Random Rants

[goosehd]

@Graeme are you able to pass it or is it a trip to the doctor?

[GraemeE]

@goosehd i just got back from there

Too big to pass - need to have them broken up

And because I know Matt will ask:
Yes I got drugs and yes I will be getting as turnt as one can while lying in bed

[goosehd]

@GraemeE Wishing you the best…

[SKT]

@GraemeE good luck man, that’s no fun

[popvulture]

Dude that blows. Everyday's a new adventure in the crumbling temple.

[GraemeE]

@popvulture my temple is a dickhead

[StarsSuck]

@goosehd my feeling is that we won't have the energy supply to make this happen, even on the timespan he envisions. We're not even close to being able to actualize these developments... That said, I worry about the overall harm that this massive push for data and processing centers will do to the environment, but we're probably all fucked anyway so maybe it doesn't matter.

[StarsSuck]

@Ross @sabergirl I work as a professor in a university and this is like wildfire... A great example of "progress" just because we could, without any regard for if we should. Don't get me wrong here: I'm an early adopter of LLMs and they have made portions of my life unbelievably easier. But I can see how it becomes a crutch, displacing thought and creativity and spirit and replacing it with sterile, contrived, and entirely unoriginal language. We can't unring the bell so it's here to stay. We're along for the ride, however it ends.

[popvulture]

Totally. The toothpaste is out of the tube, and it's sentient.

[ROman]

@Matt said in Random Rants:

I can see why that would be disappointing to watch but I get it. It’s the Olympics and I’m sure they’re dealing with a lot emotionally. It’s not just a game for them, it’s all they think about every day. Personally, I’d be pretty pissed off if I lost because of my own mistake rather than not being the best. That’s way more painful.

I agree, and I probably over reacted. I was having a tough day.

[ROman]

@GraemeE Sorry to hear this. Worst pain I've ever had so far.

[Matt]

@GraemeE said in Random Rants:

Fuck
Being
Middle
Aged

Kidney stones ftw.....

I’ve been getting them since I was about 19. I was blessed with two parents that both get them. I get them every few years and it’s the fucking worst. Best of luck.

[mclaincausey]

@sabergirl Reed Hastings posted on his LinkedIn some shit about 8 billion people using AI. I did the math on it and calculated that this would double the total annual carbon output of the era before Gen AI. I know he didn’t read my response, but I was asking how he thought that was survivable.

These billionaire tech bros unfortunately just aren’t a particularly bright bunch. The things you hear coming out of their “best and brightest “ like him, Musk, Andreessen, Thiel, etc are intellectually shallow and with major logical fallacies and blind spots, and most of them are megalomaniacs.

Transformers are incredible technology and there are legitimate applications for it. My job is for one such application in healthcare. But it is a bubble and it is not sustainable. And ultimately could manifest in danger beyond ecological concerns and water and electric bills.