LwL

Because there's like 10000 things wrong with AI and we don't need to blow a comparatively minor (but still fucking dumb given how little we really get out of it, plus the fact that many AI datacenters do use municipal water supply which is kinda horrid) out of proportion. Particularly because this minimizes how much water we already use in general, which is a massive problem.

It's also just a sensationalist, intentionally misleading headline, and that's not something I want to leave unadressed ever. Shitty journalism is a huge part of how the world got into this state in the first place.

If you think sticking to facts is "minimizing harm" then idk what to tell you. The claimed 1 billion people have the same water use as around 100 million us-americans, going from the cited water use figure for AI in 2030. Home water use only, which again is usually <10% of total water used for everything consumed.

None of that means it's not one of the dumbest possible things to use this much energy (which is most of the water use) on.

Statement: "There is no indication that the human brain cannot be modeled as a turing machine"

To disprove this, evidence to the contrary is required. It's not at all the same as saying "The human brain can be modeled as a turing machine". In that case they would need to prove that.

We simply do not know. Humans cling to their idea of somehow being "special" very hard with thought experiments like chinese room, and at all points neglect that there is no evidence that a human brain is actually different.

Generally I'd argue that the continuous nature of animal brains makes them quite fundamentally different from the very much discrete states of anything we program, but that still doesn't mean it'd be impossible to simulate.

Is that including the water going into everything a person consumes (it kind of can't be since AI would.be part of that)? Afaik including the water used for making all the stuff a person consumes increases that figure by an order of magnitude and a bit. So more like 70 million people.

Which isn't nothing, but most of datacenter water use is also just for cooling, so it doesn't need to be drinkable water in the first place (though it currently often is). The waste heat can really fuck with local ecosystems though.

Even with an announcement ahead of time it's so much better imo. Doesn't penalize people for having to work or just living in a timezone where it's the middle of the night.

Sure it feels like you have less agency over when you get it but it's so much fairer.

Artificial semination is key to commercial animal agriculture, and that too would be unambiguously rape in human standards. Not to mention the horrific living conditions of most animals farmed for meat.

It's really just because one has always been normal, and the other hasn't, aka it's cultural. It's not rational. Though there's also arguably far more benefit in killing for meat vs. having sex with dubious consent, so that can be a consideration that isn't purely cultural.

Pharmacies definitely sometimes need to order meds. Though often they just give you a date. It's impossible to always have every niche medication in stock. But if number whitelisting became common, it just wouldn't be an issue bc they would give all the relevant numbers to every customer.

Norovirus is resistant to alcohol. That's part of what makes it so infectious. Not sure about bleach though.

That said iirc it doesn't survive on surfaces super long so just wait a month or sth

Iirc they removed the "women have to message first" requirement some time last month.

I'll eat anything in range unless i consciously stop myself or really don't like it. Same with drinks, which makes the presence of alcohol a bit scary sometimes.

That's... not the same as being aro at all. It doesn't mean you feel nothing towards anyone. Just that you're not interested in romantic relationships at all.

Using it sometimes sure. It's sometimes better than google at giving me answers, and it's great at troubleshooting dumb mistakes (or processing large amounts of code for things like security issues, but I don't do that).

I also have little doubt that ML as a whole will reshape the world much like the WWW did - we do have an awful lot of compute now that could be used for more useful ML applications. But as it's going, I doubt LLM's will go much further. More and more people are seeing past the insane promises and realize they're tools for some specific jobs, particularly once the pricing adjusts the use cases will likely be quite narrow.

Tenet?

I also didn't think it was that confusing. It was at first, while it was meant to be, but it explained enough that I could understand roughly what went on by the end. Maybe people don't like not understanding everything perfectly. Though I also don't remember people hating it, so maybe different movie.