hank is hero
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2025
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Because if we don't build and profit from the Torment Nexus, someone else will
And that Torment Nexus will kill everyone who didn't put their best into making that Torment Nexus a reality.
That’s Roku’s Basilisk
What about Roku's Torment Nexus?
Because capitalism can't wait to completely get rid of this pesky workers.
money
I don't think there is a good reason. It's an interesting ability for a model. I can see the appeal why people are interested in much the same way I can understand why people climb mountains. Wouldn't wanna do it myself but I can see why you like it kind of way. For me this falls into the category of "the general public doesn't need to have access to this." I get mad when I hear people talk about it in terms of what is and isn't allowed in it. "And then I tried to put a light saber in it and that was okay but I couldn't make me into Super Mario." You just created enough heat in a server farm that will kill a polar bear, that needs to be cooled with future drinking water we need to desalinate, and you have huffed some more air in the hyped up bubble economy surrounding so-called AI. All so you can see where the model draws the copyright line? And if you think that I was modest in my hyperbole, you'll probably agree with me when I say in a similar spirit that we as a species deserve to eradicate ourselves off this planet.
The so-called AI peddlers have the same problem as news peddlers online. It's fucking hard to turn users into paying subscribers. And they need to turn a profit at some point. It's the merciless mechanics of capitalism that dumps all these models on an unprepared general public at dumping prices. A drive to increase shareholder value above any other consideration. It's time to change that.
And I'm not opposed to this model existing. Research it, fine tune it, offer it for the actual cost you're running in the background plus a bit of a profit margin. And when it costs $207.40 per month to make these brief videos, I'd be okay with that. It would price out enough users not to undo any of the insufficient climate saving measures we as a species have already implemented.
This is a bit irrelevant but we can't use sea water for cooling instead. And if we're already heating sea water can't we just heat it up more in the end and create a combined desalination server farm.
Are they any major issues I'm missing
I think there biggest problem with sea water is dirt, not just the salt. So it's easier to waste drinking water on cooling the chips. The idea of a combination server farm and desalination plant is probably possible. Desalination is expensive though. I remember reading about Singapore's efforts. So this would have to be a big investment with profits pushed far back into a sustainable future. So if you're on the board and have this fiduciary responsibility to increase shareholder value you'll probably throw your hands up and give up at that point. Without governments making wasting drinking water on server cooling expensive, this plan will never even make it to the c-suite.
Just going to drop this wiki link, so people know the precident set with this case is one of the driving causes for our current misery.
I didn't know that! Thank you for that tidbit. Also wanna take the time to say I feel I derived more satisfaction learning of the source than I lost from the bummer.
The final part of that page adds nuance that makes it far less dire. Its not a simple matter.
That's the same thing that keeps me going at least lol
High demand will drive efficiency gains in subsequent generations. It'll be like how processors today use a tiny fraction of the power that processors a decade ago used for the same amount of work. Better instruction sets, architectures and smaller lithography has driven efficient and competitive computing. Similar will happen for AI processors
Sure, but that will only serve to make it more accessible and widely used. AI is still going to keep wasting immense amounts of energy.
Am I the only one who can't stand the editing / presentation here? He gave me a migraine in less than 60 seconds.
It's a bit excessive for my taste as well. Traditionally if you felt the need to cut this much just to make the sentence come out the way you want, you'd just do another take instead of making this many cuts in post. Over-cutting of spacing also makes the pacing a bit too "word-vomit" rather than "polished" imo.
I imagine this is more normalized in stereotypically "zoomer" presentation of video content, but it might also just be this guy (or their editor's) style.
Yah, same here -- thanks!
Hank's videos are like that. I get stressed watching his scishow stuff too, but deal with it because the content is really interesting.
Yeah, for the part I could watch, it sounded interesting.
He's cutting out the annoying filler words "um" "uh" etc and useless quiet/dead air. So yes you are the only one.
Filler words makes a piece feel more human. Ironically cutting out human tics in favour of a more sterlised presentation yet criticising AI, how ironic.
Ok, lol, thanks for confirming
It feels quite annoying to me.
It's just the old school vlogger editing style. Jump cuts, jump cuts, and more jump cuts
I'm not a fan either. It's especially weird to me since SciShow (his main channel I guess) has the complete opposite style.
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Oh wait, you said should, not why.
Give me a single reason why Sora2 why exist.
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