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Huh? Oh, I thought you were talking about the climate change part of my comment.

Everything about the data centre buildout is a bet on the singularity, that's the whole operating premise behind what all AI researchers are doing. The most grandiose charlatans of silicon valley talk about that stuff and everyone else has got in line whether or not they believe it. Trillions of dollars have spent on bringing about AGI. If it doesn't usher in AGI (and it won't) then it's all a catastrophically stupid thing to do.

Does our evolutionary fitness function count as self-interest? Climate change is on a runaway trajectory. We're in line for Darwin's top honour, but no one will be around to receive the award.

The most reasonable and sober-minded people are counting on that:

https://www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentlichungen/publikationen/...

Climate Change has accelerated rapidly. We're expecting 3 degrees of warming by 2050 now, 5 degrees by 2100. Betting on the singularity to save us is culty wankery.

German Climate scientists are claiming with 98% statistical certainty that warming has accelerated significantly since 2015, and believe we are looking at 3°C of warming by 2050, 5°C by the end of the century. That does not bode well for the future of anything.

https://www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentlichungen/publikationen/...

My latest box of Trix cereal lacks the bright reds and blues of artificial dyes, the first of its kind at my local grocer. It turns out General Mills announcement to shift to away from artificial colours in Trix came over a decade ago:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/general-mills-to-end-use-of...

The rate of climate change also accelerates. The scientists are projecting 3°C by 2050 with 98% statistical certainty. Other scientists estimate 3°C of warming will kill off about 4 billion people. So yeah the old world is dying. The new one too.

Builder Andrew Eylar built the Red Room of the IBM building on king street in Lego, which I thought was cool:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hoyvinmayvin/40487057474/

The important part is that it's sustainable.

Before 200 years ago we lived as hunter gatherers, and we did it sustainably for millions of years, longer than we've been human.

200 years is nothing. It's nothing, unless that is, we try to think about what the mess we're currently making will look like 200 years from now. Then 200 years from now is a terrifying prospect. It has to be sustainable. If it isn't sustainable it's a joke.

Labour conditions in the capitalist west 200 years ago were some of the worst in history, so it's easy to make yourself look good in comparison.

It was signed into law with the fair labour standards act of 1938, as part of the New Deal under FDR.

Most people landscape their own yards recreationally. They do it for fun, in their free time, at their own expense.

Labour saving devices do not save any labour for the employees, their workday is just as long.

Engaging with the ecological concerns requires real intelligence. The intelligence in Silicon valley is not real. It is artificial, as in fake. They're just doing make believe, and ruining it for everyone in the process.

One characteristic of a nerd was that they spent the dominant share of their time immersed in media, detached from the world of their immediate surroundings.

There's nothing novel about that in the age of smartphones. The afflictions of the socially isolated, overstimulated, detached and anxious nerd have gone mainstream.

Not being able to see the forest for the trees I suppose is a prerequisite for success in Silicon Valley, because it one had even a fraction of Stross's perspective on the matter they'd be in a different line of work.

I love her writing. Her early work is strikingly depraved, as if Bukowski were a woman.

Her novel "Eileen" was adapted for the screen in a film of the same name starring Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway. The Cinematography is reminiscent of Edward Hopper. I think the film would have been better regarded critically if more reviewers understood where Moshfegh is coming from as a writer.

It isn't currently —for google— only about shipping the best models, but in the future however...

There are less things to talk about on HN today than ever before!

Europe wins by knowing better than to play those games.

Homer is a voice from antiquity. How many American stories and storytellers will be remembered and widely known in a millennium or 3? It will take a long time before we have a definitive answer.

Such a person may not have been born yet. Maybe we need to go back to the stone age and rebuild civilization before a bard as reputable as Homer appears in what we currently call America.

It's probably because robots have been doing cool asf demos for half a century and they're still mostly just demos. Elon has made a lot of money greasing the 4-6 months away crowd.

Homer is America's Homer. Homer is western civilization's Homer. Thousands of Americans have composed epics, but Homer is still the one with primacy. All succeeding epics defer to Homer, including the American ones.

Nice ass montage, bro. Great storytelling. In the beginning there was ass. In the middle: ass. And at the end: ass. Both literally and figuratively your whole video is ass.

No effort went into that. No talent went into that. The creator doesn't care about the outcome. Nobody wants to watch it. Fucken A, brilliant. The intelligence is artificial.

Yeah, he's just a humble douchenozzle minding his own business.

Marijuana is not a recent invention

We power AI with methane because it's a powerful greenhouse gas. That's because the future worth destroying is human. If it wasn't we wouldn't be destroying it, duh.

It's not that idiosyncratic a list, those were the first two graphic novels that came to my mind when opening up the website. Geoff Darrow's art Hardboiled is incredible. I was a huge batman fan as a young teen and digital justice came out at peak Batman hype, and it was much hyped itself, but it wasn't very good.