Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for each one. That’s how skewed this whole nonsense is.

Many professional and legal societies, as well as gov/constitutional scholars, have already opined--and there is almost universal alarm. For instance, statements from:
American Physical Society: https://www.aps.org/initiatives/advocate-amplify/policy/federal-grants-rule-change
American Meteorological Society: https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/ams-statements/statements-of-the-ams-in-force/ams-summary-comments-on-the-office-of-management-and-budget-proposed-rule-on-regulation-for-federal-financial-assistance/

I wanted to share my thoughts on the proposed OMB rule change that would radically transform federal grant-making into an overtly partisan political process. It's highly alarming, and would be devastating for American science (among many other things). https://youtu.be/ZyBibk4a6Vs?si=Bg1KCBtDR1wOTKir

@wmijnhardt "this proωees man clambing of Reasoning" — the extruded image provees the point I guess?

“Impossible to predict this”, says the CxO class that keeps ignoring all predictions of this exact outcome

> As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai

#AI

Hi. Any blind people have audio described versions of the 1999 film version of Animal Farm and the one that comes after that? I have the 1954 version. If not, undescribed audio would be fine. Thanks for any help or boosts.

RE: https://ehlo.exim.org/@bernardq/116851178355484115

• Reports we believe are LLM generated will either be rejected outright or if thought to be plausible will be credited to the unnamed and uncredited authors whose works were ingested as the training corpus.

power move

New from 404 Media: we've got leaks from Amazon, GitHub, Adobe, Citi, and more. The big takeaway is that companies in all industries are suddenly throttling their employees' AI use because AI is actually too expensive. Cutting off access to some models entirely https://www.404media.co/companies-are-throttling-employees-ai-use-because-its-too-expensive/

SpaceX is owned by the richest dude in the world, a demonstrably horrible person. And SpaceX effectively controls orbit right now.

There are also dozens of other companies planning to launch even more satellites into already-crowded orbit. (Another company I've never heard of just filed today for another 100,000 satellites https://spacenews.com/orbital-files-plans-for-100000-orbital-data-centers/. Fuck.)

Our future ability to make use of incredibly beneficial satellites is entirely in the hands of selfish, horrible billionaires.