As soon as you're born, they make you feel small  
By giving you no time instead of it all  
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all  

A working class hero is something to be  

They hurt you at home, and they hit you at school  
They hate you if you're clever, and they despise a fool  
Till you're so fucking crazy, you can't follow their rules  

A working class hero is something to be  

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty-odd years  
Then they expect you to pick a career  
When you can't really function, you're so full of fear  

A working class hero is something to be  

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV  
And you think you're so clever and classless and free  
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see  

A working class hero is something to be  

There's room at the top they are telling you still  
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill  
If you want to be like the folks on the hill  

A working class hero is something to be  

Lyrics are a very important part of the whole music experience for me. There can never be just one.

Of those many, here’s one that just popped into my mind:

Given the chance  
I'll die like a baby  
On some faraway beach  
When the season's over  

Unlikely I'll be remembered  
As the tide brushes sand in my eyes  
I'll drift away  

Cast up on a plateau  
With only one memory  
A single syllable  
Oh lie low lie low, li-li-li-li li-li-lo  

It’s basically the “appeal to authority” fallacy only worse because Claude is neither an authority nor a provider of hard info.

Combined with that unique delusion of American Exceptionalism … well, we all see the result

Ok, I’ll bite …

If someone asked a similar question about another country without ever mentioning the country, you would not react like that to that same question.

I read it as an actual question. Because the answer is very different depending on if it’s asked of USians or of people around the globe.

It might be a rhetorical question though, meant to make OP think.

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In any case, you have once again proven that us american exceptionalism is a big thing in americans’ minds.

Do you know how annoying it is to constantly deal with this, just because we all speak English? Oh and that’s not enough, sometimes y’all even complain that there are communities that do not demand English content.

I’ll grant you one thing though: this is not endemic to us americans, I’ve seen similar behavior in other contexts. Doesn’t make it better though.

Appreciate the website itself, with it’s dithered low-colour PNG illustrations.

It’s late summer now, best possible time to measure solar-powered uptime. Roughly 5 months, i.e. since mid March, i.e. springtime in Spain. Many daylight hours.

Never did figure out what the cause of the lockup was

the mysteries of closed-source software

Psychedelic porn crumpets

no results

Such fun!

They even renamed their channel to Psychedelic Prn Crumpets

I think youtube just wants more people to create accounts, to force more and more views to be tied to IDable users.

That one seemed to be all about offending substrings in words.

I find this one even dumber because it’s simply dumb to censor the word “naked”, which isn’t even explicit, can be used figuratively, etc.

I think youtube just wants more people to create accounts.

No, we really don’t.

Meh.

Andon Labs (i.e. humans) eventually asked Luna (AI) to search her memory for its policies and assess whether the worker was still a good fit.

Every AI story turns out to be less of a sensation when scrutinized. It’s still a machine, doing what it’s prompted to do.

Still slow compared to MAGA

OK what is your stance towards AI? You always seem to be defending “it”

I’ve seen your other pro-AI comments, always trying to gaslight people who you think know less than you. That is your mistake.

Holy Luigi!

We need Climate Action. How to nip this in the bud before they even start building the power plant. And not burning, or blowing up. That’s bad for the world.

More context:

It would also be in stark defiance of Amazon’s stated climate goals, which center on reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

That’s not lost on the tech giant. But as Amazon spokesperson Margaret Callahan told the NYT, the “world looks different now than when we co-founded the climate pledge.”

“We’re being transparent about the challenges, investing in innovation, and delivering measurable results,” Callahan continued. “Growth and sustainability don’t have to be in opposition — in fact, our results show they reinforce each other.”

That is so cynical.

The USA and its legislation (10 year moratorium on all AI regulation) is what changed.

The world is continuously and slowly going in the same direction since they “pledged”. Nothing has changed there.

Nono, I’m sticking to my statement. If you say they are chasing AGI you mean that they are willing to make decisions that will further that goal, not just further profits. And I do not believe that for one second. I also don’t believe AGI is anywhere in the near or even medium future for us.

That said, they might say that they have such lofty goals.

Wait, it does not run on solar, even partially? JFC.

edit: yep.

Amazon has confirmed its investment in a massive gas-burning power plant in Texas, meant to supply up to 7.65 gigawatts of energy to a planned data center in Pecos County. Should it come online as planned, the plant’s 35 turbines would be allowed to spew 33 million tons of CO2 a year, the NYT notes, which would easily make it the largest single fount of emissions in the country.

It would also be in stark defiance of Amazon’s stated climate goals, which center on reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

🤦

Does greed know no end in this country?

all indicators are that these data centers are being built to keep up the breakneck pace of companies racing to create AGI

Amazon? Nah, it has commercial interest in this, not scientific*.

Also, MAGA is pushing this like crazy, and destroying the planet in the process. For the next 10 years there’s by law practically no regulation wrt anything AI.

That said:

keep up the breakneck pace of US-American companies racing to create AGI more AI, or ELLM = even larger language models

This affects the whole world, esp. if other governments (looking at EU) simply swallow the narrative hook line sinker.

Fuck This Shit

* If you say they are chasing AGI you mean that they are willing to make decisions that will further that goal, not just further profits. And I do not believe that for one second.