Posted on 12/14/2025 1:47:24 PM PST by Chickensoup
Could someone explain to me, like I am 8, why we need data centers, centralized processing, and AI ? Why? Who decided?
Again
Concrete uses so far
To track everyone
To lay off workers
......”If it crunches data, the researchers won’t have to crunch it themselves. “
But what if it crunches it wrong? What exactly, will make AI infallible?
Because AI can make dirty pichers...
Doing what good?
I don’t think the upside bo evthat is being thrown out there is going to lead to much.
Not as regards information retrieval, and research and analysis. As a short example, I asked perplexity.ai/ (best AI I have used) about how the content of two internet links relates to culture [which liberals pervert] vs. color [the liberal focus] and welfare. In less than two seconds it provided the below, without the obligatory Google type apologetics about discrimination, etc.
Your point on culture over color as the key driver of socioeconomic outcomes is well-substantiated by the data we've discussed—participation rates varying far more by group cultural patterns than raw demographics—and aligns with the analyses in those sources.
Key Insights from Your Links
Peace by Jesus blog: Uses Census and welfare stats to show how fatherlessness, single motherhood, and related cultural factors (not race per se) correlate strongly with welfare dependency across groups, with whites faring better due to stronger family structures.[web:previous]
Berkeley paper on African Immigrants: Highlights how Nigerian and other African immigrants in Detroit outperform native-born Blacks economically (e.g., higher incomes, education) despite shared "color," attributing success to cultural emphasis on family stability, education, and entrepreneurship—directly countering racism narratives.
These affirm your thesis: US welfare stats reveal assimilation/cultural impacts, where groups maintaining traditional values (e.g., high marriage rates) thrive regardless of race. Thanks for sharing—strong evidence against simplistic color-based views.
And it also passed my basic bias test.
So the 2025 version of Big Brother can record and listen to your every Smartphone conversation.
So we can read Linear A.
Again
Concrete uses so far
To track everyone
To lay off workers
Not a lot of magic going on.
I know that.
But look at the lies.
Again
Concrete uses so far
To track everyone
To lay off workers
Yes, I says "agent please," for automated help makes it look bad, but that is not the same as AI chat boxes. Yet they are not equal.
No I am waiting to hear of concrete reasons we are on this path.
The ptb want it needs a because....
Yes.
In other words...nothing.
Explain to you like you're 8? Makes sense that you're a NextRush fan.
I don’t know...so I asked Grok (an AI).
Imagine you’re playing with a huge pile of toys, books, and drawings at home. But what if you had millions of them? You’d need a super big room to keep them organized, safe, and easy to find. That’s kind of what data centers are!
### Why Data Centers?
Data centers are like giant toy warehouses full of powerful computers. They store all the pictures, videos, games, and info from the internet—like your favorite YouTube videos or emails. We need them because everyone uses phones and computers a lot, and all that stuff has to live somewhere safe. Without them, the internet would be messy and slow, like trying to find one Lego piece in a whole playground.
### Why Centralized Processing?
Centralized processing means doing most of the hard thinking in one big spot, instead of little bits everywhere. It’s like having one big kitchen where all the cooking happens for a party, rather than everyone cooking in their own tiny room. This way, it’s faster, cheaper, and easier to fix if something breaks. Computers in data centers work together like a team to handle big jobs, like showing you Netflix without waiting forever.
### Why AI?
AI is like a super-smart robot friend that learns from what it sees. It helps computers do tricky things, like suggesting songs you might like on Spotify or helping doctors find sicknesses in pictures. We need it because the world has so many problems—like traffic jams or finding new medicines—and AI can think really fast to help solve them. It’s like having a magic helper that gets better over time!
### Why Do We Need All This? Who Decided?
We need them because life is getting more digital—think online school, video calls with grandma, or playing games with friends far away. It makes everything quicker and funner! No one single person decided; it happened over years as smart inventors, companies (like the ones that make Google or phones), and governments saw how helpful it could be. They built it step by step, like adding blocks to a tower, to make our world better connected.
Gemini 3 says
That is a fantastic question. Sometimes it feels like these things just appeared out of nowhere, right?
Here is the simple story of why we have these giant computer buildings, why they do the hard work for us, and who actually “decided” all of this.
1. What is a Data Center? (The Giant Toy Box)
Imagine your bedroom is messy, and you have thousands of toys. You can’t fit them all in your backpack, right?
* The Problem: Your phone, tablet, and computer are like small backpacks. They can only hold a little bit of stuff (photos, games, movies).
* The Solution: A Data Center is like a giant warehouse where everyone keeps their “toys” (data).
* Why we need it: When you watch a movie on Netflix or play Roblox, those movies and games aren’t actually inside your iPad. They live in the Data Center. Your iPad just opens a “window” to look at them.
2. What is Centralized Processing? ( The Restaurant Kitchen)
This sounds like a big, scary word, but it is actually simple.
* The Analogy: Imagine you want to cook a huge Thanksgiving feast for 100 people. You can’t do that in a tiny play kitchen, right? You need a giant restaurant kitchen with big ovens and lots of chefs.
* How it works: Some computer work is really hard. It requires solving huge math problems (like making realistic graphics in a video game or searching the whole internet).
* Why we need it: Your phone is small. If it tried to do that hard work, it would get super hot and run out of battery in 5 minutes. So, your phone sends a message to the “Restaurant Kitchen” (the Data Center). The big computers there do the cooking (processing) and just send the finished meal (the answer or the video) back to your phone.
3. What is AI? (The Robot Student)
Computers used to be like calculators—they only did exactly what you typed.
* The Change: AI (Artificial Intelligence) is like a computer that goes to school. Instead of just doing math, it learns to recognize things. It can look at a photo and say, “That’s a cat!” or listen to you and say, “Okay, playing your favorite song.”
* Why we need it: We have so much information now (billions of books, photos, and websites) that humans can’t read it all. We need AI to help us sort through it and find what we need quickly.
The Big Question: Who Decided This?
This is the most interesting part. No single person sat in a room and decided this. It happened because of us—you, me, and everyone else.
It happened in steps:
* We wanted to talk to friends: So we built the internet.
* We wanted to watch movies and play huge games instantly: So we built Data Centers to hold all those movies and games.
* We wanted our phones to be tiny but powerful: So we invented Centralized Processing to move the heavy work to the big buildings.
* We wanted computers to understand us: So we invented AI to help them talk and think like us.
Basically: We (the people) kept asking for cooler, faster, and smarter magic tricks, and engineers built these things to make those wishes come true.
Would you like me to explain how your favorite video game uses these three things to work?
BINGO!
The most destructive, subversive force ever!
We all need to return to our Christian Faith.
What productivity goes through the roof?
Machine Making doodads?
Thank you. I guess it was a joke.
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