Spending all the money you have and all the money you can get and all the money you can promise has a number of side effects, such as gigantic data centres full of high-power chips just to run lyin…
  • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 day ago

    +1, also it’s just unrealistic when people say we should stop using orbital data centres. They’re here and we should get used to them, because nothing we do can influence their development. Also, we need to be involved in the space data center industry or we won’t be able to influence their development later.*

    *

    yes, I have heard this in the wild. I have literally heard someone say that there’s nothing we can do about AI and then immediately suggest that we can and should do something about AI.

    • Seminar2250@awful.systemsEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      the chair of my cs department at a public university expressed this sentiment

      “the cat’s out of the bag, now we must teach students to use it responsibly”

      BECAUSE THAT HAS WORKED SO WELL BEFORE

      (sorry for shouting)