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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In terms of office work, the technology pretty much already exists to cause a change akin to the change that happened from pre-photocopier (so typing pools), only the odd phone line per office building, no fax, obviously no computers/email/internet/mobile phones era office work to the office work of today.

  The energy use is unconscionable. The people currently owning the tech that runs large language models are awful, but it is possible for companies and individuals to run their own llm’s.

  Anyway, the point is, would it be daft for anyone to insist on working in a typing pool in a 1950s office today? I get why people dislike ai. I am not really trying to defend it, I’m just saying that it really is a mistake for anyone to just try and ignore it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3125: Snake-in-the-Box Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not my wheelhouse, and presumably were what I am about to suggest be right a million other people would have already pointed it out (not on lemmy necessarily, just in general). But aren’t all of those sides equal so the snake effectively shrinks/grows as it moves around the hypercube.

  To be honest I don’t even understand what the cartoon means by ‘two non-consecutive parts of its coils’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is almost no chance you are not talking to a chatbot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for that Lembot_0004!

  (Not in any an LLM powered lemmy bot!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish there was an uninhabited, autonomous zone for folks who want "freedom" to play out their dangerous ideas away from the rest of society⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The ‘freedom’ they want only extends to having the freedom to do what they want regardless of how it impacts anybody else.

  The vast majority of these people don’t want isolation. They need others’ to exploit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure that silicon valley executives visualise a future where they own the machines that produce all intellectual property and do most jobs. They see a return to feudalism where they are the lords.

  I think this greater vision is about as likely to be realised as it is that Elon Musk will invent full self driving, or robots that aren’t obviously remotely operated, or a tesla roadster, or a battery powered articulated lorry with thermo nuclear explosion proof glass, or building a rocket to get the US back to the moon before the Chinese in what is clearly a new space race/pissing match. Or a hyperloop, or ever getting anywhere near to building a colony on Mars, or, or, or.

  But I don’t think it is just a case of AGI or bust. LLM’s augmented with ai agents have a very real potential to replace a capitalism-destabilising percentage of white collar jobs without AGI.

  Just like the dot com bubble popping didn’t kill the web, I do think it is unlikely that any possible current AI bubble popping will kill capital’s push to automate jobs away.

  (And as far as I can see the AI bubble is the result of massive capital expenditure rather than rampant speculation, so because I am pretty confident in the ‘value’ to capital of LLM’s + AI Agent’s, I don’t really see it as the same kind of a bubble as the dotcom bubble.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German armed forces see 28% surge in recruits in NATO defence boost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Germany are militarising. This should end well!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How it feels using TOR as a Brit rn 🤘⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah using tor broswer is generally slow - adjust expectation and see it as a necessary tradeoff for some privacy and it is fine.

  Further than that, browsing the ‘dark web’ has mainly been a boring/frustrating experience, but going forward, between tech oligarch-surveillance-capitalists co-option of the web on one side, and increasingly authoritarian Western governments, it might be the only place to get an online experience something like I was told the internet was going to be a few decades ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry America voted for this twice. You do not get to disown this now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that the tax data of Warren Buffet, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos was leaked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While all getting richer on massive government contracts paid for by other people’s tax.

  (Actually I don’t know about Buffett. Musk’s wealth being built on government money is well known. Amazon staff on food stamps constitutes government welfare on a massive scale, never mind the inducements Amazon get for placing distribution centres in whichever district etc etc etc.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved honestly⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where was this work? The prison kitchen or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably the risk of getting caught. There must be quite a few people aware of what is and isn’t in that evidence, some of whom might whistleblow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Police are not the brightest in any society.

  So I guess somebody needs to tell them that they need to focus their efforts a little better if ‘anyone with a Google Pixel is a drug dealer’.

  Can I suggest they start with the people with drugs, rather than the people with the – not uncommon - google phones in their search for drug dealers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World Has a Serious Coal Problem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Earth system scientists put the kind of society complex enough for hospitals and higher education require an energy returned on energy invested in the teens. ‘Renewables’ (let’s call them low carbon, there isn’t anything very renewable about the blade of a wind turbine) barely touch that and often don’t get near.

  • The picture is so varied that one can find statistics to counter this ‘barely touches the teens’ claim. Look at the totality of the picture and draw your own conclusions. I am just presenting some reasoning to justify a claim that we are heading towards a much lower energy future, maybe next century or something (which doesn’t have to be bad, provided everybody isn’t slaving for a class of energy-obese billionaires protected by a fascist police state).

  • I looked into this a lot about 15 years ago, when it seemed that we were still in the last chance saloon on avoiding catastrophic climate change. The science might have moved on. I don’t have current sources anybody interested in the concept of eroei and the complexity it creates will have to look themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These replies are silly.

  It is you all who will continually wonder why the world isn’t working out the way you want it to and the way your ideology told you it should, and I am happy to agree to disagree, so block it is from here on out.

  Your failure to deal with the reality poor, former working class people face has and will lead to the rise of the far right. Well done. Continue being right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are simply not dealing with reality and we will all suffer because of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is not one thing indoctrinated of racist about my post. Your failure to accept reality suggests indoctrination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely not. It is you that is missing the point and we will all be worse off because of it.Deal with reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately for you, and all of us, there is an increasing tranche of poor people who are directly suffering because of immigration.

  We ignore these people at our peril because they will vote for the Trumpists if nobody else is representing their interests.

  The middle classes enjoyed the benefits of cheap labour, in particular, but those who had their pay and conditions destroyed are not going to vote to be turkeys at somebody else’s christmas party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨King forgot his crown⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably he had to give 35 presents too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have children. Flying. Driving. Buying a whole range of carbon intense products blah blah blah.

  Vegans just are not credible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moving away from physical currency has been very detrimental to the homeless industry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the industry has been in the shit since credit and debit cards. A homeless guy with a chip and pin device to get donations is completely off-message for the brand

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll vote for people who support genocide if they will pass a little bit less publicly owned infrastructure into the hands of private capital is a pathetic position to take.

  It absolutely is not worthy of respect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly this premise, upon which your further exchanges is based, is complete bullshit.

  You are a troll, presumably one for whom any response is a win. It gives you a little dopamine hit.

  What a pathetic place to get to - there are a million ways to get a dopamine hit less pathetic than this, including all of the major addictive drugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just meant the breadth of media coverage in the UK spans billionaire/Murdoch owned media on one side to the voice-piece of the British establishment itself, which is now little more than a proxy for the interests of capital, on the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US debt is now $37trn – should we be worried?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘He’ (the US) owe it in large part to the world, who were forced to buy us debt in order to buy oil. China is the biggest holder of US debt iirc.

  The US’s voluntary withdrawal from the post ww2 economic order (from which it profited greatly) has absolutely hastened and cemented this process.

  This debt is coming due, the strength of the dollar has already dropped greatly, US interest rates will rise. The US dollar will be cheap enough to compete with India and China to be the world’s factory (a major part of Trump’s election campaign and success).

  It won’t happen all at once as the world will look to manage America’s decline while trying to maintain as stable a transition as possible.

  But please be aware, this debt is going to come due and it has absolutely been hastened by Americans voting for Trump a second time. Fore warned is forearmed. Good luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rate my one year old homelab.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system

  I bunged mine in the fridge, just drill a hole out of the side for the cables then use rubber sealant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes let’s see. I imagine the media - billionaire owned on one hand, bbc on the other - will do the kind of job on him they did when he was leader of the labour party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It has been red tory v. blue tory since Blair took leadership in '93/'94.

  It is more of less the same as the US (where it was red v blue republicans for a few decades and is now Republicans calling themselves ‘Democrats’ v. Christian Nationalist Fascists).

  It is the natural continuation of Reaganite/Thatcherite neo-liberal capitalist ideology.

  The outcome for the UK will be a lurch right as the poor vote for parties (Reform) who have used the immigration that has caused serious legitimate problems for poor communities that simply can’t afford to support them, and other cultural issues of various import they have been coerced into finding important, as wedge issues.