Why do people fight so hard to be fencesitters? The video is about criticising H Green's actions and teaching people to identify AI writing, but it seems like he just made the video to cash in on a trending topic. He therefore had to feign an opposition to AI, but couldn't even do that.

Here's a TL;DR if you don't want to waste 3 minutes watching the intro of this:

• 1 He says there is "moral panic" about LLM usage
• 2 He says that being concerned about the water usage is hypocritical if you use any electronic device at all (citing in particular iPhone chargers, for some reason)

My responses to that would be

• 1

This is no moral panic - we are concerned with over-usage of this tool, because, like drugs, spending too much time doing it seems to drive people insane and reduce their critical thinking skills.

We can look at car, trains and planes as an "essential" technology - for travel - which we similarly wouldn't want someone to over-use in any way, for pollution, congestion, and brain chemistry reasons. As well as wasting their time and not living the most authentic human experience they could do.

• 2

LLM datacenters are of a ridiculous scale. They can be as big as nuclear power plants

It is also less about "is it doing something bad to our water that other things are also doing," its a response to a visible, active, existential threat to communities (e.g rural communities or poorer neighbourhoods where these data centers are placed)

Obviously we can criticise the new problem of Data centers without mentioning other technologies that might pollute water. I think Jones also misunderstands the criticism of LLMs regarding water, because he tried to relate it to "oh but every electronic device you use connects to the hydroelectric system." - this doesn't necessarily pollute the water, whereas something about datacenters pumping water in for cooling does

For me, it's I saw the Light by Todd Rundgren. I must have been listening on much worse equipment the first time I heard it, and even then, I still liked it on spotify.

I sought it out again because i realised from this cover video that the piano/keyboard part was quite more sophisticated than I had managed to remember. And i've listened to it several times over the last 3 days.

Any song you've discovered or rediscovered recently?

EDIT: bonus - Walk Between Raindrops by Donald Fagen spotify YouTube

I did so today and I just achieved a lot today that I don't think I would have done without them. If i could be this motivated and unshakeable every day, it'd be good for me.

It's been hard figuring out if it was safe to take two a day, if it was even helpful, then remembering to take them at the right times (or at all), getting out of the habit of drinking tea (creates heart palpatations). Such a small thing, so much self work

This was a super fun watch and the channel has a few more

the one benefit i see is as a final "lock in your answer" function for any form you're submitting.

And did they have to stop allowing written signatures because of AI scraping? Or is it just because they never looked legible at all?

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[ALT text: youtube commenter gabbyramirez1670: "This guy looks exactky like you woukd expect him to look like lmfao"] and context video (boring warning - simply shows a man crash into girl's kart after being annoyed that her and the people ahead of her keep on stopping on a toboggan)

Bad people come im all spots and stripes. I think that's all i need to say. It's dangerous to ever assume that people who outwardly look similar will have the same behaviour patterns.

I've just been seeing so much of this online. It's rarely racism or similar but... what's the benefit of making this comment? "Ah, funny, i've had bad experiences in my past with someone who looked similar to this!" It doesn't make sense to say such things to the ether, to an audience of 7.5 billion humans.

One way we could liven this community up is to share seeds in a dedicated pinned thread. I understand it might seem redundant because Discord or elsewhere might have a more exhaustive list already, but lemmy is actually the most accessible site for me and i really don't mind people copy and pasting seeds from discord or reddit to here.

Also, i'm interested particularly in people here sharing cool seeds they find.

One seeded runs i'm on the lookout for the moment is something to help me practice with Certificate, e.g generates certificate early on.

e.g It might teach you to ride the wave of destiny, and treat life more like a rollercoaster than a linear videogame that you're supposed to grind and minmax in.

In Britain we have a load of royal named things, e.g "The King's Head," "The Prince Henry," or animal themed pubs like "The Three Pikes," The Red Lion (most common oub name) or something gorey like "The Hanged Man," "The Village Chopping Block." On that note, we also have pubs named after landmarks, e.g "The Old Oak," "The Anvil."

Any more modern establishment like a bar can have posher or more postmodern names. Sometimes jokey names.

I was struck by a realisation thst i don't know how other countries name their pubs amd bars. Would be helpful to know, for understanding other cultures. I even don't know for places like the USA, which also speak English. Excited to hear your responses!

5 months ago I made a post bemoaning the fact that i came right up to ante 8 and only just failed to scrape past the boss blind.

Today I am proud to announce that I made it through Jokerless Challenge, comfortably, and I have a video documenting how it went if anyone is curious.

I think a lot of RNG went in my favour so it's very satisfying to watch in that regard. Kind of like seeing Domino in Deadpool 2.

Video is 28 mins long so no shame in skipping it or only watching a bit.

Key to this was using Hieroglyph and Petroglyph at the start of the game after having acquired 2 jupiter cards

I found this super interesting, they've covered the prequel trilogy so far and there's some things in it i would not have been able to pick up on my own.

https://pipedapi.kavin.rocks/watch?v=p1yoCJS3_Q0 piped link, if i did it right.

They plan to cover various star wars serieses like Maul Shadow Lord after doing the OT movies. One presenter is a lecturer on politics, not sure the other guy's qualifications but he also has great insights.

It also raises questions for me about the prequel trilogy. One on my mind at the moment is - why did the seperatists and republic actually go to war? The truest answer of course is that Palpatine wanted it, and manipulated eventd to make it look like both sides were starting on one another, but i wonder why any star system would join up an alliance lead by corporations who say "oh yeah we're building a robot army and we want to f the republic's ship up. Nope we're not going to peacefully secede. That's for losers."

Sex is part of biology - does the no NSFW policy mean no posts even marked NSFW asking a sexual reproduction question, or does it mean I could ask one ias long as it's only using clinical and scientific terms?

::: spoiler EDIT: since it's not really gross or gorey i will ask the question i had in mind, in spoilers. You'll probably agree it's sfw enough but in case you don't want to hpthink about reproduction...

Question: do any other animals, or organisms in general, fake their orgasms like humans are known to do? :::