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Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
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Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#12This is madness. The polling is in and the public hates, positively hates AI. So of course the response is to do AI even more. https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discoveri...
there are polls where a sample of people say they hate ai. on the other hand, there are a billion+ weekly active users.
from a business perspective, which of those two statistics would you give more weight?
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#13This is madness. The polling is in and the public hates, positively hates AI. So of course the response is to do AI even more. https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discoveri...
there are polls where a sample of people say they hate ai. on the other hand, there are a billion+ weekly active users. from a business perspective, which of those two statistics would you give more weight?
How many of those people are just feeling like they have a gun to their heads? Use the AI or become unemployed and unemployable?
"People use AI so this must be a revealed preference" is such a bad argument when people are feeling so precarious
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#14A desperate bid to get around data center bans: disguise them as homeless encampments
Homeless encampments or mountaineering base camps
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
there are polls where a sample of people say they hate ai. on the other hand, there are a billion+ weekly active users. from a business perspective, which of those two statistics would you give more weight?
How many of those people are just feeling like they have a gun to their heads? Use the AI or become unemployed and unemployable? "People use AI so this must be a revealed preference" is such a bad argument when people are feeling so precarious
>How many of those people are just feeling like they have a gun to their heads? Use the AI or become unemployed and unemployable?
in the context of answering the implied question of the parent (everyone hates it so why do they keep doing it?), it does not matter at all.
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#16A desperate bid to get around data center bans: disguise them as homeless encampments
Microsoft had a neat trick here in the Netherlands: instead of opening a new site they decided to make a their existing site higher by adding a few floors.
Ofcourse that only works once the Dutch borg adapts!
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#17This is madness. The polling is in and the public hates, positively hates AI. So of course the response is to do AI even more. https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discoveri...
there are polls where a sample of people say they hate ai. on the other hand, there are a billion+ weekly active users. from a business perspective, which of those two statistics would you give more weight?
Out of the two? Probably the polls. "Active users" is blatantly a weasel metric.
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
there are polls where a sample of people say they hate ai. on the other hand, there are a billion+ weekly active users. from a business perspective, which of those two statistics would you give more weight?
Out of the two? Probably the polls. "Active users" is blatantly a weasel metric.
odd choice, mind explaining it a bit more?
why should a company listen to a gallup poll of ~1,500 people over their own internal metrics?
do you think all types of companies should heed the advice of gallup polls over their own metrics, experience, and research?
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
How many of those people are just feeling like they have a gun to their heads? Use the AI or become unemployed and unemployable? "People use AI so this must be a revealed preference" is such a bad argument when people are feeling so precarious
> How many of those people are just feeling like they have a gun to their heads? Use the AI or become unemployed and unemployable? in the context of answering the implied question of the parent (everyone hates it so why do they keep doing it?), it does not matter at all.
Of course it matters
If a large proportion of people are only using AI because they are being threatened with unemployment if they don't, then there's going to be massive resentment building up
You may think that doesn't matter, but it does. History has shown over and over that you can only keep a lid on massive social resentment for so long before things break
Re: Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
#20When I read the headline I imagined a huge tent with steel beam structure and professional grade covers with HVAC and concrete footprint.
Seems everyone else imagined a camping tent. Different backgrounds I guess.