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HumanServitor

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Daniel Detlaf (he/him)
One-man flea circus, writer, sci-fi nerd, news junkie and AI tinkerer.

No one who is carefully curating their feed should follow me, I boost whatever catches my eye

I mostly post about:
#Writing #SciFi #Politics #AI #Climate #Science #Python #Space #TimeTravel #History #LLMs #Dystopia #OpenAI #AIEthics #Journalism #NewMexico #DemocraticSocialism

Albuquerque, NM
Avatar: Doodle of robot wearing a tie and name tag.
Banner: An alien landscape, gas giant in sky.

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HumanServitor, to food
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I move that beans be made the official of as it is widely known that the more you eat the more you

gerrymcgovern, to random
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Microsoft's jaw-dropping nauseous greenwashing

Microsoftโ€™s AI Push Imperils Climate Goal as Carbon Emissions Jump 30%

The companyโ€™s goal to be carbon negative by 2030 is harder to reach, but President Brad Smith says the good AI can do for the world will outweigh its environmental impact.
https://revealnews.org/article/what-california-can-learn-from-saudi-arabias-water-mystery/

Ah, Brad, Brad, pull the other one, fella. Maybe for once in your life could you be honest? It's the good AI will do your stock price. That's all you care about.

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@gerrymcgovern @brent

Lol.

Also, the chair we sold you is taking pictures of your butt. No worries though, it's only to train better chairs.

gerrymcgovern, to random
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"ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search. Additionally, a lot of water is also used in cooling for the servers that run all that software. Per conversation of about 20 to 50 queries, half a litre of water evaporates โ€“ a small bottle, in other words."

AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030

Training GPT3, took 1,287 MWh (Megawatt hours) of electricity.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

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@tobi82 @gerrymcgovern @Chee_Koala

"What is needed and what are the basics? Who will decide? ๐Ÿซฃ"

That's the real crux of it. I read and agree in part with many of Mr. McGovern's posts and boosts, but I disagree about AIs utility. Were I choosing, many other things would get cut before AI. Who chooses?

HumanServitor,
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@gerrymcgovern @tobi82

But many (most, really) of the individuals In the machines that comprise those corporations are also concerned, environmentally-minded, socially conscious people. I don't want to count them out. I feel as though we are at a time of reckoning with capitalism's ethical failures that would occur even without the urgent pressure of the climatic doom we've sown. Wishful thinking maybe.

HumanServitor, to stargate
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As a fan of I find this headline highly alarming!

arstechnica, to random
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Boeing says workers skipped required tests on 787 but recorded work as completed

FAA: Boeing apparently didn't confirm bonding "where the wings join the fuselage."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/boeing-says-workers-skipped-required-tests-on-787-but-recorded-work-as-completed/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

HumanServitor,
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@arstechnica

#meme

HumanServitor, to Meme
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I'm a day late for May the Fourth, but what the hell.

rodhilton, to random
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Part of my brain that likes saving money: wow! This bread still isn't moldy and it's been 3 weeks!

Part of my brain that likes science: wow... this bread STILL isn't moldy... and it's been three weeks?

HumanServitor,
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@rodhilton

Cheap hot dog buns are nearly immortal

shoq, to random
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Jake Tapper is in his comfort zone interviewing Republican Israeli war hawks. He confuses that with being a friend to Israel. I am so tired of him. Iโ€™ve been tired of him since the 1990s. It astonishes me when people confuse him with a good journalist.

HumanServitor,
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@shoq

CNN is awful. I let it squawk on my TV way too much.

HumanServitor, to Funny
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86qKgK0asGo

HumanServitor,
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@RL_Dane

Definitely. I love watching someone try to keep their shit together when they want to bust out laughing.

RL_Dane, to fediverse
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HumanServitor,
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@RL_Dane

Weird makes the world go round.

andrewstroehlein, to random
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Here, like on all social media, I block those in my replies who:

๐Ÿšซ support war crimes;

๐Ÿšซ push propaganda of abusive governments;

๐Ÿšซ deny facts;

๐Ÿšซ dismiss victims' suffering;

๐Ÿšซ fling hate;

๐Ÿšซ lie about me or my organization;

๐Ÿšซ use whataboutism;

๐Ÿšซ use strawman arguments;

๐Ÿšซ sealion.

HumanServitor,
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@andrewstroehlein

What does sealion mean in this context?

atomicpoet, to random
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Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar is not my favourite RPG, but itโ€™s probably one of the most memorable.

Before Ultima IV, every RPG I played was basically, โ€œHereโ€™s a bad guy, go kill him.โ€ But in Ultima IV, you can do terrible, amoral things. And not only that, youโ€™d get immediate gratification from it โ€“ only to realize much later in the game that doing terrible, amoral things was ultimately not worth it.

This is definitely a DOS game that I often re-visit.

Ultima IV screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)
Ultima IV screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)
Ultima IV screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)

HumanServitor,
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@atomicpoet

I owe that blind herbalist in Skara Brae a LOT of money.

HumanServitor, to space
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I'm not sure we need to be prepping for space cops just yet, nextweb. Or that it will be a promising new career ...

https://thenextweb.com/news/astroforensics-new-careers-of-the-future

HumanServitor, to Meme
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That's the spirit!

HumanServitor, to Meme
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๐Ÿ’ฏ

emptywheel, to random
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What the Information Operation about Joe Biden's Age Looks Like

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/03/04/what-the-information-operation-about-joe-bidens-age-looks-like/

HumanServitor,
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@emptywheel

To choose over due to age (or really, anything) would be folly.

But to think Biden's age is a political weakness is an honest opinion. He shouldn't have run. People want a younger president not simply from a mental and physical perspective, but from a perspective of generational zeitgeist.

The Dems have my vote. I hope next time they try to get my enthusiasm, too.

HumanServitor, to sciencefiction
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Can anyone suggest a sci-fi series from the last few years in the alien culture shock / anthropological type vein? Similar to say, Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought, or C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series?

HumanServitor, to politics
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The Israel-Palestine situation is a clusterfuck. I don't have any deep insights to add to what more knowledgeable people are saying. I don't like that simply by being American I feel complicit, however diffusely, in either side murdering people.

BUT LET ME SAY THIS. If we plunge the U.S. into Russian-style autocracy because people decide to lay decades of intractable violence squarely on ... How will treat ? He would let erase Palestine, full stop.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Mathematicians: โ€œArt doesnโ€™t require humans because monkeys randomly typing will eventually produce a full set of Shakespeareโ€™s workโ€

The monkeys:

HumanServitor,
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@thomasfuchs

What I'm hearing is that in a month and half they got 2/11th of the way to spelling "Shakespeare" (S----s-----)

So I think you really need to scale up either the number of monkeys and computers or the duration of the experiment before you can say anything with certainty! ๐Ÿ˜

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Gargron, to random
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I'm tired of hearing about AI, to be honest. I never cared for it. I don't respect people who use generative AI, and I despise companies that sell out people's data to train it. Yes, people will lose jobs to it, but the world will not be better for it. It's just that consequences are rarely immediately apparent in such complex systems.

HumanServitor,
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@Gargron

Maybe creating more effective spam and stealing digital art aren't all people are doing with AI.

Looks at users with making use of generative AI to give themselves speech/hearing/vision capabilities they didn't have before.

Maybe we shouldn't draw profound character judgements from a person's use of software.

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stefan, to random
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What is one song you'd be able to sing the lyrics of perfectly if you were woken up in the middle of the night?

And why that song?

HumanServitor,
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@stefan

I'm not sure I could, except for kid things like "Row Your Boat". I know plenty of lyrics but I can almost never remember them in the proper order or on demand.

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