Whether or not the quote/assumption is out of context, the mere fact that the Muskrat is contemplating a universal user fee is enough for me to at least activate my bsky invite. So I'm urging my mutuals to pin their new handles so it's easier to find everyone during the exodus.

Interesting how the common consensus is that DT (or at least the Turali part) got so much better once the writers actually started using the full cultural context and history of Mesoamerican peoples, instead of the sanitized, "let's not offend anyone" theme park version of it.

"The coalition forming against AI is genuinely strange. Socialists and MAGA supporters, ecologists and artists, nurses and coders – these are not groups that usually find themselves on the same side of anything. But they’ve identified something that the tech companies and their political handlers have missed: The AI industries need to build fast before reality catches up with them. "

ffxiv advertising dawntrail as tural focused and then making everybody go to cyberpunk2077

Sam Altman just said training AI is like training a human because "it takes 20 years of life and all the food you eat before you get smart." Let's run the actual numbers he is hoping you will not run. Training a human for 20 years costs roughly 17 megawatt-hours of food energy. Total. Every calorie. Every meal. Two decades. Training GPT-4 cost 50,000 to 60,000 megawatt-hours of electricity. That is 3,000 times more energy than raising a human being to adulthood. And GPT-4 is already obsolete. The next model will cost more. The one after that will cost more again. Each generation of hardware strands the last. H100 rental rates collapsed 60 to 70 percent in eighteen months because Nvidia keeps shipping chips that make last year's chips worthless. Altman is now asking for 10 gigawatts for Stargate. That is the total power consumption of New York City. PJM's last capacity auction fell 6,623 megawatts short of reliability targets and prices exploded 11x overnight. Schneider Electric projects a 175-gigawatt national shortfall by 2033. Nobody is debating whether AI works. The question is whether the man comparing a data center to a lunchbox has adequately explained who pays for the grid he needs and what happens when it is not there. The food analogy is not wrong because it is imprecise. It is wrong because it is off by three orders of magnitude and he knows it. open.substack.com/pub/shanak…

He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly biological training runs, then burning mountains of electricity to build synthetic intelligence starts to feel not only equal, but superior, even if it negatively impacts actual humans. That is the dystopian. It makes human development sound like a bug in the system, and it makes sacrificing human and creational flourishing for more computational power sound logical. To him, the grid gets strained, prices go up, ecosystems get hit, but hey, humans eat too, so what's the difference? The difference is that humans aren't an inefficient line item. They're the point. If your worldview can look at a child growing into an adult and describe it as energy spent to train intelligence, you haven't said something profound. You've revealed a horrifically rotten worldview.

You need to understand that Silicon Valley is increasingly being run by creepy, dead-eyed men who hate families, who hate kids, who have no respect for life, who would like to see much of humanity dead or enslaved. It’s our job to defeat the dystopia they’re so eager to build.

Honk if you cared about manuals (and maps and posters) when they were included in games. Don't honk if you're just being performative, though. 📯🪿

I’m sorry but “why read books when you can just ask Grok” is an excruciatingly brainless take. This way of thinking will leave you not only illiterate but also emotionally impoverished. A good book will bring you empathy, wisdom, companionship. Reading can save your life.

El Rayo Verde En francés rayon vert, en inglés green flash o green ray) es un fenómeno óptico raro y muy bonito. Se puede ver justo en el momento en que el Sol se asoma por el horizonte del mar (al amanecer) o se oculta (al atardecer, que es cuando más gente lo ve). ¿Qué es exactamente lo que se ve? Durante unos pocos segundos (normalmente 1 a 5 segundos, a veces menos), el borde superior del Sol (la última parte visible al ponerse, o la primera al salir) aparece de un color verde esmeralda intenso, a veces incluso turquesa o azul-verdoso. En condiciones excepcionales puede verse un rayo o destello verde que parece despegarse del Sol y flotar un instante por encima del horizonte. Es un efecto de refracción atmosférica combinado con la dispersión de la luz. La atmósfera actúa como un prisma gigante: Dobla (refracta) más los rayos de luz de colores con longitud de onda corta (violeta y azul) que los de longitud larga (rojo y naranja). Al estar el Sol justo en el horizonte, sus rayos atraviesan una capa muy gruesa de atmósfera (hasta 40 veces más que cuando está en lo alto). Normalmente vemos el Sol rojo/anaranjado porque los colores azul y verde se dispersan y se pierden por el camino. Pero en condiciones muy limpias y estables: La imagen del Sol se separa ligeramente en sus colores (como un pequeño arcoíris vertical). Los bordes rojos y naranjas desaparecen bajo el horizonte primero. Por un instante queda visible solo la parte verde (y a veces la azul/violeta) del borde superior.

AI is for people that want to be good at things without GETTING good at those things. Its pathetic.

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So basically, the Talk sound effect is a sped up Prelude because any new message can be the beginning of a whole new story for those players.

Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

I can only imagine people who use this app, as the kind who will soon delegate the chore of "breathing" and the annoyance of "eating" to mechanical respirators and gastric tube feeders. And they would be more than happy to do so.

This is the AI bubble’s end game: “when AI has infiltrated work processes to the point that exit costs are prohibitive, the customer base will be unable to escape and coerced into paying up. The world will be hooked on AI, and the tech firms will collect handsome profits.”

Wahoo! Finished converting these into 3" big temporary tattoos~ >:D Which was ORIGINALLY what I drew them for but then I just got super distracted along the way hahaha. I think these would be really fun to wear to match w friends at Fanfest!!

C. S. Lewis; you need to read old books

I wonder which (not "if", but which) of the Big Four have already cost their clients untold millions because they replaced their already decimated Consulting and Tech Consulting with glorified chat bots. EY and Deloitte are pretty much shoo-ins.

You can tell when people don’t engage much with fiction because they expect the heroes of stories to be morally perfect and assume that all the views expressed in a story are the views of the writer. Demanding that all characters be unproblematic angels is the death of fiction.