Artisian
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- Comment on The richest people in the world are morally bankrupt 4 days ago:
Many parasites require special conditions to grow. We can manage their populations by managing the environment.
- Comment on China’s exports grow 5.9% in November, while U.S. shipments drop 29% 4 days ago:
You’re saying that US retailers imported less from Chinese manufacturers because they predict lower sales?
I think we have black Friday sales figures to estimate this off of. While I would have predicted you are correct, I don’t think the data agree. It’s not great, but my impression was that we’re currently better off than the great recession. Do let me know if there’s good data indicating otherwise.
- Comment on China’s exports grow 5.9% in November, while U.S. shipments drop 29% 5 days ago:
I read the title as saying that US exports fell. Afaict that’s not what is meant, as the post body clarifies. US imported much less from China. US export data seems to be on a slower release schedule, but have been pretty similar to previous years.
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- Comment on Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind 1 week ago:
?? Which are improved by using ChatGPT because?
- Comment on Making The Internet And Our Devices User Friendly Once Again 1 week ago:
I think this might partially be a case of different uses of the word ‘burner’ - what they describe is not strong opsec, but it is a way to reduce how much you provide for free (which is often more work for the company to get). By this, I mean not providing so many photos to track your every social visit and movement, not immediately providing life updates (ie, relationships, purchases).
Will meta find out most of this? yes. But I suspect it will be slower, more error prone, and sometimes more costly. Which don’t seem like a bad thing. Is there a good technical term for this? Hardening?
Also, I’ll note that the point of the suggestions is to reduce noise in a persons life, not to go off the grid. I think the blog is trying to be more about curtailing and removing sources of distraction.
- Comment on Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind 1 week ago:
As I read it, data must be available according to swiss copyright law, not personal, available using the open web. Further, they retroactively respect opt-out requests.
- Comment on Making The Internet And Our Devices User Friendly Once Again 1 week ago:
As you write up the alternatives (especially RSS and adblockers! These can be low barrier to entry), it would be great to link them from this part 1! I feel like the ask and text for part 1 is roughly the right size, but the action feels very big and scary to folks (and giving a reassurance early in the text that you can replace stuff and meet your needs might be helpful).
- Comment on Making The Internet And Our Devices User Friendly Once Again 1 week ago:
The topic is important, the timing is good (just in time for some new-years resolutions), and the writing is effective. Thank you for taking on the project.
I had hoped that the first suggestion in part 1 would be more accessible than ‘delete the accounts and create burner accounts’ - we’ve chosen the most effective but biggest ask, and I don’t think this post quite provides the infrastructure required for many people to make the change. FB is used by many folks as social media; the keeping track of friends, events, and family can’t really be done from a burner account (your messages alone will identify you entirely to meta).
And I have a personal pet peeve on this topic that’s triggered by the last section: I believe that mindfulness is a good way to improve internet use, but I think we’ve proven as a society that most people can’t implement this sort of self-reflection and intentionality without more structure. Where’s the tooling to remove dark patterns, automatically ask these questions after an app use, etc. ?
- Comment on Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind 1 week ago:
Let’s include the whole paragraph at least.
Apertus was developed with due consideration to Swiss data protection laws, Swiss copyright laws, and the transparency obligations under the EU AI Act. Particular attention has been paid to data integrity and ethical standards: the training corpus builds only on data which is publicly available. It is filtered to respect machine-readable opt-out requests from websites, even retroactively, and to remove personal data, and other undesired content before training begins.
- Comment on Money. Why does THAT work? 1 week ago:
One answer: The ability to pay taxes to the largest local military power, in exchange for keeping a ‘good’ relationship with the legal system it operates with.
Another: a tool for coordination and distribution of resources between large groups of people that does not require very many (or very long) meetings.
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- Comment on GitHub to Codeberg: my experience 1 week ago:
This is wonderful! Less of everything depending just on Microsoft goodwill please.
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- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for fleshing out your world model and theory. I think that this model falls short of a source (and contradict some other AI-pessimistic economics predictions; namely a crash in computing cost and in crypto), but could be developed into something I’d find compelling.
Let me brainstorm aloud about what I think this world model predicts that we might have data on…
Did we see a crash in ISP prices, home and industry internet use, domain hosting, or other computing services in the dotcom bubble? That situation seems extremely analagous; but my vibe was that several of these did not drop (ISP price I suspect was stable), and some of these saw a dip but stayed well above early-internet rates (domain hosting)? I feel like there’d be a good analogy here, but I’m struggling with a way to operationalize.
I mentioned a use for compute that your reply didn’t cover: crypto mining. Do we have evidence that the floor on crypto is well below datacenter operating costs (across exploitative coins as well)? I vaguely remember a headline in this direction. Another use case I don’t see drying up: cheating on essay assignments.
More broadly, this model predicts that all compute avenues are much lower payoff than datacenter operating costs. I think I’d need to see this checked against an exhaustive HPC application list. I know that weather forecasting uses up about as much compute as AI for some supercomputing clusters.
Governments have already issued rather large grants to AI-driven academic projects. I suspect many of these are orders of magnitude larger than the size of academic AI 6 years ago. (I’ll also quickly note that libraries are better than google search has ever been for finding true facts; yet google search has remained above library use throughout its existence.)
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 weeks ago:
I know at least a few HPC folks talking about building their datacenters far north, where cooling can be done by opening a window.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 weeks ago:
? Massive GPU server racks are relatively easy to repurpose for several things. The most likely (if sad) is crypto mining, but there’s also expensive weather simulations, cloud gaming, video hosting, etc.
Requesting a source that these centers are hard to repurpose. I find myself pretty skeptical.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 weeks ago:
I do feel obligated to at least expose folks to numeracy, even if they won’t listen. Hope it’s not giving them a repeated trauma somehow.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 weeks ago:
Which feels to me like terrible policies still. Make big projects pay their costs please!
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 weeks ago:
Growing inefficient cattle crops in a desert to preserve water rights: not necessary.
Flying Coast to coast for a business meeting that could be an email: not necessary.
Manufacturing those cheap scissors that break after 2 uses: should be a crime (not necessary).
All of these subcases have comparable emissions and externalities to the data centers (at least by my fermin estimates).
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 weeks ago:
(I know it’s not the point, but a reminder that data center climate impact, including heat, is nowhere near flight, agricultural waste, or construction. Hate it for its own reasons, not for fake ones.)
- Comment on In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse 2 weeks ago:
Thank you!
Yes, TB was an example for a kind of error we make in morbid, culturally heavy places, I agree it is not a perfect analog.
- Comment on In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse 2 weeks ago:
The claim that: avoiding grieving a pet by cloning it is bad for your mental health.
I’m also interested in how it is bad, and how it compares to and with other treatment. I have the same gut instinct as you, I think, that pet cloning is not a good grief strategy. But I don’t have data, and wasn’t online much when pet cloning was a big topic. Cultures deal with death in a variety of ways, yet we have strong gut feelings for how grief should be done. I also find the idea of eating the recently dead pretty gross, for example, but this is a key step in the grief process for several cultures (and they seem to deal with grief fine).
Not all that long ago, tuberculosis was an incurable and slow killer. People thought it was the coolest death, that the pale complexion was beautiful, and that lying in bed slowly dying of TB was the best way to write poetry, discover truth, and understand philosophy. Humanity had a lot of cope around TB. Now we can eradicate it, and I think the romanticized view of TB looks pretty bad today. No sane person gets TB intentionally to write better.
- Comment on In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse 2 weeks ago:
Just checking: do we have a source on this? Or is this like accepting death by tuberculosis: we’ve romanticized a bad time.
- Comment on In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse 2 weeks ago:
Not your weights, not your wifu. Self host your dead relatives.
- Comment on If it were possible to travel back in time and manipulate events, we could take a book back in time and publish it before the author historicallt does... as a prank... 3 weeks ago:
idk; when you talk to writers they complain about ideas being cheap and written works hard. I think for many concepts, there were poorly done versions well before something made literary history?
- Comment on Israeli society is truly gone so outrageously far right that translation from Hebrew is now disabled on X (#Twitter) as of Nov16 3 weeks ago:
Though we’ll need to find new damnation for both, as this OP is at best a misunderstanding. See top replies.
- Comment on Israeli society is truly gone so outrageously far right that translation from Hebrew is now disabled on X (#Twitter) as of Nov16 3 weeks ago:
Reminder to look at top comments, ideally at a bit of a delay. See this reply.
- Comment on Israeli society is truly gone so outrageously far right that translation from Hebrew is now disabled on X (#Twitter) as of Nov16 3 weeks ago:
Thanks!