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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.

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Joke's on you, I skimmed by it without engaging for more than three sec... shit.

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It also isn't going to avoid decades of worsening conditions, but there isn't a solution for that.

Various geoengineering techniques are solutions for that. We should be studying those in greater detail.

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But as you said, stopping emissions won't avoid decades of worsening conditions. I think actually stopping those decades of worsening conditions is more important than a hypothetical "moral hazard" concern.

Frankly, this argument always bothered me. When someone is sick you try to treat both the underlying cause and the symptoms. It would be morally bankrupt and downright ridiculous to say "let the patient suffer, it's the only way he'll learn." Especially if the symptoms themselves could be fatal. And especially when the people suffering aren't the ones who actually "need to learn." When millions of people are starving to death in third-world nations or drowning when their overloaded refugee ships are turned away from wealthy ports, will you look them in the eye and tell them it's necessary because otherwise oil company executives might not be as motivated to reduce emissions?

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Building new nuclear plants isn't particularly easy when there are environmentalists clamoring to shut them all down and a general public that's scared of atoms.

Also, don't accuse articles of being "propaganda" and then call 68 years "nearing a century" to fearmonger for your own view instead.

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So you agree that hyperbole is uncalled for?

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They are where people tend to live.

This winter my home city had a power supply crisis. It was night time (I live in a high latitude so nights last a long time during winter) which meant no solar, and it was -30C, which meant the wind turbines all shut down (they can't operate when it's below -30C). The whole province was short of power, only the coal and natural gas plants were keeping the lights on. We dodged rolling blackouts but it was a close thing. Lots of people live here.

Bring down the nuclear level

Which is perfectly fine. Nuclear power plants can change how much power they're putting out. It's not "economic waste", the term is "load-following power plant" and it's routine for nuclear power plants.

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I'm not the only person calling you out on it.

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There's an assumption in the comments that this is Lemmy-specific, so I figured I should also mention a tool I used recently when copying subscriptions from a kbin instance to an mbin instance.

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None of this is AI-specific. Youtube wants you to label your videos if you use "altered or synthetic content" that could mislead people about real people or events. 99% of what Corridor Crew puts out would probably need to be labeled, for example, and they mostly use traditional digital effects.

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The term "artificial intelligence" was established in 1956 and applies to a broad range of algorithms. You may be thinking of Artificial General Intelligence, AGI, which is the more specific "thinks like we do" sort that you see in science fiction a lot. Nobody is marketing LLMs as AGI.

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It's some weird semantic nitpickery that suddenly became popular for reasons that baffle me. "AI" has been used in videogames for decades and nobody has come out of the woodwork to "um, actually" it until now. I get that people are frightened of AI and would like to minimize it but this is a strange way to do it.

At least "stochastic parrot" sounded kind of amusing.

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It's exactly that "new loud wave of complainers" I'm talking about.

I've been in computing and specifically game programming for a long time now, almost two decades, and I can't recall ever having someone barge in on a discussion of game AI with "that's not actually AI because it's not as smart as a human!" If someone privately thought that they at least had the sense not to disrupt a conversation with an irrelevant semantic nitpick that wasn't going to contribute anything.

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I was kind of hoping the hysteria would be over by now. Walled gardens are a bad thing, I'm pleased when holes are poked in them.

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Well, at least we've moved from "Meta is Satan! Defederate!!1!" to "They may mean well now but they'll turn evil later."

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A long time back I picked up one of those ones with the handheld sprayer, and it's useful for all sorts of things. Super cheap, too.

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Nuclear weapons, perhaps. But I still hold out hope that someday nuclear pulse propulsion will find some application. It's far enough out that current-day treaties probably won't impact it, but there's some chicken-and-egg issues - nobody will spend time working on it while treaties forbid it, and treaties won't be updated to allow it if nobody's done any work on it.

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The saying "when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure" (Goodhart's Law) has been making the rounds online recently, this is a good example of that.

Ironically, this is a common problem faced when training AIs too.

The US government seems serious about developing a lunar economy | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

In December, DARPA announced that it was working with 14 different companies under LunA-10, including major space players such as Northrop Grumman and SpaceX, as well as non-space firms such as Nokia. These companies are assessing how services such as power and communications could be established on the Moon, and they’re due...

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Given that SpaceX Starship is already on the critical path for Artemis anyway, I'd plan on using that if I was in charge. Falcon/Dragon launches can be used to put crew in space if Starship itself can't be man-rated in time.

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We don't actually need Starship to be man-rated, though. Use it to launch cargo, fuel, and unmanned vehicles, and then send astronauts up on a Falcon 9 (which is already routinely shuttling people to space) and have them transfer over in orbit.

We don't even need Starship to be reusable for it to be cheaper than SLS. Though reusability is another whole order of magnitude or two of improvement.

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I'm not a frequent user myself so I'm probably not the best to answer on the usability front, but for the combination of high TPS and low price volatility I'd probably recommend using one of Ethereum's stabletokens (DAI, USDT, etc.) on one of its layer-2 networks (such as Arbitrum or Optimism). Stabletokens are cryptocurrencies whose value has been tied to some external measure, in most cases the US Dollar, so they're ideal for use in commerce.

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I wouldn't recommend using Bitcoin specifically for an e-commerce site like this, both because of its volatility and its high transaction fees. A stabletoken like DAI or USDT is more specifically designed for this use case.

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No, you misunderstand the point of a stabletoken. They are designed to have a fixed value, usually tied to the US dollar. Is the US dollar a "casino chip"? That's what these sites usually price things in to begin with.

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Then isn't Gumroad already selling goods in exchange for "casino chips?" What alternative would you suggest?

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Currently it's handling about 140 TPS. The Dencun upgrade to Ethereum that just went live a couple of days ago adds a new feature, data blobs, that lets this go significantly higher at reduced cost.

40-year-old homeowner says economy doesn’t add up: ‘I’m making the most money I’ve ever made, and I’m still living paycheck to paycheck’ (fortune.com)

“There’s this wild disconnect between what people are experiencing and what economists are experiencing,” says Nikki Cimino, a recruiter in Denver.

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Yes, again, I'm talking about large-scale trends, not the current spot prices. I don't live in the United States anyway, most people don't. Note how cheap it is everywhere else?

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