• nieceandtows@programming.devEnglish
    1 day

    Nice! AI is the new ponzi scheme, but ‘stakeholders’, including the governments are in too deep to stop it.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 day

    Lasher—who no AI company spent big money to elect—had just beaten Alex Bores, a state assemblyman who became the unlikely center of an extraordinary bidding war between rival AI factions. Pro-safety AI super PACs, including Public First Action backed by Anthropic, poured $19 million into supporting Bores. Leading the Future, tied to OpenAI president Greg Brockman and Andreessen Horowitz, spent $8 million trying to destroy him. Lasher won with 39% of the vote (while Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg came in a distant third place). And then Lasher pledged to pursue the same AI regulation agenda as the man he beat.

    Regardless of letter by the name, absolutely no amount of money can buy as many votes as anyone would get by not taking AI money…

    No one actually wants this shit except the politicians who have been bribed to make it happen no matter what.

    Pushing this hard on one of the only issues that actually has widescale support is going to really backfire. Even people who see AI is inevitable, none of them want datacenters anywhere near them.

    What’s fucking crazy, is no one is trying to build out in Alaska.

    Cold as fuck, sparsely populated, huge tax breaks for everyone, and I gotta assume there’s major internet connections they could tap into when it crosses continents at the shortest point.

    Or like Japan building underseas by thermal vents, but in America they build them in fucking neighborhoods, likely knowing it will crash all surrounding property values giving them easy expansion down the road.

    • hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1 hour

      They are putting them in Alaska (the governor is even working to attract more), but sparsely populated Alaska doesn’t currently have the energy infrastructure to support a major build-out of data centers there.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        44 minutes

        but sparsely populated Alaska doesn’t currently have the energy infrastructure to support a major build-out of data centers there.

        That’s the neat part…

        No area does.

        When they go in residential areas, peoples faucets go dry and their energy rates skyrocket.

        Because there’s not enough infrastructure for the data centers and the population. So they just take it from the population.

    • Talcosis@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3 hours

      Cold as fuck and sparsely populated is another way of saying expensive as shit to do anything.

      They build in neighborhoods because it is cheap.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 hours

        Buddy…

        For a lot of this large scale shit, it’s easier to get it to somewhere in Alaska close to a port than the middle of small town America and definitely in residential areas of major metro areas.

        They prefer small towns adjacent to major metros because thats where the bribes are cheapest for tax breaks and property deals.

        Again, this is all corrupt capitalism making the decisions. Those decisions won’t be good for anyone except the people paying for them or getting paid to make them.

        That’s why it’s “cheap” if we enforced regulations and zoning, it wouldn’t even be an option.

        Like, arguing that gas is cheaper than an EV, but you only care about price at pump and not all the gas subsidizes we have to pay because of fossil fuel lobbyists.

        Gas is “cheaper” but only because oligarchs are making it the cheapest option.

        We can just make environmentally prudent decisions the cheapest via regulations.

        That’s literally the point of environmental regulations and why Cleveland hasnt had any rivers catch fire in almost 60 years. It would be “cheaper” to handle industrial waste like that again if it wasn’t for regulations.

        • Talcosis@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2 hours

          Yeah. Exactly. Like I said: they build it in neighborhoods because it is cheap.

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1 hour

            Welp, any further attempts to explain the finer points on anything else will probably end up the same as this did…

            Best of luck

            • Talcosis@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1 hour

              Like I said. I agree with your explanation.

              My point is simple: when you say “it’s only cheap because…” Every CFO in the world stopped listening after the word “cheap”

    • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      There are exactly zero undersea cables from Alaska to Asia. I think the reasons should be obvious. There is one to Alaska from the lower 48.

  • Fishnoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 day

    It seems kind of apparent to me that despite their wealth, these people just aren’t that bright. They throw money around like it’s nothing… There has to be a way we can grift them. Maybe create local level voting ‘blocks’ where you get thousands of people to basically sign on to a charter where they will vote in line with the group, and they just need to pay like 5 million to the block, which then gets divided to everyone in the block.

    But here’s the fun part… People can just do whatever the fuck they want to do, and even vote against that candidate. There would be no legal recourse. Just get the money up front paid to the llc front you make for the block. Distribute, then do your thing. As they get more desperate they may try shit like that.