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- Submitted 1 day ago to technology@lemmy.world | 75 comments
- Comment on Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters 1 week ago:
" Word will now save new documents to OneDrive by default — and that changes everything" Wouldn’t it be great if all your docs were stored out in the cloud? Just think, you wouldn’t need a hard drive! And someone else could guard them for you, like, say, Deputy Dan. descope.kwwhitaker.com/wallofscience.html
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 2 weeks ago:
Nope, and this one is NOT going to change that … can’t take all that cutesy animation and the fast-flowing babble for 2 minutes, let alone 12
- Comment on kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel 2 weeks ago:
This video is very probably also AI slop
- Comment on AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds 2 weeks ago:
It really helps to try to think about the other side of any question. That’s what good debaters do, so they can figure out the best responses to what the others’ arguments might be.
When these LLMs keep agreeing with you, they’re actually weakening the likelihood that you’ll work out a fully-formed opinion.
- Comment on AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Me too … LEMMY added that, out of my control
- Comment on AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds 2 weeks ago:
You -do- realize you’re getting advice from a machine that constructs sentences using mathematical algorithms, and has no clue at all what it’s saying … right?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 33 comments
- Comment on Oklo breaks ground on its first nuclear ‘powerhouse’ at INL (Idaho National Laboratory) 3 weeks ago:
Most people who’ve studied the history of nuclear energy at all know about it. While it’s seldom talked about (like most of the other accidents kept out of the news) SL-1’s not hard to learn more about, e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1#Accident_and_response
- Comment on Oklo breaks ground on its first nuclear ‘powerhouse’ at INL (Idaho National Laboratory) 3 weeks ago:
wacky place
Not surprised! Would like to learn more about what’s become of it.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 3 weeks ago:
That’ll teach them to plan ahead!
- Comment on Oklo breaks ground on its first nuclear ‘powerhouse’ at INL (Idaho National Laboratory) 3 weeks ago:
Idaho! That’s where the first 3 people died from a nuke explosion!
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 3 weeks ago:
Yep. The E.U. has allowed itself to be dominated for too long by the US megacorps. It has the talent, ideas, and manufacturing to tell US firms to bugger off … and the sooner, the better for us all.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 3 weeks ago:
A funny thing happened back in the middle 1800s. A man ran a 7-ton electric locomotive a mile and a half. The motor was powered by a storage device. In the late 1800s, people drove their cars around all day using a storage device. These storage devices became better and better, until they could power trucks and buses for hundreds of miles.
They are still getting better and better. Of course they can be depleted, and it’s good to havea backup methods to cover these cases and to keep the storage devices charged when there’s no sun or wind. Hydroelectric dams powered by water-storage are widely-used, and some flat places still burn fossil fuels to do that as well.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 3 weeks ago:
Offshore wind is one of the most environmentally destructive methods of power generation.
Interesting claim (as compared with coal mining and its fly-ash ponds, Canadian tar sands, hundreds of bankrupt and leaking well sites in New Mexico and the Gulf of America, rivers stripped by nuclear heat waste, etc). What exactly does most mean?
- Comment on Apple says EU should get rid of its digital markets law 3 weeks ago:
The EU has plenty of talent and ideas. (ESA? RasPi? ARM?) It needs to get rid of its dependence on US corps and create its own net economy, infrastructure and great sites.
Here in the US? time for these trillionaire monopolists to get their due. Good to see InternetArchive.eu get established!
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- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 4 weeks ago:
Conservatives always -hate- deficit spending … or anything else … when someone else is doing it. Else it’s right and noble and good.
- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 4 weeks ago:
I guess there was nothing evil about GM and Ford supplying Nazis with car parts (Henry Ford got a ‘golden eagle’ award from Adolf!) before WW2. Nothing evil about IBM supplying them with punch cards to keep track of the Jewish either, right?
- Comment on Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg unveils new smart glasses powered by AI 4 weeks ago:
He used to have more taste, before the Borging.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Author’s diagram is about summer. Fall, winter, spring is about heating-degree days. If you’re heating your home with electricity, you’ll not get there with batteries.
So, working towards a solution, there are other ways to store excess energy than in batteries. One example is sand, which can be heated to very high temperatures. Insulate a sand container well and its storage can do a lot of home-heating.
Example: livescience.com/…/a-scalding-hot-sand-battery-is-…
We’ll need to put a lot of different methods into use. There are many practical ideas out there, and they’ll need to be tried.
- Comment on Big Tech: Convenience is a Trap 1 month ago:
That’s 18 minutes I don’t need to spend learning a minutes worth. (He starts out complaining about the lost time he’s invested…)
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- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 1 month ago:
So it’s a race then, between AI’s killing us thru high-tech malice, and we killing ourselves thru the same old stupidity?
“And may the best man win!”
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 1 month ago:
OK, thanks for that clarification. I was thrown off by ‘assessed as healthy…’
- Comment on AI can find cancer pathologists miss 1 month ago:
From the article: " All 232 men in the study were assessed as healthy when their biopsies were examined by pathologists. After less than two-and-a-half years, half of the men in the study had developed aggressive prostate cancer…"
HALF? I’d suggest staying away from that study … either they don’t know what they’re doing, or some AI made up that article…