Ah, yes... this chain

https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/115788074676050386

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfnIEWpbMU8

@ai6yr

ninny-bots are way more likely than nanobots, with the purging of programming expertise in favor of LLM vibe coding too.

RE: https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/116257641445511369

@paul_ipv6 @ai6yr

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

@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. ..."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/why-a-power-outage-amid-this-phoenix-heat-wave-would-be-so-deadly/ar-AA1dOval

@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

@ai6yr @GhostOnTheHalfShell @paul_ipv6 Won't water pumps stop if *all* power has gone out?

That is not to say you can't store water of course, but it will be room temperature and you can only store so much.

@nazokiyoubinbou @ai6yr @paul_ipv6

Generally utilities have their own dependent water supply. That’s why if there’s a power outage water still flows and in the good old days, the phone still worked.

Because water has 17 times I think the heat capacity of air, it’s still quite capable of drawing away, body heat if it’s below body temperature.

If humidity is low dousing your head with water, will cool you remarkably well

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ai6yr @paul_ipv6 Not sure about your area, but in mine humidity tends to be very high during the summer. Somehow even during droughts. (Don't ask me how that works because I don't know.)

But even if they have their own separate systems, if the whole grid is down it's probably eventually going to get them too, no? Unless they actually have their own entire power systems completely separated from the entire grid?

@nazokiyoubinbou @ai6yr @paul_ipv6

The key fact in all of this is that a warmer atmosphere can carry 7% more water vapor for every degree centigrade increase.

That means that the atmosphere is turning into the brawny of moisture sponges. It will suck all the moisture out of one area and if this supersaturated air mass runs into something cold, you get a biblical flood

@ai6yr @GhostOnTheHalfShell @paul_ipv6 I have once before. Actually, I specifically had a science teacher teach it once! I miss schools letting teachers do their jobs...

I believe the rule was 37C wet bulb is the point at which the human body can no longer compensate?

Of course, that doesn't mean there aren't *MASSIVE* problems the closer one approaches that...