• NateNate60@lemmy.world
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          Is that even true? That might only be in relation to other animals, not to robots. Humans do a lot of useless things like fart and laugh. Robots don’t. Even from an energy perspective, if a human takes 2,000 kilocalories to go about their day, that’s 8,400,000 joules or 2.3 kWh. A laptop battery is around 75 Wh, so that’s around 30 laptop batteries for 16 hours of activity, many of which might just be sitting down at a desk to think.

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              This is a post about AI. While a computer will probably not in the near future be able to simulate a human brain fully, artificial intelligence models are getting scarily close to being able to pretend to do everything that a human can do. That’s what I was getting at. But of course, one should still not lose track of the overall point here that replacing the human experience with AI is completely missing the plot, even if it is “more efficient”.

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                  Megawatts to serve hundreds of thousands of users. The reason AI data centres are so wasteful with electricity is because a lot of the usage is not out towards anything useful but just wasted on things like generating Google Search summaries.

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    It was considered unethical when Harlow did it to monkeys, but I guess it must be fine when parents do it to their own children, regardless of the ensuing panic disorders… 🤷

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    Big Tech spent years designing platforms that steal our attention, then sold us AI tools to compensate for the time we lost. Now apparently even spending time with your kids is inefficient. The endgame is becoming obvious: humans do the work, AI gets the attention, and Silicon Valley collects the subscription fees. Apparently being a parent is just another productivity bottleneck.

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      It is my hope that one night I’ll take a rip of DMT, and when I come down, I’ll have leapt to a better timeline.

      Or in other words, hoping that the next leap would be the leap home.

      Al says that Ziggy says I’ve got a 0.23% chance each time. So 🤞

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      Fuck that, hop in and help out. Many of us are reversing this shit already and the more people doing that the better it gets. That goes for everyone else reading this that has not joined up yet too.

      Want a better multiverse and life? Then work together and do. We will win against all this shit. Together. Work together locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally

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        I empathise with that, I really do. Our govt (Oz) have introduced an office of AI and relatively strict restrictions on data centres.

        The cynic in me says SkyNet is already here and we’re just sitting ducks.

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      maybe we get lucky and some dumbass trumplican starts doing everything AI tells him to do… and then AI decides that Trump needs to die.

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    Funny story. My cousin’s parent were super christian religious. The sect where they “speak in tongues”. Anyway, they would play bible readings on tape to him at bedtime. One night, they started the tape and left the room. Some time later they heard him screaming from Hus room. Of course they came running in and found him in tears, utterly panicked. The stereo had eaten the tape or died (I don’t remember), and he thought that god had died.

    So yeah. Should be good.

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        My grandparents only hid in the basement while I was napping so when I woke up and saw piles of their clothing on the floor, static on the radio, water boiling on the stove, I’d think Jesus came back, took them To heaven and left my 7 year old ass here.

        As an adult, now I think they wished they could go to heaven and leave me here

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    “Don’t want to chew and digest your food? Buy a blender and a garbage can!”

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    But this is what they do to thier kids “baby sitter. Read my child a story! It’s being annoying!”

    This is how the ultra rich deal with their kids. They dont understand that this isnt how normal people deal with kds genraly.

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    I love when a news article just summarizes tweets. Couldn’t they at least reach out the dude to get some more background?

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      I agree, though sometimes in retrospect after they see how they’re post lands they will retroactively claim they didn’t actually mean it. So have to take rationalizations with a grain of salt.

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    His spouse reasonably complained that an audiobook wouldn’t be in his voice. But Sng wasn’t to be outdone in the zero-effort-parenting department.

    “I can train a voice model,” he countered, before addressing his readers: “Parenting hits different when you work in AI.”

    Sometimes I feel bad about myself, but at least I don’t say stuff like this.