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- Comment on Seeking for funding 3 days ago:
is the evil funding man going to eat the gimp pepper
- Comment on Seeking for funding 3 days 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 6 days ago:
sounds suspiciously like something a rabbit would say
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 1 week ago:
For slightly earlier instance of it, there’s also real time bidding
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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. 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
moderation on facebook? i’m sure it can be found right next to bigfoot
(other than automated immediate nipple removal)
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 2 weeks ago:
this was before we figured out that you can use stranded aluminum wire and it’s fine this way
that, or copper clad aluminum
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 3 weeks ago:
only residential wiring uses copper, everything from 350kV down to 400V lines is aluminum, and even in houses aluminum can be used too
- Comment on This graph but with fediverse apps? 3 weeks ago:
most of pleroma instances are packed with nazis, go figure
also nostr is mostly altright and cryptobros (but it’s not activitypub)
- Comment on Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains 3 weeks ago:
old power supplies used transformers, which when not loaded behave like inductors, and this causes reactive current to flow. not a problem for the last 15+ years because everything uses switching mode power supplies now
- Comment on MATRIX: A Murdered Journalist and the Mafia's Crypto-Phones. Cracking the app’s code and the investigation into organized crime in Athens. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 3 weeks ago:
🚩
marked safe
from Brazilian mass discord message leak
(never used discord)
- Comment on Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense. 4 weeks ago:
rocket lab is 4x too big (that’s quarterly revenue, not annual)
- Comment on Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense. 4 weeks ago:
now that i’m thinking: would be 4000 VMs enough for spacex? maybe it is some smaller organization. i also take it is state-owned or similar, which narrows it down to a handful of countries that launch satellites
and probably not government agency, because these would have people competent enough to do a git pull
- Comment on Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense. 4 weeks ago:
wait, i missed that, but then idk why it got called “semi-governmental”
- Comment on Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense. 4 weeks ago:
consider the following: they already don’t get money from them and also showing to wide audience that musk (and his people at spacex) is a inept penny-pinching scumbag can be a nice hobby
- Comment on Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense. 4 weeks ago:
Maybe their idea is that publicly embarrassing oligarch boss of that company would be more effective in getting them to either use source code or buying a license
- Comment on What could go wrong? 4 weeks ago:
PSA that Nadella, Musk, saltman (and handful of other techfash) own dials that can bias their chatbots in any way they please. If you use chatbots for writing anything, they control how racist your output will be
- Comment on OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation 5 weeks ago:
damn i see that chatbots don’t want to stay behind rfk jr in body count
will they learn that safety regulations are written in blood? who am i kidding, that’s not their blood
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 month ago:
These were not supposed to be breeders, but this is only due to agreements that are ignored ny now. Technical capability is there
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 1 month ago:
This sounds like that material would be more useful in high performance radars, not as flash memory
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 month ago:
time travel (backwards) would break physics as we know it, what are you talking about lol
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 month ago:
These are fast reactors and operate on different principles. The coolant there is sodium and while hard to design and run, it’s doable. French had similar reactor but only one and it was shut down. Nice thing about fast reactors is that these can burn even-numbered isotopes of plutonium, useless in water moderated reactor, and give fresh mostly 239Pu plutonium of good quality. weapons grade even, and IAEA doesn’t like it. But who cares since nonproliferation is dead anyway?
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 month ago:
SMRs too
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 month ago:
they haven’t demonstrated anything yet, but maybe they will develop something. perhaps. maybe. it’s all uncertain at this point and technology for it doesn’t exist yet.
high voltage transmission lines are a thing, look up where lignite or hydro power plants are situated relative to where people live. this is a solved problem
