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Why doesn't @notclacke@fedia.social receive this?

@baldur thinking about asbestos, lead, arsenic, PFAS, ...

it's hard not to conclude that a lot of the most harmful things are exactly those with a lot of apparent applicability / utility in a bunch of domains while the harms are hidden, deferred, papered over, obscured by industry collusion, etc.

generative AI feels like it fits this profile one way or another. its outputs *may* not be good, but either way the relevant people are convinced of the utility and hellbent on obscuring the harms.

@tek@freeradical.zone Glad it worked out for you at least!

@clacke@libranet.de

So, re: LLMs and the "jury is out on energy usage", I just want to point out a couple of historical things.

When studies came out linking smoking to increased risk of cancer, the Tobacco industry paid for and produced studies that said "nuh uh".

When Obesity and heart disease rates increased in the United States and the problem was linked to sugar intake, the sugar industry produced studies saying it was fats.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3490543/#sec4

@rl_dane@polymaths.social Watching The Good Place is a good place to be. ❤️

If you binged seven episodes, you seem to concur. 😇

Mr Sunday Movies: "Avengers Endgame Final Battle Part 1 - 16 Bit Scenes"

https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=cdqzfHixg8c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdqzfHixg8c

@ken_fallon@mastodon.sdf.org Trying to scan it would have been a bit too intrusive, sadly. =)

@clacke@libranet.de

When I heard Yello's "I Love You" (... "I Know") half a life ago don't think I realized it was an obvious Star Wars reference.

A black denim jacket with a big embroidered QR code on the back

#TShirtSpotting

@mlinksva@mastodon.social True, Apache mod_* is about the same thing and pretty old.

Framework level would be cool and doesn't sound far-fetched at all. Someone will do it.

@clacke@libranet.de @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place

@undergrowthfeed@achrilock.social I'm not saying thinking machines are impossible. I'm a biological machine. I'm just saying humans aren't yet capable of designing and building them and we haven't even started.

It does not have even the seed of cognition. It's text-based autocomplete with no root in semantics and concepts. There is no room for evolution or emergent properties.

All the talk about "existential risk" is hype designed to simultaneously do two things:
1) inflate the recent achievements of scale and their importance
2) crowd out discussion about harm already being done by pre-existing systems for automating human decision-making

@clacke@libranet.de @b9AcE@todon.eu

@steffen I'm seeing so much cool stuff happening with CalcKey. Have you thought about whether you might like to switch over?

@clacke@libranet.de

@gnusuario@qoto.org @SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo As an analogy, the Boston Tea Party is considered a key event in US history, even though the US didn't exist at the time.

@steffen Thanks, that explains it. ?

wow, misskey.de is receiving a lot of software updates lately

@silverwizard@convenient.email @firefly_lightning@convenient.email Drivers don't work well on computers newer than a year, so I guess Linux doesn't know computers exist. ?

@evan@prodromou.pub Only if it is consensual. But is it really cheating then?

Thunderstruck and Run to the Hills are my favorites I think.

@silverwizard@convenient.email For melancholy sounds and crisp lyrics I can recommend Hellsongs. They sing AC/DC, Iron Maiden and other metal covers in a melancholic and light melodic way, and for me it's usually been the first time I actually heard the lyrics. ?

They call it "Lounge Metal". Richard Cheese, Paul Anka and Dick Brave have done that genre too, but Hellsongs do it in that kind of Cardigans, Pomplamoose singer-singwriter way instead of a more Big Band Jazz direction.