I learned about this via Guix but didn’t notice that. Nice!

I believe there will be people who let LLMs only do untrusted jobs. Human writes a specification, AI writes an implementation along with a proof that it adheres to the spec.

I think a better example is that programmers use AI to autocomplete text. They could write the exact same text by hand or use a dumber autocomplete but there is no reason to. The product is exactly the same just delivered with slightly less wear on the programmer’s fingers.

The amount of meat people want to eat necessitates factory farming and that is a great breeding ground for animal-borne disease. Meat also concentrates heavy metals in the animal’s diet. The quantity of meat consumption is making us sick.

Depends on the rate. Mortgages can be extremely cheap and some can’t be paid off quickly anyway.

It depends on what you are practicing. If it involves things out of your control, for instance poker, you definitely shouldn’t adjust after every result. In the poker case that leads to not playing well just because you lost one time.

Even in less random things you have to be absolutely sure you found the problem before adjusting.

Oof. Mechanicus starts out ok, even has some cool mechanics but then gets utterly trivial and just keeps going like that.

Are you playing modded Xcom? I enjoyed a run with amalgamation classes, gem-based psi and lots of mods to make the enemies harder but it has been shelved for a while because the Humanity’s requiem Mutons are too much to take on and I need to think about how much to sacrifice to pass missions until my weapon upgrade finishes.

The writing is seriously good. I enjoy just reading random furniture descriptions.

The only reason I haven’t beaten it yet is that it feels repetitive since the main story and certain profitable side quests are always the same.

While some RNG like the faction relationships add great and flavorful variety, others like the medicine recipes are technically different every time but it doesn’t matter.

Der KI ist nicht giftig.

Stromverbrauch ist auch kein Thema obwohl man auf Lemmy anders meint. Die neuen modelle herstellen verbraucht 1 GW, kann man aber nichts gegen machen, die Singularitätsreligion ist zu stark. Modelle benutzen ist billig.

Maybe it is different elsewhere but according to my calculations, renting property is not very profitable. Investing in stocks is better if you only want to make money and do not care about the apartment otherwise.

You can’t easily get your money out of the property and if loan rates go up, you pay more and the property value goes down.

The real parasite is the bank who takes a cut but has little risk as the money it lends out is created from thin air.

My guess would be that using a desktop computer to make the queries and read the results consumes more power than the LLM, at least in the case of quickly answering models.

The expensive part is training a model but usage is most likely not sold at a loss, so it can’t use an unreasonable amount of energy.

Instead of this ridiculous energy argument, we should focus on the fact that AI (and other products that money is thrown at) aren’t actually that useful but companies control the narrative. AI is particularly successful here with every CEO wanting in on it and people afraid it is so good it will end the world.

It is easy to come up with nonsense. I much more respect works that explore the consequences of one fantastical thing.

These at least show up when logged in but are there ones that you can’t see at all without VPN?

I think it helps to look at other problems caused by fossil fuel use. Higher CO2 concentrations make breathing air worse. Ocean acidification kills fish etc.

I did enjoy World though it involved a lot of interacting with bad UI and walking to a monster. Can’t really complain about grind, as you don’t have to fight the same monster too much. The story cutscenes and missions were painfully bad.

What I did like was fighting one big enemy rather that hordes of small ones, having to be close and it being risky, exotic weapon movesets. It is great that you can and do use the environment to your advantage all the time.

I would like to see a game that does the fighting big enemies in terrain but with more physics based attacks. The hitbox-based combat where you can put your hammer inside the beast and then swing feels silly.

I didn’t like the equipment upgrades much as they only get interesting late in the game and all weapons of the same base type are essentially the same.

ME is a relatively bland shooter IMO.

On KotOR you may be missing the point. It barely has any gameplay. Combat is pretty easy and over quickly. The point of anything in that game is storytelling and fun quests, the mechanics are just good enough to not get in your way too much.

One thing to note is that many people agree that Taris sucks because it is mostly linear and the fun quests only start when the game opens up. Taris may be necessary to set up the plot, though.

Plant varieties are essentially inbred, so to get strong but still predictable plants, you need to cross two varieties that have some genetic distance.

The plants resulting from a cross are called F1. F1 seeds are comparatively expensive because of the effort required to make them. (Still, they are very cheap compared to other expenses.)

If the storebought peppers are F1 then their seeds are F2 and will be a random combination of parent traits instead of the perfectly predictable F1.

Another reason to buy seed is that you can grow much more interesting peppers. For instance beautiful purple striped Blot peppers or tasty Jimmy Nardellos.

We still have a lot of roofs that could have solar on them. Scaling up nuclear will deplete fuel mines faster because the isotopes that are legal due to arms treaties are pretty limited.

I see search engines as the top use case. Even the current tech that is very bad at citing its sources could be used to filter out garbage sites from web search.

I’m not claiming that electric transmission is more efficient always because it isn’t. But as you say it is close.

In a scenario where a train drives at a constant speed forever, attaching the engine to the wheels directly is a clear winner.

However, with varying torque requirements, an ICE can’t always operate at maximum efficiency. They are especially bad at starting from a standstill. You can get a good overview of the concept from this wiki article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_band