequency hum (on the outside, nearby), a warehouse is going to be shaking things nearby.

…and nothing is worse than busy train tracks! I slept at a friend’s place for a few days that lived next to an elevated train (across the street from his window). There’s no way a data center is worse than that! No way.

This wasn’t a moratorium on AI data centers. It was a moratorium on all data centers.

Do you ever use a search engine? How about YouTube, Netflix, or any other online services? I hate to be the one to break this to you but…

You’re a big user of data centers.

Poor Bangladesh. Not only are they about to be physically under water, their banks are about to be under water too.

“IP theft” is a rhetorical term invented by the MPAA/RIAA in the 90s. It’s not a real crime. It’s just propaganda.

There’s no law on the books that even remotely resembles “IP theft”. Here’s what we’ve got:

• Copyright law. Which can be violated. Normally, when you violate copyright that’s a civil offense. Not a criminal one. Criminal prosecution of copyright violation is pretty rare, though there’s been a recent uptick with lawsuits against illegal IPTV sites and Anna’s Archive.
• Trademark law. This is all about dealing with counterfeits and fraud (e.g. misrepresenting a trademarked brand).
• Patent law. Pretty self explanatory, except software patents shouldn’t exist. Every software patent that’s ever been granted is 100% bullshit and should never have happened.
• Trade secrets. Not really relevant to this discussion but there’s laws about it that are really, really hard to litigate (again, civil law). You could copy the secret recipe for Coke but that wouldn’t be “theft”. It’s… Complicated.
• Some obscure stuff like integrated circuit topography and in Europe there’s laws around databases.

Not a single one of these laws deals with “theft”. The entire concept of theft is orthogonal to intellectual property.

Until the MPAA/RIAA started their marketing campaigns in the 90s, “IP theft” as a concept didn’t exist. It wasn’t a thing. It still isn’t a thing. It’s propaganda/marketing BS.

Are you forgetting the IP theft

I’m going to come out and say it: IP theft isn’t a thing. IP is not something that can be stolen. It can have its license violated or it can be copied against the wishes of its owner. What it absolutely cannot be is “stolen”.

A car can be stolen. A phone can be stolen. A book or a CD or a DVD can be stolen. The concepts or ideas or literal content of what amounts to Intellectual Property cannot be stolen. It can only be copied.

If anything has been stolen it’s the commons that is the public domain. It was taken away for about four generations. Long enough that no one remembers the IP that’s only just now becoming public domain. It’s a loss far greater than anything related to AI.

I’ll also say this: Even if an AI were trained on nothing but public domain works (like most image generating AI a la ImageNET) people would still be spouting bullshit like, “it’s stealing IP!”

I honestly don’t see what the big deal is. Surely it will rise again.

All hail John Apple!