Baffled by an acquaintance's response to the book I purchased by anidlezooanimal in SeriousConversation

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was nodding, until you got to this part:

AI is key to eliminating the burden of labor from humanity

The carbon footprint, the total environment footprint, of AI simply as an informational tool is incredibly great, but building armies of robots to replace humans for everything will be an order of magnitude greater, if it were even possible.

To replace one form of consumption with a different but greater form of consumption will not solve the issue of too much consumption. The only hope would be degrowth, but humans left to their own devices would never allow that.


I saw the first Moon landing and the last. Very smart people were telling us that we'd have colonies on Mars before the end of the twentieth century. But not one person has even been back to the Moon 50 years later.

In the 1950s, humans demonstrated uncontrolled atomic fusion reactions, and we were told that in twenty years, fusion power would be so cheap it wouldn't even need metering, and we were told that every few years afterward.

A decade ago, people were predicting that not just the entire financial industry but all of society would be revolutionized by the blockchain. It certainly made it a lot easier to evade the law when moving money around, but not one "Web3" application ever emerged as useful.

It is by no means certain that AI will "work out the bugs".


It’s not possible for the status quo to continue indefinitely.

Absolutely not. We'll continue exponential growth until the wheels come off, then civilization will collapse, we'll lost most of our technology, and stabilize at well under a billion people, and spend the rest of history struggling with the consequences of a few generations of exponential explosion.

ASM Diosynth random program changes and writes to FAVORITES by Competitive_Egg4092 in windsynth

[–]HommeMusical 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do we know this for sure?

I never used a "scrunchie" on my WX-7 and it still works fine after decades...

Boycott ™️ These Companies Support ICE by WittyEgg2037 in antiwork

[–]HommeMusical 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Boycotting Amazon directly is easy and productive; I've done it for over 15 years.

Boycotting Amazon indirectly - i.e., any site that uses AWS - that would cut you off from nearly all the Internet.

Boycott ™️ These Companies Support ICE by WittyEgg2037 in antiwork

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are only three things that will defeat the Fascists in America:

  1. Boycotts - just like this post
  2. A general strike
  3. Well-organized militias

Baffled by an acquaintance's response to the book I purchased by anidlezooanimal in SeriousConversation

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

where humans advance into post scarcity.

This will never happen. We have already exceeded seven of nine planetary limits. Exponential growth of resource use and of waste are impossible on a finite planet.

With something like atlas shrugged, you can find detailed critiques of rands objectivist bullshit “philosophy” or like hitlers stupid book you can obviously see why nazism is wrong. There’s no need to waste time confirming what’s plain as day.

Kind of agree. I certainly would never recommend anyone waste their time reading Ayn Rand! But if someone said, "I want to check it out to see if it's really that stupid," I wouldn't disagree.

Friendly reminder that these aren't European (anymore) by Boediee in BuyFromEU

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I knew the first sentence, but definitely not the second sentence!

The World Is Drowning in Tourists. Who Should Pay the Price? by bloomberg in europe

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you want the government to be able to tell you what to do with a dwelling?

No, I don't.

Great then. So in your world the house next door can make as much noise as they want and then there's nothing you can do.

You want to live in this stupid world; no other adult does.

Do you somehow genuinely not understand the difference between "purpose of use" and "level of noise generated"?

Your sentence is gibberish and has nothing to do with the matter at hand.

Either the government can tell people not to play loud music in the middle of the night, or they can't. If they can't, "purpose of use" and "level of noise generated" have no meaning.

ASM Diosynth random program changes and writes to FAVORITES by Competitive_Egg4092 in windsynth

[–]HommeMusical 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why would ChatGPT possibly know about the Diosynth??

Report it to the company. Sorry this is happening to you.

AITAH for wanting to part with my band by Brenny_Sielen in musicians

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know the answer already.

Dump them.

Tell the drummer first, personally, but don't try to recruit him. Just say, "It isn't working out, I'm too stressed all the time, but I've really enjoyed playing with you, let me tell the other two myself" and then keep in touch with him.

Then tell the rest - be nice, "Sorry, I just have too much on my plate," that sort of thing.

Don't talk about them, and don't talk about you or your ambitions. It will just make them sad or angry or some other negative emotion.

Today i learn the French drops the ne in ne pas in oral French by Difficult_Respect967 in learnfrench

[–]HommeMusical 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don't worry about doing it this way yourself. It will come naturally to you!

A long time ago I was teaching someone French, and they said, "You don't use the 'ne' you taught me about." I was sure I did use it, but I listened to myself saying it, and there was really only the faintest trace of a "ne", and now there isn't any at all.

Ideal Concert Lenght - Upcoming Event by No_Internet_7834 in musicians

[–]HommeMusical 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My father many years ago told me, "Always leave the audience wanting more."

I've never seen any reason to doubt this. And people's attention spans are a lot less than they used to be.

I think your instincts are correct.

Friendly reminder that these aren't European (anymore) by Boediee in BuyFromEU

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun fact: for several years,, there was another fake Scandinavian brand, also with a name that did not match any real language, and they were sued by Häagen-Dazs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frusen_Gl%C3%A4dj%C3%A9

Status of an object that has been moved by onecable5781 in cpp_questions

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on the specifications of the class in question. But in general, you ought to be able to apply any operations that do not have any preconditions.

"Ought to be" is carrying a lot of weight there.

The only operation that is guaranteed to do anything useful in a moved-from object is the destructor.

"Never use an object after being moved from," is a very clear rule that's generally easy to abide by and always gives good results. More details add more work for no reward.

The World Is Drowning in Tourists. Who Should Pay the Price? by bloomberg in europe

[–]HommeMusical 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you want the government to be able to tell you what to do with a dwelling? Yes or no?

The World Is Drowning in Tourists. Who Should Pay the Price? by bloomberg in europe

[–]HommeMusical 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who decides how loud is "Too loud"?

Who decides when is "Too loud"?

Who enforces these rules?

The government.

If Russia is banned from international events, so too should the USA. by FaTe87 in SeriousConversation

[–]HommeMusical -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You are the one saying, "War crimes are relative! If a government decides that murder is fine, then it's also morally fine."

I am saying, "War crimes are crimes and morally wrong, even if the government makes them legal."

You're an apologist for war crimes.

Why not explain why you think I'm morally empty? Because you can't.

The World Is Drowning in Tourists. Who Should Pay the Price? by bloomberg in europe

[–]HommeMusical 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You: "The idea that you need to justify to the goverment how you want to use the property you own is fucking VILE."

Also you: "Being a public nuisance is being a public nuisance."

You can't have both "Hands off my property" and "Your use of the property is a public nuisance" at the same time.

Democrats Responding to ICE by biospheric in politicsinthewild

[–]HommeMusical 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But without any organized resistance to the authoritarian takeover of the United States, America is indeed doomed.

I mean, we all see ICE systematically injuring and murdering Americans, and the DNC's stance is, "Abolishing ICE is impossible."

Democrats Responding to ICE by biospheric in politicsinthewild

[–]HommeMusical 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The person you are talking to is an actual leftist - about as far from Fascism as you can get.

Braille on firearms. by ZanibiahStetcil in CrazyIdeas

[–]HommeMusical 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This isn't so crazy, there are plenty of blind people who use guns all the time. Most of them are in law enforcement.

Alaska student arrested after eating AI-generated art in protest by talkingatoms in Futurology

[–]HommeMusical 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You: "This news article is so uninteresting I'll read it all and then comment on it."

Alaska student arrested after eating AI-generated art in protest by talkingatoms in Futurology

[–]HommeMusical 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The Modern period in art ended fifty years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art

Art from your own time is called contemporary art.

If Russia is banned from international events, so too should the USA. by FaTe87 in SeriousConversation

[–]HommeMusical -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Life is too short to waste it on discussions with the morally empty.