• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    2 hours ago

    I can’t tell if this is real or not. It sounds ridiculous, but he does say some ridiculous things (like how millions of years of humanity have consumed more energy than four years of data centers…). But this just seems so comically ridiculous that I have trouble believing it.

    This is why I hate when people fail to make it clear when something is satire. When people get used to doubting everything they see, then suddenly when someone really does say something comically ridiculous no one believes it.

    I’ll point it out from time to time and people will say “it’s just a meme, don’t take it so seriously.” But we’re supposed to be the rational and intellectually honest ones, no?

    So why cultivate a meme culture where we can be just as misleading and deceitful as the fascists? This isn’t a fire-with-fire situation. Their goal is to rob us of our humanity; if we stoop to their level, they win.

    Even if he really did say this, my point stands, because of the simple fact that it’s hard to believe at face value due to the prevalence of misleading memes. There’s a line between disinformation and satire. Honest memes should make it clear which side of that line they fall on.

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    6 hours ago

    Think about how selfish marine life is, they live in water, water we could use to cool our AI data centers! Think about that!

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      In a way, this whole planet is a datacenter, with the oceans as it’s cooling system. We are the data.

      -Neil Degrass Tyson

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          Like, a thousand times over. Why does he keep reposting that same shower thought? Why is he so obsessed about that? Is there somewhere else he wants to kiss himself in the mirror?

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        This made me realize that it would be really hard to distinguish between a satirical NDT quote and something I have earnestly and profoundly thought to myself while 2 edibles into a nature documentary. And I’m not sure how to feel about that.

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        Phew. I am normally not this gullible, but the internet has me questioning what used to be unheard of.

        Thank you.

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    7 hours ago

    it’s great that one of the main dicks in charge of AI uses pants-on-head stupid not-logic to justify taking water away from literally everything else for a thing that doesn’t work, but still steals jobs

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      5 hours ago

      No, he didn’t. Please, for your sake and ours, learn to search for facts yourself instead of asking strangers on the internet to do it for you.

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        4 hours ago

        It’s also easier to search for something someone did say, than to search for something they did not say.

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        5 hours ago

        I know how to search the Internet but believe or not if someone posts something which may or may not be real, either they can respond accordingly or someone else easily can, as you just proved.

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          Perhaps I was too harsh. My apologies. I’m just very worried about how people deal with information and truth recently.

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            I appreciate that. It is indeed a problem that people don’t learn things for themselves, but in this case I wasn’t planning to accept any response as gospel. It was more of a poorly communicated “did I miss something?”

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          Well, given that it was posted in Memes, and after what he said the other day, it’s pretty easy to determine that it is parody. However, I do sympathize, as we are living in an age where most headlines appear to have come out of The Onion a mere decade ago, but are in fact the reality we face today.

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            Right. My question probably should have been “is this based on something he actually said or just a weird joke that I wouldn’t get?”

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    Stupid orphans hogging all of that water, they should bring a lawsuit against them for endangering the supply needed for ai in having their place get on fire. It won’t win but they can’t pay for lawyers to defend it and they will go our of solvency and have to be dissoluted.

    Now why do the courts let the rich file cases that have no merit to force people that haven’t done wrong to pay millions of dollars indefinitely to defend themselves from bad faith allegations by shitty abusive rich people? Because fuck you, that’s why. Any more questions? /s