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Varyk

@ Varyk @sh.itjust.works

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  • What will all the computing infrastructure be used for when companies admit commercial AI isn't cost-effective?

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  • You mean the independent source I provided several messages ago you're trying hard not to acknowledge?

    You've got to learn personal and community responsibility sooner or later. You can make wild claims, but since they've already been disproved, you're going to have to provide evidence eventually.

  • What will all the computing infrastructure be used for when companies admit commercial AI isn't cost-effective?

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  • This is kind of what I'm wondering about. Countless warehouses full of used half functional video cards.

  • What will all the computing infrastructure be used for when companies admit commercial AI isn't cost-effective?

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  • This is why you should provide a source, your numbers and associated assumptions are incorrect:

    Chatgpt has estimated revenue of 1.3 billion, not 13 billion, neither of which are remotely significant as revenue streams relative to cost.

    That's the thrust of my opening paragraph, and then you appear to have taken up my drop in the bucket analogy, so i guess we're on the same page now.

  • What will all the computing infrastructure be used for when companies admit commercial AI isn't cost-effective?

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  • Yes; the included source and explanatory paragraph above in the same comment you are referencing.

    Would you care to provide any evidence for your speculation that people are willing to pay enough for AI to sustain its costs?

  • What will all the computing infrastructure be used for when companies admit commercial AI isn't cost-effective?

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  • Nope, you'll certainly need a source to back that speculation up.

    Half a billion people are "using" AI and the total llm market cap is a few billion. On average, users may be willing to pay up to 50 cents a month for inaccurate word association.

    Not even a drop in the buckets companies need to fill up with everything they're spending just on advertising, not to mention infrastructure, utility and upgrade costs.

    People are statistically not willing to sustainably pay for llms, even if we assumed the rosy predictions of 20x LLM market caps in a decade.

    Devil's advocate: Increased AI cash flow could occur if people don't realize their ai "search results" are paid advertisements, and considering longstanding obliviousness to directed advertising and the recent abolishment of US consumer rights...it could happen.

  • What will all the computing infrastructure be used for when companies admit commercial AI isn't cost-effective?

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  • Chatgpt is constantly losing money, public surface-level interest won't matter much when the capital runs out and they're still accruing significant debt without any revenue.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • A direct retelling wouldn't be allowed to air. Murdering your wife in Christ's name for not cooking you dinner, divinely owning slaves as an entitled Christian, lobster sending you to christian hell; the production wouldn't get very far.

  • Do you buy real Christmas trees or put up artificial ones?

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  • Awesome, you got it!

    I've also added the state programs information to my original comment, so I'm glad you brought it up.

    I was kind of blown away when i first found about this and got into a long talk with a ranger who explained it all to me, so I certainly understand your skepticism.

    Up until that point, I literally knew nobody who cut down their own Christmas trees, and now a few of my friends also get their own trees every year.

    6 foot trees have fairly thin trunks, so all you need is any trail saw, I've even used a hatchet, and you'll harvest the tree in a manner of minutes.

  • Change my Mind

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  • "if vitamins were effective, they'd use them for beating children!"

    You're misunderstanding the use of debate.

  • Do you buy real Christmas trees or put up artificial ones?

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  • Nope, but I understand your assumptions.

    The US has conifers everywhere, and the link above is for a single collective of federally managed public lands, but does not include every other state-run and private organization that sells Christmas tree permits across the US.

    If you can't find yourself in any of the states above, it's likely you live in a state with state-run Christmas tree programs. Texas, Oklahoma, any state not in the half of the US listed above will have other state resources for Christmas tree permits and many private tree farms, which are maybe 10 dollars more but offer the same service:

    Buy a permit, drive there, choose a tree, chop it down, take it home.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • The alchemist is a good shout out for being so uniquely forgettable.

    So far, other commenters have a pretty clear reason they didn't like their book.

    With the alchemist, we're all just shrugging into the void left behind by something we're sure was a disappoiintment.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • Haha, jeez i forgot about these.

    I think I read the first three? Such a tropey train wreck i actually had fun for the first couple.

    But I was well and done after two, I was like well this is just unhealthy now by the second book you can tell childs isn't paying any attention to plot or character development or anything that would make a story interesting, he was actively shutting my brain down.

    it felt like that episode of The boondocks where Huey exclusively watches UPN as a social cognitive experiment.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • That's so funny. I was in somebody's house and they picked up the alchemist and told me I should read it, and I asked them the same question.

    "Is that about the boy who collects pebbles?"

    And they told me

    "Yea- well, no. I'm not really sure, i can't remember the specifics, but it was really really good".

    And I was nice about it, but obviously if you cannot remember the main character or the point of the book at all it couldn't have been a very significant experience for you.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • You got it.

    I finished it and was like omigod at least nobody I ever come across with the same morbid curiosity has to read this now.

    Only way I can look at reading that book not being a complete waste of time.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • This is exactly what happened to me. I was reading it for a while like okay, I guess this is kind of fun, and then a third of the way through I thought "oh wait, this is just kind of boring".

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • That's mostly the first chapter, genesis, the begat this stuff.

    R crumb, the comics artist, has a fantastic graphic novel of Genesis where he communicates the emotions through his drawings of what the words are trying to communicate. This made genesis, the most boring and pedantic part of the Bible, more interesting.

    The Bible has undoubtedly led to incalculable suffering as a cult, but just as a book, it's nowhere near the worst piece of literature I've ever read.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • Is that the one where the boy has a bag of pebbles?

    Paper factory or something?

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • It is extremely babble-minded and not at all worth reading or deconstructing.

    I read it in the mindset of your first question.

    Turns out, any argument you can think up in 2 seconds against bigotry is going to be more insightful and well-founded than a rebuttal against nascent nazi scribblings.

  • Do you buy real Christmas trees or put up artificial ones?

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  • Nope, centrally located because the whole point of the program is sustainably harvested trees accessible to civilians.

    You can check the linked locations above.

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Mulling Over Morphs #53 - The Answer

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    works great against worms, parasites...

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
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    Mulling Over Morphs #52 - The Sacrifice

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
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    Bay-bayyyyy!

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
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    Whats the funniest line or situation you remember from the series? This one really got me this reread.

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Toilet-specific plungers get the job done faster with way less effort and mess

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Mulling Over Morphs #51 - The Absolute

  • Out of the loop @lemmy.world
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    what's up with the ToS changes regarding the vegan community?

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Science Morphs

    mander.xyz /post/17130819
  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Mulling Over Morphs #50 - The Ultimate

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    is there a genre of written work specifically concerned with the conception and procedure of literary works, or is it all random interviews or annotated guides?

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
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    Mulling Over Morphs #49 - The Diversion

  • Aneurysm Posting @sopuli.xyz
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    her fuck you dying out

  • Google Pixel @lemdro.id
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    can you guys use pictures or screenshots as wallpapers without having to manually resize the picture?

  • Android @lemmy.world
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    Is there any way to easily size pictures for android wallpaper yet?

  • Movies @lemmy.world
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    There's a Mandela effect about Cast Away(2000) that I will spoiler alert in the body to ask about.

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
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    Vanarx, scourge of the Yeerk.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Can i hire a company to construct a casing that i can affix to a toyota corolla frame so that the car looks like a rolls Royce or whatever but will run forever?

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
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    Mulling Over Morphs #48 - The Return

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Lemmies who post or comment way too much by your own reckoning(raises own hand), how do you have so much free time?