we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better
I reblogged this like 9 times kinda jokingly, but software should be able to run on older and less powerful hardware, and consume less power on newer hardware. Like, this is a real problem imo
I completely agree with this but I do need you to understand that the image above is 32 times the size of the lunar mission’s memory
This is what the image looked like compressed to 4 kb
the vibes dissonance of ppl online can be crazy. did you know the artist behind those cutesy crow comics that do big numbers on here ran hiveworks into the ground so hard that 100 artists who worked w them came together to put out a statement abt how they and their work had been absolutely fucked by the incompetency and malice of it all
kind of floored by the amount of people in the notes who only found out that isa the crow time artist and isa one of the two architects of the hiveworks trainwreck are in fact the same person bc of this post
I just want to add for the sake of connecting more dots in people’s heads:
Isa’s online handle is Secondlina
and, before making the cutesy crow time comics—which to be more specific with some visuals since there are actually a few crow webcomics out there, are these ones:
—she started with and still makes a comic called Namesake, which looks like this:
which may be a slightly more familiar name for the people familiar with hiveworks, being that it has always had a rather prominent placement on the hiveworks website.
“Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to. Private schools and private limos and private doctors and private security are all pressure release valves that eliminate the friction that would cause powerful people to call for all of these bad things to get better. The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems. Their public spirit will be infinitely less urgent when they are contemplating these things from afar than when they are sitting in a hot ER waiting room for six hours themselves.”
My “he would not fucking say that” is when people have Senshi hate on fast food or pizza, because Senshi is fully a “fed is better, just do your best” type of person and hed love fast food.
Man spends a day making candy and ice cream for everyone and then at the end is like “dang, really should have planned more well rounded meals, ah well lets fix that”. He would not complain about someone knocking back half a pizza or having a big ass soda and greasy burger, hed explain how its cool to eat like that long as you try and make sure to keep yourself rounded and not neglect the food groups
“The young must be fed” Senshi is watching an event coordinator give a bunch of kids a juice box and some sliced fruit after running around outside for three hours and demand to know where they’re supposed to get their fat, proteins, etc to keep having fun
hello i’m trying to move to apps that aren’t taken over by evil elon and ruining algorithms cuz i really despise not getting traction on my posts i feel left out GUYS COME BACK
MAN I TRIED TO REBLOG IT WITH TEXT AND I ACCIDENTALLY REBLOGGED IT NORMALLY TWICE I SONT KNOW HOW TO NAVIGATE ANYTHING it’s alright. it’s alright. can you guys take a look at my surlee contributions
is it a hot take to say that i think you need to understand why something is bad, not just that it simply is?
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this is a part of the problem
you need to be able to explain why you shouldnt use ai rather than “oh well its obviously bad and you shouldnt use it or else youre a bad person” because that isn’t logic. “ai generates child porn based off of real children and whether or not it does is entirely up to how it is built and if pedophiles are able to find ways around those safeguards, because ai cannot in itself discern right from wrong” is a genuine criticism. “amazon tried to build a data center the size of tuson outside of tuson just to power their ai that would’ve increased the inability to stay alive outside in parts of arizona” is a genuine criticism. even “using generative ai teaches you not to learn how to do things yourself even when they’re difficult, devaluing necessary skills out of practice” is a genuine criticism when you look at the amount of people who think they are able of doing a difficult major when they couldnt write their own papers in high school.
but “ai is just bad because it’s bad” will convince no one and is a morally lazy position to take. about anything!
you need to know why reading someone’s diary is wrong if you want to learn about privacy and respect. you need to know why child sexual assault is wrong if you want to be able to help children form healthy age appropriate relationships. you need to know why capitalism is bad if you want to replace it with something else. you need actual concrete ideas and ideologies rather than “you should agree with me because i have the right vibe”
This is actually such a crucial part of healing from neglect and abuse and I have to add to this.
Because indeed, people who like you will not roll their eyes and sigh at the idea of accommodating your needs, they will value your voice and be upset with you about injustice done to you, not at you for “being difficult”. They will be happy when you find a way to live a better life, and help you to get there. If you are struggling, someone who loves you wants to see you smile, not tell you to smile because “you have it so good”.
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