We have energy returns for brief periods and that’s just raw energy output with no way to actually convert it into electricity which will have its own losses.

That said fusion is WAY harder than just ‘making a sun’, the sun puts out heat on the same level a bannana puts out radiation, its just really REALLY big so all that heat adds up. What we’re trying to do is replicate the conditions found in the cores of the largest hypergiant type stars to actually get an output thats meaningful on human scales. We are in essence attempting to massively out-do our own sun.

I have FTL and Into The Breach installed so even if the rest of my library vanishes I think I’ll be alright.

iirc the power is not very doable, You’d need hundreds of times as many solar pannels as are on the ISS to power a single modest data centre.

Just waiting for Trump to invade Panema and bring about the final collapse of the US.

The UK is a tight political union consisting of England and 3 countries who’s populations have never recovered from what England did to them, and consistently vote contrary to it.

There was kinda that whole bit in between where all the unemployed workers crowded into cities and everyone died of cholera though…

Do I get to include the gargantuan cooling system for the data centre and all the infastructure required to keep that going?

So my GPU is about 300 watts and a still blatantly stupid LLM can write a little faster than me. Take off 100w to bring that down to my own writing speed then make it 10x slower to turn that 200 watts into 20 watts. Even with that heavy bias in the LLMs favour (forgiving it the entire power cost of my PCs other components that it partially utilizes) what we get is something slow, dumb, and incapable of learning because any local model is statically weighted.

To be fair, run an LLM on a machine with an equivelent power requirement to the human brain and we might se some different results on that one.

Except these people are turning around and burningdown the libraries once they’ve read all the books.

The US was doing horrific shit 20 years ago, 20 years from now it will still have been doing horrific shit 20 years ago.

It’d be environmentally catastrophic but I’d be kinda curious what happens if we dumped 300 billion worth of ammonia fertilizer into one part of the ocean as ‘repirations to the algae’ XKCD style.

Starmer was a human rights lawyer and he’s spent his term systematically dismantling peoples rights, a 180 is apparently the standard.

Especially Cyberpunk 2077 With just a ton of difficulty mods + Night city alive (random gang vs gang fights) and re-inforcements so they can turn into full on gang wars. Makes the game feel way more alive though sadly V still has too much accumulated protagonist privalige by the middle of the game.

Its basically a phyric victory machine, the act of using it destroys anything of value in the territory gained including the abiltiy to even use the space itself.

The introverts who percieve kindness as a potential threat will inherit the earth.

I still have my suspicions about how that 49% is being measured, because if it counts any ‘use’ then technically using most search engines is using an LLM regardless of wether you want to or not, a lot of people are now also forced by their employers regardless of wether they want to or not.

Only loosing 3x more than they make!? That’s a gigantic success by modern standards.

Even if that’s true its not odds I’d take on anything that costs money or that could be potentially dangerous.

I get dreams of finding items of ‘nonspecific sentimentality’ like I’ll find a secret loft in my childhood home filled with boxes of old stuff that all feels like its my old stuff that I miss dearly but even in the dream I’ll never be able to pinpoint any single item that belonged to me or that I actually miss, despite having a general feeling of nostalgia and like the childhood toy I loved is just in the next box.

It’s honestly kind of creepy like some kind of sentiment/nostalgia angler fish.