BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How com the ad industry make so much money? 6 days ago:
Despite the hatred, advertising works most of the time.
If nobody knows about your product or service, you can’t make any money. Word of mouth doesn’t cut it beyond a local store.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 6 days ago:
That makes sense, you’re clearly not smart enough to know a second language so you can test it out.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 6 days ago:
Other than not blocking your entire phone line while you were on it, paying for hours per month of connectivity, having content take minutes to load, lacking in useful content, a thousand and one different logins with no safety systems attached, constant viruses, and no safe way to pay for things?
Nah, it was great.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 6 days ago:
Maybe you wouldn’t, but I would. You clearly don’t remember how bad the internet was when it first became available to the public.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 6 days ago:
Your emotions don’t override reality.
LLMs are excellent at translation as one significant beneficial use case.
- Comment on Would an LLM AI model trained wholly on consenting open source projects with a license requiring all derivative works be open source licensed still be problematic? 1 week ago:
Agreed, the concept of copyright itself is problematic. The flip on this one boggles me. People are constantly arguing that copyright is bad every time Disney or some company use it to make money. Now they’re arguing that copyright is good and LLMs should respect it.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 1 week ago:
The underlying technology isn’t unprofitable, inference alone isn’t unprofitable. It’s the research and development of better models that’s unprofitable and unsustainable.
That’s pretty much how almost every new development happens. EVs were the same, primarily funded by subsidies and now they’re cost competitive or better in many situations even without them. Cellphone networks… also heavily funded by investors and some took hits from how it all played out. The dotcom bubble. Even as far back as the Railroad boom in the UK.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
A billion people in the world are vegetarians, and yet 15% of the world’s energy is going to Meat production. They didn’t ask for meat production but there it is.
You also misunderstand what “push to exist” really boils down to. AI is being used by companies because it saves them money, people are buying the products from these companies. They could choose more expensive options that do not use AI, but they are not actually doing that.
By that same logic, people aren’t responsible for the transportation and energy use for any industry, but without customers those industries would not exist and therefore their energy use wouldn’t happen.
That’s why it’s individual responsibility that is causing this disaster, and people putting their head in the sand and blaming billionaires does not help that.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
It’s in my comment history. Feel free to pretend I didn’t do it, but it doesn’t change reality.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
Based on the last time I did the math a few months ago, and the projections of AI datacenter builds, they’re expected to reach maybe 0.5% of total global energy use by 2030. HALF OF A PERCENT.
I don’t know how even spreading that out matters at all. It’s simply not a concern we should be focusing on until we solve things like meat production (15% of global energy use), transportation (something like 20% of global use), and more efficiency on systems like home and building heating (another 20-25%).
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
Go do the math on Datacenter energy use. How much of Global Energy use do they account for (include all datacenters even).
I’ve done that math. It’s fucking nothing at the scale of total human use. They are not the issue.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
Everyone can change if pushed hard enough. Would you just die if a natural disaster wiped out your entire city/state and you were forced to relocate elsewhere? No, you would not. So it’s clearly possible.
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 1 week ago:
Are you kidding me? This was a University Prof, doing a proper study, published in the Cambridge University Press, and involving 1700 participants.
Did you not even bother to look up the source before jumping down my throat?
This is even further evidence of why we’re fucking doomed. Your feelings about this headline override any reasonability you have to the point where you won’t even look at the source.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
What math? Nobody else has posted math on my comments except me.
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 1 week ago:
People down voting a study. Hilarious.
Feels over reals. We’re fucking doomed.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
The world will burn until people realize that simply blaming others does not fix the issue.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
That article is trash. It implies that the carbon emitted by the companies they own is caused by the billionaires.
Amazon’s carbon use is from the people buying shit, not from bezos himself.
You think bezos is somehow responsible for the plane emissions to fly that piece of shit plastic toy from China to your house?
Give your head a shake.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
Go ahead, but it won’t matter. As I said, they don’t make up the bulk of the pollution.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
It’s not. A billionaire could have 50,000x the use of the average and it still would be tiny. There are only about 4000 billionaires in the world.
4000 x 50000 = 200 million people worth
They would have to each be using 2 million times the average to even be half of the world usage.
Objectively they are not doing that.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
Either change the local policies around transportation through local government, or move somewhere more sustainable.
You choose where you live, and your participation your local politics and economy.
People say they don’t have a choice, but people move away for a better life all the time.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
I think you miscalculate their footprint.
And even if someone forces your local electrical production to use fossil fuels there are still ways you can massively reduce your footprint both by saving money (not using it) and by replacing it with your own options by spending more (energy collectives, your own solar panels, etc.)
Even so, Electricity is not the largest share of energy use in the world, it’s only around 30%. Most of it is direct use in industry, heavily in agriculture and transportation.
As I said before, eating less meat will save a massive amount of energy use.
Buying less shit also helps.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
I have said this before, and I’ll say it again, it’s not the billionaires that are the problem. It’s regular people making choices. Choosing the cheap or easy option instead of the environmentally friendly option.
The billionaires are bad, don’t get me wrong, eat them for all I care, but their total environmental footprint is small in the context of the consumption of the larger population of this planet.
We all need to take responsibility for our individual choices if we want to have any impact in the world.
That doesn’t mean a riot, it means eating less meat, taking more efficient transportation options, and getting rid of suburbs.
Improving those three things would change the world.
- Comment on With everything becoming convience orientated , how hard would it be to be a hacker nowadays versus back in the day? Like what to read, how to help people, and other semi free things? 3 weeks ago:
Side note, orientated is an unnecessary conjugation of oriented.
Please just use oriented.
- Comment on How come people have so called "sex addiction"? So much they have rehab places for it. Why not just masturbate and be done with it? 3 weeks ago:
If masturbation completely replaced sex, human history wouldn’t exist because we wouldn’t have reproduced like we did.
Masturbation is like eating a granola bar to replace a meal. Works fine to get by, but damn does it suck if that’s the only option to keep going.
- Comment on ‘We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction’ 4 weeks ago:
Not an engineer but vinegar (ascetic acid) at full strength applied early enough during curing could be a problem. If it’s the watered down stuff for home use and the concrete was already partially cured it wouldn’t do almost anything.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 5 weeks ago:
Why does even-ness matter? Just because our number system is decimal doesn’t mean nature fits into that pattern nicely.
at 0.08 you can be measurably tested to have worse reaction capability, so that’s where they set the limit.
4 beers at 12 oz isn’t exactly 0.08, that’s just approximately what it takes in the average person. Some people will be more, some less. Time and other factors affect it too.
- Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs? 5 weeks ago:
If those are the reasons you don’t want it, start with that up front. Don’t make bullshit claims about noise pollution or energy use.
- Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs? 5 weeks ago:
This is the funny part. People complaining about pollution and energy use, when the REAL reason is that they’re afraid of the future of the technology.
If that’s you’re argument against it, just start with that, don’t make fake claims about noise pollution or energy use.
- Comment on Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much. 5 weeks ago:
Gnocchi ARE potato pasta (at least the traditional version is). The four ingredients are potato, wheat flour, eggs, and salt.
- Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs? 5 weeks ago:
It’s not “all around” and literally less than 100 houses are impacted. It’s situated in an industrial zoning area obviously with the grouping there, so maybe the anger should go towards the zoning rules and not the datacenter itself.