Comment on Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer

• assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We can do that, but first let’s make sure everyone on the planet has clean water first.

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  • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The money spent on this would not have been spent on giving clean water to people thousands of miles away

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    • dandi8@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does this really make it any less worthy of criticism, though...?

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      • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes?

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    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How about using it for the free school lunches that the Governor decided to veto for some fucking reason?

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      • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We would rather have the children starve to death than being called a communist.

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      • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It was privately funded, this money would not have gone to school lunches

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is that where guillotines come in?

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    • nikita@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe it would’ve if governments taxed them properly and spent that money to save the planet

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    • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So we might a well build some shit.

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      • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hey, it’s just $2,300,000,000

        Can’t even feed a packed homeless shelter for that much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Doesn’t flint still not have clean water?

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      • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Those are two different states, plus flint does have clean water now (although the effects of contamination and lead exposure still remain in people who grew up drinking it)

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the equivalent of saying “Eat all your dinner cause there’s starving children in Africa”.

    Sure, this sounds nice, but this logic falls apart the instant you start thinking about it.

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  • CybranM@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You sound like the people criticising NASA for spending money on science. “Who do X when Y is still an issue?”

    I doubt you make that kind of prioritization with your own money.

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    • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      NASA also consistently provides new innovation and new science.

      What will the dome keep contributing to society for the absurd electricity cost it takes to keep running? Advertisements?

      Yeah, there not really the same argument.

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• todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A purely utilitarian life is a life only spent on survival. Not a life I want to live.

  Well, that hubris won’t afford you a livable world for much longer.

  We could have respected the planet that birthed us, and taken only what we needed. Instead we extracted every natural resource we could find, and left behind countless shattered ecosystems. Even as the walls close in, we accelerate our pettiness and perform acts of wastefulness that alone do measurable ecological damage, and we celebrate it because it is “cool”.

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  • AIhasUse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If this is something you feel strongly about, then please stop eating factory farmed meat and animal products if you havent already. It is something you personally can actually do. It helps, and it will genuinely make you feel better. You may not have much power, but using the power you do have to help the team you claim to be on instead of the other team is a massive step forward.

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    • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Look, you’re not really wrong, but you get that this shit is why people get irritated with vegans right? We were talking about being wasteful with energy resources for the sake of capitalism and you came in with a lazy segue to animal rights and nutritional health.

      It’s a conversation that we should be having, but it’s also insufferable to constantly be shoehorning it into every conversation.

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      • Teppichbrand@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t agree. The comment points out the single most easy and effektive move an individal without political nor financial power can make to cut personal co2-emissions with just a change of habit. It’s not about animal rights and not about your health. Us still eating meat even though we know better is an incredibly dumb waste of energy for the sake of pleasure, exactly like this shitty powereating globe.

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      • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You came in here with your absolutist utilitarian life above all else or we all die post just to respond with this because someone suggested you to stop eating meat. Beautiful.

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      • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s not veganism, that’s environmentalism. Veganism is recognizing that animals have the right not to be treated as property and have atrocities visited upon them. That the experiences of animals are real and matter. That their suffering is identical in nature to your own.

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    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It helps,

      no, it doesnt. despite the existence of vegans, meat production increases every year, year over year.

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      • AIhasUse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And there’s crime so you might as well rape. What a pathetic cop out. You’re lucky there are so many people taking care of you.

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      • Teppichbrand@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No it doesn’t, Commie

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• rasensprenger@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I understand that perspective, but does it really have to be advertising?

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d prefer if it weren’t. Though that’s not the only use for this thing.

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• Cosmicomical@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This isn’t pushing any boundaries, though. This is off the shelf technology. Anybody can do something big by throwing a shit ton of money at it. It would be pushing boundaries of tech or art if it was for instance super power efficient, or mind bending in any way. This is a fucking sphere, it’s the simplest shape and a rip off of the pyramids but less original and not even comparable in terms of durability.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Could it not be argued that building this thing now gives people a chance at looking at the power draw and attempting to make it super efficient? Like now people have a tool to test things on.

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They did mention that they are working on making 70% of this powered by solar panels. Maybe this will push forward solar technology in some way.

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  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is absolutely pushing boundaries to be driving this many pixels at a frame rate that doesn’t take minutes to refresh. I build a lot of projects with addressable LEDs and the typical hobbyist stuff chokes out when you start trying to control more than a thousand or so. This thing has 256 million pixels inside and 1.2 million outside.

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• JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure but we’re burning tons of coal to have this thing advertise minion movies, not anything artistic or worthwhile.

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  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Worthwhile for who

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