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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • But it’s NOT intellectually honest to be okay with having one pound of shit in the canoe and not being okay with the other two. You can’t point at the two pounds of shit and say: this abominable! While ignoring the other pound of shit. Because it’s all shit.

    Sure, because that’s a terrible analogy.

    Gen AI data centers don’t just require more power and space, they require so much more power and space that they are driving up energy costs in the surrounding area and are the data centers are becoming near impossible to build.

    People didn’t randomly become “anti-data center”. Many of them are watching their energy bills go up. I’m watching as they talk about building new coal plants to power “gigawatt” data centers.

    And it’s all so you can have more fucking chat bots.


  • Yeah the wording on this is wrong. The closest adjacent (honest) question would be “how can I appear to be arguing in good faith when I have a predetermined position on this technology?”.

    EDIT:

    I don’t even like GenAI myself and that’s how this comes off.

    If you’re looking for reasons: (1) sustainability / ecology, (2) market concentration, (3) intellectual theft, (4) mediocre output, (5) lack of guardrails, (6) vendor lock-in, (7) appears to drive some people insane, (8) drives down the quality of the Internet overall, (9) de-skills the people that use it, (10) produces probabilistic outputs and yet is used in applications that require deterministic outputs…I could go on for a while.


  • For the ecological side of things, sure, ai uses a lot of power. Lots of data enters. So does the internet. Do you use that? So does the stock market. Do you use that? So do cars. Do you drive?

    There are many, many differences between AI data centers and ones that don’t have to run $500k GPU clusters. They require a lot less power, a lot less space, and a lot less cooling.

    Also you’re implying here that your debate opponents are being intellectually dishonest while using the same weasely arguments that people that argue in bad faith constantly employ.


  • If you can’t tell the difference and it fits how you listen to music, I guess who cares?

    AI software writing up musak doesn’t matter to me because I don’t listen to music that way.

    I’ll know the bands I’m listening to are real because I will have manually downloaded their music after reading reviews, magazine articles, or things like albumoftheyear.org just like I’ve been doing for the last half decade.

    Music streaming services suck and not only because they will promote low cost bands to you. If you actually give a shit about music then stop being so lazy as to have an algorithm fill your trough with slop and then being surprised that it’s AI slop.

    Or just continue eating the slop if it pleases you. 🤷

    It’s a bit of a contrarian take, but I think people need to start adding more intentionality to how they live their lives. If music is unimportant to you, that’s fine. But nowadays everyone just watches the shows they’re recommended, listens to the music that is picked out by the algorithm, and reads what is fed to them in their feeds…figure out what’s important to you and curate it for yourself.





  • Some things are distinctions without a difference, “ancaps”, “libertarians”, and “conservatives” are some of those things.

    The distinctions between them are considered oh so important simply because you’re talking about mostly privileged individuals that want the appearance of being “free thinkers”. They want to pretend to have their own brand of politics above everyone else, but they still mostly vote for fucking Trump.

    There really isn’t a lot of ideological range to the right of neoliberalism…and it mostly ranges from fascist-lite to full-blown fascism.








  • Completing botw became more of a chore than anything else. I couldn’t get all the way through tears of the kingdom. The chores in that one just compounded. I managed to somehow light up the entire underworld and yet my gear was too fucking terrible to face the end bosses.

    Botw was very cool at times, but it had a few things that made it utterly frustrating to play. The weapons breaking and having to watch Link go “uhh eeefff eeeff ooof” on the side of a cliff for hours was just painful and purposeless.

    To your point, it seems like no game can manage to have an expansive, explorable world that’s actually rewarding to explore. Maybe there is an exception out there but I haven’t encountered it.