Having just gotten the cabin ending last night, I’m so glad your reminder came at the perfect time for me.

How long before the price of oil causes AI data centres to become even more unprofitable and in so doing accelerate the AI correction and/or crash.

I’ve got more of these, but this one kind stands on its own so I wanted jot it down in case anyone else can weigh in.

I know this is oversimplified and has no maths. But it seems obvious enough to consider an orbiting electron that someone should have disproved it already somewhere if it is wrong.

It’s is so simple it makes me wonder why this isn’t discussed or used to explain Special Relativity or Time Dilation. Has no one else stumbled on this before? Surely not. To non-experts it makes a lot more intuitive sense than “inertial frames of reference measure things differently”.

5- Slowing down of an atom’s electron could be achieved by slowing down time for the entire atom.

This seems like a surprisingly straightforward way to get to Time Dilation. And maybe is even consistent with the existing experimental evidence for time dilation?

3- An atom cannot be sped up to the speed of light while orbited by an electron. Because doing so would violate 1- as the electron would be travelling at c plus electron orbit speed
4- As an atom approaches the speed of light, the orbit velocity of the electron would need to slow down.

I stopped thinking about things as particles and more and more as waves. Maybe even beyond what is currently the norm in QM.
I later stumbled onto this:
1- Speed of light is the maximum velocity anything in the universe can travel
2- A hydrogen atom contains an electron which orbits its nucleus

I’ve been kinda obsessed with thinking about physics recently. Caveat I’m not a physicist and can’t do advanced maths, and therefore cannot properly interrogate any of these ideas.
There are a few Quantum Mechanics things that never really squared with me, until I tried a little thought experiment.

Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions Executive SummaryEducational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight.

Not sure if you saw this already. Sounds like you probably have, but just in case it could help lend weight to your perspective. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

I love Mehdi Hasan’s reframing of MLK’s classic quote into the active tense “The moral arc of the universe is long but it can be bent towards justice”. It is not some passive thing that we can just wait out, but if we actively struggle we will win out. And so it is up to all of us to do what we can.

Maintaining the capital investments required for production is one thing, but when most innovations are ever more elaborate ways of convincing workers to do more work for less pay, how can job cuts do anything but amplify exploitation and its associated impacts to health and family?