Mark
@aguasonic.com
And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?
-- Ishmael
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Mark
@aguasonic.com
· Jul 12
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Read somewhere that we are on the earth, not of it.
Which would make << all >> of us immigrants.
There -- problem solved.
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Read somewhere that we are on the earth, not of it.
Which would make << all >> of us immigrants.
There -- problem solved.
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A year ago I said LLMs -- and their unremovable, actually part of the architecture of the machine itself, 'hallucinations' --
-- were a "time-bomb" --
and here it is, slowly exploding...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
A year ago I said LLMs -- and their unremovable, actually part of the architecture of the machine itself, 'hallucinations' --
-- were a "time-bomb" --
and here it is, slowly exploding...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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A year ago I said LLMs -- and their unremovable, actually part of the architecture of the machine itself, 'hallucinations' --
-- were a "time-bomb" --
and here it is, slowly exploding...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
A year ago I said LLMs -- and their unremovable, actually part of the architecture of the machine itself, 'hallucinations' --
-- were a "time-bomb" --
and here it is, slowly exploding...
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
We can not afford healthcare or housing ---
but we can pour gasoline on a trillion dollars and light it up....
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion...
but we can pour gasoline on a trillion dollars and light it up....
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion...
A trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste
The machine learning community is finally waking up to the madness, but the detour of the last few years has been costly.
garymarcus.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
We can not afford healthcare or housing ---
but we can pour gasoline on a trillion dollars and light it up....
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion...
but we can pour gasoline on a trillion dollars and light it up....
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-trillion...
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Secretly jacking _your_ electricity costs...
Yes. It is true.
<<< you >>> are literally paying for the "ai" boom....
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Secretly jacking _your_ electricity costs...
Yes. It is true.
<<< you >>> are literally paying for the "ai" boom....
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Senators count the shady ways data centers pass energy costs on to Americans
Senators demand Big Tech pay upfront for data center spikes in electricity bills.
arstechnica.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Secretly jacking _your_ electricity costs...
Yes. It is true.
<<< you >>> are literally paying for the "ai" boom....
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Secretly jacking _your_ electricity costs...
Yes. It is true.
<<< you >>> are literally paying for the "ai" boom....
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Wait until people start to understand "outspend" means...
oh, about 70 to 1....
www.wsj.com/business/ear...
oh, about 70 to 1....
www.wsj.com/business/ear...
Oracle Shares Tumble as AI Spending Outruns Returns
The company’s growing data-center outlays will take longer than investors would like to pay off.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Wait until people start to understand "outspend" means...
oh, about 70 to 1....
www.wsj.com/business/ear...
oh, about 70 to 1....
www.wsj.com/business/ear...
Reposted by Mark
If you have only one thing to read today...
"Universities are being retrofitted as fulfillment centers of cognitive convenience."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"Universities are being retrofitted as fulfillment centers of cognitive convenience."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
If you have only one thing to read today...
"Universities are being retrofitted as fulfillment centers of cognitive convenience."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"Universities are being retrofitted as fulfillment centers of cognitive convenience."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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Honestly, I do not know why this is news -- it is, literally, a "notes on a napkin" kind of calculation -- and the numbers are just laughable.... and always were.
The entire AGI-from-LLM effort is based on "with enough ladders we can make it to the moon" fantasy.
www.benzinga.com/markets/tech...
Honestly, I do not know why this is news -- it is, literally, a "notes on a napkin" kind of calculation -- and the numbers are just laughable.... and always were.
The entire AGI-from-LLM effort is based on "with enough ladders we can make it to the moon" fantasy.
www.benzinga.com/markets/tech...
The $8 Trillion AI Mirage: IBM Says The Math Just Doesn’t Work - IBM (NYSE:IBM)
IBM CEO notes that AI data center economics are at risk as companies pour trillions into unprofitable infrastructure.
www.benzinga.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Honestly, I do not know why this is news -- it is, literally, a "notes on a napkin" kind of calculation -- and the numbers are just laughable.... and always were.
The entire AGI-from-LLM effort is based on "with enough ladders we can make it to the moon" fantasy.
www.benzinga.com/markets/tech...
Honestly, I do not know why this is news -- it is, literally, a "notes on a napkin" kind of calculation -- and the numbers are just laughable.... and always were.
The entire AGI-from-LLM effort is based on "with enough ladders we can make it to the moon" fantasy.
www.benzinga.com/markets/tech...
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How does a company with $20 billion in ( _claimed_ ) revenue --
incur debts for _seventy times_ that amount?
:
fortune.com/2025/11/28/o...
How does a company with $20 billion in ( _claimed_ ) revenue --
incur debts for _seventy times_ that amount?
:
fortune.com/2025/11/28/o...
‘It’s not just the hyperscalers’ free cash flow anymore.' Debt related to OpenAI's computing needs is moving credit markets. | Fortune
The pile up of at least $96 billion in debt by OpenAI's partners highlights the growing risks around the loss-making AI company.
fortune.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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How does a company with $20 billion in ( _claimed_ ) revenue --
incur debts for _seventy times_ that amount?
:
fortune.com/2025/11/28/o...
How does a company with $20 billion in ( _claimed_ ) revenue --
incur debts for _seventy times_ that amount?
:
fortune.com/2025/11/28/o...
Reposted by Mark
As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves
Since 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon levels have increased from 360.67 parts per million to 426.68 parts now
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Reposted by Mark
This video arose from a very brief written op-ed piece that was published today, in even more succinct edited form, in Semafor (link below). But I'm including the full, unedited version of my original thoughts here in the attached image. www.semafor.com/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This video arose from a very brief written op-ed piece that was published today, in even more succinct edited form, in Semafor (link below). But I'm including the full, unedited version of my original thoughts here in the attached image. www.semafor.com/arti...
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"The report finds that between 2019 and 2023,
electricity use by California data centers increased by 95%..."
<< ninety five >> percent.
www.next10.org/publications...
"The report finds that between 2019 and 2023,
electricity use by California data centers increased by 95%..."
<< ninety five >> percent.
www.next10.org/publications...
An Assessment of California Data Centers’ Environmental and Public Health Impacts | Next 10
While data centers have long existed in California, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly increased demand for new data centers over the last five years, and the pace is expected ...
www.next10.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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"The report finds that between 2019 and 2023,
electricity use by California data centers increased by 95%..."
<< ninety five >> percent.
www.next10.org/publications...
"The report finds that between 2019 and 2023,
electricity use by California data centers increased by 95%..."
<< ninety five >> percent.
www.next10.org/publications...
Reposted by Mark
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
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The bank calculates an at least $5 trillion tab that could climb as high as $7 trillion".
Let me see if I understand this correctly --
we can not afford healthcare, and we can not afford food --
but we << can >> afford artificial pornography generators?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The bank calculates an at least $5 trillion tab that could climb as high as $7 trillion".
Let me see if I understand this correctly --
we can not afford healthcare, and we can not afford food --
but we << can >> afford artificial pornography generators?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI’s $5 Trillion Cost Needs Every Debt Market, JPMorgan Says
The furious push by AI hyperscalers to build out data centers will need about $1.5 trillion of investment-grade bonds over the next five years and extensive funding from every other corner of the mark...
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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The bank calculates an at least $5 trillion tab that could climb as high as $7 trillion".
Let me see if I understand this correctly --
we can not afford healthcare, and we can not afford food --
but we << can >> afford artificial pornography generators?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The bank calculates an at least $5 trillion tab that could climb as high as $7 trillion".
Let me see if I understand this correctly --
we can not afford healthcare, and we can not afford food --
but we << can >> afford artificial pornography generators?
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Mark
In the Arctic (the 15 million km² area above the Arctic Circle), October was the warmest on record: 4.5°C above the 1981-2010 average, that's over 5°C above pre-industrial temperature!
It's not every day that both poles set new monthly temperature records (see my earlier post). Last month also observed the warmest October on record for the #Arctic Circle. Not great!!
Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds....
Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds....
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 AM
In the Arctic (the 15 million km² area above the Arctic Circle), October was the warmest on record: 4.5°C above the 1981-2010 average, that's over 5°C above pre-industrial temperature!