jonstout.bsky.social
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youtu.be/YmQmx8OED3w?...
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And will you be saying the same if and when the same Supreme Court overturns Obergefell v. Hodges?
Some things are worth doing because they're right. Even when they fail.
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I'm cool with you taking his money... just so long as you give him absolutely nothing in return for it. 😆
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Got it, thanks. Go ahead and disregard the email I sent to your staff address. I'll just contact her directly then.
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Hey. Is it possible to get in touch with Sasaki Chiwawa via your publication?
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I remember him having serious chops. May his memory be a blessing. 😞
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I feel like Eglamore grows more and more haunted and unhinged every time we see him.
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Aww, she wanted a space nearby you. A baby-free space, no doubt.
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Yes, he is! Certified smol boy!
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Oh, good, there you are! Was getting worried.
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"Eh, I guess the kid's a *little* dirty."
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Oof, tiny daggers. I remember them well.
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Name a more iconic pair. I'll wait.
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That place being her pillow? XD
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How do you know how many physical machines in a datacenter are devoted specifically to AI? Wouldn't those numbers need to come from the datacenters themselves?
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He's trying, bless him.
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Sure, but it was getting worse long before they added the AI Overview sections, wasn't it.
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Again, if you think gaming brings joy, we must be reading very different Steam review pages. And last I checked, the disinformation's usually the work of spammers, not the software itself.
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1. "Joy" strikes me as an oversimplification, given that we're talking about a category that includes League Of Legends.
2. So are you up to fielding questions about the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna/Ishtar at 4 am?
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A case could be made for them. I just find it disingenuous to say that one particular toy is Destroying The Earth when we blow the same amount of power on Counterstrike without a second thought.
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Which is probably wrong, because it's all based on assumptions and rough estimates at best. If MIT says there's not enough data to draw conclusions right now, are you really going to argue?
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I looked into it a while ago. I want to say we were spending a full terawatt on video gaming annually at that point? I forget what the carbon cost of that was.
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... are you telling me not to do scholarship because **I'M** bad at it, or because **you** are?
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I skimmed the whole thing as best I could. You seem to be ignoring the basic point. What you're claiming is a single Google search away is instead a highly complex multifaceted problem we're still struggling to wrap our heads around. Any answer right now is at best guesswork and at worse a lie.
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The key word there is "potentially." But otherwise, yeah, exactly! They can't even BEGIN to do that cost-benefit analysis without access to the data they outline. Whereas you seem to be treating it as a solved question.
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Also, what I can see for free is this: mit-genai.pubpub.org/pub/8ulgrckc - a paper from last year, which mainly talks about what we'd even need to know to accurately answer the questions you swear you already know the answers to. Don't you think that's kind of a bad sign?
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So you'd just have me go with whatever Google finds and call it a day? Is that really any better? Also, are you really sure that you're not doing the exact same thing by selecting the numbers that best reflects your preexisting views?
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Alright, thank you. I appreciate that.
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Okay. You wouldn't happen to have a subscription to Nature, academic or otherwise, would you? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Depends. Are we defining gaming as the "useless" or the "useful" thing?
I've also seen radically different numbers on AI's resource consumption, a lot of which depends on the assumptions used. Whose are you using?
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Okay. So... I guess I'll just look through your replies?
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I get it. I do. But I just don't see any way this genie goes back into its bottle, Meg.
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Is anyone else about them pulling - like - a cord out of the wall somewhere, and next thing you know, the Alien Godling or Infernal Star Kaiju the government's been keeping under wraps for years (and maybe even forgot about) wakes up and goes on a rampage? Just me?
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Can you give any sources for that estimate? And again, how much water are we spending on it compared to - say - gaming?
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Does it consume more than we already spend on - say - gaming? Or email?
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I'm not really convinced by the whole "ruining the planet" argument. Is AI really using anywhere close to the power we spent on - say - gaming, for example?
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On the one hand, I hear the creatives* who have legit concerns about their livelihoods when businesses are often all too willing to accept "good enough" (or even just wrong!) for free rather than pay to get things right.
But I also don't see any way that this genie goes back into its bottle.
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That goes pretty hard.
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What's wild about it? All their supporters knew exactly what the game plan was the whole time. I'm sure they're loving every minute of this.
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Oh ffs.