Energy conservation has been part of that messaging. Running appliances and low peak times etc. All of that is out the window for AI.

Energy conservation is the dumbest thing we have ever talked about. For prosperity and well being, electricity should be cheap and plentiful. It’s pollution and greenhouse gases that need to be curtailed. Another mixed up policy mess of messaging, and it is being unravelled by AI.

Clean electricity should be so cheap that every other option isnt feasible. Instead, it’s talk conservation, reducing wealth and quality of life.

Duolingo is a game for points and badges. it’s not actually useful for learning anything.

All people hear is that the carbon tax is about making it too expensive to go on vacation and to visit their family. As soon as you mention cruise ships and flights, total shut down, all other words past that point, they hear nothing.

Meanwhile, our leaders fly private jets to international events to discuss greenhouse gas emissions to announce that meat is bad, eat bugs, then fly around to their personal Hawaiian compound (Zuckerberg), commute daily across multiple states to their life saving job (Starbucks). And this is after years of why we need to cut back energy use and wash laundry at 2am to save the grid (or planet, or whatever), but now for AI we need hundreds of nuclear power plants so the same people can throw these voters out of work so that the companies can squeeze out a few more points of profit margin to trigger big bonus payouts for their brilliant leadership.

Of course people are voting for the opposite, which is the picture being painted by PP. And it is working. So forget about cruise ships, cars, economy air travel. Unless we actually deal with the extreme hypocrisy, we all all sunk.

The CBC is a sad catastrophe. The world and financial model in media is completely different but their mandate hasn’t changed. It’s not 2005 anymore. Harper did nothing to help, and Trudeau has been a complete failure here. Further, the Liberal policies on the media failed and in hindsight, we can see accelerated the collapse. Now half the country thinks it’s all Trudeau funded propaganda and they have a point, since his policies actually pay to keep the remnants of the old world mainstream press in business. In practice this is enriching shareholders in Postmedia as the last drops of value are extracted from its miserable corpse, and providing funds to Bell who repurposes the money as they desperately try to recover from 2 decades of mismanagement.

I can only imagine what PP will do since we live in a world where policies and platforms are a sure fire way to lose an election, but not in my wildest fantasies do I foresee a reimagining of our public broadcaster by his government. What could possibly remain by 2030? To me, it’s a lost cause so I’ll focus my time and effort elsewhere.

The Food Banks are out out of touch too. They sent out a mass mailer asking for money, explaining the hard times of high food prices and use olive oil as an example. Would people rather starve than lower themselves to vegetable oil these days?

Canada is a dream country for grifters. Just look at Kevin O’Leary, these international students eating for free, and Marc Miller.

We buy in metric and measure in imperial. 1 kg of flour please, then I go home and measure it in cups and tablespoons.

For cooking, etc we should have names for 5, 10, and 25 ML, 125mL etc. Worst thing they did was try to say is that 250mL is a cup, when it is actually a great way to screw up a recipe. Fortunately Alexa does my conversions for me while my hands are wet or occupied.

But either way, I still need to know Imperial so that I can talk to Americans. Some folks seem to think being clueless about metric is some badge of honour.

Powering off a pile of switches is turning it off. Powering off a sentient being is killing it. Not to mention a million other issues it raises.

Growing up years ago, I found a book on my parents bookshelf. I wish I’d kept track of it, but it had a cartoon of 2 Martians standing on Mars watching the Earth explode and one commented to the other along the lines that intelligent life forms must have lived there to accomplish such a feat. I was probably 8 or 9 at the time, but it’s stuck with me.

It only took a Facebook recommendation engine with some cell phones to excite people into murdering each other in the ongoing Rohingya genocide. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html

We don’t need AI, and at this point it uses so much electricity that it is probably the first thing that would get shut down in a shit hits the fan moment.

Roger Penrose wrote a whole book on the topic in 1989. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179744.The_Emperor_s_New_Mind

His points are well thought out and argued, but my essential takeaway is that a series of switches is not ever going to create a sentient being. The idea is absurd to me, but for the people that disagree? They have no proof, just a religious furver, a fanaticism. Simply stated, they want to believe.

All this AI of today is the AI of the 1980s, just with more transistors than we could fathom back then, but the ideas are the same. After the massive surge from our technology finally catching up with 40-60 year old concepts and algorithms, most everything has been just adding much more data, generalizing models, and other tweaks.

What is a problem is the complete lack of scalability and massive energy consumption. Are we supposed to be drying our clothes at a specific our of the night, and join smart grids to reduce peak air conditioning, to scorn bitcoin because it uses too much electricity, but for an AI that generates images of people with 6 fingers and other mangled appendages, that bullshit anything it doesn’t know, for that we need to build nuclear power plants everywhere. It’s sickening really.

So no AGI anytime soon, but I am sure Altman has defined it as anything that can make his net worth 1 billion or more, no matter what he has to say or do.

Yeah, this is the gist of the problem. When a PC is connected to airplane WiFi, but it is limited, Steam decides it is online, but some sort of validation fails and then no games will play until I get back to a full internet connection and reboot. I don’t even try anymore, hence my comment about GOG, and yes, I know some games on GOG have DRM, but most don’t and they don’t hide the fact. The Steam DRM bootlicking combined with GOG hatred because they were forced to sell a few games with DRM is so bizarre. Are Steam fan boys a thing? What a weird hill to fight for.

DRM is the heart of most technology pain for paying customers since it’s inception. For pirates, the experience is much better since the DRM is removed.

I’m really happy with my experience with GOG, but they put a lot of effort into their Windows app and i ws pretty blunt with my feedback, it is pretty useless to me and I find it unhelpful. Heroic game launcher on Linux great and cost GOG $0.00. My thought is that they have been focusing on the wrong things, fundamentally I love their strong DRM stance and when I am travelling internationally,the games I bought off GOG work, unlike Steam😡😡😡😡. So if they have come to this realization, then nothing about these changes are disturbing as a customer, but sad to hear their employees taking the hit. 😢

When is the next election? Palestinians haven’t had an election since they voted in the Hamas terrorists, and while it was a bold move nearly 20 years ago, it turned out to be a catastrophic mistake. The terrorists are also dictators and there has never been another election.

Over a year ago, their government has attacked Israel without any preparations or any allies to back them up. Now the people suffer and are used as pawns so Hamas leadership can continue to live their wealthy existence, sucking off the cream from the top.

Hamas is the problem, not Israel. Yet the Hamas bootlickers are all over these forums spreading their hatred of Jews and attacking them across the world.

Shame! Shame! Shame!

YouTube ruined Christmas. I can’t stand my relatives anymore, they watch every conspiracy clip and now they are a thousand miles down the rabbit hole and I can’t handle them for more than a few days a year. I hate evil Google or alphabet, or whatever they call themselves.

The best government is afraid of the people. I was back visiting Alberta and the family now has a rabid hate on for coalition governments, but Ill take them over a majority gov’t every day. The world is complicated, life is complicated, if someone is falling for a hero with simple, common sense solutions well, they are not only under/misinformed, but also the problem.

“With regard to the algorithms used to hash data – particularly SHA-224 and SHA-256 – Buchanan expressed surprise that neither will be approved for use beyond 2030.”

Sounds like corruption to me. Hey gov’t pal, let’s make crazy requirements for security due to a quantum boogyman so I can sell you consultants and all new equipment with insane processing capabilities for a shit ton of money. Look for the greasy palms.

Decades of research and we are at 100 qbits and estimates are bouncing around that estimate it will take millions. Once we build them, job #1 will be reading government email?

Maybe, but it’s a lot easier just to use backdoors, software bugs, spies, and good ol’ bribes.

Yet companies are still pushing 2FA over the PSTN. IMO, it’s worse than no 2FA since some companies have processes that essentially trust the outcome as a full validation. I can’t think of a less secure channel.

It was sometime around June, I was in China and I heard Christmas music. I followed the sound down the street and around the corner and there was a large stage setup with all kinds of consumer goods and electronics and there were people on stage singing and and making some sort of announcements. There was a huge Banner in Chinese and also in English. The banner read Consumption Festival! 🤣

Looks like 100 Putin bootlicking posts a week on Lemmy. It’s hard not to feed the trolls, but I try not to.

I forgot my bags at the grocery store, so I told the clerk I’d like to buy one of their expensive plastic bags. She denied they had plastic bags anymore. I explained polyester. She was shocked.

People have no clue. Nylon, PVC, PET, spandex, and the most insane, vegan leather. Turns out, polyurethane is not made out of vegans.

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