TanyaJLaird

@TanyaJLaird@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. Of course, I need to make sure the files are appropriate for AI training, so it’s imperative that I review the media in its entirety first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t pirate media. I’m just slowly gathering a collection of AI training data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It reminds me one of Asimov’s robots trying to reason a way around the Three Laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Replace Tienanmen with discussions of Palestine, and you get the same censorship in US models.

  Our governments aren’t as different as they would like to pretend. The media in both countries is controlled by a government-integrated media oligarchy. The US is just a little more gentle with its censorship. China will lock you up for expressing certain views online. The US makes sure all prominent social media sites will either ban you or severely throttle the spread of your posts if you post any political wrongthink.

  The US is ultimately just better at hiding its censorship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s DeepSeek AI poses formidable cyber, data privacy threats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see anything in there that doesn’t also apply to OpenAI and other western companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s DeepSeek AI poses formidable cyber, data privacy threats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask OpenAI’s products to explain the absurdity of conservative Christianity, or any number of bugbears the West accepts censorship over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, this all seems like small potatoes. We’re trying to save our species from extinction here. We’re trying to maintain the standard of living that came with the Industrial Revolution without burning out planet to a cinder.

  If doing so means our steel industry runs 10% less efficiently, I really don’t give a damn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another option is to skip most of the grid storage and just spam solar panels. Rely on batteries only to get you through the night, not to bridge power across seasons. Build enough panels that your country can meet its needs even on a cloudy day in winter. Then you have reasonable power costs in the winter and nearly free electricity the rest of the year.

  You could see a lot of energy-intensive industries becoming seasonal. We have a crop growing season, a school season, and sports seasons. Why not an “AI model training” season?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re building an AI Stasi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We Ready For Driverless Buses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The advantage of busways is that they’re a lot cheaper to build than trains. You just need some paint on pavement to build a dedicated bus lane. All you have to really build are some nice bus stops. The big problem with trains is vertical and horizontal alignment. You can’t just lay train tracks on top of an existing road system. Cars and buses can handle much greater slopes and perform much steeper turns than trains can.

  For example, you can make a busway over an existing road bridge, without any need to rebuild the bridge itself. But you can’t just slap some train tracks on an existing road bridge, as the train would be unable to make it up the slopes designed for car traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Japan is a country that has been living in the year 2005 since 1985.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ultimately, these mandates are because executives don’t work for the same reason normal people do. Most people work to support themselves. But a single year working at an exec at a major company will be enough to let you retire very comfortably, never working another day in your life. Once you have ten million in the bank, you’re not really working for money anymore.

  Instead, you’re working for prestige and power. Execs and high-level managers work for a few reasons. Some work because they want to have power over people. They get a thrill out of having complete authority over other human beings. And sociopathic need to control others is an itch that simply can’t be scratched by working remote. Others like to mandate in-office because they’re professional shmoozers. They do very little real work. Instead, they just go from meeting to meeting, spend afternoons golfing on the company dime, etc. The company is basically just their own personal social club. Others work because they have a savior complex. They think they’re God’s gift to mankind, and they need the sycophantic praise that can only come by forcing people to work in person. Finally, some are simply sexual predators. For some, the primary benefit of coming into work is the ability to coerce sex out of their underlings. And it’s hard to sexually assault an employee who is working hundreds of miles away.