Blue_Morpho
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- Comment on CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries. 2 hours ago:
Google says 80% compared to up to 95 for LifePO4. Extra 15% cost for waste heat during charging vs 10x cheaper battery.
- Comment on CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries. 2 hours ago:
The video says it’s 175 kwhr per kg compared to 185 for LFP that’s already used in some cars. Gold standard is Lion at 300. Volumetric is the same ratios.
So it’s usable in cars and absolutely immediately useable in homes.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 22 hours ago:
Also the number of supported users does not scale linearly with the number of CPU cores
US population has grown 25% from the year 2000. Other than Anti AI detection, everything worked on the hardware of 25 years ago. Single core performance has gone up more than 25% over the past 25 years.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 23 hours ago:
“State services” is database lookups and billing. Back in the 90’s, I supported 10k users (1.5k active at any moment) on a Pentium 3 with 512MB of Ram.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 1 day ago:
An entire state government could run on your phone but requires an entire data center because it’s written in JavaScript that emulates the original COBOL code that ran the government in the 1960’s.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 day ago:
I linked it in this thread but here it is again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T17bpGItqXw
There is a huge open source community working on LLM’s.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 day ago:
The average person I talk to IRL on a daily basis don’t know what it is, have never used it, and likely never will.
ChatGPT.com is visited approximately 5.24 billion times each month. That makes it bigger than Twitter, Instagram, and even Wikipedia.
explodingtopics.com/blog/chatgpt-users
I don’t use Twitter and don’t know anyone that does but that doesn’t mean it isn’t popular.
Your argument basically amounts to “nu uh”.
ChatGPT has been the biggest Internet thing since Google. If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t even be talking about it here. I shouldn’t have to quote statistics for something well known.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 day ago:
here’s also the energy it needs to fulfill requests once implemented
Just like everyone playing the 3d game once its finished development and sold. A few hours of gaming or a few hours of making AI slop photos is the same watts. No one notices the energy when its spread across millions of homes as compared to centralized at a data center. A few years ago Nvidia, Microsoft and others were pushing gaming as a streaming service (The games were being run remotely and your keyboard/gamepad was transmitted to their servers, then the video was streamed back). Those used massive data centers. Yet no one was screaming to stop gaming.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 day ago:
I put the final answer in Watt hours, not Kw hours to match. ChatGPT used 10B watt hours, not 10B Kwatt hours.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 day ago:
The point is, most wouldn’t.
People currently want it despite it being stupid which is why corporations are in a frenzy to be the monopoly that provides it. People want all sorts of stupid things. A different system wouldn’t change that.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 day ago:
And the point of anarchist or actual communist systems is that such scale would be miniscule.
Every community running their own AI would be even more wasteful than corporate centralization. It doesn’t matter what the system is if people want it.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 day ago:
Rockstar games: 6k employees 20 kwatt hours per square foot esource.bizenergyadvisor.com/…/large-offices 150 square feet per employee unspot.com/…/how-much-office-space-do-we-need-per…
18,000,000,000 watt hours
vs
10,000,000,000 watt hours for ChatGPT training
washington.edu/…/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use…
Yet there’s no hand wringing over the environmental destruction caused by 3d gaming.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 day ago:
AI itself is a massive strain on the environment, without any true benefit
Rockstar games developing GTA5: 6k employees 20 kwatt hours per square foot esource.bizenergyadvisor.com/…/large-offices 150 square feet per employee unspot.com/…/how-much-office-space-do-we-need-per…
18,000,000,000 watt hours
vs
10,000,000,000 watt hours for ChatGPT training
washington.edu/…/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-use…
There are more 3d games developed each year than companies releasing new AI models.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 day ago:
Ai is literally making people dumber:
And books destroyed everyone’s memory. People used to have fantastic memories.
They are a massive privacy risk:
No different than the rest of cloud tech. Run your AI local like your other self hosting.
Are being used to push fascist ideologies into every aspect of the internet:
Hitler used radio to push fascism into every home. It’s not the medium, it’s the message.
And they are a massive environmental disaster:
AI uses a GPU just like gaming uses a GPU. Building a new AI model uses the same energy that Rockstar spent developing GTA5. But it’s easier to point at a centralized data center polluting the environment than thousands of game developers spread across multiple offices creating even more pollution.
Stop being a corporate apologist
Run your own AI! Complaining about “corporate AI” is like complaining about corporate email. Host it yourself.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 day ago:
You think any sort of powerful ai is about to be open source and usable by the ppl?
There’s a huge open source community running local models!
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 5 days ago:
They got away with lying for 10 years without repercussions. The only thing that killed them was Musk going full Nazi.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 6 days ago:
If that were true Tesla would have been out of business years ago.
- Comment on TSMC employees reportedly stole 2nm trade secrets to share with Rapidus — accused are said to have shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos' 6 days ago:
China isn’t a race.
- Comment on TSMC employees reportedly stole 2nm trade secrets to share with Rapidus — accused are said to have shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos' 6 days ago:
To be fair that’s what America did to England.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Slater
The US used to only recognize copyright of ZuS writers. Foreign books were printed without any payments. Charles Dickens didn’t get any money from American publishers who printed his books.
- Comment on protein! 1 week ago:
I thought it was pasta and marinara. Now I see I’m evolutionary wired for pasta and marinara.
- Comment on Funny how that works 2 weeks ago:
It is frustrating when they raise property tax every year, claim it’s for schools, and then announce that music and art need to be cut for budget reasons. Meanwhile they also announce tens of of millions for renovating the business district and tens of millions for the restaurant district.
- Comment on I Live 500 Feet From A Bitcoin Mine. My Life Is Hell. 2 weeks ago:
Funny how when the government needs a new road or dump it’s “We have to eminent domain your private property for the good of the community.”
But when a business is destroying a community, the government is, “Our hands are tied, it’s private property.”
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 2 weeks ago:
Cleaning up toxic waste at a single lake or river site
It wasn’t a single river and single lake. It was everywhere. There wasn’t a clean river, large lake or bay in the US. The examples I gave were only the most publicized.
The air in all cities, everywhere, was so polluted the moths evolved to be black.
ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/…/signs-recovering-harbor…!
…jhu.edu/…/baltimores-swimmable-harbor-movement#%….
californiasun.co/photos-when-l-a-smog-was-so-bad-…
We’re at 415 parts per million in CO2 concentrations. That’s orders of magnitude in difference, and the carbon that is already present will take multiple human lifetimes to be removed via natural means.
Unchecked CFC’s would have resulted in the sterilization of the entire planet. In the 1970’s pollution was at a level where all life was destroyed in many local ecologies. It wasn’t “It’s too hot here so native species died out and were replaced with desert species.” It was complete annihilation of all life in the area.
Global warming means a few billion die. It’s an extremely serious problem but we are improving.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 2 weeks ago:
Climate change isn’t the same as cleaning up litter?
I didn’t mention cleaning up litter at all! In fact I specifically said it wasn’t.
It’s on a global scale of gigatons of emissions,
I already mentioned CFC’s which required global cooperation on a scale never seen before.
This is bigger than anything in human history
Everything is bigger than anying human history because we have more people.
Stop fucking comparing it to cleaning up some fucking tires in a river.
WHAT THE FUCK? QUOTE ME.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 2 weeks ago:
Difference is that, those problems had relatively easier solution which was being worked on.
It required global cooperation to ban CFC’s and restore the ozone layer. It required destroying large corporations so the the rivers could be clean again. These things were done and can continue to be done.
This does not hold for global warming, we are not even trying!
Absolutely not true. 1.08 terawatts of power are solar in China. 1.6Terrawatts in US. 107.6 GW in Germany. France has always been Nuclear. Massive EV adoption in China and Europe.
it’s pathetic that you try to look at things rose-tinted
I grew up in the 1970’s when you couldn’t swim or fish in the rivers. The city was filthy, and not in today’s sanitized “oh there’s some trash”. Every surface in the city was covered in black grime. Moths in cities evolved into black variations because cities weren’t white concrete- they were black grime. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution
Statues were crumbling from acid rain.
The world is so much cleaner than 50 years ago.
This is what has been done recently: Image Image
Past improvements don’t mean we need to stop!
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 2 weeks ago:
50 years ago most waterways in the US were so polluted as to be dead to wildlife. Cities buildings were black with pollution.
Global warming is actually minor compared to the immediate death people were facing decades ago. For example unchecked ozone depletion could have resulted in the destruction of all rice crops on Earth. An analogy that comes to mind is the Black Plague vs Covid. It’s not that Covid wasn’t (isn’t) a problem. And like Covid we are deploying modern technology to fix the problems. Solar is being installed everywhere. The US is going backwards temporarily. But the US isn’t the world. Europe and China are getting things done.
People who see the problems are the absolutely not the ones who should be killing themselves. They’re the only ones that can contribute to the future.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 2 weeks ago:
Your premise is that it’s going to get a lot worse. But the past 50 years has been improving. It’s therefore reasonable to believe we will keep improving.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 2 weeks ago:
The Antarctic used to have a giant ozone hole. In the late 1960’s, Lake Erie was dead from pollution. The Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so polluted it caught fire. Rain was so acidic that statues in cities were dissolving.
Read history instead of following social media hype. Despite Trump turning back the clock a few years, the environment has improved dramatically over the past 50 years.
- Comment on Why do some companies like a utility put out ads? 2 weeks ago:
Are you sure there’s no competition? I’m aware that competition is allowed in my market but their marketshare is so tiny I doubt anyone knows it exists.
- Comment on Stanford Professor: The idea that Stanford University owes its graduate students a "living wage" is preposterous 2 weeks ago:
You have to understand that the teaching assistants can’t teach effectively unless the Dean gets his $50k/year mortgage paid for by the university along with a new car.
