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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
I think that’s fine, having an extremely small group of subsidized industries because of historical reasons are fine. Going forward, I don’t expect any group of experts appointed by the government to know whether a use case is justified a
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
This is an extremely frustrating angle to take because what you're implying is that anytime anyone comes up with any system that takes water they should go in front of a panel of experts (seniors) who get to decide whether their water
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
"Law enforcement is setting up a multi-county dragnet by putting every version or mistype of a license plate into a warrant list" wouldn't be a story? It should be! We should have a higher standard for the people with guns an
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
"the TN woman who was extradited to NC," Yup, exactly. Look that case up, it had nothing to do with Flock. It was facial recognition software and an old school database built in 2014, so likely not big-data ML (AlexNet hadn't
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
No licensed engineer can say "Well Claude made this bridge for me, it's not my fault". If you're licensed by the state to carry a gun around, your standard should be higher than that, not lower. AI has nothing to do with
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
Paraphrasing the crux of the issue: "It's regular practice in Colorado to list license plates with both versions, the one with 'O's and the other with Zeros in the warrant list." Insane. Practice. As always, this st
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
Snowy/Ice-y driving? Check out all this Canadian work! http://cadcd.uwaterloo.ca Disclosure: My grad student advisor.
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
I don't think the last two critiques are good critiques at all. The environmental impact is a function of our energy sources not energy uses. Complaining about energy and water when we have infinite energy beamed down to us surrounded
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
Wait, you jumping to national ID's are a tool for national control is fine, but me saying social media is forensically designed to be hyper-addictive[1] is somehow bizarre? Have a nice day I guess. [1]: https://www.addiction
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
"your role as parent is not to blindly follow the herd if you think it is not good." This is just conservative individual responsibility pablum just re-imagined for IT. "It doesn't matter if all of societies forces + gia
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
Yes, and also almost all of these issues could be ascribed to all digital medical record-keeping. The fact that AI transcribed it matters relatively little.
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
"Decent schools also ban phones now as well." Yes and decent countries ban social media, because like schools, the countries recognize this is a collective action issue. You get your children a smartphone when it becomes the only
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
"This is 100% an education issue" It is not. Most parents I know have seen what it does to their kids, but have zero childcare. I have a white-collar remote job and can police my kids. If I was dual-parent working class, I don&#x2
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
If this was America there would be 20 think pieces in the Atlantic about how AI is ruining our culture and no one would get arrested.
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
Could be nothing, or could be a new Havana Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome What's sad is, 5-10 years ago, no adversary would think simply off-ing American scientists was effective strategy,
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
Fortunately, the slop you visibly see online is just the tip of the iceberg. I would guess 80% of AI's real usage hides beneath the surface in back-office documentation consumption, software development, process optimization and auto
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
"infrastructure improvements (grid capacity, fiber, etc)" Do these projects fund these? Because the crux of the best argument against data centers is hinged on a lack of infrastructure (power, water etc.) availability.
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
have you found a model that does this with usable speeds on an M2/M3?
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
Is this an issue with Cactus compute stuff as well?
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
"there are plenty of other companies who will be happy to take the money to build them onto Boston Dynamics' platforms." Only way to solve this is DRM. War machine (or even intimidation tool) creations on their platforms is a
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
Boston Dynamics has sworn off all war machine development [1]. But as expected, others have taken their place [2]. Guilt-tripping a single non-monopoly proving useless again. [1]: https://bostondynamics.com/news/general
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
The EPA comparison is moot. Data centers don’t dump chemicals into the water or emit toxic gasses. A data center is not more or less resource intensive than your typical factory. All already regulated. What you’re asking for is an EPA for “
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by pj_mukh 6mo ago
No NIMBY ever says “let’s just ban this!”, they always say “we need to study the issue more”. Almost always. The science of hosting rack GPU servers in the middle of is unknown? Are you listening to yourself? Power and water usage is extrem
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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
If the whole voting population came together and said we’d like to pay ourselves $100,000 in straight cash today by borrowing it from future generations. Should they be able to do it in the name of direct democracy? Blocking all future grow
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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
Appointing a council of elders who will think through every imagined horror before approving a project (or a “framework”) is basically the textbook definition of NIMBY-ism. Every NIMBY thinks they’re being optimally thoughtful (tm), except
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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
This is a recipe for creating dead retiree states. Just NIMBY everything, NIMBY the power sources[1] [2], then complain about a lack of power so NIMBY any type of new industrial <anything>. Now do this for housing, new sources of wate
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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
Fascinating. First you NIMBY the power, then you cite the power shortages to NIMBY the data centers. Win. Win.
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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
"Neither Maine nor New Hampshire voters are "bozos" for voting it down. " I mean yes, that is how the Tragedy of the Commons works. Everyone individually makes the optimal decision for themselves but in effect you'v
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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
"We are for the jobs the comet provides" - Don't Look up. I'm not trying to be facile here but let's be honest the environmental concerns are silly. I don't want to hear about electricity shortages from a state
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by pj_mukh 7mo ago
I don't know what's more crushing, not having a job, or knowing deep-down that there is a machine that can trivially do your job. If I was made to lamp street lamps 5 years after incandescent street lights were invented, while not

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