Well, most of the carbon footprint for models is in training, which you probably don’t need to do at home.

That said, even with training they are not nearly our leading cause of pollution.

Thank you.

Idk if LLMs can tell which number is bigger. But we already knew humans can’t.

Thank you for your research

I went ahead and did the calculation; I think I’m getting about 4 weeks (extrapolating from the last year, 20k dead kids -> 2 weeks of silence. Doubled for the two years.).

Lower than I expected. I’m guessing I haven’t internalized that gaza is still a fairly small area, thus with a small population? Or was the first year substantially more deadly than the last (which really would surprise me)?

Thank you; I think I understand how you are using patriotism better. (Also jealous that somewhere has destigmatized public office.)

Thought I would put a little work into your question; I checked a random musician from this list and looked for recent news. They’ve literally been doing charity shows to get support for gaza.

It seems like some groups of people in israel feel there is an emergency that cannot be ignored; and some who do not.

nitpick: they were banned not from a country, but from a music hall; no?

kinda one time at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_Resolution

(If I understand you correctly. I rather hope there are other examples, it would be a weird thing for America to lead the world in.)

I personally don’t understand the logic of this symbolic act of protest, but I often don’t understand how protest is supposed to function. It did pull more attention towards gaza, and attention is everything.

Would a better protest be to keep the invite, but plaster the space with material about the genocide? Let the person quit if this offends them (which would probably be a more sympathetic headline and just as newsworthy) and make a story out of the performance if they don’t (which should be very photogenic).

I agree that the first panel is off; I would replace it with “I’m going to work on my house because I want it to be the best house it can be”, or something similar.

And, at least for democracies (or similar), one of their bigger failure modes is that people:

1. don’t feel like they (do/can/should) contribute to the place they live;
2. do not value the work that others do for the place and community;
3. take for granted the natural resources, and don’t safeguard them for the future.

Consider how it is absurd for a normal person to run for public service, and how air quality has plummeted in so many places. I think it could be healthy to be proud of a group project you participated in. It’s a bit sad that countries/states/cities/neighborhoods so often fail to be such projects.

(Which I guess is all to say that we should gatekeep patriotic pride. That’s a weird stance I’ve landed in.)

Idk, I feel like one failure of governments is not sharing the successes and having big discussions about what they want to be/do. Patriotism vs nationalism smbc.

If your point is just that people on the Internet aren’t very literate, your point is not interesting. Too much misinfo from ‘hyperbole’, save it for the discord imo. We have AI to automate vibe numbers now.

Your numbers must be wrong. The average cost of an MRI scan is under 1000 dollars in the States, uninsured. Link

This is for a 4 hour procedure, so the values given for labor are also criminally low. I know machine techs who are well paid and work on less than 35000 machines a year.

I thought it was cost of electricity and maintenance of the machines? How much money is compliance for these things?

Just because basic research doesn’t resolve a question perfectly does not imply that it ‘missed’ the point. I think this is a serious mistake in a lot of people’s understanding of science, and it’s worth sitting on.

Most things we learn are incremental.

This is normal. An experiment is not bad just because it is incremental. We should be looking at every opportunity to chip away at seemingly impossible questions.

And I think the study here is unusually high in information gained and context relevance. This experiment could have given extremely strong evidence that we do see colors differently than each other, because if we have different neurological reactions it would be pretty weird for our qualia to agree (most physicalist descriptions would have consider it proved that we see different colors). If, when we both see blue, our brains light up in very different ways, that would be weird!

So this is a point in favor of shared qualia. It doesn’t resolve the question; that will require several new ideas, breakthroughs in consciousness, and a lot of back-and-forth with philosophy. But it damages any theory that qualia are different because of brains being different, and that’s cool.

It is possible that you’ve defined qualia as explicitly non-physical (and so must posit a bunch of extra stuff for this study to stay irrelevant). This is done in some circles, but is not standard afaict. It comes in as definition (4) here, after several that are consistent with the study and OP’s use.

pun is great, but the point of the article is that the first bit seems to be wrong. You can use brain firing patterns in one person to predict which color another person is seeing afaict. In other words, we’re using the same nerve circuitry in extremely similar ways.

So happy to see something in this direction! Commentary is also excellent, looking forward to reading a review of many instances of this study.

Let the record show, every time somebody tries it’s out-competed by the

• more responsive,
• cleaner looking,
• simpler,
• easier to scale,
• less error prone (and less annoying when it does error!),

horrible privacy stuff. The market really doesn’t care; consumers will pay 3 less dollars for an insecure product. It’s not even really their fault; it is extremely difficult to tell when software is actually secure. It is a pain to tell when some middle-man is actually selling your data or not, due to a carve-out in the TOS of a TOS of a TOS. Anyone upcharging for security could be scamming you, and with nontrivial probability is an NSA front.

This all applies to companies, which can afford to pay for security experts and analysts. See this very old interview with Schneier. Generic consumer never had a prayer.

I wouldn’t want to apply that to my favorite policy interventions.

You’re probably right that ranked choice voting won’t unlock utopia, and your favorite flavor of communism probably leads to the worst endless meeting. But we don’t have to like it.

Ah, that’s true. Though the majority of these are much closer to factory jobs (at least harder engineering degrees than CS) I think? Once it’s built you need security, a couple systems engineers, some folks to move circuitry and cables, and custodial staff. There are perhaps a handful of cs grads employed by a data center as I understand it. (Most employees are managing hardware; they lean towards electrical engineering?)

The hardware only needs software designed for it once in order to offer compute as a service, and that design can happen far away from the data center (and, the CEOs believe, possibly by an AI).