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AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics

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358 points throw0101c | 5 comments | 18 Jul 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 1.269s | source
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jonas21 ◴[18 Jul 25 21:09 UTC] No.44609857[source]▶
I don't know... 1.2% of GDP just doesn't seem that extreme to me. Certainly nowhere near "eating the economy" level compared to other transformative technologies or programs like:

- Apollo program: 4%

- Railroads: 6% (mentioned by the author)

- Covid stimulus: 27%

- WW2 defense: 40%

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1. simianparrot ◴[18 Jul 25 21:35 UTC] No.44610094[source]▶
Please tell me this is satire. Surely you can’t honestly mean this, but these days with AI Poe’s law is way too strong.
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2. Sivart13 ◴[18 Jul 25 21:40 UTC] No.44610126[source]▶
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3. intended ◴[18 Jul 25 22:07 UTC] No.44610320[source]▶
Absolutely. Add robotics over vocational training too. I guess religious donations could be rerouted to encoding human consciousness.

Wow, then the cheapest servers which run the poorest uploaded consciousnesses (correct plural ?), would also likely be the worst cooled.

Making it a cold day in hell if the incentives of humanity ever change.

4. ivape ◴[18 Jul 25 22:18 UTC] No.44610397[source]▶
You think the world does a good job educating people? I’m very serious about making that wholesale change. Many are functionally illiterate and never reach sophisticated academic levels. Many don’t even have parents at home that are qualified to supplement them. Many have teachers who absolutely will never be able to extract their potential. Many are in environments where our current education paradigms will never be able to overcome. LLMs will save a generation of kids.
5. more_corn ◴[18 Jul 25 22:53 UTC] No.44610671{3}[source]▶
LLMs don’t educate. They prevent learning in important ways by solving problems for us.