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  • Because those services are actually useful. LLMs are just plagiarism machines. The only way they are remotely useful is because they “saved” a lot of money by stealing all the data on the internet. And even then, they have to operate at a huge loss. They’re also stealing from everyone by getting government subsidies and by ignoring environmental laws.

    Remember, just because data is on the internet, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t have an owner.

    If billionaires played by everyone’s rules and had to operate with profit, LLMs would be so incredibly expensive that no one would use them. They only seem remotely useful because basically all of society is footing part of the bill.

    For the other services provided for data centers, whoever uses them does pay them, and it’s not expensive. You don’t need 5GW to serve a 30 minute video.





  • In this example all 3 observers are in the same reference frame. That is, each of them are moving at the same speed. This is not what the meme is about. In this example the night from Al would reach you 0.06s after he lit it. Which is expected in Newtonian physics.

    The problem of the speed of light being the same for all observers is when they move at different speeds.

    The scenario is: Alice is inside a train moving at almost the speed of light, and Bob is outside it, looking at the train. Let’s set that light moves at 1m/s (for simplicity) and the wagon Alice is in is 1 meter long.

    Alice is at one end of the wagon, and turns a flashlight on. Alice will see the other side of the wagon illuminated after 2 seconds (since the light has to reach the other end and bounce back). Since the wagon is 1 meter long and the speed of light is 1m/s.

    However, when she turns the flashlight on, Bob is also looking. Let’s say that the train moves at 0.99m/s. In that case, after 1 second the light would have traveled 1 meter, but the wagon (and Alice) has traveled 0.99m, therefore the light is only 0.01m away from Alice.

    To summarize: after 1 second, in Alice’s frame of reference, the light has just touched the other side of the wagon. Meanwhile, in Bob’s reference frame, the light has only moved 0.01m away from Alice.


  • That explains why everyone in anime seems so fucking dumb.

    “In order to kill the guy, we have to shoot him in the head”

    “So you are saying that we have to shoot the guy in the head in order to kill him?”

    Yes you little shit, that’s exactly what he said, with the exact same words. It’s so annoying.



  • If there were no billionaires, a corrupt person could still have power inside a government. Making it a corrupt government.

    Then he could benefit from that corruption and become a billionaire.

    It’s not a one way relationship.

    Corrupt entities make powerful people. And powerful people (sometimes) do make the entities corrupt.

    And this is an issue for all political systems.

    It’s not a “get rid of billionaires and the issue is fixed”. We must both redistribute power so it is at more reasonable levels. And clean the entities.

    And once the power imbalance is smaller and the entities are clean, it is a constant maintenance fight to keep those entities clean and the power balanced.

    A single democratic election can give a lot of power to a person that previously had none. Power is always flowing.



  • For AR you need to be recording. If you are recording, it is being sent to Facebook servers. You accepted Facebook’s terms and conditions, not me.

    If you don’t want to be punched, you should advocate for laws that make the glasshole glasses ugly through non-avoidable methods of detecting if the glasses are recording.

    For example by requiring every glass hole glass to have a physical cover that physically covers the view of the camera, and it should be a bright color to easily see if it is covering the camera or not. The contour of the camera should be painted with an equally bright color, contrasting highly with the cover. So you can easily see if the cover is covering it completely.

    A led that turns on when recording is not enough, it’s very easy to remove a led from a device.

    If you want to not use glass hole glasses for evil, you should want it to be mandatory for other people to see if you’re using it for evil or not.







  • You may not like Israel. But it’s still a country. Immigrants making parades of their countries is normal when a city has a big population of said country.

    Usually those parades are organized by the immigrants though, and just receive the help/blessing of the city. Idk if this one is organized by NYC or by the Jews.

    Immigrants celebrating their country of origin is very different from political parties doing it.

    You’re making me sound like I support Israel, I don’t. But it should be up to NYC and its population whether they should support this parade. Whether people outside NYC like Israel or not shouldn’t matter.

    For example my city is very pro-palestine. So there are pro-palestine parades/protests and no pro-israel ones.

    Otherwise, there would be no country-parades. Since there is no country that isn’t hated by some people.