Nvidias latest gen looks to be 30% faster after 2 years of development with about the same power usage increase. So no reduction in Joules per GOP, just a speed increase.
In 6 years they might go 2x the speed of today but need double the watts (to deliver the same energy in half the time).
A company can have value without making profit. It can own assets. It has value in its staff.
Now should it have a valuation like OpenAI? Fuck no!
I have no idea what this company is…who this person is…and by the looks of it, I’ll never need to.
No.
Russia (the current primary aggressor) is on the brink of a banking system collapse. It doesn’t have the money to wage war on a bigger scale than it already is.
China is far more interested in trade than hostilities.
The middle east has been a tinder box for over a hundred years. I don’t see it dragging outsiders into it and hopefully we have a respite coming.
Central Asia has tension between India and Pakistan, but that’s nothing new. India could piss off China or the reverse, and if that kicked off the loss of life could be on a scale that would be unprecedented but still I think it wouldn’t drag the west in.
A federated system of discussion groups. That’s such a 90s idea.
An army of cybernetic penguins?
Op is right though. It’s still a cost/benefit situation, and the benefit is not enough to justify the cost.
Sure, but there’s an lot of people classifying disagreement as hatred and using that to stamp out the discourse we need to have as a society.
Take positive discrimination. Some see it as corrective action for historical injustices. Some see it as newspeak it for just another form of discrimination and two wrongs don’t make a right. There’s a societal discourse that needs to happen there.
Nobody is preaching hatred, but I expect I’ll get shit for even suggesting there’s a ethical argument against DEI.
It would be if the administration signed an ethics declaration.
Easier to dump the hot water and get new cold water.