Is that because they're so focussed on growth and advancement though?
Right now there's no incentive for efficiency. The focus is using venture capital to grab market share by implementing new products.
If suddenly everyone realised that the new iterations are more costly without any new functionality, the focus would switch and it might be worthwhile.
Right now, you can buy a $500 GPU, and run an LLM locally that can help you draft documents or code or transcribe audio. If that were scaled up to a subscription service surely it could be reasonably priced, yet profitable.
IDK why I've only just realised this, but does the US not have any concept of a formal "opposition" in government?
Here each of 150 or so regions elects a representative. Whichever of those can get 76 others to line up behind them gets to be Prime Minister and forms the government. All the others form the formal "opposition".
Whenever the government does something, the opposition explains to everyone how stupid it is. Often times the opposition gets more air time than the actual government.
The PM couldn't just, you know, make up lies... because the opposition would skewer him.
Do the dems form any kind of cohesive opposition? Does the media just ignore them? Why don't they have any apparatus with which to reset the narrative?
If youre smoking hot or have a really amazing cosplay or both, surely you'd get sick of people having their photo taken with you all day.
I mean, for several hours or so, great... but if you just want to hang out with your crew for a bit surely its ok to say "sorry I'm not doing photos right now."
While I'm aware that she doesn't do her make-up for my benefit, after a quick google I have to say I find her appearance kind of disturbing in an uncanny valley kind of way.
She has very striking features and a super strong jaw-line.
Turns out there's a whole thing here that I just didn't really know about.
I'm in Australia. I'm 43 years old, and cut. I have a 2 year old son who is not cut, and we just never seriously considered getting him cut as an infant.
It's only in the last few minutes that I've learned that people are still doing this? Apparently the best stats we have are that in 2010 between 10 and 20 percent of infant males were circumcised. That's down from 85% in the 1950s, so maybe call it 10 percent now.
I had honestly thought doctors just wouldn't do it unless there was a medical reason. Apparently it's still a thing. There's an association of doctors who will perform circumcision, so you can look one up in your area.
It's also interesting that it's more prevalent in conservative areas of the US.
I think my thinking on it has been effected by a few conversations I've seen on reddit and similar. I never thought of my own circumcision as being somehow abusive, but I've seen that some other men really do. As a result of thinking about that I guess I just came to the realisation that removing part of someone else's body for no reason other than my own preference is just weird and wrong.
Reading about it now it seems like the common excuse is that people say "well my dad was cut and I'm cut and I don't want to have to explain to son-face why his dick looks different". Of all the dumb things to say. "Yeah kid we removed part of your sex organ so it would look the same as my own deformed sex organ". Imagine explaining to your kid that you accidentally cut your finger off so you were going to have to cut his finger off so he wouldn't wonder why he has an extra finger. Of all the dumbassery.
I'll begrudgingly concede that this is a good point.
Part of me wants to say "just force these assholes to build renewables without the datacentres" but I know that's nonsensical.
I guess this is how carbon credit schemes are intended to work, but I'm aware that aside from a few specific cases carbon trading has just been a way to obfuscate carbon emissions.
I don't really believe in disney style everlasting romantic "soul mate" type love. As in you're trying to apply a loosely defined social construct to your emotions, feelings, thoughts, and hormones... it's just not going to make sense.
I think a better question is whether you're misleading your partner for personal gain. It sounds like the answer to that is no.
However, you do need to consider whether there's a power imbalance, and what the implications of that might be in the future. Most bad relationship situations tend to happen where one or other person doesn't have the same agency as the other. When a partner is wealthier or older or even just better employed, you can find yourself having to be submissive at every moment.
If humanity's energy requirements without AI are x, and AI's requirements are an additional y, then AI is reponsible for the worst energy sources up to the value of y.
I get that you don't see it this way, but from the perspective of the law they're just livestock.
I do very strongly agree that they never should have been allowed to be held captive, but that can't be undone.
I don't know anything at all about this company but I very much doubt that their assets are sufficient for them indefinitely. They may have assets but they almost certainly have debts. Caring for these whales would be a huge financial undertaking. Almost all the same costs the park has had while it's been entertaining guests.
I don't really have any solutions I'm sorry, I'm just opining that using the parks remaining assets to care for them isn't viable.
Is that because they're so focussed on growth and advancement though?
Right now there's no incentive for efficiency. The focus is using venture capital to grab market share by implementing new products.
If suddenly everyone realised that the new iterations are more costly without any new functionality, the focus would switch and it might be worthwhile.
Right now, you can buy a $500 GPU, and run an LLM locally that can help you draft documents or code or transcribe audio. If that were scaled up to a subscription service surely it could be reasonably priced, yet profitable.