AI6YR BenI see the whole "dancing robot" thing is going great in Silicon Valley.
Full video... surprised the thing did not break her arms, actually. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/weQSGxUGTDI
I think this is one of the "fully automated" Chinese food chains, there is one in Glendale, California. Basically, the robots microwave or cook the food, and some human has to bring it to you. Basically, they're attempting to decouple the skill/labor required for cooking food from humans, making the humans just an inconvenient cog you can pay minimum wage. I ran into one with my dad when he was here (quick food stop) and I was quite disturbed by the whole concept. If they could dispense with the humans (who are expensive and unreliable), they would.
Ah, yes... this chain
AI6YR Ben (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image The robot apocalypse is nigh... Saw this restaurant sign: "grand opening. robots cook it. humans crave it." #robots #food #automation #jobs
Okay, these people are sucking down the hype Koolaid. 🙄
We're WAY more likely to be in "Mad Max" barter town mode by 2060 than 3 billion helpful humanoid robots, buddy.
Paul_IPv6ninny-bots are way more likely than nanobots, with the purging of programming expertise in favor of LLM vibe coding too.
GhostOnTheHalfShellRE: https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/116257641445511369
And they keep saying this as their’s truly (trump) and all the tech guys are 100% behind bombing the Middle East and all of its oil and natural gas resources and processing into oblivion.
Nobody’s bothered to tell them I guess what that would mean for their data center energy costs as well as all the resources needed to build them in the first place.
They think they’re going to make lots of money off of economic chaos, sure if it’s within reason
Nazo@GhostOnTheHalfShell @paul_ipv6 @ai6yr Come to think of it, didn't Musk try to power one of his data centers with jet turbines like *right* before all this started?
How is he even going to keep that running without spending some of his money instead of someone else's?
@nazokiyoubinbou @paul_ipv6 @ai6yr
The Memphis site has been running off of local generators, which have been polluting the the surrounding neighborhoods. I hadn’t heard of. He’d moved on even more insane sources, but he’s the king of that kind of bullshit.
As Israel, the US and Iran continue to obliterate oil fields and refineries ports, all of AI, and in fact a lot of tech every day centers, are going to feel the pinch.
The rest of us are going to as well.
@nazokiyoubinbou @paul_ipv6 @ai6yr
This is going to get very interesting as summer and all of its incredibly high heat index or just plain old really high heat will settle in over the next few months.
Today isn’t too bad on the West Coast, but oh my goodness.
And in all of this crisis, we’re on our own.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @nazokiyoubinbou @ai6yr
this summer is going to be brutal. many parts of the country are already getting into temps you'd normally not see until Jul/Aug. all sorts of places have over stressed power grids (TX...) even before more data centers start sucking power/water. throw in stagflation, higher fuel costs, summer storm season, FEMA gutted. that's a lot of stressors...
@paul_ipv6 @GhostOnTheHalfShell @nazokiyoubinbou The big question is how off the charts summer heat will be this year (or not).
I am curious if/how soon this scenario shows up...
WaPo: Why a power outage amid this Phoenix heat wave would be so deadly
"...The study’s researchers simulated what would happen if the residents of Phoenix, Atlanta and Detroit were struck by a heat wave and a complete blackout that lasts 48 hours before power starts to be incrementally restored. The outcomes were deadly in all three cities, but the results for Phoenix were particularly striking, where almost everyone in the city relies on air conditioning to weather extreme heat. The study predicted that about half the population would require emergency department care and about 13,000 would die. ..."
@ai6yr @paul_ipv6 @nazokiyoubinbou
It’s so crazy to me because there is a way to kind of handle extreme heat and that is to sit in relatively cool water.
If the power goes out, the fridges are going to collapse with it, but a bathtub if people still have them could save peoples lives
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @paul_ipv6 @nazokiyoubinbou Great point! Hope we never have to test that one. But, filed that one away in the brain.
@ai6yr @paul_ipv6 @nazokiyoubinbou
If it gets warm in my apartment, I’ll go and douse my head with water from the shower. If you have a T-shirt on and it gets stamped from all that water so much better. It works for I don’t know 15 or 20 minutes until it evaporates.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ai6yr @nazokiyoubinbou
does anyone remember all the "how-to" posts for making neck coolers from diapers for the troops in the first desert storm? we could all be doing that again.