I’m Chinese. They’ve accused me of being racist against my own race for things like Xinnie the Pooh. .ml is a joke.

I’m now one by virtue of my age.

It does nothing

It helps sort content for visibility. Unless you browse Lemmy ONLY by new, you’re benefiting from the voting system. That includes posts AND comments

You need to get out of .ml more

as average new car prices pass $50k, maybe people are less likely to have multiple cars than in the past

You’re quoting this on a car selling for about $15k?

Most of the people in this post complaining about the range obviously aren’t EV owners. I’ve just done a multi-country road trip covering thousands of km. Taking a 20 minute break every few hours is hardly arduous, you’d be doing something similar on your own anyway.

Your complaint has been marked as a duplicate.

Warranty void once assembled.

Unpopular opinion of the day: LLMs are a distraction from the climate fight.

Using chatbots emits the same tiny amounts of CO2 as other normal things we do online, and way less than most offline things we do. Even when you include “hidden costs” like training, the emissions from making hardware, energy used in cooling, and AI chips idling between prompts, the carbon cost of an average chatbot prompt adds up to less than 1/150,000th of the average American’s daily emissions. Water is similar. Everything we do uses a lot of water. Most electricity is generated using water, and most of the way AI “uses” water is actually just in generating its electricity. The average American’s daily water footprint is ~800,000 times as much as the full cost of an AI prompt. The actual amount of water used per prompt in data centers themselves is vanishingly small.

Because chatbot prompts use so little energy and water, if you’re sitting and reading the full responses they generate, it’s very likely that you’re using way less energy and water than you otherwise would in your daily life. It takes ~1000 prompts to raise your emissions by 1%. If you sat at your computer all day, sending and reading 1000 prompts in a row, you wouldn’t be doing more energy intensive things like driving, or using physical objects you own that wear out, need to be replaced, and cost emissions and water to make. Every second you spend walking outside wears out your sneakers just a little bit, to the point that they eventually need to be replaced. Sneakers cost water to make. My best guess is that every second of walking uses as much water in expectation as ~7 chatbot prompts. So sitting inside at your computer saves that water too. It seems like it’s near impossible to raise your personal emissions and water footprint at all using chatbots, because using all day on something that ends up causing 1% of your normal emissions is exactly like spending all day on an activity that costs only 1% of the money you normally spend.

There are no other situations, anywhere, where we worry about amounts of energy and water this small. I can’t find any other places where people have gotten worried about things they do that use such tiny amounts of energy. Chatbot energy and water use being a problem is a really bizarre meme that has taken hold, I think mostly because people are surprised that chatbots are being used by so many people that on net their total energy and water use is noticeable. Being “mindful” with your chatbot usage is kind of like filling a large pot of water to boil to make food, and before boiling it, taking a pipet and removing tiny drops of the water from the pot at a time to “only use the water you need” or stopping your shower a tenth of a second early for the sake of the climate. You do not need to be “mindful” with your chatbot usage for the same reason you don’t need to be “mindful” about those additional droplets of water you boil.

You might be on to something, if the roman alphabet was owned by a corporation that’s actively encouraging and profiting off said nazis

In the same sense that we call twitter a nazi platform without accusing everybody using it of being a nazi, same logic applies here.

All I see is an artist who can’t math

You might as well compare it to eating at fine dining restaurants, in that case. Why compare smart choices in one category to dumb choices in another?

They mention in the article that it probably isn’t as affected as we would guess due to the muddiness of the water

Looks like outsourcing good management of public resources to “greed” to fix inefficiencies.

Pretty much. The only upside is we’re getting more return on less dollar from this particular instance of outsourcing. I’m well aware that’s not always the case.

Why is some greedy fuck with delusions of grandeur needed here?

It’s not, and it would be nice if the human race ever figures out a system for fair and equitable allocation of resources. But we haven’t yet, so here we are stuck between corrupt politicians and greedy billionaires.

I’m fine with national space programs and whatnot.

Are you aware of just how much of NASA’s budget was being drained for bullshit ‘cost+’ contracts with Boeing et al?

Elon sucks, but spacex has progressed space tech significantly, at a much lower cost than before.

National space programs are great, but the US turned them into a kickbacks program.

Do you think rockets burn unicorn farts and exhaust pixie dust?

By that logic, pretty much any activity we do exacerbates the crisis. The climate is not being fucked because we’re launching rockets, save your passion for those issues where it actually matters.

we do not want to “start manufacturing in space”

Speak for yourself.

We have crises here that are only exacerbated by this dumb need to send people to space.

The human race is capable of doing more than one thing at a time. That we aren’t working on solving our many crises has nothing to do with whether or not we’re in space. You’re tying together two issues that have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

“The work that we’re doing now is allowing us to create semiconductors up to 4,000 times purer in space than we can currently make here today,” says Josh Western, CEO of Space Forge.

Interesting. Having something that can only be manufactured in space would be a real motivation to getting off our asses and back up there.

Nothing new in this article, it’s just rehashing stuff that’s already been announced and talked about since last year.