The irony is that we hit a wall with processing vs power. It's a physical limit of size vs heat dissipation. Reality cut us off...
Quantum computers are not delivering but are a neat science experiment. I suppose they think it'll magically be crazy efficient.
That's why these AI people want nuclear power, 😂
I guess they're in a way not unlike the civilization that built the computer in Hitchhikers guide that are seeking enlightenment! Decades of processing and decimation of planets to get the answer of 42 and forgetting what the original question was. 😂
Our Glorious Leader Sir Keir Starmer and his minions seem to have appropriated Varoufakis’s Technofeudalism, as the UK government are the ones driving investment in server farms … But yes, I did read that same book about a year ago. I’m a medieval historian by former occupation, so I can’t help thinking in medievalist terms, so regardless of Varoufakis’s concept I also see some parallels to feudal forms of social relations.
The way they're going, there will be nobody to "harvest data" from and buy their crap.
It'll blow up in their faces together with their nuclear reactors, and they'll spend all those extra years they got from "innovative immortality technologies" terrified and hiding in their bunkers,
while the Chinese outside clean up their mess to enjoy all this extra space they were awarded for their long term planning.
I wish… sincerely. But my heart sinks every time I see some person, generally young, using their smartphone to pay for stuff at the shops. The digital natives who value convenience over freedom (however nebulous a concept that may be) are dragging us all down to dystopia.
My mother used to say that, back in the day (the late 1940s) people used to say to her that, by the time her children grew up, we'd all be living on the moon or Mars or spaceships. Naturally this hasn't happened. Because the money wasn't there to make it happen. Likewise, people used to tell her not to have children because the world was going to hell in a handcart and only the lucky few would survive. And yet, here we are.
If there are no people left, what are those data centres going to be processing? Don't they need data scrapped from people doing things? What use is the data if nobody is left and the few who are have no money and (assuming China joins in in the data centre/AI craze) nothing to buy?
The UK isn't going to be the World Leader or Centre of anything other than poverty, overcrowding and energy starvation.
My understanding of the UK investment drive is that the planned data centres would be physically located on British soil but would be hosting/processing data from anywhere- so from our wealthier European cousins. Plus data gathering is primarily a surveillance tool, so even smaller numbers of impoverished folks are still generating valuable data. And better still, from the point of view of our rulers, our money, aka taxes, will pay for the means of our surveillance. Win-win to them.
I recently returned to Britain from a trip to Belgium, and was advised via helpful posters at UK Border control that in the very near future my residence status in Britain would have to be verified through purely digital means (eVisa or some such abomination) as the UK was moving away from physical (paper) documents. Here’s one example for increased data capture that benefits surveillance and requires server storage.
How are they designing centers with small nuclear reactors when that tech is still in development?
Sounds like bullshit. After all, the Tesla Cybertruck came out all shitty, not even safety tested (cause it would fail pedestrian ratings).
Neuralink won't work either... More vaporware.
https://posthumousstyle.substack.com/p/neuralink-does-not-read-minds-and
THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES 😂
The irony is that we hit a wall with processing vs power. It's a physical limit of size vs heat dissipation. Reality cut us off...
Quantum computers are not delivering but are a neat science experiment. I suppose they think it'll magically be crazy efficient.
That's why these AI people want nuclear power, 😂
I guess they're in a way not unlike the civilization that built the computer in Hitchhikers guide that are seeking enlightenment! Decades of processing and decimation of planets to get the answer of 42 and forgetting what the original question was. 😂
Time for a return to materialism perhaps?
A return to reality.... Even physics has been corrupted with magical thinking using math.
ItsBS channel debunking modern physics and quantum mechanics.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkdAkAC4ItcFyNFBywN0wiZ45pCnMr-Ay
Heinz von Foerester -what is reality?
He also explains how physics made up particles to fulfill formulas. Science became imaginary, especially quantum physics.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ev7e9sfWIJo
All roads lead to another dead end street:
https://observador.substack.com/p/the-inevitability-of-technodictatorship
You seem to have appropriated a concept from Yanis Varoufakis.
Our Glorious Leader Sir Keir Starmer and his minions seem to have appropriated Varoufakis’s Technofeudalism, as the UK government are the ones driving investment in server farms … But yes, I did read that same book about a year ago. I’m a medieval historian by former occupation, so I can’t help thinking in medievalist terms, so regardless of Varoufakis’s concept I also see some parallels to feudal forms of social relations.
I think Yanis has a good point. I just thought you might credit him in your article ?
The way they're going, there will be nobody to "harvest data" from and buy their crap.
It'll blow up in their faces together with their nuclear reactors, and they'll spend all those extra years they got from "innovative immortality technologies" terrified and hiding in their bunkers,
while the Chinese outside clean up their mess to enjoy all this extra space they were awarded for their long term planning.
I wish… sincerely. But my heart sinks every time I see some person, generally young, using their smartphone to pay for stuff at the shops. The digital natives who value convenience over freedom (however nebulous a concept that may be) are dragging us all down to dystopia.
I used to get severe anxiety from thinking about the coming dystopia.
As time went on, and they revealed themselves for the incompetent, greedy clowns that they really are, I've come to relax a bit.
They won't pull it off, dystopia needs serious, long term planning, and these stooges can't think beyond themselves.
Plus, there's always the in-fighting to be looking forward to. 😉
My mother used to say that, back in the day (the late 1940s) people used to say to her that, by the time her children grew up, we'd all be living on the moon or Mars or spaceships. Naturally this hasn't happened. Because the money wasn't there to make it happen. Likewise, people used to tell her not to have children because the world was going to hell in a handcart and only the lucky few would survive. And yet, here we are.
If there are no people left, what are those data centres going to be processing? Don't they need data scrapped from people doing things? What use is the data if nobody is left and the few who are have no money and (assuming China joins in in the data centre/AI craze) nothing to buy?
The UK isn't going to be the World Leader or Centre of anything other than poverty, overcrowding and energy starvation.
My understanding of the UK investment drive is that the planned data centres would be physically located on British soil but would be hosting/processing data from anywhere- so from our wealthier European cousins. Plus data gathering is primarily a surveillance tool, so even smaller numbers of impoverished folks are still generating valuable data. And better still, from the point of view of our rulers, our money, aka taxes, will pay for the means of our surveillance. Win-win to them.
I recently returned to Britain from a trip to Belgium, and was advised via helpful posters at UK Border control that in the very near future my residence status in Britain would have to be verified through purely digital means (eVisa or some such abomination) as the UK was moving away from physical (paper) documents. Here’s one example for increased data capture that benefits surveillance and requires server storage.