wischi

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Life can’t exist in a high entropy environment. Of cause you can declare the entire solar system a closed system but because of the sun our solar system will be in an extremely low entropy state on average for a couple of billion years. Once the sun “dies” and the temperature averages out in our solar system there will be no life.

  And yes it’s (almost) always an energy argument that why the water argument is a bad one. But not everything is an energy argument. Take He and H2 for example if you let that into the air ot will eventually escape our atmosphere because of solar winds and os truly wasted/lost - but that’s not true for water. You can’t really waste water in a sense that we will have less water im the future (unless you split it into hydrogen and oxygen and let the hydrogen escape).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Entropy always increases in closed systems. Because of the Sun, the Earth is not a closed system. If Earth were a pure entropy game, there would be no life. Also the atmosphere can’t hold infinite amount of water - that’s why it rains sometimes. So “using” fresh water is only a problem in regions where it doesn’t rain much and/or where the water has to be prepared/cleaned im the first place (which would probably make it too expensive to cool data centers in the first place) - if the water was from a natural fresh water source than just heating it is actually not a water issue - but it will contribute to global warming, but then again the argument shouldn’t be about water but about that data centers contribute to global warming.

  So the amount of water is pretty much constant. And because of the huge amount of energy the Earth gets from the sun, there is plenty of opportunities for clean energy that can (and is be used) to reverse entropy. All living things reverse entropy all the time. So the issue is not using the water but the unclean energy sources that lead to global warming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Throwing away water? Does it escape into space. I completely understand the energy arguments but water?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OKBuddyGalaxyBrain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For people with a different point of view the answer is length contraction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows User Account Control Bypassed Using Character Editor to Escalate Privileges⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whataboutism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably a scripted route.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holee shiet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aerosols aren’t gases in the classial sense and reflect sunlight. This works especially well high up in the atmosphere.

  …nasa.gov/…/aerosols-small-particles-with-big-cli…

  There are studies that collect data around volcano eruptions and coal power plants getting online and offline. Long story short: Climate is complicated; I’m not a climate scientist and not to be trusted; it would work great at cooling the planet; we definitely shouldn’t do it (yet?) because it masks the temperature problem and could lead to us not reducing CO2 because we “wouldn’t have to”, but it could be a tool if we might be on the edge of a catastrophic runaway effect that causes too much water to evaporate into the atmosphere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨holee shiet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not really hard to implement at all but would just trade pest for cholera. We could just burn a lot of coal again, the dustier and dirtier the better. But that’s pretty bad for air quality but it would seriously cool the planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wtf⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Things don’t scale linearly like that. Many things are proportional to either the surface (so x²) or volume (x³) or complex combinations of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AGI achieved 🤖⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs are not AGI tough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Challenges accepted.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “may” carries a lot of weight so it probably depends. The way US law works is pretty weird IMHO and the reason for many of such waivers. “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear”, “Contents may be hot”, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Into the meat grinder!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. But are jellyfish really not that far off. Looks like a pretty huge step to me. Jellyfish look complex enough to not just magically reassemble if we grind them through a sieve.

  I personally (but I’m not a biologists 🤣) definitely would consider a jellyfish an animal because different cells (at least ot very much looks like that) have different functions and thus throwing it in the meat grinder (even if individual cells are not damaged) I can’t imagine how ot could reassemble itself.

  But a sponge seems so homogeneous it (I guess) almost doesn’t matter what goes where and that’s why it can reassemble. That why (I personally) wouldn’t think of that as an animal.

  Are there other things that are technically animals that are that homogeneous?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Into the meat grinder!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Into the meat grinder!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question. How is that sponge an animal and how is “animal” defined? If we grind something through a sieve and it reassembles surely the lifeform can’t be to complicated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Number neighbors!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Take your phone number. Now add/subtract 1. Those are your number neighbors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t really be a bit of both because they can’t confirm shit if they don’t know what you look like in the first place. It could be to confirm that you are human (and maybe that you don’t already have an account) but they can’t confirm your “identity”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨>:)>⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure for that specific case, but in the general case there doesn’t need to be evolutionary pressure for change. If there is no pressure one way or the other random mutations can (and will over time) cause change without environmental reason (genetic drift).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least anticipated game in history⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You comment just brings attention to the fact that you didn’t even look at the signature in the picture and look up the artist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make gravity your bitch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at his arm. Unless all the videos of that guy are fake (even during a time where making a convincing video fakes was really hard). That arm is not going down even if he wanted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make gravity your bitch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But there is a difference between making a claim about not drinking water and literally holding your hand up in a way you can’t fake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creating random numbers with Lava Lamps at Cloudflare (2017)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  fair enough 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creating random numbers with Lava Lamps at Cloudflare (2017)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The lava lamps are just a gimmick and evening filming a white wall (as long as the video is not overexposed) would be just as save because of the avalanche effect of cryptographically secure hash functions and the thermal noise of cameras.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  successful with other countries women

  Didn’t they kidnap and rape them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Penny!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably would have helped more to lower the bridge even more 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peeble streamer on Doop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m seemingly also close to the grave, because I have no idea if those words are actual products or just made up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a homebody⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “none of my friends from high school have ever bothered to contact me”.

  Best line 🤣 Maybe you should contact them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Air Friar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Franz Reichelt vibes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  First time I read about it and even more surprised that for 38,000$ they don’t even talk details. They talk about videos, audio, photos, etc. but how much storage space?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long Cow is coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The same is true for your brain. Show me the neurons that are fluent in Chinese. Of course the LLM is just executing code. And if we have AGI it will also just be “executing code” but so does your brain. It’s not code but the laws of physics dictate what your brain does. The laws of physics don’t understand Chinese, the atoms and molecules don’t understand Chinese. “Understanding Chinese” is an emergent property.

  Think about it that way: Assume every person you know (execpt you) is just some form of Chinese Room … You first of all couldn’t prove that and second it wouldn’t matter at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long Cow is coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Your brain is also “just a Chinese room”. It’s just physic, chemistry and biology. There is no magic inside your brain. If a “Chinese room” is fast enough and can fool everyone into “believing” that it’s fluent in chinese, than the room speaks chinese.