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  • It’s not even that entirely

    You can’t build X here unless every component is also produced… here. The component factories can’t be built here here until there’s factories building the subcomponents for them, AND a buyer for them here.

    A button up shirt needs cotton -> chemical treatment -> dyes -> fabric, base chemicals > plastic pellets -> buttons, AND the machines to do all of those processes. It’s like 7 or 8 different factories just to produce a shirt with buttons on it. Imagine how many factories it is for anything more complex.

    Then in comes your point of needing commitment when it’s not even certain for more than a week, nobody is going to build out entire supply chains in that scenario.


  • The basic problem with this is that people aren’t equal.

    1 hour of a doctors time isn’t the same as 1 out of a house cleaners time, because the doctor had to spend tens of thousands of hours ahead of time to be qualified for that job. Now each job and even experience levels within jobs need multipliers in order to reflect actual value.

    That’s before we get into the fact that some people are smarter, faster, stronger, etc. Than other people and levelling the field provides no incentive for people to do anything more than the absolute minimum.

    It’s a recipe for disaster.





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    3 months ago

    Fuck I hate it when anything uses “water consumed” as a bad thing.

    Writing a 100-word email consumes about 500ml of water (17 oz).

    500ml of water is used in a cooling system. This water is not lost in any way, it’s just warmed up and evaporated. Which then falls as rain again.

    If you draw more water from a particular area than that area can support it’s a bad thing. Otherwise, this is just a stupid argument made to appeal to emotions rather than logic.

    Where I live, our main water source is a lake, and we only even bother closing the weir(a type of dam) that holds the water in come the middle of March, and open it completely again in October. We just just let billions of liters flow directly out to the ocean the rest of the year.

    Especially for AI, you don’t need to locate datacenters near population centers at all, the latency doesn’t affect that use case at all. So it should be easy enough to build them in locations that have easy access to cheap energy and large amounts of water, pretty much anywhere that has a hydro electric dam is a good choice.