Post · A small Bonfire corner on the internet

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr · 3 days ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The AI that we'll have after AI; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/16/post-ai-ai/

#Pluralistic

A woodcut of a phoenix rising from the ashes. Its head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a green circuit-board.

Image:
Cryteria (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en — A woodcut of a phoenix rising from the ashes. Its head has been replaced with the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background is a green circuit-board. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

ploum

@ploum@mamot.fr replied · 3 days ago

@pluralistic : my take on this is that those datacenters consume lot of electricity. Most of it renewable. Which means that, after the bubble, we will drown in too-cheap-to-meter electricity.

In fact, electricity will often have a negative price. Which will put bitcoin mining into a new light.

(while the crypto market is a scam and current prices are scam, the bitcoin project, at its core, is not a scam at all and is truly important. But I agree that the core is well hidden those days)

Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied · 3 days ago

I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #LosAngeles, #Calgary and #SanFrancisco!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour