You'll have to trade with people who have more or other things. I'd wager things like salt, sugar, baking powder, yeast , spices, nails, screws, hand tools, will be in high demand come a large-scale long-term collapse.
I mean there was a Silk Road for a reason.
I'd love to century-nate, is that possible?
Yeah good luck outsmarting the squirrels on the tomatoes...
Anyone who thinks it will ever happen is equally silly. Space is a dead end, but because of decades of sci-fi people think Star Trek is real.
Improve the cooling system first. We are talking about Marvin, right?
Oh I think the idea is that the data centers will create amazing jobs in society at large, of people making AI slop to be consumed by other people's AI agents and this somehow produces value.
No one understands the code. It's far too complex and abstracted. In any case, just get another computer and/or toss in more code. There's 4TB of storage and 64GB of RAM, so what? You want a purple circle, that's going to take at least 55 library calls through dozens of languages.
Computers are too powerful. Any kind of horrendous slop is now capable of running acceptably.
I feel MAD Magazine was already lampooning loud ads in the 1960s.... plus ca change
New talent for new ways. Of doing what, exactly?
Department Of War
I can afford a small single family home but then I can't put anything into it for five years. No furniture or repairs.