myrmidon

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by myrmidon 10mo ago
I don't see how this is really much different from just setting up servers in some underregulated banana republic; to do anything, you still need a connection to the public internet, and somewhat regulated nations like the EU or US c
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
If there are no parties mainly concerned with climate sustainability, then that is very likely because voters are not sufficiently interested in such platforms, and are more receptive to messages like "will fight immigrants", &q
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
This is simply incorrect. CO2 emissions from a single passenger vehicle alone are ~5 tons/year (this is tailpipe missions only ), while per capita emissions for EU/US citizens are between 5 and 15 tons/year. So invididual tr
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
Vote political parties into power that put a price on emissions and honestly work on reducing it. The big problem is that this is not gonna be free. When fossils are used, it's obviously because they are the most economical option. As
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
I think a very problematic aspect of this is self-perception. People that see (growing) wealth inequality as a problem rarely perceive themselves as part of it, but e.g. anyone complaining about the "top 1%" on this forum is prett
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
I'd say yes, because AI training is mostly fixed-cost and not that expensive when you compare it to raising/educating human labor. Early factories were expensive, too (compared to the price of a horse), but that was never a show-s
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
The big problem I see with AI is that it undermines redistribution mechanisms in a novel and dangerous way; despite industrialization, human labor was always needed to actually do anything with capital, and even people born in poverty cou
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
This kind of shit happened before, is happening right now and is going to happen again. Something needs to be done. IMO the best way to stop companies from messing with science and law is to hold them accountable for the actual damage, idea
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
In this case the biggest failure was that ExxonMobil et al were capable of subverting EU lawmaking via external pressure (via US diplomatic channels/trade negotiation) and indirect influence by targetting individual countries. This see
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
I don't agree with this. I think the article does a good job at pointing out the problematic aspects of this particular lobbying campaign, and even how/why to stop it. A lot of people view lobbyism as basically exchangeable with n
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
I agree, and it feels like an allergy by now to that style specifically. This is doubly annoying because it ruins the reading experience and just makes me question myself constantly because you often can't be quite certain especially f
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
How can you be certain that policymakers won't make decisions that help their trading instead of their constituents? The incentive is already there, and the whole thing is legal, too. Don't get me wrong, I think campaign donations
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
Peoples understanding of what "corruption" is differs by a surprising amount. The boundaries between corruption, lobbyism, incompetence and nepotism can get very blurry (sometimes even actually representing your constituents inter
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
I completely agree with your main point, but the state supervised CO2 budget strikes me as a bad example; I see no real way to prevent companies and citizens from "externalizing costs" in the form of environmental damage except by
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
This is a good point, but a lot of ressources have a fixed or limited supply (arguably all of them); if wealth inequality increases, the poor fraction of the population will have a harder time competing for those. Consider urban housing as
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
> evidence to date is that it's ability to destroy counties ends somewhere around Iran's strength What kind of evidence? US is not destroying countries because its citizens don't want it to, and are generally not willing t
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
Costs to clean up a mess from an underregulated industry can be bigger then the whole industry causing it . This is not even untypical. Examples: Leaded gas, tobacco, CO2 emissions, dam breaks, reactor meltdowns, air pollution (really poll
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
There are also constitutional barriers to lie under oath, e.g. about spying and collecting data on US citizens, but those barriers seem very ineffective (I'm talking about the 2013 congressional hearing involving James Clapper). I see
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
For $800 you can get a complete 2kWh system, including cells, inverter and panels shipped to your home in Europe, so if you're paying more than that for half the storage either your government or contractor is fleecing you. I can confi
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
> Not at the actual price it's going to cost though. But we don't know that pricepoint yet; current prices for all this are inflated because of the gold-rush situation, and there are lots of ways to trim marginal costs. At wors
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
I strongly suspect that the term alludes to "human centipede", which is a dutch horror film and involves the titular centipede literally eating his own shit.
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
Do you mean that they need to find better ways to create value by using AI, or that they need better ways to extract value from end-users of AI? I'd argue that "value creation" is already at a decent position considering
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
Sure, but local supply of labor was looking even worse than now back then, and cost of labor intensive stuff like daycare, nursing homes/residential care have gone through the roof, still. Just look at how Brexit alone affected lorry
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
Hard disagree on this. Immigration was the only realistic option to shield against demographic collapse and stabilize unskilled labor supply for decades, and it is no suprise that politicians took it. I honestly think that if politicians ha
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
This is really interesting. I put some numbers into this, and the required power for long term storage is significantly lower than I'd have expected. This was giving me for Germany (assuming 80GW of constant demand) under 50GW of requi
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
Would it even actually help to go down that road though? IMO the expected outcome would simply be that AI training stalls for a bit while "unencumbered" training material is being collected/built up and you achieve basicall
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
I think the GPL mainly suffers with startups because it makes monetization pretty difficult. Some "commercial" uses of it are also giving it somewhat of an undeserved bad taste (when companies use it to benefit from free contribut
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
I had a very similar view once, and have since understood that this is mainly a difference in perspective: It's easy as a developer to slip into a role where you want to build/package (maybe sell) some software product with minima
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
I honestly think that the most extreme take that " any output of an LLM falls under all the copyright of all its training data" is not really defensible, especially when contrasted with human learning, and would be curious to
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by myrmidon 11mo ago
What do you mean by "high price"? "Normal" price for a AAA game is more like $60, and Arc is 40. Sure, indie/2D can be had for less (like Factorio or Silksong), but I would not expect an <$40 price tag for a 3D g

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