apotheotic
@apotheotic@beehaw.org
- Comment on Kingdom Rising — Build, Raid, Rule 2 weeks ago:
47 minute old account, 40 minute old advert
- Comment on Adfree Cities Calls For A Ban On Factory Farming Advertisements 2 weeks ago:
Hope this gets any traction at all. Would be real good
- Comment on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs 2 weeks ago:
Goodness this is exhausting. I was not talking about literally being allowed to do something, that’s why it is in quotation marks. I was responding to you making assertions about my online “debate footprint” and how you attempted to use my relatively lower rate of discussing the impact of the meat industry online as a way to debunk my assertion. My (rhetorical) question was, how would my online behaviour have had to change for you to be satisfied upon trawling my posting history that I am not against AI for “trending” reasons?
Many claims may or may not have been debunked about AI water usage. The fact is that its value provided to society is absolutely dwarfed by its footprint. Same can be said of the meat industry, fast fashion, etc. I maintain that stance even at your proposed value of 1% of the total water usage of the US. 1% is a lot when you are talking about the entire country’s consumption vs a single industry.
Your edit is wild. I’m “following trends” because I am selective about where I spend my time and energy based on where I am making the most impact? Would my stance somehow be more valid if I were arguing with brick walls online about other matters and not contributing at all to the causes I care about with that time and energy expenditure? Even if that wasn’t a wild take, its just a genetic fallacy and doesn’t serve to actually move the discussion forward.
Anyway, speaking of spending my time and energy in places I feel I’m actually accomplishing something, we’ve been talking past one another for a while now, so I’m gonna stop replying now. Have a good life.
- Comment on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs 2 weeks ago:
I don’t have evidence on hand, but I have read compelling scholarly articles previously on the matter. Feel free to disregard this discussion point if that’s a dealbreaker.
I would argue that you care a great deal more about one that the other
Your argument would be incorrect, as I have been vegetarian for over 2 decades and vegan for the last 5 years. I’ve just found that trying to sway people online about the meat industry is a fool’s errand, whereas I have had decent success in having constructive conversations about the harms of AI. My meat industry related efforts are focused primarily on face to face interactions.
My stance on AI isn’t based on what’s “trending”, except for the fact that it, as a pretty existential threat in its current trajectory of resource usage, job displacement, and market “growth”, is rapidly starting to infest every aspect of my life. So yes, the trend that AI is following is causing my stance on it to be pertinent to a growing number of conversations.
I’m curious though, what would I have to be doing for you to believe that I’m… I dont know, “allowed”? to talk about AI’s water usage impact?
- Comment on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs 2 weeks ago:
I’m confused, it seems we agree with eachother - did you mean to reply to the person I replied to, or were you just adding on to my point? :D
- Comment on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs 2 weeks ago:
I contain multitudes. I can protest the mass growth of datacentres for other industries as well as for AI.
I hadn’t mentioned water usage, but since you bring it up, AI datacentres are being plopped down willy nilly and sucking up all the water from their local area, causing drought. Thats one stark difference between it and agriculture, which isn’t having the same kind of local effect.
However, the US (and other) agriculture+ industry (again, I contain multitudes) doesn’t get a pass. Estimates vary, but it looks like about 30-50% of US agriculture water usage goes to feed which is destined for livestock for the meat industry. I’d say that a person can be both against AI and an outspoken vegan against the meat industry, wouldn’t you?
- Comment on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely
- Comment on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs 2 weeks ago:
No, its worse.
When you steal human created art off the internet you aren’t actively harming the environment. You arguably dont even harm the artist because you would never pay them anyway.
When you use an ai image generator, you are actively harming the environment, and actively harming artists by supporting tools that are trained on their art without consent.
Just use the human art, or something like picrew where people make things specifically for folks to use to make their characters for stuff like vtt
- Comment on If you feel like you’re drowning in tasks, this one platform is the only reason I’m getting 4 hours of my day back. 3 weeks ago:
Created their account 7 hours ago and their only posts are these. For sure an ad.
- Comment on I do this every time 3 weeks ago:
Sure but you press the button to open it on like the same frame the beep starts it skips the beep cutscene and saves you 3 seconds (and sensory hell - as a fellow autism haver)
- Comment on Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests 5 weeks ago:
Anthropic is a different company to openai - its closer to the beginning of your example, and then someone else recalling the time they shot some bullets and they went back and checked for bodies and found 3
- Comment on Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens 5 weeks ago:
Yeah this article is insane
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 1 month ago:
Oh for sure!
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 1 month ago:
Well with all the money they pumped into ai they could have instead worked on making their search engine better at returning relevant and accurate results. Then when people clocked the fact that ai was giving them 50% bullshit, they would realise the juice is worth the squeeze with actually getting accurate info
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 1 month ago:
We’re talking about a business led by the richest person in the world who has already made it entirely clear he can buy his way to anything he desires. 30% is a tidy sum, I’d lock it in and call it a day.
- Comment on English schools to segregate Trans+ kids from toilets – including those who've already transitioned – from September 1 month ago:
While I do hold the opinion that gender neutral, individually lockable toilet rooms with a mirror and a washbasin etc are the ideal future proof approach for bathrooms pretty much everywhere, I must acknowledge that it is a pretty big undertaking to retrofit existing bathroom facilities into that design.
Though why everyone seems so eager to just throw trans folks to the dogs instead is beyond me.
- Comment on Urine Luck 1 month ago:
Thank you I’m glad I’m not alone
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Fundamentally unserious animal
- Comment on Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol 1 month ago:
It was just titled “star wars” back then though
- Comment on O hi 1 month ago:
Nobody would this mean about her appearance if she wasn’t being lit in the most unflattering possible way
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 1 month ago:
It takes a long time to construct those things though right - you can take a bucket to the beach today.
Even if its the tiniest fraction of what they have, if it can fund campaigns and programmes that work toward a more just society, its helpful, right? Obviously it’s more important that we build those things, but while we’re building them if we can get a bucketful its better than nothing
- Comment on Sony 2 months ago:
Jvc made vhs but go off
- Comment on Sony 2 months ago:
Blu-Ray is pertinent here because it is a Sony product
But they could have mentioned other formats too - would it have made the argument any better? Absolutely not, but sure, go ahead and yell at clouds
- Comment on 2 months ago:
That is Testosterone Georg, who is an outlier and should not be counted
- Comment on Royal Family to get a 94% surge in taxpayer-funded income whilst 'it's subjects' must expect less 2 months ago:
Parasites
- Comment on Bill that would mandate AI chip location tracking gains industry support 2 months ago:
Why are people still using the r-slur in 2026 sigh
- Comment on Survey says... 2 months ago:
:)
- Comment on 🦀 🦀 🦀 2 months ago:
That is the strangest looking horse
- Comment on Growth 2 months ago:
Demisexual polyamorous transgender lesbian here - what queerness am I denying myself ;-;
- Comment on Stop Killing the Internet: Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions — and building a better internet. 2 months ago:
The closest thing I’ve found is this tweet I found on x which was made by an account with the handle “@StopKilingGames” with one L. It does however seem to actually be the official account, with activity going back over a year and lots of visibility.