They were paying huge war repetitions after WWI. So in a way, if they weren’t forced to do so, WWII wouldn’t probably happen because people would simply not vote for him.
But things were completely different, back then they had hyper inflation.
And right now China is trying to catch up with that technology. They might be lagging today, but they are a huge market, and they will eventually catch up, maybe not completely but enough to be competitive.
Plus their LLMs need a lot less hardware resources for inferences.
Don’t forget that all US frontier models are operating at a huge loss, because if they need to charge market rates their market will shrink significantly.
So this GPU crunch is forcing Chinese labs to innovate and find clever ways to achieve higher intelligence with constrained resources.
And cloud and computing cost will only go up now, due to exploding hardware prices, which will make the whole business model of the US frontier models even more unprofitable.
The whole transportation business run on diesel. There are currently no good truck EVs and if there are they will require special charging stations, so it would be very difficult to change to renewables and EV overnight.
We will still be dependent on petrol though, but much less, but petrol is needed in the chemical industry for the production of plastic, for plane fuel, etc.
That’s why you should buy physical disks. In the worst case you can re-sell them to someone else.
You know if they were Palestinians they would be promptly shot in the head.
Check the second hand options. I bought a brand new Pixel 10 Pro at the beginning of the year for 600€ from the second hand market from a guy who got it with his contract renewal for free. I think back then the regular Pixel was costing 500€, so I can imagine that you can find a Pixel 9 for 300-350€ in a very good condition.
That’s 10A, not the regular Pixel 10.
I think the 10A can be found at a good discount like 300-350€. But the base 10 and 11 are quite expensive.
The base Pixel is 1K Euro this year. Are they really thinking of releasing a 1K+ phone? That’s absolutely insane.
Pixels used to be mid range phones with great cameras or more precisely great image processors for mid range prices to overvalued mid range phones with outdated hardware.
Even if they don’t make it, the whole fact that the aviation industry goes less CO2 intensive would be a good win.
Halving the population would definitely help, but some country populations have a lot lower impact than others.
The real problem is the consumerism mentality, where we need to buy even bigger cars, TVs, houses, clothes, etc.
This is what destroys our planet. And even if the population halves, this trend can negate much of the effect.
Yes, this makes us even more ignorant. At some point in the past I was kind of hopeful we as united humanity can overcome this problem, like with the ozone layer hole, but then these individualistic policies started to sweep over the world and people started to care about other problems more.
To be honest DRAM was dirt cheap for quite a while and the profit margins of those companies were razor thin. Only recently they saw a surge in demand and they are exploiting it to enrich themselves but also increasing the manufacturing capacity is a lengthy and costly process which I presume some of those companies are actively trying to delay, in order to preserve their fat profit margins now.
Competition is good though and hopefully will lower the price overall faster.
Unfortunately the problem with global warming is that it happens very slowly over time. Scientists were warning us of the impacts of global warming for at least a decade but we have somehow prioritized the short term gains and now we and our children will bear the fruits of our negligence.
Can you tell me the number of casualties on both sides. Let’s take kids for example. And then tell me who is massacring who exactly.
It never ceases to amaze me how you can still claim you are the victim when numbers tell a completely different story.
The beauty is when those companies run out of human training data and start training on AI slop, just to generate even more AI slop.
This is probably already happening though.
Today’s atomic bombs are way more powerful than the ones dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Humanity hasn’t learned anything from history.
Until next year, when they will be just 6 weeks to a nuclear bomb.
It depends on the country you are living in. There are plenty of people with restricted and surveilled internet.
Unfortunately in times like these, populist parties gain traction. But this is not only on the times but also on the CDU/CSU who didn’t really prepare Germany for the digital age.