Okay folks I've responded to the data center heat island paper. It is the worst study on AI and the environment I've ever read, by far. Thank you to @beijingpalmer.bsky.social for flagging. blog.andymasley.com/p/data-cente...
I realize my Costco may be incredibly Asian, but is this maybe a sign of a new era? Are we in a “Americans learn to eat new foods” stage of economic hardship?
"Even an elaborate cheating scheme won’t be enough to deliver Orbán victory if the polls are correct." This is a big deal:
A terrible paper and even worse interpretation is threatening to become common wisdom
"if the students can use a LLM to do the task it was never really teaching critical thinking to begin with" is a very dumb take, sorry. I can bring a forklift to the gym and bench press more than Arnold. The point is not to move the weights.
