MattGrommes (u/MattGrommes)

MattGrommes commented on After the Bubble tbray.org/ongoing/When/20... · Posted by u/savant2

dehrmann · 8 days ago

> When the early-electrification bubble built, we were left with the grid. And when the dot-com bubble burst, we were left with a lot of valuable infrastructure whose cost was sunk, in particular dark fibre. The AI bubble? Not so much.

Except for the physical buildings, permitting, and power grid build-out.

MattGrommes · 8 days ago

I was also wondering if the GPUs that die and need to be replaced actually become inert blocks of fused silicon or do they work at half speed or something? A data center full of half speed GPUs is still a lot of computing power waiting for somebody to use.

MattGrommes commented on Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/davedx

Anon1096 · 14 days ago

Besides the fact that this article is obviously AI generated (and not even well, why is there mismatches in british/american english? I can only assume that the few parts in british english are the human author's writing or edits), yes "overutilization" is not a real thing. There is a level of utilization at every price point. If something is "overutilizated" that actually means it's just being offered at a low price, which is good for consumers. It's a nice scare word though and there's endless appetite at the moment for ai-doomer articles.

MattGrommes · 13 days ago

One of my least favorite things to come from AI is labelling any writing someone doesn't like as "obviously AI generated". I've read 3 of these kinds of comments on HN just today.

MattGrommes commented on AI Is Destroying the University and Learning Itself currentaffairs.org/news/a... · Posted by u/speckx

AndrewKemendo · 15 days ago

That is perfectly on topic and you are identifying correctly flaw in the argument

Technology is neutral it’s always been neutral it will be neutral I quote Bertrand Russell on this almost every day:

“As long as war exists all new technology will be utilized for war”

You can abstract this away from “war” into anything that’s undesirable in society.

What people are dealing with now is the newest transformational technology that they can watch how utilizing it inside the current structural and economic regime of the world accelerates the already embedded destructive nature of structure and economic system we built.

I’m simply waiting for people to finally realize that, instead of blaming it on “AI” just like they’ve always blamed it on social media, TV, radio, electricity etc…

it’s like literally the oldest trope with respect to technology and humanity some people will always blame the technology when in fact it’s not…it’s the society that’s a problem

Society needs to look inward at how it victimizes itself through structural corrosion, not look for some outside person who is victimizing them

MattGrommes · 15 days ago

> Technology is neutral it’s always been neutral it will be neutral

I agree with a lot of what you say here but not this. People choose what to make easy and what to make more difficult with technology all the time. This does not make something neutral. Obviously something as simple as a hammer is more neutral but this doesn't extend to software systems.

MattGrommes commented on How to Keep Winning amasad.me/keep-winning... · Posted by u/daviducolo

MattGrommes · a month ago

> I looked around me and all the other kids were talking and joking around. I thought that was strange. How could you ever win if you're not in the mindset of winning. If you're not locked in?

I'm generally not a competitive person so this is so strange to me. Even as an introvert on the spectrum, this sounds terrible. It's a game, it's supposed to be fun. I'd rather do my best to study ahead of time, have fun, and see where it takes me during the competition.

MattGrommes commented on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model book.sv... · Posted by u/costco

MattGrommes · a month ago

This is cool but I'd love the option to filter out the author of the book you entered. I put in Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky and almost all the books are others by him, which is fine but doesn't really mix up the stuff I'm reading.

MattGrommes commented on The decline of deviance experimental-history.com/... · Posted by u/zdw

MattGrommes · 2 months ago

I feel like a lot of this is breaking up of culture into a million shards. People are being weird in much smaller domains so if you look at the old bigger chunks of culture it seems like it's solidifying. Just because TV is largely boring doesn't mean online video isn't weird. You just might not like it so you don't pay attention to it.

MattGrommes commented on The fight between doctors and insurance companies over 'downcoding' nbcnews.com/health/health... · Posted by u/ceejayoz

stackskipton · 2 months ago

Doctors are probably raising alarms over growing practice. It’s 3000 this year, but becomes 10000 next year and 50000 the year after.

MattGrommes · 2 months ago

Yep. Frog, boiling water, etc.

If they get away with it for a few offices and a little money, it just becomes how they do business and grows.