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by danaris 3mo ago
> It's hardly "changing the subject" to try and establish whether this is actually a proportional effort. No, that's basically the definition of whataboutism. We are talking about the problems with datacenters. You
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If you want to provide new information into a conversation, source the damn information yourself. Don't tell us hallucinations.
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by danaris 3mo ago
Uh, no? You get unemployment benefits. For a little while. In some places there may also be something like rent compensation, but generally unemployment benefits are supposed to be all-encompassing. (They are nowhere near enough to be all
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by danaris 3mo ago
This is whataboutism. No one's saying we shouldn't care about the impact of other technologies and industries too . But when the AI industry is sinking hundreds of billions of dollars into building a huge number of datacenters,
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by danaris 3mo ago
I'm sorry, when individual datacenters are drawing more power than entire cities, and needing to build entire new fossil-fuel-burning power plants to service their needs, you'll excuse me if I'm skeptical of your "it&#x2
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by danaris 3mo ago
Presumably you're fine with using electricity to heat/cool your house, yes? Would you, then, also be fine with running three extra air conditioners/space heaters that do nothing but sit outside on the lawn? "People are O
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by danaris 3mo ago
I think it's fine so long as one fully understands that the LLM is playing games for the human's entertainment. The LLM does not have fun, because the LLM is not alive.
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by danaris 3mo ago
OK, buckle up. Nigel Farage is basically like the UK's Trump: he was the head of the UKIP party, which championed Brexit, and then became the dog that caught the car when Brexit actually happened. Since then, the Reform UK party has ta
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by danaris 3mo ago
We get loads of value from various industries. That doesn't mean we would benefit from expanding those industries by triple-digit percents just to increase the profits of multibillion-dollar corporations without some pretty strong just
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by danaris 3mo ago
Unfortunately, that's a debate you need to be having with the collective restaurant owners of the nation. Until and unless they start paying living wages, there will be a "standard", however unofficial, that tips of some le
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by danaris 3mo ago
In addition to what wrs said, it's true that the foundation models won't necessarily stop working after the bubble pops...but if new training isn't happening, then they're not getting updated. Day 1, that's not go
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by danaris 3mo ago
I mean, that's an extremely broad request. You can install solar panels on your house, and a heat pump. This will help reduce fossil fuel energy usage. You can self-host Mastodon and help move your friends and family members still us
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by danaris 3mo ago
There has been a concerted push by the far right to delegitimize the idea of "human decency." It started to trickle into our mainstream culture by way of aspects of toxic masculinity, and "cringe culture"—can't be s
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by danaris 3mo ago
15% was standard—15 years ago. Then it ticked up to 18%. Then 20%. I've heard that some people are saying it should be 25%...but that was before I moved out of the country, to where tipping is purely for exceptional service. But se
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by danaris 3mo ago
It's not "no science at all". Science understands how pandemics act in general quite well, and that informed the early responses. Where you see the lack of scientific backing in the early responses is things like the reco
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by danaris 3mo ago
> Taken literally, this is absurd. Belief might be necessary for change, but it's not sufficient! I don't read this as "if you just believe, you can do anything!", but rather "when the populace as a whole starts
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by danaris 3mo ago
For those purposes, why would it need to be mirrors? We don't care to coherently reflect the light; we just want to block it. (For reference, I think all of these are likely to be somewhere between moderately and incredibly bad ide
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by danaris 3mo ago
And, if you try it out and find that for your particular circumstances there's no level of spend on AI that's giving you positive ROI, you can just...not do it. It seems like execs these days think that if they're not doing
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by danaris 3mo ago
...Or, y'know...It could, just possibly ...have something to do with the fact that no one has the money to engage in all of those things, especially young people.
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by danaris 3mo ago
But to the extent that it has stalled out, a huge factor in that is, again, capitalism: so much of the technological progress since WWII was built on top of the fundamental research that was being funded largely by the US government. And
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by danaris 3mo ago
And how long did painting the top of the doors take you? How much money did it cost? Because I'm willing to bet it wasn't 9 months and millions of dollars.
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by danaris 3mo ago
Even if that's the case, this ensures that she has a stable paycheck while she searches for another job.
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by danaris 3mo ago
Yes, indeed: the rich and poor alike have freedom from being allowed to sleep under bridges. Come on; there are such obvious imbalances of power here that "each side has incredible freedom" is blatantly misleading. On the one hand
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by danaris 3mo ago
That "political party" is the modern-day Nazis. Like, actual Nazis. If you think Nazis should be given a seat at the political table, especially in Germany , then I don't think I can take you seriously.
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by danaris 3mo ago
> This assumes that there aren't algorithmic breakthroughs which reduce training/inference costs by several OOMs. Of course it does. You cannot operate based on the assumption that you will hit a breakthrough in any given spa
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by danaris 3mo ago
It never matters. Until it does. And if you've been relying on quality not mattering, then when it starts mattering—when you get hit by a security bug, or unexpected data loss, or your software is inexplicably displaying goatse—then yo
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by danaris 3mo ago
But if these "superforecasters" can forecast just about anything accurately—which seems to be the claim—then they're not limited to any one claim, or even a small subset of them. They can place bets on everything and expe
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by danaris 3mo ago
I read it as trying to indicate that it's even more different than apples and oranges. Not sure it succeeds in that, but I think that's the intent.
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by danaris 3mo ago
Unfortunately, for the people seeking to privatize the post office, that's seen as a feature, not a bug.

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