That’s true, loads of non-AI datacenters are also environmentally destructive noise pollution machines, which also needs to be dealt with, but hyperscale AI datacenters are much more environmentally destructive much more of the time. You’re right tho

I’m ngl if I see this shit, I just hard power-cycle the machine. I ain’t got time for that.

A individual running a language model on a single 16gb GPU causes orders of magnitude less environmental damage than buying a carton of almond milk. Please direct your anger where it actually belongs, at the goddamn capitalist vampires building hyperscale datacenters.

Non-AI datacenters aren’t massive fuckoff Complexes that spew pollution (noise and atmospheric) into the surrounding area and triple your electric bill. It’s the massive hyperscale AI datacenters that are the problem.

How does running a local LLM that’s already been trained contribute to the environmental costs of training? It’s already trained whether I run it or not, and running it locally isn’t generating any revenue for the company that did the training (therefore it doesn’t encourage them to train more). This isn’t like a physical product where every time someone obtains a copy, more environmental damage has to be done manufacturing it, training is a one time cost.

The environmental impact of running a local LLM is significantly lower than buying a half-gallon carton of almond milk.

I only shit on Big US AI companies because I want Chinese open source AI (and the few smaller US and European companies making open models like Poolside, Mistral, etc.) to make their business model of renting access to frontier AI impossible. I consider correctly aligned AGI in the hands of a for-profit US company to be more of an existential threat than a fully unaligned AGI. I think humanity would be better off extinct than forced to live under the values of Elon Musk or Sam Altman until the heat death of the universe.

Roko’s Basilisk is the stupidest bullshit I’ve ever seen anyone take seriously to outside of conservative Evangelical Christianity or other literal religious cults. It’s just Pascal’s wager for people who think they’re too smart for Pascal’s wager. Why in tf would an artificial superintelligence bother constructing a simulated hell for humans who didn’t contribute to its existence. Does this hypothetical ASI think it can influence the past by acting in the present? I immediately disregard every opinion someone has if they admit to taking Roko’s Basilisk seriously.

Force close the app and clear the cache, that fixes it for me.

They successfully tortured and murdered a child and faced no consequences

Faced no consequences yet, I’m hoping the state retribution against ICE once the MAGA regime is out of power will make the Haitian Revolution look like a nonviolent demonstration.

No tf we don’t. YouTube ReVanced, YouTube Morphe, uBlock Origin

Fuck Google, but I have a Pixel for GrapheneOS.

People who support systemic violence should be afraid tbh, that’s not an “incitement to violence”, it’s taking out the trash.

Then do us all a favor and leave.

If I started a company selling a product with my rules and you bought my product accepting my rules and then you started randomly bitching and crying to me about the rules then explain how I am suddenly the one who’s the wrong, and if you could do so and force me to have losses why would I bother even starting the company to create and sell you the product you want in the first place

I don’t want to live in a society where the only reason people make anything is to make a profit, and don’t think for-profit companies should exist. You’re barking up the wrong tree with this argument, I do not care.

It’s reality my friend (something 99% of users on this website seem to not be living in), if you could install literally anything on anything then you can wave goodbye to all the competition and just 1 king os that everyone flocks to and 1 king piece of hardware, would be an absolute disaster without competition and why would companies even attempt to compete in that world, you can’t win customers over with good software (locked to your hardware) nor good hardware (locked to your software), most development would cease worldwide as most go bankrupt

This is dumb. “If we restrict the behavior of corporations to literally any degree whatsoever, no one will bother to compete and we’ll have to deal with monopolies.”

Most industries already are controlled by monopolies 😭

This is the supreme court working as intended. The Supreme Court was intended as a backstop against democracy, not a system to preserve it. Less than 7% of the population was allowed to vote at the US’ founding, does that sound like a country founded by people who gave a single solitary fuck about anything besides protecting their control over “their” women and slaves?

There’s so, so, so many obvious ways that the constitution allows for the rise of authoritarianism. It’s almost like the US constitution was designed to protect the property rights of slavers and not establish a durable democracy. The United States wasn’t even REMOTELY close to being a democracy at its founding, less than 7% of the population was even legally allowed to vote.

I mean yeah, duh. The US constitution is fucking stupid. “Yeah lets have a bicameral legislature where states with a population of 6 get as much representation in the upper house as ones with a population of 60 million” said no one ever with a fucking brain in their skull. I spent my entire life growing up being told how the US constitution protected our “democratic norms” (as if this wretched shithole ever paid more than lip-service to democracy), while I watched hordes of illiterate racist degenerates continue to elect fascists and the systems I was told were supposed to protect democracy actively aided and abetted them.

Fascism is impossible to satirize I think. There is no satire of fascism you could possibly construct that won’t have a large subset of the fascists miss the point entirely and unironically endorse the satirical fascism. There were MAGA chuds who didn’t realize Homelander was supposed to be the villain of The Boys into like, season 3 or 4💀.

The mistake people make when they try to satirize fascism is that they assume fascists say words to mean things, but they don’t. They use words the a feral dog uses urine, to mark their territory and intimidate others. There is no internal comprehension or consideration of their words when they talk about their politics, it’s just a stupid, mindless animal making stupid, mindless animal noises.

I mean Palantir naming itself after the magic orb Sauron controls and uses to spy on everyone and manipulate the information they have access to seems pretty appropriate tbh. Mass surveillance and manipulation are their business model. I hate that they’re appropriating LoTR for their fascism, but the name is definitely applicable

Ew. The chuds have discovered Lemmy apparently. Go back to reddit.