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One gathering hosted by Tan in June featured Pat Gelsinger, former CEO of chipmaker Intel, and was organized by ACTS 17, according to a social post by Gelsinger. “Such a deep discussion on the ‘Holy Shift’ across life, AI, leadership and faith,” he wrote.
A spokesperson for Playground, a venture capital firm where Gelsinger is a general partner, declined to comment.
Tan said he thought Thiel’s comparison of potential overregulation of AI to the Antichrist was “thought-provoking” and a “somewhat tongue-in-cheek” use of the concept. “These are useful mental frameworks for how technology interacts with society,” he said.
Overregulation of nuclear power has worsened the climate crisis, he added. “What if we do that to the age of intelligence? The future won’t repeat, but it will rhyme.”
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To me, the mixture of immense wealth, unlimited AI and religion is a bit blind ( willfully or deceptively ) to how well their own goals comport with the Antichrist and Beasts predicted in Revelations.

Note: I am not a biblical scholar.
 
I read that article early this morning. Apparently the billionaire Thiel has never read the verse about how hard it is for a rich man to enter heaven. Thiel is openly gay but he's married to a woman. He's a total asshole, which I knew long before I read the article this morning. AI uses a lot of energy, causing the average person's power bill to rise and who knows what all it's doing to the environment. Thiel is an asshole.
 
southernhybrid said:
I read that article early this morning. Apparently the billionaire Thiel has never read the verse about how hard it is for a rich man to enter heaven. Thiel is openly gay but he's married to a woman. He's a total asshole, which I knew long before I read the article this morning. AI uses a lot of energy, causing the average person's power bill to rise and who knows what all it's doing to the environment. Thiel is an asshole.
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Unfortunately, that asshole put JD Vance in the #2 spot—which is extremely problematic, given out POTUS.
 
southernhybrid said:
AI uses a lot of energy, causing the average person's power bill to rise and who knows what all it's doing to the environment.
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Not a problem for long, hopefully.
Oklo’s first power generator, the Aurora powerhouse, is expected to go online in late 2027 or early 2028 at the Idaho National Laboratory. I have high hopes for it.
Their mini-nuke is designed to operate off-grid, generating power specifically for data centers and other high-consumption sites, and I think it will go beyond that if allowed to progress. Anyhow, I’m glad to see some tech billionaire power people embracing the concept of decentralized power generation - and increasingly, backing it.

(Stock I bought a year ago for $12.80 is over $150.00 at the moment, and I think it could go another 10x in the next few years. It fluctuates pretty wildly (up 9% today’s with the indices off 1-2%) but is still listed as a “buy” with a $175 target.)
 
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Elixir said:
southernhybrid said:
AI uses a lot of energy, causing the average person's power bill to rise and who knows what all it's doing to the environment.
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Not a problem for long, hopefully.
Oklo’s first power generator, the Aurora powerhouse, is expected to go online in late 2027 or early 2028 at the Idaho National Laboratory. I have high hopes for it.
Their mini-nuke is designed to operate off-grid, generating power specifically for data centers and other high-consumption sites, and I think it will go beyond that if allowed to progress. Anyhow, I’m glad to see some tech billionaire power people embracing the concept of decentralized power generation - and increasingly, backing it.

(Stock I bought a year ago for $12.80 is over $150.00 at the moment, and I think it could go another 10x in the next few years. It fluctuates pretty wildly (up 9% today’s with the indices off 1-2%) but is still listed as a “buy” with a $175 target.)
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I absolutely do not believe that it ( enormous consumption of energy—and water!!) will only be a temporary issue.

It seems that we are moving very far and very quickly past the idea that technology is to serve people and not corporations and oligarchs who exist outside of normal societal roles, rules and expectations and instead seem to be operating as Demi-Huss, a comparison I’m certain they would feel is far too modest taking into consideration their absolute right to do whatever the fuck they want, damn the cost and full speed ahead.

If ( or rather, when) there are issues with nuclear power, they will be very long term.
 
Elixir said:
southernhybrid said:
AI uses a lot of energy, causing the average person's power bill to rise and who knows what all it's doing to the environment.
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Not a problem for long, hopefully.
Oklo’s first power generator, the Aurora powerhouse, is expected to go online in late 2027 or early 2028 at the Idaho National Laboratory. I have high hopes for it.
Their mini-nuke is designed to operate off-grid, generating power specifically for data centers and other high-consumption sites, and I think it will go beyond that if allowed to progress. Anyhow, I’m glad to see some tech billionaire power people embracing the concept of decentralized power generation - and increasingly, backing it.

(Stock I bought a year ago for $12.80 is over $150.00 at the moment, and I think it could go another 10x in the next few years. It fluctuates pretty wildly (up 9% today’s with the indices off 1-2%) but is still listed as a “buy” with a $175 target.)
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Hope you're right and congrats on doing so well on a stock. Mr.Sohy never does and he sold the one I told him not to sell a few years ago and it's up about 5 times. Right now the damn market is down about 800, all because of something Trump said about China this morning.
 
It is simply a personal belief he has, and we must respect it (sarcasm).
 
Elixir said:
southernhybrid said:
AI uses a lot of energy, causing the average person's power bill to rise and who knows what all it's doing to the environment.
Click to expand...
Not a problem for long, hopefully.
Oklo’s first power generator, the Aurora powerhouse, is expected to go online in late 2027 or early 2028 at the Idaho National Laboratory. I have high hopes for it.
Their mini-nuke is designed to operate off-grid, generating power specifically for data centers and other high-consumption sites, and I think it will go beyond that if allowed to progress. Anyhow, I’m glad to see some tech billionaire power people embracing the concept of decentralized power generation - and increasingly, backing it.

(Stock I bought a year ago for $12.80 is over $150.00 at the moment, and I think it could go another 10x in the next few years. It fluctuates pretty wildly (up 9% today’s with the indices off 1-2%) but is still listed as a “buy” with a $175 target.)
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Penn Gillette of Penn and Teller wrote an essay about Las Vegas and characterized it as city built on "bad math". He said everyday, thousands of people travel to Las Vegas and see waterfalls in the desert, pyramids, and places where the lights are never turned off. According to Gillette, none of these arriving bad mathematicians thinks to ask, "How do they pay for all of this?"

That's the real question. Ginormous data centers cost a lot to build and a lot to run, and a lot to maintain.

If I were thinking about building a toothbrush factory, the calculations would be fairly straightforward, once I knew the price of a toothbrush, what it would cost to make a toothbrush, and the market for toothbrushes. I would hope future toothbrush sales would cover my costs and return a profit on my investment.

All these data centers seem more defensive than economic. Tech bros want a data center because they don't want to be the only one without a data center. Back to the real question. What are they going to produce that can be sold at a price to cover expenses? Macroeconomics has a term know as margin cost of production. What does it cost to produce one more toothbrush? A cyber product, whether it's answer to a Google search or a high school students term paper, has a marginal cost of zero. When the data centers enter the market and have to compete with each other, how will they price the product? Will competition become a race to the bottom between all centers and the only goal is to pay this month's electric bill.

In the year 2025, I'll wager there are more shut down automobile factories than there are operating ones. Factories of all kinds close all the time. It doesn't matter how much was invested to build it, when it can't pay for itself, it's dead.

When a data center shuts down, it will not only kill the jobs inside the fence, but also the jobs in all the infrastructure built to support it. If I had a crystal ball, it would probably show me some WorldCon/Enron/FTX level bankruptcies in the future.
 
Bronzeage said:
What are they going to produce that can be sold at a price to cover expenses?
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AI capability for one thing. Seems to be the anticipated need right now.
But reliable, useable energy is always a commodity.
 
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