@paco @BenAveling it is just a stupid electronic device
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I don't know, but I have personally talked to engineers working on projects like this, and man... there is no lack of enthusiasm. It gives you a profound feeling of ick to talk with them.
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The conch, the reef, his wife, and her lobster
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@paco Obligatory smartass reply, mentioning that individual change is pretty pointless in the absence of society-wide measures to address the climate catastrophe; and that the concept of a personal “carbon footprint” was invented by BP to deflect responsibility
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@paco it's like coal and oil, once people get hooked it's over! We will just keep digging our own graves.
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@paco Obligatory smartass reply, mentioning that individual change is pretty pointless in the absence of society-wide measures to address the climate catastrophe; and that the concept of a personal “carbon footprint” was invented by BP to deflect responsibility
@slothrop Fair enough. The point of the poll is that I realized a lot of my left-leaning friends do a bunch of things like recycling to help the climate. And then they use LLMs that do orders of magnitude more damage. These same people wouldn't throw trash in a creek or soda cans into the landfill, but they'll use LLMs for the most trivial purposes with minimal provocation.
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@slothrop Fair enough. The point of the poll is that I realized a lot of my left-leaning friends do a bunch of things like recycling to help the climate. And then they use LLMs that do orders of magnitude more damage. These same people wouldn't throw trash in a creek or soda cans into the landfill, but they'll use LLMs for the most trivial purposes with minimal provocation.
@paco Yes exactly! Not least due to the fact that you can’t even run a Google search anymore without interacting with an LLM.
And there’s the total failure of our political leaders to address the environmental impact of “AI”.
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@slothrop Fair enough. The point of the poll is that I realized a lot of my left-leaning friends do a bunch of things like recycling to help the climate. And then they use LLMs that do orders of magnitude more damage. These same people wouldn't throw trash in a creek or soda cans into the landfill, but they'll use LLMs for the most trivial purposes with minimal provocation.
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@paco I'm trying to think of a year in my adult life when I have not done everything except avoiding air travel. Which means those things are just part of the baseline, not "reduction".
(Some years, I flew twice weekly for work and then again on vacation.)
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@paco I guess it really depends on if they're a frequent flier already O.o
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@paco Why is this a poll where people can spew their gut feelings? Why don't you look it up and show us the real numbers?
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When I use NoScript in Waterfox, I often don't load much javascript. It can lead to some broken stuff that is funny. Think of all the ads, autoplay videos, and other crap I don't see at the bottom of this techcrunch article.
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I ended up turning off No script because between uBlock and an extensive hosts file, it tended to only break sites that actually needed it.@v_perjorative Yeah. I’m with you. On my work laptop I have been running no script for almost 10 years. I’ve just gotten used to it. About 18 months ago I started a whole new personal laptop, and I went with ublock but not no script.
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When I use NoScript in Waterfox, I often don't load much javascript. It can lead to some broken stuff that is funny. Think of all the ads, autoplay videos, and other crap I don't see at the bottom of this techcrunch article.
@paco I browse with js disabled by default (via uBlock Origin) and my favourite is a perfectly readable news article with an “enable JavaScript to make our site work!” banner across the top
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This is my cousin "Second Romantic Subplot" and her sister "girl who probably will betray us later."
#KungFuSat@paco #kungfusat
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@paco it’s what I would do
