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The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

SkyeStarfall ,

Carbon taxes doesn't make capitalism good, it's still like, the cause of the problem in the first place

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...

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Kind of has been, not in a scientific manner, but there's the whole phenomenon of "feral human".

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If you lean towards moral truth being at least somewhat universal, then this wouldn't be intrinsically human at all.

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They most likely do play video games, games are a really space efficient activity.

As for fucking, well, officially not but...

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Yeah, but sex is much more than just PIV

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Yeah, it's about as useful as saying that all of science is "just statistics". Which like, in a literal way, it's true. But science is still what forms the foundation of our entire civilization and base of knowledge.

Knowing that a blood pressure drug works is "just statistics", but you still take it if your blood pressure is high.

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I don't see why we wouldn't be able to control our tails, just as much as we can control our facial expressions.

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Nah, it's just that corporations will obviously want to be as positive as possible! After all, happy people are more exploitable/profitable people!

This is literally how the fake happy cyberpunk dystopias happen.

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Well, corners are not very natural, and we were made to traverse in natural environments such as forests or grasslands.

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Bruh, you're the one coming in a post about polyamory ranting about polyamory

Just ignore and move on?? Why are you putting so much energy into this

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Genuine question, why is AI bad/concerning?

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In addition, what if the person noticed the obstructions and then moved them away, and then accidentally got a finger in there? That's a realistic scenario too.

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Give the internet archive a donation, history should be remembered, not forgotten.

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Facebook is not the government though?

And why is it always "we have to respect other people calling for the erasure of the rights of minorities"? Do you have any idea how frustrating and tiresome that is, as a minority?

SkyeStarfall ,

I wanna be part of the lesbian bully polycule

SkyeStarfall ,

Should we stop using a word because it describes reality too well? I see it everywhere these days, and it's an accurate descriptor.

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I've had more windows updates breaking stuff than I had arch updates breaking stuff, that's for sure. I think it's frankly laughable that a paid OS has problems such as that.

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"Politics is everything I disagree with"

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I guess it's when footage looks "too perfect"?

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Power users are the exact people who would get the most benefit out of Linux, though. Speaking as one of them who got sick and tired of Windows' bullshit. I'd argue Linux already very much competes with Windows, and has many advantages sourced from it being an open and not profit driven operating system.

Finally do I have an operating system that actually tries to work with me to get what I want, rather than tries to obstruct me every part of the way because "it knows best" or whatever windows tries to do.

SkyeStarfall ,

At least most things are better when you're naked

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Fuck, I mean, this already happened with gen z and Garry's mod lol

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I really don't think it's reasonable to be needing to mess with the registry to get basic behaviour that you want. It's just the same shit that people accuse Linux of needing to use the terminal all the time except in windows flavour.

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Takes far more resources to grow an entire animal just for their surface area resources

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The funny thing is, I feel like I have to maintain my arch system less than Windows

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I feel like I hear this story repeated over and over and over and over and over.... everywhere.

At what point will we stop letting the business types degrade our human civilization for their egoistic short-term gains?

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And you can't just go and find food somewhere, you have to integrate and get some form of a job, or income source. If you don't have any of the magic green stuff, you starve.

SkyeStarfall ,

It's enough to look at how much stuff is available in a supermarket, or in the average, home, to know we live in an age of abundance. The problem is, is that abundance is not shared, but hoarded.

We have enough food to feed the world, we have enough production for everyone in the world to have a smartphone and internet access and electricity. We can make clothes for everyone, we can home everyone. We have enough healthcare for everyone.

By an objective measure, we have abundance, we have enough. The world is just severely mismanaging our resources and the distribution of them. Because the economy doesn't work for humans, instead humans work for the economy.

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Asteroid mining and space industry is a huge reason, and it's the next logical step for humanity, especially since it means we can put dirty industry where nature and life doesn't exist.

There are absurd amounts of resources in space, a lot of which are difficult to access or rare on earth. In addition, space can give opportunities for new forms of manufacturing, from being able to control the level of gravity due to weightlessness, to being surrounded by vacuum. Two things which are either very difficult or impossible to recreate on earth.

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From the very release it seemed like it was gonna be a meh game. Not bad, not good, just perfectly ok, and with how many good games exist today, I never saw any point in playing it.

And, yeah, that's basically what the conclusion ended up being.

SkyeStarfall ,

Grim Dawn and Last Epoch are indeed good, but for me nothing beats Path of Exile. Whenever I play other ARPGs, I'm just missing stuff from PoE

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I mean, it's still the case under the hood, and languages like C do work that way. Sure, it's abstracted away in most programming languages these days, but if you ever need to do direct memory management, it's very much still how it works.

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But if the true costs were quantized in the formula and not just externalized maybe it would suddenly make more sense. After all, in the end, society pays for it no matter what.

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What's stopping you

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And in 2024 we now sit together irl with cat ears on, as god intended

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Ah yeah, that's very fair.

You are always allowed to be a catgirl for fun if that's what you want though! It doesn't have to be anything beyond that! As long as, yeah, you're not making life worse for others haha

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Then people will argue capitalism incentivizes innovation.

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Which was 12 years ago

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Frankly, if just 0.3% of buyers return an IT product (especially a novel one) because they "don't get it", that's a massive success in my book. Have you seen users?

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Society rewards people for making bad choices and doing bad things and many still pretend the system "works"

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It's scary how many people parrot what they hear almost word for word with no thinking at all

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This AI won't hallucinate because it's not an LLM

LLMs are not the only form of AI, or machine learning.

Biden admin providing $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to make computer chips in New York and Vermont (apnews.com)

Biden admin providing $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to make computer chips in New York and Vermont::The Biden administration says that the government would provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic production in New York and Vermont.

SkyeStarfall ,

Probably to produce new nodes. You can't just reuse old equipment.

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Sure, but how many "easily changed things" do you need for the camel's back to break?

I feel like I constantly hear of tiny little things that get worse in windows. Sure, maybe each individually is not a big deal, but it all is just forever added on, constantly creating a slightly worse user experience.

In the end, windows is not follow a very user-friendly/user-centric design.

OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion (decrypt.co)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including from the United Arab Emirates, to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion in funding. The goal, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, is to increase the world's chip manufacturing capacity and enhance AI capabilities....

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Yeah, I didn't agree to shit. I got yanked from the void into all of this.

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You can't have an as extensive of a subway network as you can a tram network. It's not trivial to just make tunnels everywhere, and can have consequences for the terrain. In addition, putting many stops on the subway removes the speed advantage, and so is always a trade-off. Good public transit has both.

And green spaces always add something, no matter where they are.

Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built (www.usatoday.com)

Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built::The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY's analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.

SkyeStarfall ,

Except physically speaking, that warmth from the motor is still just from the energy the wind has.. energy that would get transformed to heat from friction eventually anyway. It's just that this way we get useful work for our own purposes in the form of electricity.

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That is technically the full name, yes. I have seen people write BDDSSM (usually in parenthesis) sometimes.

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