First: Don’t get cheap bulbs. Feit is bad. Check the HA site for compatibility.

Also, Do you have occasional power outages, no matter how small? Some bulbs will reset and/or go into a flashing pairing mode. It can be awkward if you have to unscrew the bulb to get it back online. Again, get the best possible bulbs.

FWIW, I have found it to be better to use smart plugs for lamps and smart switches when possible/needed.

I have to drop “The Dispossessed” here.

They conflate their actions with their selfhood. It’s the same argument used in East Ramapo.

https://www.nyclu.org/commentary/school-district-harms-its-own-kids-rocklands-east-ramapo-central-district-falling-apart

When non-Orthodox oppose the dismantling of the district and the distribution of funds to private schools, we are accused of being antisemitic.

I pointed to your logical fallacy. Do you see how?

Then you made an ad hominem.

All you’ve demonstrated is your desire to muddy the water.

Would you believe that I see the Luddites had a valid point? The mills were being irresponsible by taking a pure capitalist approach without any social awareness? My company builds more public power infrastructure than it uses, leaving the local community with more electrical capacity than before. Generally by a factor of 2. Why? Because it’s the right thing to do. We don’t build open loop cooling. We don’t build near residential areas. We believe that being irresponsible is not an option. Do we make the news? Of course not, that story doesn’t sell.

They this on…

And good for you for minimizing your carbon footprint, but it’s still “fuck humans” in general.

We both see that there are large ongoing issues, with bad actors. Elon spending a gazillion dollars for zero cash return is a symptom of his moral destitution, not the usefulness of AI. However painting the world with a broad brush does nothing for improving the world. Bad behavior needs to be punished, while promoting the good.

Most part, no. Significant chunk, certainly. Here are some of the larger ongoing contracts:

​Eli Lilly & Insilico Medicine ($2.75 Billion)

Merck KGaA & Valo Health (Up to $3.0 Billion)

Roche & Manifold Bio (Up to $2.0 Billion)

AbbVie & Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals (Up to $2.0 Billion)

Novartis & Relation Therapeutics (Up to $1.7 Billion)

Isomorphic Labs (Alphabet) with Eli Lilly & Novartis ($2.9 Billion Combined)

Eli Lilly & NVIDIA ($1 Billion)

Microsoft contradicts your argument on all sides.

That’s still limited to LLMs. A lot of work being done is not even in any language. It speaks election orbitals and bonding energy. This is used for biomolecular and pharma purposes.

Some folks dislike AI but use other justifications to hate on them.

Some folks are accelerationists at all costs.

Some read about the criminals in the field (xai) and assume that everyone is like that.

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.”

We do both. Every day.

All of those things are foam on the water, the leftover gpu cycles after the bills are paid. No one is spending this kind of money on cat videos.

Our customers are doing biochem/pharma work. Mega-multivariable analysis. There is a big push for a model that can control the innards of a fusion reactor in realtime.

My place uses very clean diesel generators. The sound level is below 65 DB with all the generators running - which only happens during an outage. And that’s 10 feet away.

The cooling is fully closed loop. A toilet uses more water a day than the 120,000 sqft DC used in a year.

I work for an AI DC company. We already do all these. We would be happy to have these laws in place - it would make for a level playing field.

One square foot of parking lot generates 80 watts of heat in the summer sun. A Walmart parking lot is approximately equivalent to 20 megawatts of heat.

Feather blades are a marvel. Significantly sharper than alternatives. Astra is really nice, and a lot more forgiving, but for raw sharpness feather is king. Just be careful.

So is “The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine”.

Our experience was mostly silent. Ridgid. Spine curled backwards. Eyes unfocused unseeing. Sometimes drooling.

We would get her into a soft spot like a bed or towel. Don’t go before the paralysis is set - you might get bit. The comedown is also hard. Soothing voice. Gentle touch. Let it run it’s course.

The medication was a simple salt solution, potassium something?

Does that help?

I can shorten that a bit.

Trump: Mad.

Sure

A tech journalist sets up a company of all AI agents. CFO, CTO, HR, Sales, etc. He is following the capabilities advertised by all of the various vendors. He makes significant progress. He demonstrates that is is indeed possible. And some really absurd things happen along the way. Like the vendor advertising that agents are perfectly capable of this hanging up on one of them in disgust.

It’s been tested already.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shell-game/id1753117762