wraekscadu
@wraekscadu@vargar.org
- Comment on Puppy-genics 1 day ago:
Hello, cat pfp that looks like a dick at first glance! How’ve you been?
- Comment on Unfortunately, there was nothing that could be done 1 day ago:
Who cares what people downvote lmao.
- Comment on Oh how the turn tables 1 day ago:
I never got the issue with tech being “stolen”. Free exchange of information almost always helps everyone. The only class it doesn’t help is the capitalist class, which wants rent extraction by gatekeeping human advancements.
There are a great many things to criticise the Chinese state for. Allegedly “stealing tech” or “stealing western IP” however, has to be one of the weakest criticisms (even if it’s actually happening).
- Comment on I could quit AI anytime I want to 5 days ago:
In my experience, LLMs have been very good at writing unit code. Definitely don’t miss Stackoverflow. Besides this (and framing silly stuff), they aren’t there yet. They will be at some point in the future with some interesting architectural progress, but I haven’t personally experienced this future yet.
- Comment on Celebratory Return to Online Meme 6 days ago:
Do you write?
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 1 week ago:
- Nono you see they’re people’s billionaires.
- They’re all patriots with the goal of achieving communism. It’s just that to transition to communism, we need billionaires first.
- The imperialists have billionaires. To defend against these imperialists, we need our own billionaires.
- China is 3000 years old. China survived without your help. We don’t need you to tell us where we can improve. Improve yourself.
- Each country has its own material conditions. This is why we need socialism with Chinese characteristics for China. These Chinese characteristics mean billionaires. Don’t you understand dumm librul?
Big fat /s.
- Comment on Weed 1 week ago:
Ew okay fuck him.
Looked it up. Played at the inaugural of his second term too? Ew ew ew.
His response to the criticism:
“No. I call it 30 for 30. I DJ’d at the Crypto Ball for what, 30 minutes? Made a whole bunch of money, made a lot of relationships to help out the inner city and the community and teach financial literacy and crypto in a space that it don’t exist.”
“That’s 30 minutes” he continued. “30 years, Snoop Dogg been doing great things for the community, building, showing up, standing up for the people, making it happen, being all I can be. But which one is it? 30 for 30. 30 minutes or 30 years?”
“But I’m not a politician,” he pointed out. “I don’t represent the Republican Party. I don’t represent the Democratic Party. I represent the motherfucking Gangster Party. Period. Point blank.”
Yeah okay. Unsatisfactory response. Fuck him.
- Comment on Weed 1 week ago:
Why? Wasn’t he found not guilty for that murder trial? Asking in good faith btw. Genuinely don’t know.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 week ago:
Haha you’re forgetting the second part of the reaction: oxygen. You would need to somehow transport oxygen in addition to fossil fuels in space to burn em. You would need to expend a lot more energy in their transportation than what you would get from them.
Hence, this idea has merit only to be used for propulsion (for now). Once we crack fusion (which I’m sure we will within this century), fossil fuels lose this application in space too.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 week ago:
Right now, it’s a terribly dumb idea. Here’s why:
- Getting shit to space is expensive
- Cooling those data centers would require radiative cooling. The radiators for that would have to be crazy huge.
- It’s economically unviable when you can build data centers on earth.
For me, this looks exactly like the “we’re going to Mars, so invest in our space company, yipeeeee” thing.
That being said, could we see space based computation in the future? Sure. Again, here’s why:
- It’s more to do with simple energy consumption (not just for computation, but just energy consumption in general).
- Energy consumed still stays on the planet as heat. Slowly, it radiates away to space. The speed of radiation however scales with the surface area of the planet. Meaning, there’s a strict upper limit of how much “energy consumption” we can do on earth before causing crazy global warming due to this waste heat. Note this is NOT green house gas caused warming. This is caused by more heat on the planetary surface than exiting. Waste heat
- Ok, so assuming that energy consumption increases 1% per year after the “exponential phase” begins, the planet Earth ITSELF would reach its limits from the standpoint of holding industry in less than a thousand years. The exponential phase for us seems to have started since the industrial revolution. Also, our current increase of energy consumption year over year is quite above 1%. Here’s the paper.
- Hence, for environmental reasons, there would come a time in human history where we have to put our industry (which includes data centers) in space. Anywhere but Earth.
Could we develop systems with crazy efficiency? Sure. Maybe. I don’t know. But even if we do, I can’t see a case where the Hedonic treadmill wouldn’t set in, still causing crazy energy consumption.
Hence, in conclusion, boo to current space companies grifting space based data centers. But yay to eventually putting all industry off planet.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 2 weeks ago:
Nuclear is cool. With proper regulation, it’s amazing!
BUT, it’s not what we must be focusing on right now. Renewable sources of energy are safer and much MUCH cheaper to implement than nuclear. Also, renewables don’t require decades to come online.
So, “why renewables? Just go nuclear brooo” is a bad bad argument, likely made in bad faith by OnG companies to delay implementation of renewables.
The goal should be “how do we go from the status quo to a non GHG emitting source of energy generation as fast as possible?”.
- Comment on How polite 3 weeks ago:
Then you have the American getting an STD from their fin Dom and blaming it on the Canadian
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
In an environment with repeated interactions, the winning strategy in game theory has always been a tit for tat strategy.
“When they go low, we go high” is just virtue based jerking off.
While this person hilariously failed at what they were trying to do, it still doesn’t make what they were trying to do any less nefarious. Them getting bullied and laughed off this community is funny and also necessary to ensure that such actors don’t rise without fear of consequence.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
What a loser.
Yes, developing FOSS can be a very thankless job. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having political disagreements with people.
BUT, not having explicitly disclosed client wide blocklists is such a shitty thing to do. The fediverse is supposed to be FREE from shadowbans and secretive political manipulations. And the DDoS script? Ew.
While this person definitely doesn’t deserve death threats, they definitely deserve all the bullying directed at them.
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 3 weeks ago:
Ignorance: Lack of information. Stupidity: Inadequate usage of logical reasoning to seek and process information.
That’s how I understand it
- Comment on A Space Odyssey 2026 4 weeks ago:
Haha naah, the code that sees if you have enough tokens or not isn’t an LLM.
It (from what I understand) just sits between you and the LLM.
No tricking it haha
- Comment on A Space Odyssey 2026 4 weeks ago:
LLMs predict the next best “token”. So what’s a token? It can be a word, a simple punctuation mark, or sometimes even a phrase.
So basically, here’s what an LLM works like:
- An
- An apple
- An apple is
- An apple is red
Basically, it feeds in tokens to itself to predict the next best token. Then, that entire chunk of tokens is fed back in to predict the next token.
As you can see, tokens kinda correlate well with energy consumption, hardware wear and tear and so on.
So, a low token request will consume less resources than a high token request. Hence, it makes sense to charge per token.
- Comment on Elon is so smat 4 weeks ago:
Looks like he got this life hack from Epstein when he asked him for an invite to the island
- Comment on Interesting 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, it was more of a reply to the discussion going on in the comments rather than your post specifically.
But in short, demonstrating the failure of “communism” by giving examples of objectively NON communist places isn’t logical if we’re having a good faith conversation. Yes, certain socialist economic, political and social policies MUST be criticised straight into the ground.
HOWEVER, criticizing “communism” while pointing at North Korea, China, the USSR and so on is like criticizing democracy and republicanism by pointing at Athenian slaves and the totalitarianism of the first French Republic.
- Comment on Interesting 4 weeks ago:
Communism is a stateless, classless society. By definition, this means that there cannot be a “communist country”, or a “communist state”.
Oh wow, not the first time I’ve heard this! Such a blatant example of the no true Scotsman fallacy!
It actually isn’t though. No true Scotsman is about pointing differences in UNRELATED characteristics to falsely reject provided examples. But “communist countries” are a violation of the clearly stated definition itself. Rejecting these examples is not fallacious.
Yes, countries in the eastern block can most definitely be classified as “socialist”. Socialist policies generally center around “workers owning means of production”. Meaning, most capital is owned by the working class.
NOW. What does one even mean by “owned by the working class”? Worker coops? Consumer coops? A singular state, owning capital? Different leftists have different positions on this.
But none of this really has much dirt on the idea of communism. Did the first French Republic after the revolution somehow show that republicanism, or democratic ideals were bad and that we should return to a monarchy? Not really. It was a revolution gone wrong.
- Comment on The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real. 4 weeks ago:
This looks so fun haha
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I really despise people treating children like livestock- as if they’re an extension of their parents, or as if they’re under the ownership of their parents.
Sure, children aren’t independent YET. That doesn’t make them incapable of thinking, feeling and wanting. Being an inexperienced human mustn’t deprive one of being treated like a free human.
This is why we CREATED SCHOOLS. So that once they hit 18, they’re as prepared as possible for adulthood. Doing stupid shit like banning them from social media isn’t going to teach them how to actually, responsibly use social media as an adult. Imagine never having used social media before in your life. Then, you turn 18, and suddenly get access to it. Wouldn’t propaganda and the negative effects on mental health caused by social media be EVEN MORE INTENSE?
Slightly controversial take I guess, but here it is: we must progressively aim to lower the voting age to enfranchise this disenfranchised group of humans who are equally, if not more affected by decisions made by society. AT THE SAME TIME, we must invest heavily into improving the quality of education, so that the new, younger voters are capable of bearing the burden of the new responsibilities that are paired with the power of voting.
Without representation, we get stupid shit like this.
- Comment on Stupid Monday 5 weeks ago:
I respond with, “Yeah Happy happy”
- Comment on “Teaching crabs how to read” 1 month ago:
Just use private tabs?
Browser history can be so useful (for looking up visited pages), and I dunno, archiving stuff just has an appeal of its own!
- Comment on If Sodom and Gomorrah were real. How bad were they that god had to come down and smite them? Are they any comparison to today's society? 1 month ago:
If God is real then God must die.
If God is real then God doesn’t love the creatures on this planet. This sentient creature created a reality filled with suffering of the highest order.
A counter argument to this is this:
We cannot understand God’s plan as we aren’t capable of understanding it because we aren’t God.
This argument is quite stupid in my opinion. Zeus raped people. Is Zeus bad? I think we can agree that Zeus is bad. If a super advanced alien created a human zoo, put humans in it without their consent and also put in wasps whose stings make the humans want to kill themselves. Would we say that the alien is benevolent? Would we say “oooh, Mr. Alien is too advanced for us to perceive their plan, but Mr. Alien definitely loves us”? No, we would try to escape and kill that alien so that it can never harm us ever again. Why does God get special treatment then?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m not sure if ur profile picture is real, but in case it is: You, sir have a magnificent beard!
- Comment on Don't worry, not like they are fake leftist planted to suppress actual revolution or anything 1 month ago:
I mean it’s so clear how these folks haven’t actually gone out and talked to real people. People have very different beliefs, most which aren’t logically consistent. People don’t give a shit about “reading theory”.
If you want to do something (which could be as simple as working in a group project), you need to build coalitions. Focusing on issues that you agree upon and building up from there.
This purity bullshit is just so tiring lmao
- Comment on Don't worry, not like they are fake leftist planted to suppress actual revolution or anything 1 month ago:
You know… The obsession of American MLs with “enlightening the people” by posting propaganda in places meant to be fun is really really annoying.
I don’t give a shit about your American politics. I’m in this community to look at pictures of beans and jeans. There are communities dedicated specifically to American politics, where people will engage with you properly.
- Comment on Single player games 1 month ago:
IT REALLY IS!!!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
No.
Also, I’d recommend caring about being cringe. True freedom is achieved when you stop caring.