> you usually only have one database

What if I use the cloud? I don't even know how many servers my database runs on. Nor do I care. It's liberating not having to think about it at all.

And your cloud providers thank you for giving their executives a third yacht.

Your total energy needs figure today is completely irrelevant. Half of the so called needs are just for entertainment. Now excuse me I have to step in my SUV and drive to lake Garda Italy for the weekend at 200 km/h.

No it is not printing money. Shares are not money.

It is dilution. 160 million shares of AMD for 1 cent will be added. The idea is that the value increase of the remaining shares enabled by the OpenAI cooperation will be stronger than the decrease caused by dilution.

It's not money printing because shares are not classified as money in economics. Money is used for transactions while shares primary purpose is not transactions.

Der Angriff des Slop ist nicht erfolgt.

3% of the world GDP is more than the 2 trillion needed to fund AI

Why listen to a professor for business admin instead of climate scientists? Are you an idiot?

That's quite wrong. Scientists can tell you if you something is wrong, but can't really inform society on what to do about it. Macro-economists have tools that make them better equipped to gauge the impact of specific approaches on society's well-being.

Macro-economists can not even predict a recession happening next year.

Of course consciousness is required for intelligence - you need to model yourself as part of the world to have a complete model.

Why does "modelling yourself as part of the world" require consciousness?

Never heard of this distinction between parameter and argument, to me they are homonymes. To me, argument or parameter refers to a term in the function definition as well as a term in the function call.

Cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter_%28computer_programm...