I mean, the text on a website isn’t the problem for not being able to use 56k.
It’s only images and video that take up space, the libraries used on websites are all cached at this point so that’s hardly relevant to ongoing usage of a website.
The US has a population density of 37 people per square kilometer, the EU is 106, which is three times higher. China is 147 people per square kilometer.
By distance, those European rail networks are also tiny compared to what’s needed in the US.
A rail line from Seattle-Portland-San Francisco-Los Angeles alone would be longer than the entire highspeed rail system in Germany, and only connect 21 million people across those metro areas, half of which are in LA.
The German network covers around 60 million people in the Metro areas it covers.
LA to New York by rail is the same distance as the entirety of Spain’s rail system, and would have an even shittier coverage ratio. Not to mention even a direct trip would still take 14-16 HOURS, where a flight takes 6ish + a couple at the airport waiting for less than $100 return on a budget airline. Why the fuck would anyone take the train? Even if the train was free, it wouldn’t be worth it for anyone conducting business between those two places.
When distances get large, high-speed rail gets crushed by airplanes. The infrastructure for high speed rail is just too fucking expensive unless you’re moving absolutely massive numbers of people around.
All of those are part of capitalism. Even most homesteading these days requires significant purchased inputs.
Precious metals, crypto, and anything else that’s an investment asset is quite literally the epitome of capitalism.
You really need a better economic education. You sound just as dumb as the people complaining about communism without knowing what that is either.
A proper Land value tax is a way of preventing owners from making any money off the appreciation of the value of land while still being profitable to construct or renovate if it adds value. It significantly reduces if not outright eliminates housing as an investment.
Land value taxes only apply to the value of the land itself, not the buildings, and therefore desirable areas with high land value taxes have a significant incentive to sell and be redeveloped with density which spread a that tax among a larger number of tenants.
The biggest downside is that it completely destroys existing equity. Which is both how it makes everything affordable again, and is also likely why it won’t pass as a policy for many years.
Currency isn’t the problem, and you really need to keep that concept separate from the issues that happen within Capitalism.
Currency is just a convenient method to measure and exchange resources.
Very few people desire an allocated home and weekly rations of flour, chicken, and butter. If you instead give them a list of things they can choose from, and assign ratios and a limit for total resources, all you’ve done is create a new currency.
I disagree, rent and price controls are not the correct tool.
Land value taxes are the correct method to solve that issue.
“UBI Free” doesn’t make sense. Everyone gets a UNIVERSAL basic income.
If you mean there would be areas of major metros where people who are not employed cannot live, those already exist.
I’m always happy to hear suggestions of alternate systems for resource allocation that do not involve capitalism. What do you propose?
Unintended consequences, or just ones you aren’t aware of?
There’s lots of known things that will happen, both good and bad.
I honestly don’t think either party is going to pick reduction in population beyond simply cancelling all immigration. And while that would lead to a reduction in the population over time, it’s far too slow to handle the unemployment spiking like that.
I have hope that the developer will address this situation now that 1.0 is released. We will see.
I bought this game in early access.
It’s great to play through once or twice, but it has zero replayability after that. It’s the same order for progression on every playthrough, there’s no “oh this is different this time so I should focus on X first, then do Y”. The only difference is which military units you make based on what spawns on the map, and it’s such a simple choice that it doesn’t feel good.
My wife and I were very disappointed, because most of the actual game mechanics feel great.
It’s more likely that the demand for LLM inference will drop off only once AGI exists.
There are billions of active users already having it do everything from coming up with ideas for Christmas presents, to helping them write e-mails to clients.
That isn’t going anywhere until there’s a better option on the table. People would have already got bored and moved on if it wasn’t doing anything useful for them.
I mean, we really don’t have the data to prove this either way.
Meta’s training of Llama3 405B model had a 1.34% failure rate for GPUs over the 54 days it ran, across 16387 gpus. It’s not likely that all of those faults led to bricked hardware either, they could have just lost part of their performance or memory.
The real question is does that test scale to the long term, often with hardware like this there’s a bathtub curve for failure. If those units used were brand new, many of the failures could have just been the initial wave of failures, and there could be a long period of relative stability that hadn’t even been seen yet.
GPU based coin mining demonstrated that GPUs often had a lifespan over 5 years of constant use before failure on consumer cards in often less than ideal operating conditions.
You’re pulling shit out of your ass at this point, there are some doom reports out of people suggesting that may be a problem, but there are also reports out of other companies(meta for example) with documentation saying the rate is much lower and the mean failure is 6+ years.
The other leftovers from the crash also won’t have that problem. It’s not just about GPUs. Datacenters and their infrastructure last a lot longer, and the electric generation/transportation networks will also potentially be useful for various alternative applications if the AI use case flops.
They’re still somewhat functional for those workloads, and they can even use those low-precision components to emulate high-precision using libraries like cublas, though obviously not as fast as hardware that could do it natively.
It’s not like they can’t do it at all. It’s just that Hopper was better at FP64 than Blackwell is but if Blackwell chips become effectively free due to an AI crash then you could likely still use them in that capacity.
That’s why you don’t see animals expending energy all the time;
Go to a dog park and tell me those fuckers aren’t enjoying themselves running around.
Most animals play around, you just don’t see it in a city much.
The power costs are nothing compared to the hardware costs for those things.
Getting the massive power required is difficult for datacenters but the usage per unit of compute is actually quite low.
It’s important to note that in some previous bubbles, the leftovers of the crash ended up spurring new beneficial growth after.
GPUlike computing power available at scape for essentially free after the ai crash could be used in all sorts of potential ways.
Maybe it makes rending movies with special effects super cheap, and available even to tiny indie studios. Maybe scientists grab it for running physics simulations or disease treatment computations.
I’d argue home assistant with some smart LEDs and a few sensors would be great.
Having a bulb that let’s you know the outside temperature/weather when you’re getting dressed in the morning is neat. Having a dimming pattern for sleeping time. Tons of other really simple stuff available too.