Still playing Silksong… why did they launch now…

Everyone here is either on the side of hating big AI companies or hating IP law. I proudly hate both.

What is the problem with techno-solutionism? Is it just that under capitalism techno-solutionism often results in corruption? Is the development of lemmy not techno-solutionism (to the enshittification of reddit)?

hmm, I added GApps to my LineageOS, which includes Google Play Services.

You can use LineageOS on your existing non-pixel android phone, instead of purchasing a pixel.

this is exactly why google should have been broken up.

I use LineageOS. Will this affect me? I’m getting unclear answers. Someone told me that the apps will be forced to verify the OS.

that’s very pragmatic, but you can also flip this around – almonds are a luxury compared to other more practical foods, whereas LLMs can help a coder net an income if used properly. I don’t think you can justify almonds if you’re going to claim AI usage is unethical on purely environmental grounds. And dairy milk is twice as much as almond milk in terms of water, so if you have dairy in your diet, cutting that out is going to be a lot more effective for reducing your water footprint than not using LLMs.

Anyway, check out the third link for more info on the total water usage of data centers; it doesn’t really add up to much compared to much larger things like golf courses. I don’t get why anyone would use water usage as a reason to agitate against AI for given that there are so many worse problems AI is causing.

I’m sure OOP works for big AI. /s

But remember, one almond uses at least as much water as two requests to ChatGPT (sources: almonds, queries, data centers), so if you’re eating almonds at all then you’re being inconsistent.

You sound like the people in my chemistry class who say things like “don’t describe subatomic particles as happy when they’re in low-energy states.”

why does the existence of larger things have any bearing on our significance?

bigger than I thought, tbh.

The bell-curve is extremely high dimensional. This means that most people are outside 2 stdevs on at least one axis.

All I know is that people generally hate it when you make inferences about them based on their demographic.

people think XX and XY are good bad.

It was already discussed earlier: men and women are distributions. Two distributions can be distinct even if there are overlaps between the distributions. For instance, men are much more likely to have beards than women are. This is a difference between men and women, and is not invalidated by the existence of women with beards.

how do you know that it’s purely cultural? Do you have a source for this?

…or to make generalizations in the first place.

Look, if somebody says “ugh, women are so…” I’m going to assume they’re talking about me, if they don’t qualify with “some women”

bold of you to say “fallacy.” This is the equity vs equality debate.