AI is the new growth technology, both economically and militarily. It is a landrush and dominance will determine the direction of national and international development. The investments will only increase. By 2027 the AI sector could consume between 85 to 134 terawatt hours each year. That’s about the same as the annual energy demand of de Vries’ home country, the Netherlands.
AI electricity consumption potentially could be half a percent of global electricity consumption by 2027.
An entirely new technology!
How do these anti-growth people think they can control these things?
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According to a new study, plate tectonics are crucial for developing complex life and advanced civilizations. Earth’s plate movements create diverse habitats, recycle nutrients, and regulate climate—all vital for life. It’s important for plate tectonics to last for 500 million years because the biological evolution of complex multicellular life is extremely slow. On Earth, it took more than 500 million years to develop humans from the first animals, which appeared around 800 million years ago,
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Senate Democrats have added language to the annual defense authorization bill to require women to register for the draft, prompting a backlash from Republicans and social conservatives.
Equality has downsides.
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In 2032, 25% of U.S. citizens will be over 65 years of age.
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Fauci
Tabarrok on Fauci and the Feds' management of the pandemic:
"The lockdown was specifically advocated for by Anthony Fauci (‘15 days to stop the spread’/ ‘hunker down’/ ‘shelter in place’), and Fauci would go on to make hundreds of other specific policy recommendations. Although he initially rejected it, by April 2020, he recommended community cloth masking to slow the coronavirus (an intervention for which we now have randomized data showing it doesn’t work).
Fauci opposed Ron DeSantis in numerous TV interviews in spring 2020 when DeSantis reopened schools. He called school reopening reckless— though it was widely embraced in Western Europe at the time, and now clearly the correct policy choice.
Fauci supported vaccine mandates and border closure. He repeated the false statement that 6ft of social distancing had an empirical basis. Many in the media and medicine think criticizing him is unfair— he did the best he could with what he knew at the time—but it is fair to criticize a scientist who presented his views as facts when they were at best speculation. And, moreover, there is one criticism that no one can deny:
Although he was director of the NIAID, and although he controlled a 5 billion dollar infectious disease research budget, he chose to launch, fund, and conduct precisely ZERO randomized trials of non-pharmacologic interventions."
According to a new study, plate tectonics are crucial for developing complex life and advanced civilizations. Earth’s plate movements create diverse habitats, recycle nutrients, and regulate climate—all vital for life. It’s important for plate tectonics to last for 500 million years because the biological evolution of complex multicellular life is extremely slow. On Earth, it took more than 500 million years to develop humans from the first animals, which appeared around 800 million years ago,
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Senate Democrats have added language to the annual defense authorization bill to require women to register for the draft, prompting a backlash from Republicans and social conservatives.
Equality has downsides.
***
In 2032, 25% of U.S. citizens will be over 65 years of age.
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Fauci
Tabarrok on Fauci and the Feds' management of the pandemic:
"The lockdown was specifically advocated for by Anthony Fauci (‘15 days to stop the spread’/ ‘hunker down’/ ‘shelter in place’), and Fauci would go on to make hundreds of other specific policy recommendations. Although he initially rejected it, by April 2020, he recommended community cloth masking to slow the coronavirus (an intervention for which we now have randomized data showing it doesn’t work).
Fauci opposed Ron DeSantis in numerous TV interviews in spring 2020 when DeSantis reopened schools. He called school reopening reckless— though it was widely embraced in Western Europe at the time, and now clearly the correct policy choice.
Fauci supported vaccine mandates and border closure. He repeated the false statement that 6ft of social distancing had an empirical basis. Many in the media and medicine think criticizing him is unfair— he did the best he could with what he knew at the time—but it is fair to criticize a scientist who presented his views as facts when they were at best speculation. And, moreover, there is one criticism that no one can deny:
Although he was director of the NIAID, and although he controlled a 5 billion dollar infectious disease research budget, he chose to launch, fund, and conduct precisely ZERO randomized trials of non-pharmacologic interventions."
