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- Comment on Writing with LLM is not a shame. 13 hours ago:
yes they do, wtf are you talking about futurism.com/openai-use-cheating-homework
- Comment on Writing with LLM is not a shame. 15 hours ago:
if that task is offloaded to spicy autocomplete, all and any learning of this skill is avoided, so it’s not mega useful
- Comment on Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue 1 week ago:
and stops working when us-east-1 burns down
- Comment on Help. 1 week ago:
it also requires zero effort on their part
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 1 week ago:
Show me how do you want to dissipate 10GWt without evaporative cooling towers, i’ll wait
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 1 week ago:
Depending on local climate, season and proximity to cities or industrial customers, this is often done, but you’ll still have to dump lots of heat in the summer when space heating is off
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 1 week ago:
straight up not feasible for many serious and necessary facilities like powerplants and refineries, unless you prefer very warm lake or river nearby (which also cools down by evaporation later)
- Comment on What if a billionaire wants to help you? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 2 weeks ago:
not an immunologist; i don’t want to undersell this to you: immunology is fantastically complex subject with many redundancies, feedback loops, and frustrating number of moving parts, many of which are still unknown in sufficient detail. that said, if you want any chance for it to go: first you’d have to figure out what exactly mealses virus does, then you’d have to find a disease that can be cured or treated by obliterating whatever mealses virus is obliterating, and then if there’s any match (big if) it’ll probably still won’t work just with wild type virus and require significant modifications. and even then, that effect as is known in mealses today is not very reliable and lasts only months to years
maybe in the course of figuring the first one there will show up an option to modify mealses virus in some significant way that might allow it to target something else, and maybe target other kind of disease, because in no way it’d be a blanket cure for all immune diseases ever. maybe someone made an observational study already that tracked how prevalence of some immune diseases changes after mealses infection, but many of these are rare diseases and it’d be massively hard endeavor
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 2 weeks ago:
I think it would be comparable to situation where all mRNA is suddenly unusable, ie protein synthesis can’t run at all. This would be something like ricin or diphteria toxin poisoning, but instead of being limited to gastrointestinal lining it’s spread all over. I’d guess hours to days before anything visible starts happening (symptoms only start to appear when deficit in new protein synthesis becomes noticeable; all protein already made continues to work for sone time)
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 2 weeks ago:
it wasn’t a problem before they started doing this
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 2 weeks ago:
because it’s cheap, easy, compact, well understood, and makes numbers look good. number in question is ratio of energy used by entire facility to energy used by silicon only (i forgor how it’s called). alternative is dissipating heat from radiators, but this makes this number like 3. evaporative cooling makes this number closer to 1.2
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 5 weeks ago:
llms allowed them to glide all the way to the point of failure without learning anything
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 5 weeks ago:
helical antennas work fine too and look goofy as hell
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 5 weeks ago:
i’ve used the same (800ml can) and this one works well
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 5 weeks ago:
wait i thought for some reason that pringles can sized waveguide would have cutoff frequency above 2.4ghz. nevermind, there’s something better because bigger aperture can get you more directivity like this lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/wumca/cup.html i made two out of cookie tins and it works over 500m at least
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 5 weeks ago:
about #1, not only this makes number of potential leakers higher (intentional or not - by opsec failures) but also this narrows down number of loyal, reliable people who also won’t fuck up the job real fast
- Comment on Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote 1 month ago:
maybe check from openai didn’t clear
- Comment on How not to lose your job to AI 2 months ago:
80000 hours are the same cultists from lesswrong/EA that believe singularity any time now and they’re also the core of people trying to build their imagined machine god in openai and anthropic
it’s all very much expected
- Comment on ‘Martyrdom or Bust:’ Texas Man Caught Plotting Terror Attack Through Roblox Chats 2 months ago:
bro tried to recruit jihadists in roblox (failed) and now screenshots from this all are a matter of public record 💀
- Comment on Seeking for funding 2 months ago:
is the evil funding man going to eat the gimp pepper
- Comment on Seeking for funding 2 months ago:
iirc L-aminoacids and D-sugars, that is these observed in nature, are very slightly more stable than the opposite because of weak interaction
probably it’s just down to a specific piece of quartz or soot that got lucky and chiral amplification gets you from there
also it’s not physics, or more precisely it’s a very physicy subbranch of chemistry, and it’s done by chemists because physicists suck at doing chemistry for some reason (i’ve seen it firsthand)
- Comment on Eating shit is for alphas, am I rite guise 2 months ago:
sounds suspiciously like something a rabbit would say
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 2 months ago:
For slightly earlier instance of it, there’s also real time bidding
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 2 months ago:
taking a couple steps back and looking at bigger picture, something that you might have never done in your entire life guessing by tone of your post, people want to automate things that they don’t want to do. nobody wants to make elaborate spam that will evade detection, but if you can automate it somebody will use it this way. this is why spam, ads, certain kinds of propaganda and deepfakes are one of big actual use cases of genai that likely won’t go away (isn’t future bright?)
this is tied to another point. if a thing requires some level of skill to make, then naturally there are some restraints. in pre-slopnami times, making a deepfake useful in black propaganda would require co-conspirator that has both ability to do that and correct political slant, and will shut up about it, and will have good enough opsec to not leak it unintentionally. maybe more than one. now, making sorta-convincing deepfakes requires involving less people. this also includes things like nonconsensual porn, for which there are less barriers now due to genai
then, again people automate things they don’t want to do. there are people that do like coding. then also there are people butchering codebases trying to vibecode, while they don’t want to and have no inclination for or understanding of coding and what it takes, and what should result look like. some of these people are also in a kind of managerial or corporate position of power that prevents any of people who know their shit from telling them that maybe they shouldn’t and there are professionals working under them that do know. people who don’t like coding, code. people who don’t like painting, generate images. people who don’t like understanding things, cram text through chatbots to summarize them. maybe you don’t see a problem with this, but it’s entirely a you problem
this leads to three further points. chatbots allow for low low price of selling your thoughts to saltman &co offloading all your “thinking” to them. this makes cheating in some cases exceedingly easy, something that schools have to adjust to, while destroying any ability to learn for students that use them this way. another thing is that in production chatbots are virtual dumbasses that never learn, and seniors are forced to babysit them and fix their mistakes. intern at least learns something and won’t repeat that mistake again, chatbot will fall in the same trap right when you run out of context window. this hits all major causes of burnout at once, and maybe senior will leave. then what? there’s no junior to promote in their place, because junior was replaced by a chatbot.
this all comes before noticing little things like multibillion dollar stock bubble tied to openai, or their mid-sized-euro-country sized power demands, or whatever monstrosities palantir is cooking, and a couple of others that i’m surely forgetting right now
and also
Is the backlash due to media narratives about AI replacing software engineers?
it’s you getting swept in outsized ad campaign for most bloated startup in history, not “backlash in media”. what you see as “backlash” is everyone else that’s not parroting openai marketing brochure
While I don’t defend them,
are you suure
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 2 months ago:
chatbot DCs burn enough electricity to power middle sized euro country, all for seven fingered hands and glue-and-rock pizza
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 2 months ago:
it’s not ai taking your job, it’s your boss. all they need to believe is that language-shaped noise generator can make it work, doesn’t matter if it does (it doesn’t). then business either suffers greatly or hires people back (like klarna)
- Comment on Putting ads for old.Lemmy.world on reddit would make this site perfect. 2 months ago:
“proper migration”? like what, spammy ghost town that is/was alien[.]top?
- Comment on Far-right websites got hacked and defaced; 6.5 terabytes of data got leaked. 2 months ago:
idk if cult owned far right rag has that much pull (it’s not washington post, owned by bezos)
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 2 months ago:
moderation on facebook? i’m sure it can be found right next to bigfoot
(other than automated immediate nipple removal)
