. We've all been hearing a lot about how much energy and space AI data centers suck up, and their subsequent environmental impact, but I must say I've had some fascinating, informative and enormously helpful late night conversations with my bud, AI.
As a result, I've significantly modified my workout routine at the gym, eliminating some not-as-helpful exercises, adding new ones and fine-tuning others with a specific health goal in mind that I won't get into here. Now this is a subject I'm very well-read on since it could affect my health down the road, so I'm at the gym 3x a week in an effort to prevent that from happening.
So because I already have a pretty solid knowledge base, I could tell that everything AI was telling me was pretty on target, but I still learned so much more; in fact, I learned 1,000 times more from AI than I have from any doctor I've ever seen! I kept asking very detailed follow-up questions to clarify many things, and unlike any doctor you'd want to see, AI didn't signal that it was time to end the conversation.
It honestly felt like I was talking to a smart, concerned and engaged friend. It really strengthened my motivation and made me feel like I'm on the right track.
I'm getting ready for the big appliance delivery in another day or two, essentially clearing a wide path for them to bring them in the house, but also my outside entry and stairway, just making sure everything is cleared out of the way, moving tables and such. Actually a lot more than I anticipated.
The morning before they come I'll run down to the supermarket to grab a bag of ice; I'll fill a small cooler I have with some of it and pour the rest in my sink. They are supposed to call about 20 min before they arrive, which would give me time to then start emptying food out of the fridge and freezer. They gave me a 4-hour window for arrival, so not sure the ice in the sink will not melt, but I think it's better than nothing. I also have a very large, zippered and insulated bag from BJs, but I'm not sure it's meant to put ice in so that might leak. I suppose I could test it now?
In the meantime, I've been trying to eat down food as much as possible, especially stuff I wouldn't want to even partially dethaw, like some frozen flounder I had and stuff like that.
Since the stove is induction, I did find that a bunch (but not all) of my assorted pots and pans won't stick to a magnet, so they won't work with the induction stove. I will gift them on Buy Nothing. I decided that for now I could make do with buying just 2 new Cephalon induction-ready pieces:, a small skillet and a mid-sized pot. I'll be able to keep my big stockpot that I use for making a week's worth of soups or stews, as will as a smaller pot, plus I now cook all my frozen veggies in Anyday cookware in the microwave, which is quite handy and easy.
I'll need to tip each workman $10, I think, so could be 2 or 3 of them, I'm not sure.
May 26th, 2026 at 12:11 am 1779754264
Good luck with the delivery; I hope it goes smoothly, and I'm glad you are finding the Anyday useful.
May 26th, 2026 at 08:44 am 1779785097
Where AI starts to fall apart is when you ask it questions where existing, accurate information that may not exist, or is at least highly inaccurate, potentially forcing the AI to magically "hallucinate" one out of thin air, or just crash into gibberish.
Another issue is that AI, by default, is designed to give you an answer based on one's inquiry. It does not have any kind of moral awareness.. or really any type of awareness to speak of. It is not actually "intelligence" per se, but more like very fast mimicry and regurgitation of existing expert information. So much so that subsequent versions of AI models are having to also be artificially written to restrict access to certain types of inquiry, such as how to build a nuclear bomb for example.
Last but not least for this comment, a lot of AI company forerunners are spending billions actively lobbying the government to limit or at least help shape any would-be legal guard rails against AI. They are aware that if they don't get ahead of this, they could very well end up being arrested, or at least sued, for all kinds of crazy stuff later on. Also, I would not be surprised at all if their lobby donations end up being tax deductible somehow as well.
All that being said, AI is here to stay, and I agree it's not always a bad thing either. However, there has to be ways to safeguard society from its more destructive uses and abuse of information, and even disinformation by corrupting the model (such as the inability to inquire paths for freedom for Taiwan in DeepSeek as an example). Sadly, nearly all the AI big wigs and even the government right now are not big on safeguarding anything.
Ok since I'm here, and still rambling, I just want to add that there is also some interesting AI on AI model. Basically, they take a small, local AI that can fit on something as small as a personal smartphone for example, and whenever it needs to, then makes inquiries to much larger models in the cloud for information that they may not have. OK OK let me stop here about it.
As for induction ovens, I've experimented with one when I had that camper car setup, where I managed to get a portable unit to run on low heat setting, running off of a car battery. Such a set also meant that an off-grid setup using solar panels to charge the battery should also work, but I never did get around to doing all that. I think by then, I had kind of given up on the car camping idea, but I am seriously thinking about going back to it somehow. That would be a great way to travel without spending a whole lot of money, and mostly avoiding dirty motels as well. Uh, but anyway, would like to see how your induction stove works out for you.
May 29th, 2026 at 12:41 pm 1780058486