43% of the US electrical grid runs on natural gas, it's the largest single source by a considerable margin.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

Anthropic is transparently trying to get any competition banned and I'm fucking sick of it.

I'm completely uninterested in the opinion of a video game journalist on what does and doesn't work well in writing software. The author knows about as much about writing code as he knows about performing heart surgery

You are free to not comment in the future!

but I wanted to make that comment, I felt it was important

Ars Technica in general has also been catering to their knee-jerk anti-AI audience. I used to find their comments section somewhat interesting but now it's the same old tired, outdated dunks on AI.

author appears to think that at some point in the future we'll all agree to go back to how we were writing code in 2019. unclear why

Ask anyone who's lived through 1-2 boom/bust decade-ish hype cycles and they'll tell you why.

Why? Same reason as with most people about most things: because their income depends on it.

"the talk of AI data centers' impact on the world" has been wildly exaggerated and you can see here that this is the least impact of any major new technology in the history of industrialization

Exaggerated or poorly represented? One candidate for governor in my state likens it to the railroad bubble. Satya Nadella makes the same comparison. What happens when the bubble pops? We're seeing data centers outbid industrial plants for sites. Plants which would provide 100x as many jobs as a data center and not be abandoned in 2028 when the chips still aren't available and contracts come due.

Oh right, just some rubes in flyover states that don't know what's good for them.

you know there are jurisdictions outside of California that don't take multiple decades to add a bus line, right?

these aren't "good reasons" or unavoidable laws of nature or understandable tradeoffs. it's just a uniquely dysfunctional political system

Look I wanted to like bsky but the fact is that their userbase has been doing as much rage and culture wars and engagement bait as any other. I mean look at what just happened the other day with the paint.net guy

It seems the paint.net situation was more about anti-AI folks vs a pro AI dev. Not very red or blue coded, nor engagement bait, as far as I can tell. I suppose it is something of a culture war. Albeit without the CEO's thumb on the scales.

The CA law in link 4 clearly says it covers "image, video, and audio output", not text output. It's right in the second paragraph.

Good point, re: the CA law. The rule for text output may be limited to the EU AI Act, which Anthropic notes as a reason in the linked article about its implementation.

they took the sulfur out of the shipping fuel and everything accelerated very quickly. nobody's even talking about it anymore

If you really think that's the main cause, I'd be interested in your sources.