spencerflem

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by spencerflem 5d ago
AI is a massive contributor to climate change lol
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by spencerflem 5d ago
What gets me is that I haven’t heard a reasonable explanation of exactly what the AI will do besides: nukes and biolabs we already have & ofc AI is making climate change worse, some of the Amazon datacenters are using fossil fuels to ge
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by spencerflem 5d ago
They are much worse at citing sources compared to search engines
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by spencerflem 5d ago
I’m well aware tech companies are evil and yet work at one. My current read is that ~20-30% of people in America actively delight in hurting others (ICE supporters etc) Another 30% do not seem to care about anything but their own well-being
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by spencerflem 10d ago
Not to be tooo pedantic, but a bot that assigned 0 confidence to everything wouldn’t hallucinate. A calculator either gets the right answer or doesn’t answer. It wouldn’t have to be all knowing as long as it knew perfectly what it doesn’t k
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by spencerflem 1mo ago
Yes if you don’t mind getting arrested by our fascist border police
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by spencerflem 1mo ago
Great list!
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by spencerflem 1mo ago
I tried both and found Fastmail vastly easier to use. The encryption part wasn’t that valuable for me and ofc Proton doesn’t encrypt the metadata and unless they’re proton too it’s not E2E so I’m happy sticking with Signal for that sorta st
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by spencerflem 1mo ago
Isn’t it being destroyed because it makes the scanning process easier?
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by spencerflem 2mo ago
ZOHO calls their Microsoft Office suite an OS I think. I feel like if it’s a platform app developers can target to run general purpose user facing software, it can be an OS.
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by spencerflem 2mo ago
In some sense, it is. Sandstorm called itself an OS too. Arcan calls itself an Overlay-OS. I think for any platform for general purpose computing that provides an application model that programs are written to target, it's close enough
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by spencerflem 2mo ago
Is it? I hear about 10xers all the time
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by spencerflem 2mo ago
Or documentation that everyone could read and refer to
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by spencerflem 2mo ago
SVG?
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by spencerflem 2mo ago
I am normally the first to complain that people in hacker news are biased against WMF in a way that seems forced and weird (oh no ! they’re sponsoring some cool open culture stuff in addition to running the website ! they pay for more than
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by spencerflem 2mo ago
We’ll see. Depends on the primaries. Institutional dems have a pitiful track record on holding people accountable. I expect we’ll see a lot of reaching across the isle and ‘moving forwards, not dwelling on the past’.
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
Haha I think we have a different idea of which 1% is making life miserable
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
Which is why it was a mistake to let Republicans vote
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
Who’s saying not to build solar?
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
Yeah it’s freaky. I work in tech too, I know I’m a villain lol
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
Seems pretty obvious- that datacenters very measurably contribute to rising costs of electricity and climate change , and unlike aluminum processing or farming which makes things people want, is used for AI which a lot of people resent. It’
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
One refrigerator sized rack at a datacenter takes as much power as 150 homes, and they’re using it for technology that disempowers and annoys people. It’s pretty obviously offensive. All for rezoning golf courses too
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
You can have free markets without investments, which imo is the key differentiator between Capitalism and what came before. That’s what ‘capital’ is in capitalism. In fact, capitalism tends to trend towards monopoly which is the opposite of
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
To be fair, if they first vocalize it they could just use Sparse Voxels which is my favorite differentiable rendering technique https://github.com/NVlabs/svraster
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
I didn’t notice there was a secondary link, sorry. For everyone else, consider this comment a recommendation to click through and watch it then :)
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
People Make Games just did a terrific documentary on this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N7B9b0GQ&pp=0gcJCUECo7VqN5t...
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
The core idea of capitalism is that you spend money to make more money. Rich get richer is the basic idea, you invest and those investments make you more. It very necessarily leads to oligarchy when left unchecked.
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
I mean, you Can, but I like my friends and myself. I feel gross about the place I’m at and I don’t want to lose that feeling.
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
I was considering pretty heavily getting a teaching license
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by spencerflem 3mo ago
Downvoters are wrong. Everything here is true. As someone who compromised their morals (not Facebook but other big tech) after being laid off, it was a choice

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