A lot of the large(ish) corporates are moving in this direction, including where I work. It's not unusual, I always liken large organizations to insects, just following where the others are going, and what they are doing. They don't really ever put much thought into their actions.
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Well it's not a scam. It works exactly as advertised. But, just like in casinos, the house is always the winner.
I made a multi-threaded UK lottery simulator that draws 68 million lotteries per second on my machine. It shows the ROI on average is around 30% meaning the "house" (lottery company/government/charities) gets 70%. Here's the last line after 5.1billion draws:
Draws: 5,130,046,351. 3: 56,022,165, 4: 2,521,545, 5: 38,525 5+b 5,918 Jackpots: 113. Losses: 2,491,081,393. Cost £10,260,092,702, Winnings £3,058,100,000 ROI: 29.810%. 68,548,225.400 draws/s
Yes that means you will wait on average 45.4 million draws before you hit the jackpot.
In any case. You could implement the meme like the lottery and make money and I assure you, if you made the full info public people WOULD send you money and you'd keep the 70%..
Ahh, keyboard. How quaint!
Sure, but since per capita they can do pretty much a billion times more than me. Then, I think it should be "after them"
This is analogous to the "I'm using paper straws while the billionaires take a private jet each to Venice" situation.
So I should delete old mails so that maybe (and actually no, it won't) there will be less drives to cool in the datacentre while the techbros have entire datacentres using hundreds of terawatts of power[1] and is predicted to be using billions of cubic metres of water per year by 2027[2].
As usual, they're looking toward the people they can influence to make changes to their lifestyle, and ignoring the people actually doing the damage because they know they will not change.
[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2024: IEA annual report showing that AI and crypto is estimated to have consumed 465tw/h of energy in 2024. [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-accelerating-the-loss-of-our-scarcest-natural-resource-water: Forbes report stating that AI datacentres are estimated to use around 6.6 billion cubic metres of water by the year 2027.
I think neither of us should be throwing stones in either direction right now. But yeah, this isn't great for us at all.
It is a weird one. I mean they're making this timeline happen.
They have a choice. Keep trying to get "all the money" at the expense of people's lives, and need the bunker for the inevitable result of such behaviour. Or, move (back) to a more relaxed version of capitalism, still have a lot of money but not need the bunkers.
Their choice is clear.
This was pretty much the very first thing I did when I got a job. Fit a second line for modem use!
Ahh, I had the older "stylophone" style sportster. 28.8k. I think I have 2 really old miracom couriers somewhere, inherited from when my old office closed down. Actually I might even have an IBM RS6000/220 from the same shutdown at my parent's house.
Well that went off on a tangent.
In a lot of places, fast Internet is ubiquitous and cheap.
Yeah there's going to be a few places that will be problematic. But most can get access to fast Internet now I think.
Also for non gaming the data requirement isn't so much.
I'm not talking about short term. It's a medium to longer term thing. But it will start to become commonplace soon I reckon.
I'm also convinced that we'll be herded ever more toward cloud computing. That is, we'll all have our "desktop" on the cloud and thin clients to access it.
Don't get me started on the dystopia I see coming from that.
I usually ignore these kind of trends. Just meet any required deadlines etc but don't engage too much. The vast majority will just disappear.
Specifically as a software developer I cannot see a good outcome from engaging with this trend either. It's going to go one of two ways.
1: It pans out sooner rather than later that AI wasn't the panacea they thought it was, and it either is forgotten about, or becomes a set of realized tools we use, but don't rely on.
2: They believe it can replace us all, and so they replace us all with freshly graduated vibe "programmers" and I don't have a job anyway.
I don't really see an upside to engaging with this in any kind of long term plan.