The international energy agency estimates that the total electricity consumption for AI worldwide was around 415 TWh per year as of 2024. That’s more than the UK uses.

Don’t worry they’ve defunded all of the bodies that might have compiled any fair statistics so they can deny the downfall for a few years.

I don’t mind, 90% of the value I’m getting out of this is making the sales of the game the MAGA people feel betrayed by go up by one

Oh normally I’d agree, but this is a spite pre-order not a gaming pre-order

Just for that, I’m springing for the collectors edition

Idk about you but I’m pre-ordering the woke game

I see this about mastodon like, a lot. “Oh it’s so hard to pick a server” - they literally have a big default server and you can move any time you want, it’s not hard. Often this is in comparison to bluesky which is… Also claiming that it will support multiple servers one day, and so aims to develop the exact same issue?

I don’t, but if I were to I’d go with some kind of Gaia hypothesis style emergent consciousness across the whole earth because it’s conceptually neat even if the original proposal of the idea had a few holes.

Radagast the Brown. Such a beautiful if crusty soul.

If it’s 0 degrees outside you’re cold, if it’s 100 degrees outside you’re dead.

There’s an element of free will and an element of instinct and mechanism.

Conceptually I see the mind as a system which takes its own outputs as inputs and also reacts to externalities. I also believe in a stochastic universe so there’s plenty of opportunities for these partially self-decided decisions to be unique, unpredictable and incorporating the sense of self and an introspected mental model. This is a “good enough for me” version of free will in a physical system.

I have some intuition that the brain probably undergoes some level of “cognitive bootstrapping” where at some point it goes beyond just being a mechanism and starts reacting to stimuli as according to its own learned mental model. But this is necessarily limited and the degree to which an individual gets to do this, as opposed to reacting instinctively or reflexively, varies based on their physical and mental state.

There are also instances where an individual loses their personal sense of freed will and submits it to a crowd, such as in the concept of “de-individuation”

Deepseek R1 Smarter Child distillation model

The Dreamcast SH4 processor has an instruction FTRV to accelerate FP32 4D Matrix*4-Vector multiplies. As far as I understand it, it was the first home console CPU that allowed you to perform effectively multiple MAD operations in one instruction. But it has a bit of a latency penalty.

We love to talk about the weather here but we actually have some of the least extreme weather on the planet. Definitely getting hotter decade on decade, though

I’ve been saying for years the corporate world was getting ready to pull the rug from tech workers. Why do people think educational standards (and as it goes, engineering standards) for software development have been pushed down so much over the last decade? “What if you get hit by a bus??” A well strangely well backed movement to “stop gatekeeping” software development now revealed as a trojan horse to make developers fungible.

Well it might take 2TB of RAM for this buggy prod system to store and retrieve a JSON blob but at least anyone can work on it.

The best way for him to get left alone would be for him or someone responsible to take down his public image as much as possible. This would be a win/win in the sense that he gets more normalcy and we don’t have to endure someone with a massive platform spreading hardcore nazi stuff.

That said until he is taken out of the public spotlight, it is incumbent on everyone to make it clear that these views are rejected in the strongest possible terms.

There’s all sorts of other crazy options to consider like simply “stretching” this term out for a while. Any emergency will do.

Yeah there’s not really any plausible deniability there at all.

Two nazi salutes, one after the other

Not really. You’re strongly funnelled down the bluesky owned instance, most uses of ATProto are more or less mere plugins for that main instance. Can I migrate my account to another instance? Unclear.

The VC funding also adds another layer that implies they’re going to trap people into their monetisable market share sooner or later. This seems incompatible with fediverse principles.

So while they present themselves as a more technically refined iteration of the fediverse, the whole thing is a big trap. Enjoy it while it lasts would be my advice, but if you’ve got the sway then try to get those close to you to migrate to mastodon before it goes wrong.