It’s cute and these little jam games are important but pretending they’re the same as what studios do is fairly delusional.
I have dire news for you, itch.io is hosted in the cloud! In a data center! The horror!
By who? The game is playable.
It’s not like your average play tester making 20 bucks an hour is some kind of artistic genius, mostly they’re just working the bugs out.
The guy made a thing with a computer. So what? Get off your high horse like clicking a mouse a few times is some kind of proof of the ‘creative process at work’.
So he spent his time differently, great. If he decides to be an indie, he can spend the next 8-24 months going to conferences and begging for reused art assets and small checks to pay people on fiver or buy models on the unity store, he can spend the same amount of time going to conferences and begging for creative feedback and small checks to pay people to work on the design.
This is not where it is. It’s when the next person really does have a great idea, and doesn’t need to beg a publisher or spend thousands of hours honing an unrelated skill like blender to build a prototype.
It is a reductive view, but at least I have a point.
Bad things happening to people is a social problem which should be addressed. You making it personal is a political problem, and the Internet is the enabling technology. The Internet didn’t make you or I into assholes by itself.
Of course.
The US is filled with chavinists who can’t tell the difference between a social issue, a political issue, and an emerging technology.
There is a lot to unpack here, finance is interesting.
Investors spend money to build companies on the expectation that those companies will be worth more money than they spent in the future.
One way they spend that money is on the acquisition of bonds, which are firm guarantees against future debts. Bonds are often part of other financial structures (you’ll see them a lot in a hedge, which is a way to limit liability on an investment in exchange for some upside).
If I’m reading the article correctly, those bonds had a condition where they could be converted to shares at a certain price, so the investment and the hedge were part of the same instrument.
It’s not accurate to say that the money could have been deployed otherwise, one way to think about this is that large banks have very large, often self-issued, credit limits. Companies also have self-issued credit limits, related to the banks.
In this case specifically, some amount of this money is going to come out of the IPO, the 80 billion doesn’t exist in any other way.
tl;dr The 80 billion that ‘vanished’ here wasn’t actually spent on anything, it’s valuation against those bonds. It’s also an exciting headline.
Anyways, I hope this was helpful, these companies are definitely getting a lot of investment (running up their credit cards) in the hopes of a big payout, but this doesn’t have anything to do with private equities current running speculation on data center construction or power consumption, or any of those big problems.
Compare the resources used to the alternatives.
Unfortunately, we will never enjoy the fruits of prosperity, because our system is designed to squeeze first, ask questions later.
Instead of being reduced, human misery will be redirected, and little will change.
Running trained LLMs has, more or less, always been profitable. Inference can only run on one GPU efficiently, you know the size of the model, you know how long it takes… etc.
Inference is approximately as expensive and environment destroying as Call of Duty, which don’t get me wrong, is a waste of humanity for sure.
Model training however…
I spent a couple days on and off reading about this theory, I read a few papers in the field and some of Penrose’s work (I didn’t go grab his books). So, thanks. It was interesting. I have had some physicists mention to me in passing that quantum consciousness was a junk field, but I hadn’t looked into it.
I agree, this is definitely bullshit.
Penrose himself attempts to dodge this in the first paragraph, but why are we groping for a special theory of consciousness at all?
Quantum mechanics is in everything, without it, fundamental processes (like light passing through your window) can not adequately be explained. Just because something has ‘got a quantum’ or whatever doesn’t instantly make it special from a physical perspective (you don’t see scientists tossing out conversation of energy or causality because stuff’s ‘got a quantum’ or whatever).
You might be interested in some of the recent work demonstrating that anesthetics work on plants. Not a microtubule in sight.
Hey, look, you can read the paper! I wonder if the paper tells us what it is about?
Of course! This has been true for almost 30 years!
But if your argument amounts to, “the soul exists because the brain has got quantum hootnannies in it”; well… :gestures broadly:
I always forget that computers use those special non-quantum electrons. Thanks!
Ah yes, the stable and sane business environment of the 20th century, which brought us totally sane and obviously correct investments like Xerox.
Absolutely nobody gives a fuck.
Crime scene, blood everywhere, factory owner should be charged for every pollutant found in a 10km radius on the assumption it came through that pipe at some point and we’ll walk it backwards from there.
Being able to call out a middle manager that if these tools are really so great he can just open the PR himself is pretty awesome though.
Ah, that’s your problem, you’re buying Dell and HP laptops, which start off as e-waste. Their batteries have thermal issues while they’re still on the factory line and their laptop power supplies are engineered to die no more than 3 minutes after the warranty expires.
We’re probably talking past each other. I recommend switching to ASUS.
You’re arguing that something I’ve been doing for over a decade can’t be done.
Why? Look at my perspective. On one hand, I have 10+years of lived experience doing this thing, on the other hand there’s internet guy who says it can’t be done?
Just compare a mini-pc to a entry level laptop with the same specifications from any manufacturer.
An Asus NUC with no disk or ram and an Intel 250 (celeron) uses 65W of power and starts around $300. It has 2 cores at 1.8ghz and costs go up from there.
From the same manufacturer at the same time, I can find over 300 laptop SKUs at the below $300 price point to choose from including the entry level zenbook 14, which, in addition to being complete (having ram is nice) packs a significantly more powerful processor and only uses 45W.
Ok bro, you’re wrong and laptops haven’t come with removable batteries since before OP was born (probably).
Of course, I also took the lead acid batteries out of my ancient laptops before I e-wasted them and went down to the sock-hop and dinosaur ride.
Not sure, the battery doesn’t really get cycled, it doesn’t get hot, I have a few which are going strong after 10+ years (the useful life of the hardware).
It’s not a hypothetical for me.
It managed to achieve the lofty quality of 10,000 identical uninteresting mobile RTS games before it.