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Google also said something similar in one of their reports. Something along the lines of sure AI wrecked their sustainability report this year, but just you wait until it optimizes the data centers! As if the robots could find holes in thermodynamics or something.

Anyway it's not that great but here's my attempt at the sneer you asked for:

"Additionally, we are exploring how attaching flame-throwers to the bottom of private jets and flying over the tree-tops of forests can further increase the accountability and traceability for our Scope 3 carbon emissions."

There are some steam turbine power plants (like coal-fired) (on smaller side) with power output like that

Some ok anti-AI voices in that thread. But mostly a torrent of shit

Criticizing others for not being perfectly exacting with their language and then jumping in front of the LLM headlights all at once, truly the human mind has no limits.

My heuristic is basically: until we can easily control the environment of earth, terraforming will not be on the horizon. Given that we are hell-bent on driving off of as many cliffs as we can, I’m pretty happy to continue thinking that we’ll never get off this rock proper within the ol’ lifespan

your loved ones on the outside may deliver some food to you no sooner than nine months after you ask for it.

And this is optimistic, assuming you start asking when the launch window is correct, and there is a rocket available. (stuff like this is why seeing Musk talk about his plans is so funny, he wants to send 1 ship the next launch window to test the rocket landing on mars and then 2 the next, etc etc. But all this assumes nothing goes wrong, because if anything goes wrong there now is about a year to analyze what went wrong, test the fixes, add it to the rockets, etc (and even if something goes wrong/right, how would you know? There are no camera people on mars, nobody who can notice the issue and aim the camera a that, if you want something like that, you will need to deploy that first (and, then we are back to the first issue, this can fail) Can't believe we are doing move fast and break things for space travel while ignoring the climate change issue. (ow wait, that is the breaking things, ffuuuu).

And most of the issues here are just planning/analysis problems, I have not even talked about the actual engineering issues (which might not even be solvable, the difference between science fiction and engineering is that the later at least knows there are limits). And the financial issues, Musk pockets, while deep (and mostly on paper) are not unlimited, and he already has had to ask other billionaires for help. Sometimes with bad results.

You could build a whole library of articles like this: here's one from early last year

this is a fun read

another I ran into earlier (via an outfit from these parts) is this piece from The Conversation. I wish I could get as irked about linear extrapolation as I usually do, but in lieu of guardrails arresting (and clawing back!) all that shit from all these ghouls...

Fuck it, we're going back to bang paths. ficix!hetzner!awful!self please add support for this.

I liked this comment on the HN post:

Our computer security analogies are modeled around securing a home from burglars, but the actual threat model is the ocean surging 30 feet onto our beachfront community. The ocean will find the holes, no matter how small. We are not prepared for this.

the original post is fucking amazing

here in the future, nothing fucking works

Awful.systems can get a pass since the domain name is just that good.

a new source of anxiety has formed

in all seriousness, a backup domain name might not be the worst idea one day. I don’t think Lemmy’s federation particularly likes being ripped out of one FQDN and migrated to another, but it’s probably preferable to shutting down cause the owners of our TLD thoroughly shit the bed

quoted because this is fucking gold and paraphrasing isn’t doing it:

Do you have any references/examples of this?

tons

rapid7 for example use LLMs to analyze code and identify vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, XSS, and buffer overflows.

Can you point me to a blog or feature of them that does this? I used to work at R7 up until last year and there was none of this functionality in their products at the time and nothing on the roadmap related to this.

must've been another company then which i got confused with the name

Good thing you have tons of examples.

Right?

so for posting it's definitely less than ideal (not pictured: the 15 second delay before typing and the comment text being filled in), but it actually renders lemmy with shockingly few issues

you left the best one:

First successful experiments in "temporal arbitrage" using quantum prediction models

not only they know about "temporal arbitrage experiments" but they also already know that these were successful. that kinda defeats purpose of experiment

I have to admit that I wasn't expecting LinkedIn to become a wretched hive of "quantum" bullshit, but hey, here we are.

Tangentially: Schrödinger is a one-man argument for not naming ideas after people.

2026-2027: Blockchain Revolution

• Widespread adoption of blockchain for secure, transparent financial transactions
• Development of industry-specific blockchain solutions
• Smart contracts automate complex financial agreements

ah good, we're still on schedule for that I guess

Somebody played cookie clicker.

From the reactions:

“With enough garbage the model will become sentient”

"I mean thats how humans are raised tho"

AAAAAAAAAAAA

(There is a tendency among promtfondlers to, in their attempt to hype up their objects of affection, diminish humans and humanity).

As my little 2 year old said, after listening to a white noise generator for days. "Holy shit, I think therefore I am!"