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Comment on '3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time

Aren’t eggs produced at industrial scales from chickens, who super-abundantly exist?

How is that working out?

In no universe does the economics of a $1 egg make sense, yet here certain countries are. Did you know you can have chickens in your backyard, and they’ll turn bugs and cheap feed into eggs?

The less you can offload production to central untrusted parties, the better. When you manufacture something yourself, you get to know all the properties instead of trusting that some people elsewhere (whose primary motivation is money) still considered your interests by making a quality product.

So when you say “we,” what does “we” mean exactly? It is rhetorical.

Additionally, you get consistent reproducibility without reliance on large scale logistical networks. There are many other reasons I can think of off the top of my head beyond this.

If we lived in a more cooperative world, with ironclad democratically owned logistics networks and manufacturing, centralized manufacturing would make sense in the way you say. But the reality is, we do not live in that world, and more and more, we are all increasingly feeling what that means.

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LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d just like to comment that keeping your own chickens is not economical unless you are basically willing to convert your yard into a chicken farm and slaughter your chickens once they stop laying eggs after a couple years, and even then its gonna take you a while to recoup (ha) the cost off the chicken coop, feed, etc, not to mention the time it takes to take care of them. What you’re really paying for with the cost of $1 (or really, 50 cents or less for most people) an egg is the convenience of eggs in the quantity you want them, with guaranteed quality, whenever you want them. Same with buying screws from the hardware store.

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Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Economies of scale exist, regardless if you like them or not. You have a die for a 2nm processor in your garage? Gonna take a garden trowel into the backyard and dig till you hit a vein of rare earth metals?

Rugged individualism is a romantic concept, but not well supported by human history. If you make everything by your own hand, the sum total of your output will really just barely be enough to keep you fed.

I can’t even really fathom this response to the idea that you shouldn’t 3D print screws. It’s like I kicked your dog or something.

If you want to make your own screws, go ahead, make your own screws, but even then the analogy still holds well: don’t 3D print them. Use a tap and die set.

Tools exist to make screws and a 3D printer is the most expensive, slowest, and will produce inferior screws compared even to the existing make-screws-at-home options. On top of that, if, I don’t know, if you’re in an apocalyptic post-socoiety breakdown where logistical networks collapse… And you’re subsisting on backyard chickens… Still think you want the tap and die set for the purposes of screw production. No electricity, no files to get corrupted as your computer rusts out, essentially no maintenance required. Easier to transport.

Just because a technology is new and flexible doesn’t mean it’s automatically the best way to do all of the things it can "technically* do.

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- WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I will process wood vinegar and corn starch into PET plastic to 3D print expendable stuff eith, thanks
  
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  - Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ah shit I edited my post to dial back the snark, but this comment is on point
    
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