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in an alternate universe where storefront space remained cheap and wealthy people were taxed at a sane rate this man is a moderately successful trading card game store manager and outside the handful of shop regulars he subjects to his petty tyrannies he's leaving everyone else well enough alone

one of the funnier little discursive artifacts is that some people are so pot committed to AI never being clearly useful or helpful that they've twisted themselves into pretending that writing SQL or dealing with health insurance are these wonderful experiences no one should ever rob themselves of

beef is negative food. you turn 1000 calories of feed into 100 calories of beef and a whole lot of methane and cow shit. ai does produce more food than the beef industry (zero)

I love that the "ai snake oil" guys rebranded to "ai is a normal technology"

So many people with aviation psychosis claiming that the Wrights’ invention is going to reshape global geography when it can’t even go more than 25 yards

The semantic drift of “AI psychosis” from “break with reality exacerbated or caused by sycophantic chatbots” to “person with strong feelings about AI which are not the same as the strong feelings of AI held by the speaker” is bad

the argument im seeing going around now about "why would we trust the experts?" is viscerally reminiscent to how anti-vaxxers and covid-conspiracy people were acting

I don't have particularly strong beliefs about where the line between conscious and non-conscious beings lies, but I distrust any take too confident about where it does

My answer is: it has never been faster or easier to learn something. If you already know _how_ to learn, there are very few boundaries now.

"Would you trust riding in a car an LLM programmed?" Oh honey, I dream of a future where I don't have to trust my life to anything a *human* programmed. I have worked in this industry for two decades. You should not have that much faith in human coders.

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this is the world in which jungle, d&b, vaporwave, just large swathes of the techno and EDM and IDM landscape don't exist, the world in which huge swathes of rap are eliminated, the world in which you can no longer create parodies of people, the world in which disney makes Even Fewer Gay People

but furthermore: i can promise you that you don't actually want to live in the world where you need someone's permission to transform their works because that's actually *more* restrictive than our current world, which, thank god, has the fair use doctrine + transformative works as a legal category

It’s very, very funny that critics like Zitron seem to think the industry has no introspection or internal controls and then dismiss all of the introspectors

The vast majority of people I have met in this industry are in the liberal to leftist spectrum. It's a handful of VCs & billionaire executives (and even a lot of the less controversial tech billionaires are pretty lib) that set the perception :/

imo this is broadly the right approach politically to data center glonzo: don't ban 'em but squeeze 'em

Its concerning how many people are loudly repeating that mental enfeeblement is an unavoidable consequence of interacting with an interlocutor you can freely delegate to. No one is forcing you to turn your off your brain or abandon responsibility when using AI for writing. Do better!

just remembered when tiktok convinced a bunch of people they could get free money by going to the ATM and intentionally overdrafting their accounts. that was awesome

initially seems good, but the more you use a tool like this, the more you lose your own ability to forecast cylones

This is an irresponsible headline and people sharing it out of context is pure fear-based engagement bait… “The Stanford researchers picked the most promising 302 AI designs and synthesised them in the lab. Of these, 16 proved effective at killing E. coli bacteria.” This isn’t a bad thing.

"I hate data centers" is such a weird take. It's like "I hate injection molding facilities". I just don't have that strong of feelings about light industrial buildings.

"I built up so much trust in Hank over the literal thousands of videos he put out about science, but then he was sloppy in how he wrote the 'do you shave your butt' script and it left me wondering who I can trust"

Haha isn’t it weird the anti ai push is primarily harming minorities and not tech executives nothing to see here

Um what, this post is wild given the top of the thread. Sounds exactly like what Hank Green is trying to describe

the next year is gonna be a real masterclass in insular communities ripping themselves in shreds over undisclosed AI usage or special pleading around it

let me tell you about a little science communicator using AI named Every Working Mathematician and Software Engineer

This is not even about an AI data center! It’s a local news clip that starts by saying they’ve been covering the “data center debate” for nearly a year but still have “few local examples,” so they go to the other side of the state and interview people about a five-year-old crypto mining facility!

Want to stop wasting water? Great! Switching from animal-based to plant-based foods once a day is more valuable than boycotting AI for a year.

This is what's bothering me too. I've been hanging out in anti AI communities under various alts, and bringing up actual problems is depressingly unpopular "Hey so are we going to talk about the, uh. The surveillance state. And the bombing -" - no the real problem is when Grandma sends you slop.

I found the "OMG AI ISN'T SEARCH WE LOSE SOMETHING INEXPRESSIBLE ABOUT THE HUMAN SPIRIT IF WE'RE NOT USING THE SPECIFIC GOOGLE DOT COM I MADE MY FANCY TECH CAREER ON DON'T LOOK TOO CLOSELY YOU'LL REALIZE IT WAS ADS THE WHOLE TIME" stuff really annoying on here the other day so here is a comparison

I reject AI and the sad future it portends. The point of life, our gloriously 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 raison d'etre, is to use one's own brain to write code to make corporations money.

The number of cars on US roadways has been growing at a rate of 10 to 15 million *every year.* There are now 300 million vehicles and only 6.5% are electric. But you’ll never see an article about how the growth of vehicle emissions is “so severe it’s almost incomprehensible.”

I have been saying this for a while - kash really is the best case scenario for a trump appointee we need less true believers and more dedicated grifters, the world would be a much better place if stephen miller’s primary concern was box seats at lakers games

A punitive view of education will never have the answer to what to do when students can use AI. A view of education that cares about motivating students will. In a world where student motivation needs to be earned not just enforced it's pretty clear that's the only way to elicit effort.

what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

Renewables now account for just under half of all installed power capacity on the planet.

I’m feeling hella bummed that anthropic is getting ready to require biometric id to use Claude and the USG is talking about putting location transponders in gpus and the online left doesn’t give a fuck because they hate ai too much to notice the fascism creeping in to epistemically capture us all.

"maybe when datacenter demand collapses we can use the datacenters as giant computer warehouses that could store and process information" a real opinion I just saw on bluesky dot com the social network for opinions

Check out this news segment from 1982 about buying a “personal computer” — the way they talked about computers back then is eerily similar to how people have been talking about AI today https://youtu.be/ycVyGb5ID90?is=Z42RYdtVG88kNSTW

internet age verification mandates are dogshit fascist movements that must be rejected and fought at all costs, and liberals/progressives who jump on that surveillance bandwagon should be excommunicated