• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I love that your brain runs on like 2 watts and a junior science scout chemistry set but it takes enough energy to run a city to make a language model spit out Reddit madlibs.

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      When some “this is just like the blade runner treats” bazinga shows up and talks about how the treat printers are that close to replacing human brains, they always blissfully ignore the sheer material cost of these fucking things. They want a “happiness monster” to destroy the planet if it looks enough like the cyberpunkerinos.

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      Stuff like this makes me wonder of it wouldn’t be more efficient to have humans doing the work of “AI.” Instead of having some kooky software, use a person to do the same thing with 2 watts of electricity.

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        Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program is/was basically this. Farming out small editing or image recognition tasks to people in the global south who may or may not actually get paid a pittance for it.

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      I feel like people outside industry don’t appreciate this message as much as intended.

      Industrial switchgears, often part of an electric apparatus that looks like a giant metal box, have lead times measured in years. The supply chain is completely fucked.

      A literal CEO of a $20billion company couldn’t skip the line despite writing them a letter and begging for any price.

      Companies are paying long haul truckers expedited rates to haul a 53 foot trailer with a switchgear inside, and the rest of the trailer completely empty. Just to get it 2-3 days sooner, after their 1 year wait. You cannot operate the facility without it.

      It really is a huge shame when one of them gets damaged.

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    Every time some smug computer toucher talks about how I’m “afraid” if I criticize the application and proliferation of treat printers, from now on, I think I will say “yes, I am afraid of the planet burning down that much faster so some techbros can play ‘mirror mirror on the wall’ with their phones.” doomer

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      That building burning down would be a net reduction of carbon waste compared to it remaining in operation to continually tickle divorce dads with prompted text. the-more-you-know

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      knowing musk’s style, the building is poorly-ventilated and primarily made of heavy heat-conducting metal and the escapes are in inaccessible places with impossibly-complicated and finnicky mechanisms to open them and every last person would end up perishing even though everyone was aware of the fire 45 minutes ahead of time.

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      The real cyberpunkerinos is when a bunch of computer touchers feel increasingly convinced by the screen saying “I love you senpai” when prompted while wheezing in the latest and greatest fire season yet.