Investors demand growth. The problem is that Microsoft has basically won Capitalism and has no real area to grow to.

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I don’t think they’re planning to build the 5GW datacentres on TMI, though.

The theoretical Three Mile Island datacentre is probably the end-point of all of this. I think that what they build there (should it actually happen) has to be AGI. Like, unambiguously AGI. Where even the most hardline AI skeptics will react with “Holy shit they actually did it.”

Anything less and it’ll be nearly impossible to justify building 5 nuclear reactors to just power one of these datacentres.

So even if it is happening, it’s still not happening.

Building 5-7 5GW facilities full of GPUs is going to be an extremely large amount of silicon. Not to mention the 25-35 nuclear power plants they apparently want to build to power them.
So on the list of things not happening…

I believe the future is going to be so bright that no one can do it justice by trying to write about it now.

Uh

Finally, of course, it is very much not just rationalists who believe that AI represents an existential risk. We just got there twenty years early.

This one?

We could also just fluoridate the water supply, which also massively reduces cavities.

Obligatory note that, speaking as a rationalist-tribe member, to a first approximation nobody in the community is actually interested in the Basilisk and hasn’t been for at least a decade.

Sure, but that doesn’t change that the head EA guy wrote an OP-Ed for Time magazine that a nuclear holocaust is preferable to a world that has GPT-5 in it.

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Are you saying that Clippy is proof I’m right or proof I’m wrong? Or I’m I just being unfunny and not getting the joke.

Microsoft is making laptops with dedicated Copilot buttons.

I think they’d rather burn their company to the ground, all the while telling their customers that they just needed to wait a little while longer, rather than admit that they got it wrong.

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Who is even asking for this?

https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1047

Have a AI regulation committee and also give the committee their own hardware so that they can use that hardware to regulate the other hardware. Maybe.

I’m not seeing a Strawberry announcement either.

Well, it’s now yesterday’s tomorrow and while there’s an update I’m not seeing a Q* announcement.

I still don’t know what TESCREAL actually means.

Well, we could argue that computers don’t really “compute,” either. What a computer does is measure the flow of electrons through a transistor, albeit billions of them. If the flow of electrons passes an arbitrary threshold on a certain transistor, then we call it a “1”. If it doesn’t, we call it a “0”. The “computation” is just us interpreting the flow of elections into something more useful. ^{It was explained to me that the “threshold” was over and under 5 volts, but I think if you put 5 volts into a modern transistor it would just fry it.}

Obviously, because our brains are made of cells instead of silicon transistors, we wouldn’t “compute” the same way a transistor does. If we decide that computation is only something that transistors can do, then obviously the brain couldn’t compute, but, for now, that line would be arbitrary.