Stuff That Interests Me

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theflyingfrisby.comI’m watching amazing video after amazing video made by AI. They’re almost as gripping as the Lowe-Farage blood feud.Hollywood is being “dis-intermediated”, to use the tech lingo. Just as television went from scheduled to on demand, now the content itself is moving that way. Want a different ending to Game of Thrones? Soon you will generate it. And that’s just video. What about everything else? Even if just a fraction of the AI hype actually scales, one thing is certain: we are going to need more electricityMore data centres. More compute. More cooling. More fabrication. More automation. Doesn’t matter where you are in the world - Asia, Africa, America, Europe - energy consumption is going to go up.Because that is what humans do. As we evolve, we consume more energy. We also get better at consuming energy. It’s called progress.Despite ESG orthodoxy, wind and solar subsidy and build, and everything else, global oil consumption