wonderingwanderer

Aarons’ reasoning for trusting ChatGPT, he said in the August hearing, was that he’d heard of doctors using AI for medical research.

I don’t think the AI being used in medical research is ChatGPT (or any LLM for that matter), but if they are then that’s concerning… He’s still a dumbass though.

“I don’t get it, how could the kids spend 12 hours on a saturday playing a computer game, while hardly even taking any breaks?”

…72 hours later…

“Finally! My third diamond. Now I can make a diamond pickaxe and mine some obsidian so I can build a nether portal. And then maybe I’ll have a snack and start thinking about sleeping for a few hours so that tomorrow I can track down a fortress and fight some blazes to take their powder so I canfinally start brewing potions”

…12 hours later (without eating or sleeping)…

“DIE BLAZE!!! WAHAHAHAHAAA!!!”

If you enjoy legos and you enjoy computer games, then you can enjoy minecraft

Luanti is a good one too, although it might be closer to a minecraft clone than what you’re describing. It’s open-source though, and supports a fairly large modding community. There are all sorts of user-created extras that you can download and enable/disable as you please, right in the launcher.

They even have user-created game modes, so you can play the more traditional minecraft-style sandbox/survival game, or do various puzzles/mazes/platformers that people designed.

You’re thinking of MWh, this is MW.

Meaning at a given moment of peak usage, it’s drawing that many MW. If it draws that much for 1 hour, then it consumed that many MWh.

A year’s worth of 5 households’ power consumption is one hour of peak operation is pretty bad…

I see your point, but isn’t that determination for the court to make after reviewing the chat logs and consulting with competent professionals?

Not that I have much faith in the florida state courts to do the right thing, but honestly if we’re gonna say that a person directly claiming they want to shoot a place up doesn’t call for some form of intervention, then we need to stop clutching our pearls every time a mass shooting happens.

Note: I’m not expressing a personal opinion that it would be pearl-clutching to ask those sorts of questions in the aftermath of a mass shooting. I’m just pointing out the parallels to this situation and the logical inconsistency in saying “well this one was caught early, so it shouldn’t have been; but those ones that weren’t caught in time should have been!”

Like pick one or the other.

But also, fixing society and its many systemic issues, improving the quality and availability of mental health services (and reducing the stigma and increasing access), and ceasing to hand out guns like candy would probably be the most effective ways of preventing mass shootings. But it won’t be 100% even if we can achieve all that (and that’s a big if), so taking threats seriously should still be a part of that strategy either way…

We say this, but every time there’s a mass shooting people go “Why couldn’t this have been prevented?!?”

Like pick one or the other, but let’s stop asking for predictive policing in one breath, and in the next one asking why someone saying she’s going to shoot up a place is being taken seriously and punished.

If she had said the same thing to a psychotherapist, even they would have been obligated to report it. It’s really not surprising.

Sure, get her mental health treatment, and have a professional assess her for threat level. But go ahead and blacklist her from purchasing firearms, and if she already owns any then put them in some kind of stewardship where she can’t access them for a set time period, and after that can only check them out with supervision for specific reasons like “going to the firing range” or “hunting.”

Not saying she should be convicted of a felony, just that it’s not surprising that this would be reported to the authorities.

And I’m against tech surveillance, but it’s not like this conversation was done locally on her device. She transmitted her messages over the internet to a server in a data center where it was processed. Did Anthropic make any promises that messages were kept encrypted in a no-access vault where even human reviewers couldn’t access them? Cause I don’t think they did…

Worse, if you tell them how big of a problem it is, they’ll assume you have something to hide

for the first time is allowing the peasants to speak to each other rather

That’s what the tavern was for…

You know, the place where the elites couldn’t manipulate the topics of conversation and shared sentiment by adjusting algorithms and shadowbanning ideas they don’t like…

Your main point might hold if people were mostly using fediverse platforms, but such is not the case

Ah, I see. I guess I didn’t know where you were going with it then

Yeah, I haven’t been able to find a Pi Zero W anyfuckingwhere and it’s really annoying because I have a dedicated task I want to set one up for but I don’t want to use my Pi4 for it because I have other plans for that.

I’d also like to get a Pi5 for the PCIe connectivity but fuck they’re expensive these days…

Eh, they’re an evil company and all that, but the force majeure seems like a non-issue:

Instead, the notice would allow the company to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online.

It just means if the development misses the contractual deadline, they don’t have to pay until it comes on line. Seems reasonable to be honest, why should you be held to your end of the contract if the other party doesn’t meet theirs?

The real problem here is a combination of: the environmental and ecological impacts of the data center, the impacts on the local communities, the ethics (or lackthereof) of AI and lack of regulatory oversight, and the surveillance state that they’re using it to build.

Focusing your critique on the force majeure just kind of misses the point

Guess I’m going with AU then 🤷

Didn’t they just start a partnership with one of the big US tech companies like 6 months ago or something?

Sam Altman or someone like that has probably got their tendrils in this guy’s head…

…to “meet demand.” …

He’s saying “there is no bubble.”

You’d think he would know better…

Sounds atrocious

I’m not much of a gambling man myself, but you do you

It’s beyond spaghetti code. We need a new word for it: Cthulhu code

Yes but how many billable hours did they get for this 320-minute ordeal?

Spending $1000 on transportation costs commuting to and from work over a span of 2-4 years is completely different from burning through $1000 dollars of tokens in a single workday.

Especially if the boss now demands the same amount of output from you every day as the new normal.

And that’s not to mention how the energy and water consumption happens on a much shorter timescale than the drawn out one you needed to cite to make it seem comparable.