@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialTurns out ‘Good, Fast, Cheap - pick two’ also applies to Power-to-X, such as hydrogen electrolysis. Flexibility, small scale, low-cost: you can’t have it combined.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-quiet-h
@raiders@darktundra.xyzTyreek Hill trade idea sends Dolphins superstar to new-look AFC squad https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/tyreek-hill-trade-idea-sends-dolphins-superstar-raiders/4dab8f7eae…
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@rasterweb@mastodon.socialYesterday I asked a vendor at the farmers market if anything they were selling was vegan and learned that they had absolutely no idea what it means for a food item to be vegan.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSTOCK ANALYSTS: Ignore Musk’s behavior, geniuses are just eccentric sometimes, it’s OK, his repeated failures will soon give way to 10000x growth
MUSK: After listening to Ace of Base on repeat for 72 hours straight while huffing jet fuel, I now understand that I am destined to merge with the AI resurrection of Hitler to become Machine Jesus who saves the white race after 1000 years of continuous stock market crashes, which are of course necessary and a good idea. Libturds have hidden this truth from your mind
@cdarwin@c.imThe Republican Majority on the Senate Banking Committee released a press release Friday confirming that they were intentionally eliminating
the “duplicative Office of Financial Research (OFR)”.
According to sources I’ve talked to in the Senate, Republican committee members have shown little concern with the elimination of the Office of Financial Research.
They also seem aware of the concerns over SOFR, because both their “one pager” and “section by section” documents clai…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust read this post by @… on an optimistic AGI future, and while it had some interesting and worthwhile ideas, it's also in my opinion dangerously misguided, and plays into the current AGI hype in a harmful way.
https://social.coop/@eloquence/114940607434005478
My criticisms include:
- Current LLM technology has many layers, but the biggest most capable models are all tied to corporate datacenters and require inordinate amounts of every and water use to run. Trying to use these tools to bring about a post-scarcity economy will burn up the planet. We urgently need more-capable but also vastly more efficient AI technologies if we want to use AI for a post-scarcity economy, and we are *not* nearly on the verge of this despite what the big companies pushing LLMs want us to think.
- I can see that permacommons.org claims a small level of expenses on AI equates to low climate impact. However, given current deep subsidies on place by the big companies to attract users, that isn't a great assumption. The fact that their FAQ dodges the question about which AI systems they use isn't a great look.
- These systems are not free in the same way that Wikipedia or open-source software is. To run your own model you need a data harvesting & cleaning operation that costs millions of dollars minimum, and then you need millions of dollars worth of storage & compute to train & host the models. Right now, big corporations are trying to compete for market share by heavily subsidizing these things, but it you go along with that, you become dependent on them, and you'll be screwed when they jack up the price to a profitable level later. I'd love to see open dataset initiatives SBD the like, and there are some of these things, but not enough yet, and many of the initiatives focus on one problem while ignoring others (fine for research but not the basis for a society yet).
- Between the environmental impacts, the horrible labor conditions and undercompensation of data workers who filter the big datasets, and the impacts of both AI scrapers and AI commons pollution, the developers of the most popular & effective LLMs have a lot of answer for. This project only really mentions environmental impacts, which makes me think that they're not serious about ethics, which in turn makes me distrustful of the whole enterprise.
- Their language also ends up encouraging AI use broadly while totally ignoring several entire classes of harm, so they're effectively contributing to AI hype, especially with such casual talk of AGI and robotics as if embodied AGI were just around the corner. To be clear about this point: we are several breakthroughs away from AGI under the most optimistic assumptions, and giving the impression that those will happen soon plays directly into the hands of the Sam Altmans of the world who are trying to make money off the impression of impending huge advances in AI capabilities. Adding to the AI hype is irresponsible.
- I've got a more philosophical criticism that I'll post about separately.
I do think that the idea of using AI & other software tools, possibly along with robotics and funded by many local cooperatives, in order to make businesses obsolete before they can do the same to all workers, is a good one. Get your local library to buy a knitting machine alongside their 3D printer.
Lately I've felt too busy criticizing AI to really sit down and think about what I do want the future to look like, even though I'm a big proponent of positive visions for the future as a force multiplier for criticism, and this article is inspiring to me in that regard, even if the specific project doesn't seem like a good one.
@pre@boing.world😆 Missile Air Defense As a Service
MAD AS you like.
In some ways a government paying by a subscription for a missile defense service has been inevitable since Reagan started the mission to Privatize Literally Everything.
The government will own nothing, and be happy.
States must do only one thing: Pay money to rich people to get them to do the things.
The idea of Reagan's Star Wars returning is pretty crazy in itself. That launching all those satellites would massively enrich the government's biggest donor is mostly just pretty typical corruption.
But having the government pay to rent it out is just amazing. 🧑🍳 💋
Hey, if Russia and China outbid America during the hour they were launching the missiles, that's just the free market!
Never really even know if it works without being attacked, but the rich owners get to extract the wealth from it all the same.
Rentierism? In this economy?
🤣
#goldenDome #us #defense
@inthehands@hachyderm.io❝I’d mostly discount the idea that this is largely about AI displacing educated workers.❞
YES. THANK YOU.
“AI is here doooom!! doooom!!” is such a common knee-jerk excuse for the miserable college grad job market right now, and…I don’t see it. In terms of real, actual, yes-it-worked, yes-you-can-clearly-replace-whole-highly-skilled-jobs successes inside of real actual businesses…I just don’t see it.
Whatever’s going on, the AIpocalypse is an •excuse•, not a •cause• here.
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.pageAcademic Research Output Derivatives: Structuring Futures and Options on Research Output Index
Amarendra Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20492 https://…
