This is sort of true but it is also the case that smallholder farmers typically do much more intensive cultivation than larger plantations. There are both economies and diseconomies of scale in farming.

Data centers obviously should be centralized though.

ai hater blocklist coming through once again...

We could perhaps save some time if we start with this sentence, and whether you agree with it.

HEADLINE: they actually put transparent legs on geodude at a parade in japan Three mascots of Pokémon, one of whom is Geodude a cranky rock man. He has transparent legs

WALTER CRONKITE (gravely):

you can ask claude to do your taxes and make no mistakes. probably it'll work fine and if it doesn't there'll be a better claude by the time you get audited

For me, these takes would be more compelling if they weren't happening in retrospect. The math guys *predicted* and then manifested AI starting in 1957, with the Perceptron, if not before. The critique thinkpieces started like 5 mins ago. I try to tune into takes with longer-term predictive value.

I agree it's false but I don't think it's obviously false! If it was, people wouldn't argue as much about it.

But the falsifiability is a big difference.

you know this is arguably unhinged but it's not really Zitron-style in that the claims are basically ideological and not really falsifiable,

whereas the Zitron classic is just like "Claude 4.6 Opus is not able to add two digit numbers and so they have a man in Guyana who adds them very fast"

AI is really so dangerous. it's always luring you into LLM psychosis, trying to convince you of things. but no matter how often claude tells me to get therapy, i will stand tall and refuse

let's be real though… they're both PR jobs where you destroy your body for people watching at home

i can't believe kanye said this on his new album. he always has known how to adapt to the times.

Wired has a piece out today on the topic of the Woke 2 meme. Their conclusion? It's not a real cultural moment, because culture right now is when right wingers do things. Bad take and I disagree!

re my op -- is it ok if my id is dl re my bf if he is an ai ?? ik im yt so my gc is on it rn .. we dk if he is yt or if he is ?? so we dk if dl is ok to id as .. if it is up to me ig dl is ok ?? do we fw it or is it un pc or ?? dm me ur 2c if yk if dl is ok if im yt re an ai bf

i would love a blocklist / labeler for "aggressively joins pile-ons" and "borderline malicious reading comprehension"

"the cruelty is the point" can be true about posters as well

shutting down the hormuz strait forever actually goes way beyond the ambitions of any ecoterrorist. he's going for the nobel for climate action.

i can't tell if it's bait for how it mimics the "by all known laws of physics a bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly" bit

As a "bumble bee" you must be familiar with the idea that according to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.

this place continues to fascinate me

i think there are some places where it makes sense if it reduces dwell time enough, or where there are unusually high costs for fare collection

Doing the latter, with a set of guidelines and evals, is often actually a very good way to do moderation. Typically the Anthropic models have been slightly better but… it is literally that.

this got 1000 RTs on the other site… some of you need to step up

they're doing 156 quote-skeets about a five like tweet on bluesky

that's a different question than "can they prevent a person who has the dataset from sharing it, and prevent people with it from doing what they like with it"!

actually it does. i hope this helps.

it is impossible to "convert from pdf"

as a coworker of his, I can tell you Cheng spent way more than $40 on this lol. but still a tractable amount.

you know, it worked for dan white

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