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by sfn42 2mo ago
I don't really see how this could ever be better than what Google maps already does. It's neat and cool and stuff, it's just not useful. And you need a way beefier computer in your car to run it.
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by sfn42 2mo ago
And the cost of fossil fuels is future (not to mention current and recent past, I believe Germany has had over 15k heatwave related deaths this summer) human lives, you wanna calculate those into your little napkin math there?
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by sfn42 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure the actual second group is vanishingly small, it just seems larger because people in general don't know anything about anything so they will be vehemently against nuclear simply because they don't actually kno
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by sfn42 2mo ago
It's only a problem because of capitalism. Every plant needs to independently make money, so nobody wants to be the ones spinning down because that's their profit margin dwindling. But society would be better off with excess gener
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by sfn42 2mo ago
You can do that, with varying results. Or you can just do actual software engineering like we used to do, and tell it what patterns to abstract and how. You choose your level of effort and involvement. The LLM can write whatever you tell it
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by sfn42 2mo ago
https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-many-new-trees-would-we-...
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by sfn42 2mo ago
It does not just take a lot of energy. If we got unlimited free energy today it would take decades if not centuries to build enough carbon capture facilities to just remove as much CO2 as we're producing. Of course the free energy woul
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by sfn42 2mo ago
Because weather engineering is experimentation with potentially huge unintended consequences both for the people in the relevant region as well as people in neighbouring regions and potentially even further. How would you feel if your neigh
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by sfn42 2mo ago
Yeah, that happens when you vibe code and just let the LLM be in control of everything. If you take responsibility for the architecture and instruct it to do things properly it will do them properly. You can tell it exactly how to do it or
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by sfn42 2mo ago
We can increase them, it's just really hard to decrease them which is why scientists have been telling us to stop increasing the CO2 levels for about a century.
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by sfn42 2mo ago
That's pretty unrealistic, but I'd visit occasionally just to browse and not buy anything, making the algorithm lower the prices for me. Could build an app where people could register their prices for stuff so everyone could see w
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by sfn42 2mo ago
I personally don't really see the problem. I'm not going to buy something I don't want/need. If they use the data to show me ads for something I want that then leads me to making a purchase, to me that seems like a win&#
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by sfn42 2mo ago
What do you think adapt means? If we do not adapt we die. Those are the options. If we cannot adapt to the new climate on Earth we can not live on Earth. And we sure can't live anywhere else. I'm not "crying wolf". You,
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by sfn42 2mo ago
https://unclimatesummit.org/comparing-climate-impacts-at-1-5... > there is no certainty that adaptation to a 4°C world is possible … the projected 4°C warming simply must not be allowed to occur. Bonus: https:/&#x2
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by sfn42 2mo ago
I'm just explaining to you why this technology will almost certainly not solve the problem, it likely won't even make a dent in the problem. I believe this is an important point to make because it looks to me like the primary effe
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by sfn42 2mo ago
You'd be surprised how may people don't even understand that a light year is a measure of distance.
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by sfn42 2mo ago
We've already been doing it for 50 years, and the pinnacle of achievement in the field is a facility being built in Texas that is planning to sequester 500,000 tons of CO2 annually. The world produces over 38 billion tons of CO2 a year
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by sfn42 2mo ago
It's not about tech. It's about the fact that the atmosphere has like 0,00something% CO2, so you need to process like a thousand tons of air to theoretically extract one ton of CO2. You basically need to suck the entire atmosphere
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by sfn42 2mo ago
We will not. Carbon capture is a joke. It does not work anywhere near the scale it's needed. We would need many times more capture facilities than we currently have power plants. And to run them we would need many times more power plan
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by sfn42 2mo ago
This is so lame man. A few construction vehicles aren't why the world is burning. It's burning because we pump and dig up billions of tons of fossil fuels to burn in large scale power plants, cargo ships etc. And a bunch of other
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by sfn42 2mo ago
> we cannot pray for Norwegian money Just for the record, our oil fund is "only" about $2.2 trillion. It's huge relative to our population and huge in general, but it would quickly dry up if divided among all of EU. Even j
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by sfn42 2mo ago
Referring to "AI" as an existential risk is hilarious. They're glorified chatbots, they're not going rogue and taking over the world lol
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by sfn42 2mo ago
Their problem, not ours.
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by sfn42 2mo ago
It's an impossible goal. "Perfection" is subjective and situational. It's basically impossible to specify a non-trivial task perfectly, and without a perfect specification you can't have a consistently perfect resul
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by sfn42 2mo ago
> language is a vague communication medium. We have a precise language for describing forms of computation, but that's code so we're back at square one. That's why you tell it how to write the code, and then review the cod
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by sfn42 2mo ago
While some people are busy bickering about this, the rest of us are using these awesome new tools to get more work done in less time with higher quality than ever. I don't care what the company claims, I just use the tool the way I wan
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by sfn42 2mo ago
> renege or renegotiate Are those different things?
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by sfn42 2mo ago
I ordered a new CPU on sale a while back, right when the memory prices started spiking. I didn't even know RAM was going up in price. Realized the CPU needed a new motherboard and ram so I ordered the motherboard, started looking at ra
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by sfn42 2mo ago
Same point though, almost nobody really needs a horsepower upgrade.
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by sfn42 2mo ago
I imagine "we" "owe" a lot more to young men or just men in general for the same, but I guess there's no virtue signaling points to be harvested from making that observation.

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