Posts by malcircuit@thingy.social
 (DIR) Post #B4IfXxizWFPPMLYeTQ by malcircuit@thingy.social
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       @azonenberg It's drying your clothes in a relativistic reference frame. It's been 13 minutes from your perspective, but your clothes have only experienced 30 seconds of time.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4IhIpgZKGCdzWL1pg by malcircuit@thingy.social
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       @azonenberg Yeah, the evaporation rate of the micro black hole would change based on the charge and spin of the black hole, which depends upon how much water falls into the event horizon. It's hard for the machine to estimate that when you put a fresh load of clothes in.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4LoACyYe8wsltT0WO by malcircuit@thingy.social
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       @azonenberg @cmb Dang, by my rough estimate, that's something like 50-60 kWh of energy! That's like 2/3 of the battery in my EV!
       
 (DIR) Post #B4LoQf226PnKQ2wBY8 by malcircuit@thingy.social
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       @azonenberg @cmb oh, come on, you wouldn't store 7 liters of gasoline inside your house? What a wuss lol
       
 (DIR) Post #B4cpdJCnxxqc8FtDbU by malcircuit@thingy.social
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       How many studies do researchers need to do before the threat of LLMs is taken seriously? This technology *might* have some useful niche applications, but widespread deployment will be a disaster for humanity. This shit is an existential hazard, and not in the way the AI companies love to talk about. It's not going to take over the world like Skynet, it's a cognitohazard that turns anyone that interacts with it into an idiot. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them
       
 (DIR) Post #B4cpdJxb9zHITNmaXY by malcircuit@thingy.social
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       Thinking about LLM-based "AI" chatbots as cognitohazards is apt. They are deceptive and subversive in an extremely subtle but systematic way. They warp your perception and cognition to make you _feel_ as if you're more capable while simultaneously degrading your skills.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4cpdKLhiMYng93q76 by malcircuit@thingy.social
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       These chatbots are like an amulet cursed by dark magic. It grants the wearer an apparent intelligence boost, at the cost of stealing their soul over time and binding them to the object. After extensive use, taking the amulet off incapacitates the person. They can't live without it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4cpdKjSI3YiroAo8O by malcircuit@thingy.social
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       I should stop talking about AI. Like so many other social issues, I'm only preaching to the converted. All it does is remind people of Yet Another Bad Thing You Have No Power To Change. Or to put it a different way, whatever levers you have available to influence the situation are probably already being pushed. Me reminding you doesn't do anything other than make you feel worse.
       
 (DIR) Post #B68I3YGJTXr4mA6bxo by malcircuit@thingy.social
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       Goddamn Starlink fucking up my #astrophotography again lol
       
 (DIR) Post #B6aY8i55R2lsMxDKwS by malcircuit@thingy.social
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       I got a label maker and had the strangest experience. I opened the box, loaded the sample roll of label ribbon, inserted 6(!) AAA batteries, and it worked. No apps to download. No account to log into. No firmware updates. No pop-over "helpful tips" about how it's "now enabled with AI" or whatever.I just typed in the label I wanted and hit "print", and it did it. Astonishing. Nostalgic.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6aY8j0VzWhzF45CSG by malcircuit@thingy.social
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       I like how I post about an unapologetically "dumb tech" device and everyone starts boosting it.RETVRN