prex

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[–] prex@aussie.zone 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yay! Love that Streisand effect.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Stop doing magnets.

Inanimate objects were never meant to be attracted to each other.

Years of sticking yet no real world use found.

Wanted to join things just for a laugh? We had a tool for that it was called glue.

"Magnetism and electricity are two sides of the same coin” "attraction decreases with the inverse square if distance” - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

Look at what magnematicians have been demanding your respect for all this time with all the funding we have given them.

"hello I would like an invisible force please"

They have played us for absolute fools.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago

You don't like a bunch of people shouting at each other across a cafeteria? It kind of explains why I never got twitter either.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

That would be Hanlons razor. I have no idea whether it applies here.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Good old copper is pretty hard to beat for a high temp/pressure (or vacuum). Chemical compatibility can be an issue though.

Viton gets used a lot & I'm struggling to think of alternatives to it.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The tools are OK & getting better but some people (me) are more worried about the people developing those tools.

If OpenAI wants 7 trillion dollars where does it get the money to repay its investors? Those with greatest will to power are not the best to wield that power.

This accelerationist race seems pretty reckless to me whether AGI is months or decades away. Experts all agree that a hard takeoff is most likely.

What can we do about this? Seriously. I have no idea.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 32 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Is there really no alternative in shampoo & disposable coffee cups?

I understand that these chemicals do have some outstanding properties but that doesn't mean unfettered production & use. Any risk assessment of a potential use really should include 100% resource recovery & disposal or recycling. This could have been done years ago but if industry can't self regulate then bans it is.

These chemicals make silent spring look like, um, er, weekend at Bernie's?

[–] prex@aussie.zone 8 points 9 months ago (8 children)

A genuine question: How well do chatgpt & others add citations if asked?

[–] prex@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

I don't have a problem with machine learning. I have a problem with one company getting x trillion dollars investment. Who pays when the investors want their returns? Eventually it's going to be all of us.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I think the claim is that they can use AI to improve the sound of their headphones if you supply them with images of your ears. I just dont like them having a database of personally identifying information like that.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Sony wants photographs of my ears for "360 reality audio". No. Just no.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago

Who knew? Our savior from the robot overlords turned out to be Phil Collins!

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