Actual Intelligence

If there is one certainty of this era, it is that people in America have become or already were — pardon my French — fucking idiots. I was just watching a video relating “AI” costs to revenues, and they weren’t even close. Companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars and collecting a tiny fraction … Read more

The Trouble with Data Centers

Nowadays, there is a flood of media attention directed at data centers: they make too much noise, they use too much energy, etc. While methods exist to prevent certain resource usage (whether or not they’re actually used remains up for debate!), a very significant aspect is getting ignored: they’re _ugly_ and significantly destructive to local … Read more