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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • Regulate its energy consumption and emissions. As a whole, the entire AI industry. Any energy or emissions in effort to develop, train, or operate AI should be limited.

    If AI is here to stay, we must regulate what slice of the planet we’re willing to give it. I mean, AI is cool and all, and it’s been really fascinating watching how quickly these algorithms have progressed. Not to oversimplify it, but a complex Markov chain isn’t really worth the energy consumption that it currently requires.

    A strict regulation now, would be a leg up in preventing any rogue AI, or runaway algorithms that would just consume energy to the detriment of life. We need a hand on the plug. Capitalism can’t be trusted to self regulate. Just look at the energy grabs all the big AI companies have been doing already (xAI’s datacenter, Amazon and Google’s investments into nuclear). It’s going to get worse. They’ll just keep feeding it more and more energy. Gutting the planet to feed the machine, so people can generate sexy cat girlfriends and cheat in their essays.

    We should be funding efforts to utilize AI more for medical research. protein folding , developing new medicines, predicting weather, communicating with nature, exploring space. We’re thinking to small. AI needs to make us better. With how much energy we throw at it we should be seeing something positive out of that investment.


  • My goodness these smell so fucking good. If you see these at your local grocer, do yourself a favor and smell one.

    Besides the smell, I have had little success utilizing them for flavor. Candying the rind changed the flavor to a very mild indistinct citrus. I’ve been waiting for them to come back into season to try making an oleo saccharum. But I don’t suspect the oil content to be very high. They few I’ve experimented with have had a very dry peel.

    Honestly their cost isn’t worth it. Just get a hit of that smell while browsing produce. That’s the best they have to offer.