turboSnail

Yeah, that million years of evolution argument is just pitiful. Like, how is that compassion even supposed to work. Probably sounded better in his head.

Fair enough.

So in his view, the fair comparison is, “If you ask ChatGPT a question, how much energy does it take once its model is trained to answer that question versus a human? And probably, AI has already caught up on an energy efficiency basis, measured that way.”

How about we do a life-cycle assessment instead.

I’m just thinking that people with extreme tastes might want to visit USA exactly because there’s a good chance you’ll never return.

Some people also visit North Korea. Is that insane too?

Yeah, I guess we need a third category then. What they’re currently doing involves overproduction at first, but that is later turned into artificial scarcity by destroying the products. How’s “extra wasteful, diabolical scarcity” for a term?

And the decision is always guided by greed and complete disregard for sustainability.

Here’s an idea. Instead of having artificial scarcity, they could have actual scarcity. Don’t manufacture 10 000 super fancy shirts. Make only 500. They will run out sooner than anyone wants, you’ll still make absurd profits and customers are left wanting more. When the next season rolls around, you make 500 of the same shirt, but in a different color. Charge 2x more than last time, but you’ll be able to sell them anyway now that people know how fast they disappeared last time.

Side note: Making stuff to feed the vanity of millionaires is revolting, but at least this way it doesn’t have to be so wasteful.

The website uses pages instead of infinite scrolling. I guess that’s compliant then.

Clowns are funny… and scary. Strong emotions either way.

If you need a handful of plugins to make a site tolerable, there’s probably something terribly wrong with that place. We can keep on patching it with an ever growing list of plugins, but is it really worth it.

Long ago, many people said they would move to Canada. I wonder if they did, though.

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Didn’t know CNN has a lite version. So much nicer.

Exactly. It’s one of those “I know it when I see it” type of things rather than a solid definition. Like Froot Loops definitely are UPF, but what about a salad in a plastic box? Sure, it’s been through a factory where it got chopped, mixed and packaged. That’s industrial scale food processing too, right?