INTO THE VANISHING POINT

 We see a couple of bothersome and not so trivial conclusions being drawn from really pointless and idiotic ideas. The two that bug me the most are the idiots in the media and elsewhere who all seem to clamor that we are in a "space race" with China or somebody and need to spend more money to be better faster and damn the cost and second that we need to invest trillions of taxpayer money and natural resources into building a lot of AI data centers.

It isn't a race anymore. We raced to the moon and we 'won' for whatever that is worth. Nobody is 'racing' to get to Mars. We are trying to build an architecture that will push mankind into space to stay not to win some stupid pointless race against people who aren't even playing. 

What nobody asks is why do we need all this AI data center nonsense? Is it to make videos without paying actors? Is it to answer deep questions that nobody knows the answers to? Is it for some other reason like critical research questions that need answers before engineering can develop the technology? In each of these events the answer is the same, why not pay people to do it? People can make good movies and others can earn a living writing, directing, acting, lighting, mixing and even doing computer effects so why not let them? 

How many deep questions are there? Can't one AI answer them all and that's it, all done and you can shut down that AI data center?

How much Research do you think an AI can do using nothing but LLM? It's a scam just like global warming is a scam. There is no sign at all that any researchers are on the right track to develop a computer or program that is smarter than humans so why do we need all these data centers? 

If it was a national priority to build the first true AI there might be some reason to focus resources on outproducing everyone else but I'll just point out the obvious, ARPA, DARPA and the rest of the SciTech Government Research taps have not been turned on for this effort so it really doesn't appear to be in the national interest as any kind of priority or project. That being the case, why is everyone lining up to fork over money and resources to billionaires to get richer building useless data centers?

Does anybody know what they're really doing with all that money? Is anyone following the money?

On the economics of large scale production and in the interest of enhancing and increasing our shipbuilding capability has anyone considered sinking all those billionaire yachts that float around the world wide open to mysterious hull breaches and unexplained fires? If not, why not? You'd think General Dynamics would be all over a money making scheme like that....It's not like anybody cares about them, just look at the strange case of the capsized billionaire's yacht that for some reason decided to go full metacentric unstable for no reason at all and flipped over and sank one night taking the billionaire and his daughter to the bottom.

I don't mind people investing their own money but I hate when it turns into the sports stadium type investment where the billionaires get all the money to build it, own it and manage it and the taxpayers simply subsidize every single penny of construction and operation forever. Are we doing this again but for so-called data centers that will never make a penny of profit or return a penny on investment?

Ask questions. It's the only way to be sure.....you know, other than pulling back and nuking it from orbit.