jwmgregory
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- Comment on We've got it all worked out 1 week ago:
i mean, you’re really burying the lead there when the article states pretty clearly in the abstract that the existence of this is contentious.
your quote doesn’t really demonstrate it doesn’t exist, it just demonstrates what the article already clearly states which is that people don’t agree.
it’s disingenuous to quote that specifically while ignoring things like:
In 2021, John Bechhoefer described a way to reliably reproduce the effect.[23] In 2024, Argelia Ortega, et al. studied the freezing of small (1-20mL) drops in a Peltier cell with a thermographic camera, and found that hot drops consistently froze faster than cold ones, with a more pronounced difference for larger drops. In particular, hot drops finished freezing sooner after the onset of recalescence, and experienced less of a temperature spike during the freezing process.[24]
from the exact same article, is all i am saying. bad rhetoric.
- Comment on Ordinary americans are facing huge electricity bills because of AI Data centers owned by Amazon, Google, Microsoft 1 week ago:
seems like this community really doesn’t like hearing the truth that changing these things are down to their action or inaction as individuals and a group. having a victim complex feels really popular nowadays.
wow, who could’ve predicted that sitting and consuming tiktok slop brainrot for 15 years rendered most people dumb as rocks??
- Comment on Ordinary americans are facing huge electricity bills because of AI Data centers owned by Amazon, Google, Microsoft 1 week ago:
For the OC that’s fair - but I’m not replying to them, I’m replying to the person confidently responding to the ELI5 with conjecture that has no basis in reality. ELI5 doesn’t mean “take random stabs in the dark even if you know nothing about what you’re talking about,” fuckface.
- Comment on Ordinary americans are facing huge electricity bills because of AI Data centers owned by Amazon, Google, Microsoft 1 week ago:
No, neither of you understand how this works or why a data center might cause local electricity bills to go up.
Your bill might go up because the electric company doesn’t give two shits who they sell their electricity to and companies like Google, Meta, etc. are all capable of far outspending actual families and peoples in these local markets. So, the peon’s prices go up.
It’s like, really simply supply/demand economics… it isn’t some grand conspiracy.
Idk why everyone has fucking surprise pikachu face at this sort of thing, big tech made out like a bandit with literally everyone’s money in the 2010s and has been sitting on it since. Everyone has memory like a goldfish though and doesn’t seem to understand exactly the scale of wealth these companies have. If they didn’t dump it all into LLMs and AI they would’ve found other vanity projects to fund.
The problem here isn’t the data centers or AI, it’s that we willingly handed over the keys to the city! Blaming morally neutral things like infrastructure is what they want you to do because then you won’t focus on doing actually effective activism and resistance to their stranglehold on the economy. 80% aren’t some clever sleuths who “really realize what’s going on,” you’re all being fooled and it is surprisingly easy to do. I’ve been on the other side before, I’ve seen it. They know what they’re doing. We collectively don’t. Simple as, to borrow from across the pond.
- Comment on The Answer May Surprise You 2 weeks ago:
nothing you do like this is actually going to drive up their compute costs.
if every chatGPT user tomorrow started spamming the most highly optimized prompt for pissing away system resources… it still wouldn’t do anything because, like them or hate them, openAI aren’t fucking stupid and have implemented basic DBA practices that have been entrenched since… like… i dunno, the 80s, for fucks sake…
think: chatGPT responds with responses around the same max length depending on plan. you cannot submit prompts larger than a certain size, similarly. chatGPT will also only engage in reasoning or tasks for a limited amount of time before stopping, whether or not enough information is available to “answer” the prompt yet.
this is all because openAI is capable of dummy fucking simple statistical analysis that let’s them just predetermine a set size for any data package in the pipe, or predetermine a set time for any stream to have an open spigot, etc. i guar-an-fucking-tee you that they have calculated these numbers in such a way that, barring the world literally ending, they’ll still come out in the black on that front no matter what the userbase’s behavior is. it is likely mathematically impossible to “hurt” any big tech company with means like this.
you’re just wasting real resources and then further encouraging others to do so, which is hypocritically the exact same thing people enjoy going on a tirade about big tech doing.
if you want to actually piss away compute go get a copilot subscription or something and just let an agent run with no limits on iterations or requests. it’ll be at your own dime though because, again, these companies aren’t fucking stupid and can implement monetization in a way that is more highly optimized than any other polity in human history.
pretending the devil has broken hands won’t save johnny in the fiddle contest… pretending the oligarchs dismantling western society are inept won’t stop them from continuing to do it.
- Comment on What a relief! 2 weeks ago:
it’s just a different base system with some extra quirks thrown in that’s been shoehorned into a decimal society. it isn’t too difficult once you know the story of how french language got there, you feel?
- Comment on Anon doesn't like the doors 3 weeks ago:
what and who the fuck do you think makes your “nice listening setup” possible? the goddamn fae??
jesus christ you two are dripping in pretension, patent waste of time…
lmfao, it has nothing to do with knowing quality and everything to do with knowing where your fucking food comes from and not being an upstuck, privileged brat over it.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like the doors 3 weeks ago:
that’s a pretty ignorant take still. electronic music is plenty capable of having “sonic details” nowadays. in fact, because of a lot of the ML advances lately, you can emulate pretty much any sound profile digitally now. this was becoming true even before people had the idea to use ML solutions to do it, too.
virtually all music you listen to that was produced after 1980 has had electronic production done to it. live shows now are actively mixed as the show happens. “well recorded music” is actually more about electronic post-production than picking just the right shangri-la-esc recording locale, now. you associate “flat” and “lacking sonic details” with electronic music for no other reason than ignorance. you’re discounting the work of thousands of engineers and billions of man hours who make those “best” live shows and “well-recorded” music you hold so dear even possible, and it’s incredibly disrespectful at best.
the quality of audio has vastly improved in the modern period largely thanks to electronic music. live and recorded music used to sound like shit, comparatively. take off your rose-colored goggles and see, man.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like the doors 3 weeks ago:
this is the most boomer-ass fucking take on electronic music i’ve ever heard.
hey, 1989 called and it wants its “electronic music has no soul and lacks the human element^TM” tirade back…
i’ve heard people make music on synths and computers that has more “soul” and more meaning than any “real” musicians, as you might call it. you’re denigrating people’s work not for the quality of the work itself but because you have some weird, backwards stereotype in your head preventing you from even giving it a proper chance.
- Comment on It's a whole genre! 2 months ago:
i’m someone who grew up fat/ morbidlyobese and is now 160 lbs at 6’0” height, this is real af and talking about weight with anyone now pisses me tf off usually.
people are fat as shit now and it’s entirely normalized. you can’t even say being fat is bad for you without someone asserting that it’s possible to be both overweight and healthy at the same time. it’s not. being overweight at all, let alone fucking obese or morbidly obese, is literally up there with smoking and drinking on the shaving years off your life scale. no one should be made fun of for their body but portions of the fat acceptance movement went too far deluding people into risking their health, and corporate america has been feeding us all literal high calorie slop that is as addicting as fucking drugs.
virtually everyone is at least somewhat overweight now in america, most people are obese, with the rest of the west trending towards the same fate. it’s a gigantic fucking public health crisis. i’ll talk about how i need to lose 10-20 lbs and people will say “tHaT wOuLd mAkE yOu lOoK sIcKlY ThO!?!”… 1. who the fuck cares? it’s my body and idk why vanity is such a big factor for people, anyway. idgaf if being a normal weight for my height would make me look “sickly” in a country like this 2. and it really fucking wouldn’t! i don’t have an eating disorder or anything, and i’m smart enough to objectively measure and maintain my own body. i could stand to lose a few pounds of fat and go to the gym!
i’m sitting here having to have been made fun of my whole childhood for being fat and now ive grown up into bizarro world where everyone is overweight and i’m the weird one again for trying to maintain my body. fuck you guys. my kungfu is better than yours. lmao jk but being fat as a kid is seriously traumatic. not wanting to take your shirt off at pools really sucks and is a part of it but there’s worse stuff. i still don’t really like my body bc i probably will need to have loose skin removal surgery over my torso to look normal. not sure, will try bulking up a bit first but have never been a gymbro or anything like that. maybe it’ll turn out okay.
thanks for coming to the local trauma dump haveawonderfulnightcomeagain.
- Comment on Something about psychological warfare idk 2 months ago:
kinda off topic but i thought someone referring to the amount of detergent as a “dosage” was pretty funny.
- Comment on Anon discovers hygiene 2 months ago:
i don’t disagree but i think it’s more complicated than that. (explicitly don’t take this as a justification for saying slurs, i don’t condone being a shithead)
for better or worse the word has been reclaimed and not every use of the n-word has racist motivations. it’s not even always racially motivated at all anymore, and it’s been that way for decades now at least here in the US. in fact, i’d being willing to bet money that this usage of the word has likely far outpaced its use as a slur in most of America by now. both are still in use but there are clearly two entirely different sets of semantic meaning floating around. you’ll see poor white people saying it a lot now but they’re still using it in a semantic sense to just mean bro or homie, it’s not being used the way their ancestors were saying it. and back when i ran in those circles more everyone said it and nobody batted an eye, regardless of race. the word is more of an in-group vs out-group identifier in modern vernacular. you can argue about how racist the n-word is and how its history makes using it at all problematic all you want but realistically 99% of the people saying it would laugh you out of the building when confronted with those ideas and don’t give a shit. honestly a lot of discourse surrounding the n-word on the internet is made fun of by black americans. it’s tone deaf and ignorant of the black experience, most this discourse online. at worst it’s a literal white savior complex.
because 4chan strips all context and identity from threads we, as an audience, can’t really know whether or not this is what we would colloquially call racist. and if you argue that this is racist regardless of the context, that’s fair, that’s my reflexive take too - but you have to realize if you make that argument you’re implicitly arguing black reclamation of words like that is invalid under conditions of anonymity. and that’s… a whole can of worms that im probably the wrong person to open up.
is that all fucked up? yeah! but it certainly says more about culture and society than it does 4chan individually, imo. i think people like easy little boxes more than messy reality, generally speaking.
- Comment on ‘No shops, no schools’: homes in England built without basic amenities 3 months ago:
it’s more you’re expected to buy a car to get to the only pub in the tri-metro area which is itself owned by one of two large corporations who control the entire market. what’s that? you don’t like the idea of dedicating 1/3 of your income or more to being a motor vehicle owner? well, there’s always bootstraps.
suburbanism isn’t the only shitty american thing you guys have imported from us as of late but it’s probably one of the more starkly visible ones.
i’m frankly surprised either of our nations have made it this long. the anglosphere is cooked, man.
- Comment on RIP AND TEAR 3 months ago:
based and less absurd of a comparison than it seems.
jesus is a hard ass bitch in the bible, not to even mention all the non-canonical sources. i’m not religious but they’re cool stories.
- Comment on be gay, do computers 3 months ago:
even then the degree to which charles babbage was responsible for his machines is somewhat contested.
even then charles babbage was inventing in an environment that was already highly geared to explore logic as a discipline with many people actively pursuing the same or similar objects of fascination. there are experiments in computation and entire computers far preceding babbage, going so far back as the earliest annals of recorded history.
a lot of people also don’t understand that babbage’s initial inventions weren’t even autonomous or mechanical/electrical. they weren’t computers in the colloquial, modern sense. at first they were basically just arrays of literal physical drawers, that the user had to physically move objects between, that could represent something akin to modern memory. this was rudimentary even at the time - the classical greeks famously were astute mechanist and the best of the wondermakers could make much more than just cranes: think autonomous robots, analog computational orreries, literal fucking lasers powered by the sun. by babbage’s time europeans were intimately familiar with engineering and computational principles far beyond what the average contemporary person realizes. the actual innovation is the conceptual handling of it. without that, babbage just made a fancy shelf.
either way babbage isn’t even remembered very fondly by the field. lovelace was far more influential and had far more intuition and genius to her work.
- Comment on true friend 4 months ago:
That one is much more recent but much less engaging of an anecdote imo. These are kind of lame but I’m always willing to chatter lol.
Honestly just had a different, actual friend come over the day the news broke about the election in Trump’s favor here in the US and he was super into the honey jack daniels at the time. We just pounded an entire big bottle of that and I ended up way drunker than felt reasonably possible. Ended up shirtless sitting in the shower throwing up my guts. Also accidentally stepped on my cat which was sad (but I think she was okay). Oh and ig the Dictator-In-Chief shit happening but overall bad experience and while I didn’t really feel like I was gonna die but it made me retch a bit every time I smell cheap liquor mixed with honey from then on.
I honestly had problems with alcohol from like, 17-18 all the way until I was 21, almost 22. I don’t really drink much anymore. It’s a bad drug anyway. Basically toxic. Nicotine is also up there. What’s it matter that nicotine itself doesn’t really much cause cancer if every single fucking way you can ingest it is carcinogenic itself somehow? Not to mention the addiction both of those can cause. The social acceptance of both is insane. I’ve ingested my fair share of both and more tho so maybe that’s why I’m so cognizant of everyone huffing and drinking what is paramount to a poison. I’m still hooked on both every once in awhile and want to quit but I don’t really think that’s the topic at hand here, bc I get these vibes when people bring that up in this vein.
- Comment on true friend 4 months ago:
random as fuck for me to mention here but i actually used to consider woodford reserve my favorite liquor until i bought one of the bigass bottles and a coworker at the time i thought was cool kept threatening to deck me if we didn’t keep taking shots until we went through the entire bottle. i’ve never genuinely thought i was going to die the way i did being collapse on the ground after. seriously thought that was it and i was gonna choke out on vomit or something in a drunken stupor. i did the math once to figure out my BAC that night and i should’ve probably died lmao.
anyway long story short i have a food aversion to the taste and smell of woodford reserve now. any of those cheap honey whiskeys too but that’s a different story for a different time.
- Comment on what 4 months ago:
well there’s a bit of human psychology at play here. if you see an item listed for lower than market value the seller has already implicitly devalued the item in the listing to the audience. it isn’t surprising some rational agents would then proceed to either ignore the listing out of fear of low quality or attempt to haggle for a lower price due to the already admittedly lesser value of the merchandise. it doesn’t make objective sense at all, i agree, but it makes a whole lot of systemic sense.
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 5 months ago:
not to be exclusive but i dislike the contemporary trend of trying to shoehorn polygamy and polyamory into LGBTQ spaces, tbh.
i personally dislike poly, admittedly, but i don’t really think it should be illegal or anything either ig. either way, it’s a lifestyle choice one makes and not an immutable facet of your identity that you’re born with, which i know is an increasingly controversial opinion these days but tbh i don’t think poly people experience oppression or bigotry the same way queer people do and it’s disingenuous to act like they do. it honestly makes me kind of upset to see people so widely positing such a position. i know the inevitable comparison of this rhetoric im using to the rhetoric used against queer people historically but i honestly don’t think that’s a very fair comparison in the case of poly, but that’s a whole can of worms itself.
again, not really an attack on poly people or their right to exist. i know my personal disdain of it probably shines through a bit here in my voice but i don’t want to come off as rude.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 5 months ago:
I think it’s kind of ironic you call your friend apparently a dipshit for not knowing something you also didn’t know… pot calling the kettle black & all.
- Comment on Why is lemmy so political?! 5 months ago:
or maybe it is uncanny because there are beans the size of boulders??
smh. “result of the uncanny AI effect.” talking about image generation like it’s some sort of magic taint that pervades the image. i’ll go draw large beans myself just to point out how fucking absurd what you’re saying is, brb.
- Comment on Nintendo responds to suggestion that AI-generated images used in Mario Kart World [Eurogamer] 6 months ago:
none of these are particularly strong indicators that the art is ai… they feel more like stylistic choices. nintendo just like, uses a cartoonish & unrealistic styling?? i could 100% see this being generated or drawn. that’s like, the point of generative image tech…
regardless, why do you care? we’re sitting here debating whether or not the art is generated ffs; it is clearly good enough to pass as human art regardless of your subjective opinions
are you guys scared the spoopy ai is gonna jump out and get you or something?? i like, seriously don’t get the hysterics here beyond weird moral posturing.
- Comment on You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW 7 months ago:
no, i just think i don’t like dealing with idiots like yourself who’s perogotive is to abscond anything you read that makes you feel any cognitive dissonance.
i have nothing good to say to those who can’t engage in good-faith discussion, like yourself. you’re part of the problem with the world nowadays.
- Comment on You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW 7 months ago:
um yes? because it’s the truth? do some research before posting man. even if you were alive back then that doesn’t mean you knew wtf was up everywhere in the country with every demographic.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 8 months ago:
my only disagreement is that unfortunately they’ve succeeded in pushing the overton window so hard that the ratio is actually much more controversial than the comment implies. if only every edgelord here read and seriously considered this.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 8 months ago:
nope. i know what i said and i meant it.
they start like this. then they become shitty, abusive incels in adulthood. then they vote for people like the cadre of neofascist in western politics rn.
the incel to fascist pipeline is real and dangerous. and i won’t act like those who fall down it are victims and not complicit monsters anymore.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 8 months ago:
this is a fair point, i don’t disagree. it’s valid to call me out on conflating ideas of common decency with absolute morality.
that said, there are certain things that if you do; definitely make you a bad person. i think to the recently viral tweet of the ivy league ethics & philosophy professor who was absolutely aghast at incoming students’ ideas of morality. it speaks to the problem in this thread.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 8 months ago:
no actually, i’m done sitting and acting like that sort of shit is acceptable, no thanks.
paradox of tolerance demands you completely and decisively shut these fucks down before they takeover your society with their shitty ass rhetoric of hate
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 8 months ago:
lmfao what a fucking excuse of a reason. i hope you know i hate you. not hyperbole. i hope everyone else knows i hate you too. like genuinely, and actually; blatantly being a terrible person like you are is a large part of what is wrong with the world and i despise every single one of you chucklefucks that inches us every further away from decency day by day.
do you recognize you’re doing olympic level mental gymnastics in order to make the people you identify with in the internet story the good guys or are you just incredibly dense and/or like fucking with people for kicks?
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 8 months ago:
seriously jesus fucking christ what about this in particular is making it such a good litmus test to root out shitty people? they’re all just immediately, unironically, unabashedly identifying themselves in the comments here, just like that lmfao.
absolute trash is absolute trash ig.