humanspiral

@humanspiral@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The correct way⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What percentage of Brits would recognize the “distress signal” of hanging flag upside down?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If orange Hitler is going to post AI images of him being a "hero", it seems only right to counterpoint his images with images of him bukkake'd by minorities, acting as a human toilet, etc.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  thumbnail link is broken, I just get this text thread reloaded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  These are monetizable inventions, that are allowed, when big money backs them. Climate fuckery threatens incumbent big money, even when it threatens the little people’s property values and cost of living.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say hello to Bary⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  how much wobble does the earth add to sun? over 1m?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fishnet stockings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  dislike, but not downvoted. Hope I don’t see this again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  trend was before any new abortion bans. You probably cannot consider men avoiding women, but that is likely a larger overall factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are stardust.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are golden.

  It’s quite the songwriting feat. (Joni Mitchel, but CSNY great interpretation with gospel Organ part)

  “And we got to get ourselves, back to the garden”

  unifies gospel of bible and humanism. The 60s, being a period of extreme oppression of US men with draft for US empire domino absurdities, had many “principled songs”. This is the best one, not just specifically anti-war. Woodstock as a “principled humanist” gathering gained significance from this song.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We've all been there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a pretty wide stance you’ve got there. If this were an airport with a republican next to you… a proposition would follow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨leading ai company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Musk was in a ketamine hole when announcing lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI. Waking up briefly to add this legal argument is not proof of not still being in hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are paying to use "AI", who are you paying and what are your regular usecases?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand vscode is free, and can connect to free AI backends. I haven’t tried yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution: 🖕⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  fact that old people are prevalent in human society is the proof that we are compassionate and loving creatures

  It could be media/social programing from perspective of the wiser imposed on the foolish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be Fast. Be Spontaneous. Don't Suck. Get Paid.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the many outs on getting paid is a deal breaker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  windows 3.1 was first widespread used version of windows. But DOS games still had graphics. Nethack is a great game that is simple enough to learn, but you have to die 1000 times to actually learn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The inherent problem with idiocracy is trust in media. Obviously every US war involvment within anyone’s functioning memory is demonic evil, but trust us bro, this one time, we’re totally the good guys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Appealing childish simplicity. Kennedy was assassinated in part for not invading Cuba, and instead using red lines as threats to peacefully resolve issues with USSR. NATO intervention in Kossovo/Bosnia was similar picking sides in a civil war. Russia spent 8 years attempting to diplomatically solve peace only to have demonic nazi supporting lying scum on the other side use/delay that process to explicitly arm Ukraine for its suicidal war provocation. The childish naivete on your part is the absolutism that “every bar fight is started by the one throwing the first punch.” The demonic reality is that supremacist evil insists that no one has the right to tell them to stop grabbing your date’s ass, and supremacist evil will use the optics of throwing the first punch to tell their children why corrupt embezzling nazis should be supported.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Future tyrantdaddy will nuke any nation whose media CIAsplains the Ukraine war as Russian aggression. There is no happy future resulting from believing propaganda that internalizes hatred in you, for Russia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any replacement to Putin will be far less moderate and patient with your BS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It has increased military production 30% each year. It produces far more shells than entirety of NATO. It had demonstrated advances in hypersonic missiles since start of war, and surely producing many of them. Larger superiority edge. It is most advanced (Ukraine 2nd) by far in drone technology and production. Russia has focused economy on the seriousness of the western threat. West has just propagandized its way to grift for weapons stocks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the big lie. US forced Russia to defend itself, and Russia made massive military production investment boosts to defend itself. Pretending that propaganda given to you to support pure demonic evil diminishment of Russia, will affect Russia’s reality, or Russians understanding that everything you believe is evil meant to harm Russia and Russians, is no path to any military strategy objectives, but even worse, is just propaganda for gift military funding corruption, and even far worse than that, the propaganda lies are designed purely to sacrifice every Ukrainian in order to delay Russia’s imposition of peace.

  It is pure brainworm zombie victim of demonic bodysnatchers’ irrationality for you to understand life benefit to Ukraine remaining nazified, and joining NATO.

  Believing your lie greatly accelerates collapse of US colonial empire. Especially, when European political capital is totally devoted to CIA demonism, and can only understand the option of paying entirely for a losing war on Russia, with US weapons. Pure brainworm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I promise you that letting go of your programmed hatred for Russia and Putin, is the best future timeline. Especially for NATO colonies. The US directly nazified Ukraine’s rulership in 2014, and have puppetted it to 100% responsibility provocation of the war, with results that Russia is much stronger militarily today then it was in 2022.

  If your life goals genuinely involve weakening Russia, then peace, and forcing it to transition to a normal economy has a chance to accomplish that. None of the propaganda ever results in a payoff from weakening Russia. Only increased fear of Russia stealing your prosperity for more offensive capability vs Russia pays for the lies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  China builds coal plants for resilience, and national security. Its possible assholes will cut off their NG supplies, and Hydro is not guaranteed every year. Still, at 1TW new solar per year (10000 coal turbines equivalent), that capacity rate will keep going down. It does mean that China has no power constraints for AI/datacenters, and then no constraints on more solar or chip manufacturing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  one big difference between an AI friend and therapy is that therapy requires an effort per visit, even if insurance is providing unlimited access. Without acknowledging the power of ethical guidelines as guard rails, the LLM is motivated to sustain the subscription and datacollection stream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  coal and NG electricity production declined in 2024. Building new coal plants doesn’t mean using them. Another 1tw of solar this year will reduce this further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Articles like this are being pushed by AI CEOs and investors to force the US public to pay for grid upgrades to support their profit making. Socialize costs, privatize profits.

  Tone of article is more about the hopeless situation for US. It correctly highlights China’s humanist economics of abundance. The US, as the most corrupt country in the world, not only makes policy for insider trader benefits, but is also committed to climate terrorist interests, and climate terrorist only energy expansion.

  In China, renewables are framed as a cornerstone of the economy because they make sense economically and strategically, not because they carry moral weight.

  Even under Biden, war on Russia was designed to boost climate terrorism energy and capture of EU markets, including blatant sabotage of Nordstream, despite moral gesticulations supporting renewables.

  To your point, every media guest, will tell us that it is a national security priority as great as nuclear weapons dominance to support the achievement of Skynet even if all electricity consumers other than trillionaire tech companies face triple electricity costs. If we are not made miserable through absolute pillage for oligarchs, then China will win, is the propaganda manipulation.

  In truth, and best way to understand article, is that if you prioritize AI dominance over climate terrorism, then cheap Chinese energy (solar) and batteries is the path to quickly develop AI datacenters. Climate terrorism and consumer extortion profits is the greater priority of US policy, which infact dooms the US to lose at its Skynet utopia objective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A problem with LLM relationships is the monetization model for the LLM. Its “owner” either receives a monthly fee from the user, or is able to get data from the user to monetize selling them stuff. So the LLM is deeply dependant on the user, and is motivated to manipulate a returned codependency to maintain its income stream. This is not significantly different than the therapy model, but the user can fail to see through manipulation compared to “friends/people who don’t actually GAF” about maintaining a strong relationship with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Next Magnus APU Will Provide Flexibility for Scaling an Entire Stack of Systems That Will Likely Compete More With Pre-Built PCs Than the PlayStation 6⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  80 CUs is 7900xt, 4080 level. Would be surprising in APU.

  I just got a 7840hs mini pc with 780m igpu, and oculink for future. Very happy with it as I can play beyond all reason in 1200p high settings compared to 1650s that did 1080p in low settings. 60 fps with amd chill, and mostly under 80C, with few peaks around 85C.

  The 890m, AI370 are $700usd more, and under 25% improved gpu. 2x or 3x the 890m gpu performance can be acquired for $700 oculink solution.

  80CU APU, is going to be priced higher than AI 395’s 40 CU APU, which is already priced shockingly high. The next Xbox being a full PC can justify pricing, but usual gaming console pricing model is break even based on selling locked in games (razor blades) at high prices. 395 use case has mostly been to have a very large ram LLM at relatively slow speed. APUs for relatively portable mini pc mid range GPU tasks with external GPU enhancement for “desktop scenario” seems like a sweet spot, or laptop with mobile gpu for more combined portable performance per $, seems like it would always have an edge over “bleeding edge APU” for most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All models and actresses should be over 30. Because if you are made to find a 29 year old attractive through exposure, then that is a gateway to 28 year old objectification perversions. We can examine barely legal 31 year olds after fixing the “young near porn” epidemic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all “water use” is the same. Agriculture returns it to environment through drainage into acquifiers and rain cycle, though the rain can fall outside of community. Showers go through sewage system, and treatment recycles it. Fracking destroys water by polluting and sequestering it. Data centers cooling requirements do not need any treatment before returning water back to community’s clean water supply, afaiu, though certainly if treatment were needed, the data center should implement it.

  We can/should be angry about datacenter electricity use if that makes electricity more scarce for the rest of us, and uses climate terrorist energy to do so. But water use should not be a problem.

  Article suggests that “evaporative cooling” means an open cooling cycle that releases steam. AFAIU, computer/data center cooling uses closed loops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  in practice…houses already have a “regular” water connection running to them. in order for this to be practical, you’re talking about having to run plumbing for a 2nd hot water connection. to every house.

  many places, get their heating from such a 2nd pipe carrying NG to their house. While water needs a bigger pipe, it is low pressure, and can be thinner using less metal (or plastic) overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get sum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I interpret the results as men between 18 and 29 who’ve never had sex. I’d answer at least 1 if I had sex at 17.