| ▲ | Joel_Mckay 6 hours ago | |
Westinghouse Electric Corporation built early electrical grid turbines, and worked extensively with consumer product markets to close the circle of demand. Accordingly, more retail products required more energy, and more energy required more turbines. The LLM proponents are trying the same naive move with intangible assets, but dismissed finite limits of externalized costs on surrounding community infrastructure. "AI" puts it in direct competition with the foundational economic resources for modern civilization. The technical side just added a facade of legitimacy to an economic fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_exclusion_principl... Thus, as energy costs must go up, the living standards of Americans is bid down. Individuals can't fix irrational movements, but one may profit from its predictable outcome. We look forwards to stripping data centers for discounted GPUs. =3 "Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds" (Charles Mackay, 1852) | ||