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• AI is not profitable and has no obvious path as of right now ow to become profitable.
• The adoption we’ve seen from so many companies is based solely on the fact that AI is cheaper than salaries. But AI companies are currently running at a huge loss, and the price gauging is inevitable. AI will likely never be as economically viable for the average company in the future as it is right now.
• The future of AI very much depends on it continuing to improve for the next decade at the same rate that it’s improved in the last 5 years. This doesn’t seem super likely given the fact that we got here by training AI on more and more data created by humans, and now that so much publicly accessible content is written by AI, it will be harder and harder to find new training data to improve AI in any meaningful way.

There are just so many big questions out there surrounding AI and it’s masters and biggest cheerleaders don’t have straight answers for them.

Big tech are the ones behind the age verification push. Linux wouldn’t become illegal, only the distros available to end users would be.

Major countries, sure. But there are plenty of countries out there that thrive on weird little niche industries that would love to make some dough being VPN exit points.

The nation of Tuvalu gets 15% of its GDP from .tv domain registration fees.

You can’t run anything like a frontier model on a self hosted solution. To get anywhere close you’d have to spend thousands of dollars on hardware which obviously isn’t free, or even a viable solution for the vast majority of people, let alone these students. And the quality of output you’d get from a model running on off the shelf consumer hardware like a MacBook is much more noticeably AI generated and trivial for AI detection tools to flag.

they're here to stay. Cat's out of the box.

People keep saying this as though it’s true. The odds that this current era of free and ubiquitous access to these frontier LLMs lasts forever are pretty slim.

This game is evidently not worth even pirating

Is that so? I’ve primarily seen glowing reviews about how good it is already and even well optimized even given its EA status.

Step No. 1 is find the lowest cost grocery store in your area. Stores like Lidl and Aldi are usually substantially cheaper than other big name alternatives, even Walmart.

Step No 2. Especially if you’re talking about actual food insecurity, is shaping what you eat. A pound of spaghetti and red sauce will feed 4 people for less than $5. Actual sacks of rice and orzo are extremely cost effective. If you have an honest to goodness local meat butchers around (these aren’t so common so you may have to go looking), they will often have bulk deals in meat you can buy and freeze. This is much more cost effective than $8-$12 a pound refrigerated ground beef in your local grocery store.

Step No 3. Is something to approach with caution, but certain credit cards often have good cash back rates on grocery stores. If you use them exclusively for grocery and gas purchases, and only use them to pre-spend the money in your checking account so you’re never carrying a balance or paying any interest, they can save you some money. American Express for example has a no-fee rewards card that gives you 3% back on groceries, and a higher tier one that was a $100 annual fee that gives you 6% back on groceries and 3% on gas. Make it your dedicated gas and groceries card, don’t spend more on it than you have money to pay for, and you get a nice little break on two of the most expensive costs of living right now. Something else that might work in this arena is to join a bulk membership store like BJs, Sam’s Club, or Costco and they might have a rewards credit card or even just a store card that puts a little money back into your pocket when you use it.

I know BJs has a program too where if you spend a certain amount on groceries you get a discount on gas if you fill up that day at one of their gas stations, which are usually already cheaper than regular gas stations.

If things are very dicey you can always visit a food pantry. Some Christian churches also do weekly/monthly free meals no questions asked. I know Episcopal churches are usually big on this.

You’re basing that on what exactly

heat the water a little bit to cool the stuff it needs

No. Heating the water a little bit would not be sufficient at cooling what the datacenters need to cool. You have to heat the water a whole hell of a lot.

Forgot where I was and thought this was going to be a Max Verstappen meme

Season 1 of Lower Decks missed the mark and tried too hard to be bog standard “Adult Animated Comedy” but it really improved in the following seasons. And not even so much because it became much funnier, but because they actually toned down the comedy a bit and pivoted into making it a decent Star Trek show on its own. Most of the comedy after that sorta centered around teasing about Star Trek tropes and poking fun at some of Old Trek’s more goofy episodes.

When I started getting into this the common answer was Reolink. I’m pretty happy with mine.