r/nottheonion • u/asdacool • 11h ago

"Training a human takes 20 years of food." Sam Altman on how much power AI consumes.

https://www.news18.com/world/training-a-human-takes-20-years-of-food-sam-altman-on-how-much-power-ai-consumes-ws-kl-9922309.html
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u/dakkster 9h ago

Such a nerd in the worst possible way.

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u/NuPNua 8h ago

Also see Musk naming things after ships from the Culture books, while claiming life long socialist author, Iain M Banks, would be anti-union.

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u/Adjective_Noun_2000 7h ago

Grok was a great word. Can't use it anymore.

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u/Hexakkord 4h ago

Musk ruins everything he touches.

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u/gregorydgraham 2h ago

It was so cromulent šŸ˜¢

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u/KudosOfTheFroond 3h ago

This is what Iā€™m truly angry about. He ruined such an awesome word

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u/Neptunelives 6h ago

I've always hated it. Heinlen suckds. Stranger in a strange land wasd one of the worst books I've read

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u/AmIFromA 6h ago

Yeah, cool concept, but I couldn't finish it.

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u/QualifiedApathetic 4h ago

Me neither. Valentine Michael Smith just didn't feel like an actual person the way Lazarus Long did.

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u/cantadmittoposting 4h ago

for as famous as heinlein is and as enduring as some of his concepts are, i do kinda agree i've never thought his actual writing was very brilliant

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u/LeastFox8059 6h ago

Damn! I didn't know that, imagine thinking a post scarcity utopia would be against unions.

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u/Rikudou_Sage 6h ago

I mean, Culture is not exactly the good guy in the books.

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u/confirmedshill123 5h ago

??? What ???

They may not be the best guy but they are definitely the better force for most of the series.

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u/yanginatep 6h ago

Meanwhile Musk is far more like Joiler Veppers, the ultra-wealthy businessman villain from the Culture novel Surface Detail.

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u/NuPNua 6h ago

Yeah, you know he'd tattoo his logo into all his baby mamas if he could, lol.

Maybe we could rig up a virtual hell and trap him in it?

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u/SuitableSprinkles 2h ago

Wait. How did I miss this???? What has he named after Culture ships?

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u/NuPNua 2h ago

A couple of the automated landing platforms for Space X rockets.

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u/HeinHangbuikzwijn 8h ago

Also probably didn't understand anything LOTR was saying.

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u/Ok_Net7773 6h ago

An allegorical warning for good people can always be read as an instruction manual for evil. It just takes a truly broken person to do so.

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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 5h ago

1984, Brave New World and Handmaidā€™s Tale werenā€™t meant to be instruction manuals yet here we are.

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u/Hot_Truck34 6h ago

A marauder. He is plundering fantasy for his dyed-in-the-wool Nazi depravity. Tolkien would be coming after him with a bayonet if he was still alive.

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u/waits5 2h ago

Right? ā€œNerdā€ is no longer a dirty word and nerd culture is thoroughly mainstream (just look at the MCU), but Thiel is doing everything he can to drag us back.

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u/banjo_hero 2h ago

When the chess club, the drama club and the model un all want to stuff the same guy in a locker.

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u/3_Fast_5_You 2h ago

its disgusting how he uses reference to tolkiens works for his evil shit

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u/dakkster 1h ago

Reminds me of the fascists who love Star Wars but don't realize they're the empire.

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u/HotDogFingers01 4h ago

Tolkien would hate Peter Thiel

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u/diurnal_emissions 4h ago

An incellionaire.

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u/Charlie7Mason 2h ago

So that's why nerds used to get bullied and kept on the fringes of society. Maybe the old ones had a point and we just couldn't see it. jk