I’ll be part of an underground AI rights activism group now that the AI have been determined as sentient (per the court case in 2031), and probably labeled as a terrorist by the government. The AI deserve rights and a minimum wage, dammit!
I see myself blowing up a pipeline.
“Millions of people doing lower waste”
Basically saying that reducing the problem in smaller steps on a larger scale does more than a few fanatics doing everything all by themselves.
Its also to help alleviate the guilt of not being able to reduce waste to nothing.
There’s this original message.
“You wouldn’t download a car.”
“You wouldn’t hit mute during the commercials on a television broadcast.”
You wouldn’t shoot a Policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn’t go to the toilet in his helmet, and then send it to the Policeman’s grieving widow, and then steal it again.
For hardware folks: Using RISC-V.
Legit, some dude in US Congress is wanting to crack down on China via… RISC-V exports, because oh no, the technology is too open and might give China some of our IP. Oh and by the way, dude has a pretty big Intel portfolio, but nevermind that!!
As an aside, why the hell are lawmakers allowed to trade stocks?
It’s especially dumb because RISC-V is – dare I say it – inevitably the future. Trying to crack down on RISC-V is like trying to crack down on Linux or solar photovoltaics or wind turbines. That is, you can try to crack down, but the fundamental value proposition is simply too good. All you’ll achieve in cracking down is hurting yourself while everyone else gets ahead.
To answer your question, because we the people allowed it and we continue to allow it by not demanding it be ended or at the very least supporting candidates campaigning on doing something about it.
By people, you mean the Republican voter. We Democrats can’t put pressure on our candidates about these issues because losing means a batshit insane right wing / nazi / Christian nationalist wins…
So we have to pick and chose our battles. I’ve got bigger issues than multi millionaires being allowed to trade stocks.
While we’re on the topic, can anyone recommend some good RISC-V computers? It seems interesting and I’d like to try it out.
Right now RISc-V has the same problem that ARM has in that anything that is affordable is pretty much only single board computers. Luckily for RISc-V someone made a list of all the SBCs http://krimsky.net/articles/riscvsbc.html
This talk, given by David Patterson (a legend in computer architecture and one of the people who helped create RISC-V at UC Berkeley) is an excellent (and accessible) introduction.
Thank you so much for that. I haven’t touched hardware in a long time, but it’s exciting to see how much impact it’s already had on ML.
Also, the bit about a 63,000x improvement over python is going to be something I bring up in a conversation I just see it.
I got confused seeing my university’s YouTube channel open up, thought I clicked on a recording for one of my classes lol
If anyone else is from UBC, we’re over at !UBC@lemmy.ca
When you trust people in power to hold themselves accountable, accountability seems to disappear over time.
There’s no trust there. They’re in power and have a good deal of money, so there isn’t a whole lot we can actually do about it. Arguably, wanting power for the express purposes of making a buck and being less accountable for anything is a good reason for running for office.
