wildncrazyguy138

I use a chromecast and, good golly, the number of times I get 90+ second ads is insane. I downloaded nebula the other day and, once I finally get my fill of avgn in the next week or so, I’m leaving and never looking back.

This is disconcerting. China’s not going to slow down on their build out of infrastructure.

And for those who spin this as a positive. AI is not all LLMs. Real diseases are being cured by the complex modeling, real world tangible products, like airplanes and ships, are being designed safer.

I speculate that there’s a good chance that the modeling will eventually help to resolve the climate issue too, rather than continue to contribute to it. Physics models become more robust for simulating nuclear fusion; logistics models for transportation and energy distribution too.

Living in a tourist town, I don’t want a large data center in my backyard either, but there are plenty of places that do and where it makes sense to do so both from a logistical and resource perspective.

We get behind the curve here and it’s going to be near impossible to catch up, and when the smart people can’t play ball with the newest toys, that leads to brain drain.

“Outlook is looking bleak, I’m seeing double.”

At some point, about a decade ago, I started using inciteful rather than insightful in messages. I only realized my mistake after I got a new phone that flags it as a spelling error.

Oh man, what a dunce! I don’t know when my spelling got so aweful! I’m really glad to finally get that one off my chest.

But aren’t they all running on open source infrastructure? Well, except for the ones who’ve undergone cosmetic surgery

• Ad free music, especially if most of it goes to the artist
• Ad free content creation, especially is most of it goes to the artist
• Ad free games, especially if most of it….
• lichess.org
• Activity pub development and hosting
• ability to pay my bills online
• central platforms to buy goods and services that I want (clothing, furniture, car parts, etc) mostly eBay nowadays as I try not to support Amazon and had a terrible experience on Mercari
• ad free podcasts that like to listen to
• direct from manufacturer car……soon-ish

Getting high on their own supply again I see.

Andean Condors - multiple of them. I want them to fly me around. “Today we fly, my birds!” - in exchange, I will give them as much food as they would ever need.

I got onto design there for a while. Sketchup Make is still free out there if you can find it. Blender is also an option.

Learning is another option. Khan Academy, MIT Open Courseware.

Brewing, taking care of plants, terrariums, puzzles, bonsai, yoga. All good stuff.

Came here to say this. I attend 1-2 times a month and mine has so far taught me about breathing exercises for meditation and the shadow self from Jung. Just a group of great people also searching for community.

I came in to comment Bosch as well, but it seems they’re already well represented here. That said >$1000 was a steep friggin price for a dishwasher, not sure I’d do it again.

I really like that you put a lot of thought into this. I did not, just wanted to be tongue in cheek about that third one since our dumbass is acting like the world is his playground.

Also, if this was a legit list, it should get some additional gender representation.

Just like our servers, as the gods intended:

• Spider-Man
• Venom
• Captain America
• Ragnarok
• Thanos
• Thor
• Black Panther
• Groot
• Dr. Strange

You just named them after your poops, didn’t you?

AI is in the hype section of the emerging technology curve. A lot of good will come out of AI once we calm down and stop losing our damn minds.

It won’t be just cheap GPUs either. It will be things like more accurate cancer diagnoses, as Cory says near the top.

What we need is for regulation to catch up and start incentivizing the right things…that is, the things that will benefit society as a whole, not just the oligarchs.

Shew, what a headline. Keep in mind that AI is not just all LLM. I’m not sure how much more juice we can squeeze out of LLMs, but we’re just scratching the surface with other prediction models.

The ability to have smart cars that improve fuel efficiency by adjusting to traffic conditions may very well compensate for the increased electricity demand created by data centers.

New chemistry models may finally help us produce batteries that can meet the demands of a renewable energy grid.

We’re standing at a precipice. What we’re doing as a society is not working today - it’s not sustainable. And I’m not shy to say that I’m one of the few here on ActivityPub that think we may be able to leverage AI to dig us out of this hole we’ve started to dig ourselves in. But, in order to do that, we need clear heads, with clear goals and the incentives to encourage others to execute on them.

What we’re doing right now, just complaining about what’s not working isn’t going to save us.