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Those children’s gruesome deaths are acceptable necessary sacrifices if they help us get rich people to Elysium sooner, according to Longtermists.

What OS & browser are you using?

Edit: (works for me) (sorry to be that asshole)

Edit: direct link to MP4 file: https://l.opnxng.com/vid/shdo0tdttidd1/480.mp4

Edit: what the fuck, it has no audio

Edit: uh, I gotta “enable HLS” whatever that is

Edit: okay now it works for me, but I can’t download or direct link, I guess that reddit mirror shoves their vid into some kinda JavaScript apparatus

Edit: here is the cspan clip link: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4844894/user-clip-isolationism-bad-policy

What is the impact on the biosphere of a single person born in the West? Isn’t it something absurd like, detonating a nuclear bomb or two?

Security is not a wall. It is a maze.

This article is too short and shallow to be useful or interesting.

Fuck yeah. Abolish that stupid fucking shit. Just fuckin do it already.

USA will rage quit. Oh well. Fuck us. We can go fuck ourselves.

Seeing some sort of integration of Prometheus and Raised by Wolves would have been bad ass.

But fuck HBO.

Texas is pure insanity, continues to descend into a corrupt oligarchy, with treats and pardons for allies, and slashing public funding for every other conceivable state service.

Power outages, from ice storms in winter and >100°F Sahara and Arizona level temperatures for months in a row in summer. Hail storms dropping softball size hail on entire neighborhoods, mine included.

Migrants continue to get their skulls cracked by border patrol and deported, while cartels operate with near impunity, leaving a headless corpse on an interstate highway for police to try to quietly sweep under the rug every year.

Meanwhile every single person to whom I speak about the clear descent of Western society into fascist, technocratic oligarchy just dismisses my concerns with obtuseness, gaslighting, masturbatory sophistry, or outright defense of fascism in the name of their shallow personal identity.

They still are. Most of the big players have been using algorithm specific processors, which aren’t portable to the LLM applications.

Plus there’s a reward change coming up soon, which usually predicates a bull run in the cryptocurrency “markets”. Yes, VC money is drying up for these firms, but the independent miners will keep going. I bet there will even be blockchain based applications which are integrated into AI generative applications. It’s gonna be madness.

So, we will probably see doubling or worse existing power consumption with no end in sight.

This sounds crazy, but computing technology resembles a parasitic life form, with exponential consumption rates. Or maybe that’s just venture capitalists.

Back in 2003 when I was waiting tables during university studies, my Physics II professor gave us the equation to determine wattage from solar irradiance based on photovoltaic conversion rates. At the time, it was something like 30% efficiency. I did some napkin math, and figured out that it would take around $1.2 trillion to buy enough PV cells from a retail supplier to build a 90 mile by 90 mile square PV farm deployed somewhere like New Mexico which could generate enough electricity to power every economic sector in the US – residential, commercial, industrial. Then, in 2008 during the mortgage and credit default swap financial crisis, Obama gave $800 billion of taxpayer funds directly to the banks to make them solvent, and directed the Fed to begin the disastrous QE policy, dumping $24+ trillion into the economy over the next decade and a half.

When Obama did that, that is when I realized that this country (America) and maybe even human beings at large are simply too stupid, too short-sighted, too selfish and primitive to do what is necessary to make our civilization a sustainable one.