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- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 1 week ago:
Well, most of the carbon footprint for models is in training, which you probably don’t need to do at home.
That said, even with training they are not nearly our leading cause of pollution.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 1 week ago:
Thank you.
Idk if LLMs can tell which number is bigger. But we already knew humans can’t.
- Comment on If a country needs to employ state-sponsored patriotism, it's usually because there's nothing to be proud of about the country. 1 week ago:
Thank you; I think I understand how you are using patriotism better. (Also jealous that somewhere has destigmatized public office.)
- Comment on If a country needs to employ state-sponsored patriotism, it's usually because there's nothing to be proud of about the country. 1 week ago:
I agree that the first panel is off; I would replace it with “I’m going to work on my house because I want it to be the best house it can be”, or something similar.
And, at least for democracies (or similar), one of their bigger failure modes is that people:
- don’t feel like they (do/can/should) contribute to the place they live;
- do not value the work that others do for the place and community;
- take for granted the natural resources, and don’t safeguard them for the future. Consider how it is absurd for a normal person to run for public service, and how air quality has plummeted in so many places. I think it could be healthy to be proud of a group project you participated in. It’s a bit sad that countries/states/cities/neighborhoods so often fail to be such projects.
- Comment on If a country needs to employ state-sponsored patriotism, it's usually because there's nothing to be proud of about the country. 1 week ago:
Idk, I feel like one failure of governments is not sharing the successes and having big discussions about what they want to be/do. Patriotism vs nationalism smbc.
- Comment on Big tech should release some privacy friendly products 2 weeks ago:
Let the record show, every time somebody tries it’s out-competed by the
- more responsive,
- cleaner looking,
- simpler,
- easier to scale,
- less error prone (and less annoying when it does error!),
horrible privacy stuff. The market really doesn’t care; consumers will pay 3 less dollars for an insecure product. It’s not even really their fault; it is extremely difficult to tell when software is actually secure. It is a pain to tell when some middle-man is actually selling your data or not, due to a carve-out in the TOS of a TOS of a TOS. Anyone upcharging for security could be scamming you, and with nontrivial probability is an NSA front.
This all applies to companies, which can afford to pay for security experts and analysts. See this very old interview with Schneier.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t want to apply that to my favorite policy interventions.
You’re probably right that ranked choice voting won’t unlock utopia, and your favorite flavor of communism probably leads to the worst endless meeting. But we don’t have to like it.
- Comment on do what you love 3 weeks ago:
Ah, that’s true. Though the majority of these are much closer to factory jobs (at least harder engineering degrees than CS) I think? Once it’s built you need security, a couple systems engineers, some folks to move circuitry and cables, and custodial staff. There are perhaps a handful of cs grads employed by a data center as I understand it. (Most employees are managing hardware; they lean towards electrical engineering?)
The hardware only needs software designed for it once in order to offer compute as a service, and that design can happen far away from the data center (and, the CEOs believe, possibly by an AI).
- Comment on If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once? 3 weeks ago:
I think OP’s question still holds, even if you think all of that happened. If there was so much life on mars and so much ejecta, why didn’t multiple (differently structured, eg not DNA) rounds of life get formed on mars and transplanted to earth? Why 1x?
- Comment on do what you love 3 weeks ago:
Everyone is trying to replace most support with AI. Why pay a person to be confused about your weird tech problem when the computer can do it for less?
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 4 weeks ago:
As with all economics, the answer is probably complicated. Death incentives aren’t great. Brands partially have value because they can be kept consistent, and some iconic characters have kept a relatively consistent identity across multiple authors. Allowing a free-for-all too early might make those kinds of characters harder to develop?
My favorite variation on this (which probably also has complicated consequences) is that government should, after say ~10 years, get the chance to buy any particular copyright/patent for a sum (based on its profitability, say), and should they choose to buy then the work enters the public domain early. No idea what horrors this hides.
- Comment on Resonite VR: Massive performance update 4 weeks ago:
Very similar for me. I suspect Overte will feel better for me when I setup hosting my own avatar, world, etc.
- Comment on Resonite VR: Massive performance update 4 weeks ago:
I’ll add that Overte VR is the FOSS competitor. It also runs quite well, though is not quite feature competitive afaik.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 4 weeks ago:
We should remember the stories with the records; each is unique and interesting and tells us one way a person did something incredible. But I don’t see the value of starring specifically the stories involving trans folks. I wouldn’t expect us to put an asterisk next to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisława_Walasiewicz , and indeed we do not: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_metres_at_the_Olympics#…
I imagine you would indeed feel weird if you were to have transitioned into women’s swimming, especially if you are not a woman. It would certainly be a story; in fact, it would probably be the only story about you, crowding out any physical achievements. That’s a big part of why this isn’t really seen. Personally, it makes me think about why we want gender divided sports to begin with.
- Comment on The Researcher Who Wrote the Book on How Solar Got Cheap Is Back to Assess the Current Moment 4 weeks ago:
I’m being told about 60 lbs; compare to a slightly larger drywall sheet weighing about 40 lbs. So yeah! 50% warmer.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah that reminds me. It seems to have killed (possibly with the help of AI summary in search) stack exchange. Iirc you can see the visit rates plummet into oblivion.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 4 weeks ago:
I think we have sufficient data to say that social health is at least very different now. See the our-world-in-data topic page. In particular, one-person households have doubled.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 4 weeks ago:
Some translation tasks. Some how-to stuff. I’m told folks like using it to generate say-nothing replies to say-nothing emails?
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 4 weeks ago:
Humans emotionally bond pretty easily, no? Like, we have folks attached to roombas, spiders, TV shows, and stuffed animals. Having a hard time thinking of anything X that I don’t personally know a person Y with Y emotionally engaged with X. Maybe taxes and concrete?
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 4 weeks ago:
shame we gutted social spaces.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 4 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty clear humble-brag, no? The launch was only botched because people loved the previous personality; it’s an estimate of how much people care about the product and how much price gouging they could do later.
No it wasn’t good for OpenAI. But I doubt it changed many investor minds.
- Comment on Lies of p has been really good! 5 weeks ago:
Oh this I did not know! New with the DLC it seems?
- Comment on Lies of p has been really good! 5 weeks ago:
I thought the weapons were samey until I saw some videos discussing it. The weapon combination system is crazy! Some of them genuinely feel unique, playable, and fresh (though I did not reason my way into any of these on my own).
- Comment on Lies of p has been really good! 5 weeks ago:
I am so excited to return to it and enjoy the DLC. It was a very satisfying base game.
Linearity hurts it a little bit, but I love the setting and mechanics. Feels really good, and in a different way than many fromsoft titles (at least how I played them). Worldbuilding worked for me, I wanted to spend more time with lore videos than I could find.
I hope it does well and we can see more entries in the series/universe.
(Standard souls warning: I don’t think this is a good first-entry into the souls games. I’m currently recommending “another crabs treasure” for that, and please go right for the accessability menu without shame.)
- Comment on 90% of Games Developers Already Using AI in Workflows, According to New Google Cloud Research 5 weeks ago:
Note that game dev is a setting where both users and developers already tolerate a fair bit of jank or bugs, and where having ideas is relatively cheap but iterating on them is not at all. It makes sense as a fit.
- Comment on Techrights — GitHub Won't Last Much Longer 5 weeks ago:
One of those headlines that’s wrong, but by being said loudly enough makes itself more certainly wrong, and I want it to be wrong.
Weird.
- Comment on Personalized pricing can backfire on companies, says study 5 weeks ago:
From the article
used mathematics and game theory to model
This is a theory paper, not a study on the ground. It’s a reason to give honest pricing, but not new hard data on the practice. It also requires some (nontrivial, non obvious) assumptions about the kind of market. It really doesn’t seem to me that the assumptions hold for, eg, air travel.
I do hope the theory is correct irl; personalized pricing is gross.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 11 comments
