Not really. Non-chat/image bot AI that is more resource-efficient and specialized actually exists and may indeed make the world better, depending on use case.

It’s also not hard to imagine a world in which the image/chat bots are developed on a different agenda and thus with different results. Granted, they’d still be power-hungry, given current hardware, but you could alleviate a lot of the pain of developing dozens of competing models and of the pointless pro-fossil push that currently comes alongside AI.

The dog being “cute” to you is kinda not the thing that should define the dog. Would you say that kinda thing about humans?

The video makes it clear that Joe Rogan “did not understand” the Wapo article during 6 different podcast episodes. This is method. There’s a reason this guy is still being promoted though wildly off-base.

Are we though?

The issue is not AI in itself. The issue is that the current iteration of AI chat/image bots is shoved down our throats by billionaires with a eugenicist agenda.

That’s a many-edged sword.

If people tell you, “you can do better” simply as a tactic to shift blame, it’s disingenuous. However, individuals going, as much as possible, plant-based and car-/flight-free and in general consuming less, those still are very good and even necessary steps towards ensuring survival of the species. Those steps also provide a degree of credible moral standing to those individuals on those topics. And we won’t ever get to system change either if there isn’t a critical mass of individuals who change their behavior, thus proving system change is possible.

E.g., the fact that plant milk is a thing now and every supermarket carries at least three varieties and brands now, is because consumers changed their behavior as much as it is about Alpro and Oatly marketing and lobbying.

To a degree, production currently is always decoupled from consumption right now. Somehow, we allow ourselves to landfill 30%+ of the new clothes that are produced worldwide currently. Same for food. Flights need to be 80% full to be individually profitable, but airlines will not simply discontinue a unprofitable route right away, because that would endanger their landing rights at the affected airports. Meta and the Google and Amazon will still start construction on new AI-focused data centers and force AI responses down your throat, because that is the future they already sold to their investors and AI is a loss leader right now anyway. Somehow, there’s also this class of antisocial rich assholes that emit hundreds of times more than you do and whose behavior can torpedo any kind of climate action.

And all of that you can’t affect much from the pure consumer angle, you need to organize and act politically. Ultimately, your power comes not from your individual action itself but from the fact that it may help convince more people to do the same.

All that said, the suggestion “delete some mails” here is just remarkably useless. Even compared to other barely useful suggestions like, say, “limit your total Youtube/Tiktok/Instagram time to 2h/wk” or “downgrade your video streams to 360p”.

Bizarre. Apparently asking providers to cut off some AI or crypto shit ain’t possible. No, instead you gotta pointlessly ask individual consumers to delete a few mails, as if that made any kind of difference.

And now we’re copying current US politics but the profiteers aren’t even domestic. Palantir and fracking companies and near everyone else profiteering off this BS government is a foreign billionaire.

So, about that NordVPN ad… That doesn’t make any sense, or does it? Why’d he need a Korean IP adress from a VPN if he’s already in Korea?

The issue is actually solidarity: When Jette Nietzard says something mildly controversial and a bunch of right-wing asshats start a campaign against a young women, there is a large-enough, largely older male part of the Green party that will agree with, at least in part, with such right-wing “criticism”. And that kinda behavior is in fact not how you win elections.

Wait till you learn that that those Catholic organizations running hospitals are largely state-funded as well.

They’ve drawn this comparison since 2023 and tbh, it always struck me as a little off. The point has always been justifying the “robust” response to the attack as self-defence.

I think it’s a collaboratively created document which, as you noticed, used to be hosted on the site of NCTV but is now hosted on the site of AIVD. :)

Thanks

Nah, the thing with Merz is that he more-or-less transparently lied during the campaign, brought in multiple lobbyists as minister, brought in multiple politicians with previous corruption scandals as minister/party whip and now these people are behaving exactly as you think they would. They’re trying to do Trump light, and unfortunately they’re not totally unsuccessful in that.

Externally, Merz is making pointlessly macho announcements to other countries (and is then often not following up, e.g. along with Macron, he gave an ultimatum for a ceasefire to Putin … which just passed and was never heard of again). Domestically, Merz continues verbally beating up the poorest while investigating tax cuts for the richest. Dobrindt is making inhumanity and inefficiency at the border cool again, in the process fucking up relations to neighboring countries like Poland. Reiche is evaluating how to fuck solar and wind power to be able to import more fossil gas. Schnieder is investigating how to fuck the cheap-ish national train ticket while making fossil-powered cars and flights cheaper. Now-party whip Spahn, whose corruption led to somewhere between 2.5 and 10bn€ being lost on FFP2 masks since 2021, is tirelessly repeating that he is being prosecuted for nothing and feels zero guilt. And in the past few days, the CxU parliamentary group prevented the election of a constitutional judge because of a right-wing campaign cooking up a bunch of lies about her.

That’s a lot of shit, especially given they’re just 70 days in office.

Gawds, slam me with the thang!

THE Capitalization IS very Random and i feel that adds To an Aura Of AUTHORITY.