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Trump on AI data centers:

"I'm letting them build their own power plants. They're building the most beautiful; you've never seen power plants like this.

Communities that don't take a data center, they're making a mistake, because it means jobs, and it means tremendous tax revenue coming into the towns and cities that take them.

The smart ones are saying, "I want them so badly." "
I'm gonna do a GPT session later on how many square feet of DC floor space exist, how many chips are needed per square foot of compute, how much power is needed, and what's the production rate of known power plants and known fabs.

I think the answer is going to prove that there's no way these things can actually be datacenters, they're just building empty warehouses.
I think AI is going to be kind of a weird side-show distraction in the collapse. If these are empty buildings, then we're not talking about THAT MUCH money, it's more of a prosperity Potemkin Village ("don't worry about the crash, AGI is coming, look at these big (empty) buildings")

The real crash is probably gonna start with some shit like car loans, or Japan.

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@Terry @cjd I think achieving true AGI is like trying to escape the gravity well of a black hole. I think they are realizing it too. The nvidia ceo said it would take a “global effort” which is like saying it’s impossible but please don’t stop buying gpus.
I don't think it's impossible at all. There's gonna come a time when we will be able to take DNA and "run" it in a protean folding simulation to create an entire virtual person - with all of their cells. That's obviously "AGI" in the sense of being a human brain.

The question is whether something more efficient and more effective will come sooner. And I tend to think probably, but I'm quite confident that AI is not gonna bail out the US.
@Terry @cjd @captainslow ok, great wheels. now, do kikes and towel heads next.I saw where they were asking for docs people had to feed them. They're running out of words to feed it and it will start hallucinating more on its own crap. It's so not sustainable. It'll crap out and then something better will come along that requires less resources and still produce cute fake kitty pics