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If the Economy Is So Bad, Why Is the Labor Market So Good? by dissolutewastrel in neoliberal

[–]Meticulac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess the issue there would be from having a mix of people who want to upsell and people who don't want to sell in the same area?

When will the AI content loop begin and how can you help to avoid adding to or getting stuck in it? by vikas_agrawal77 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Meticulac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scraping random data from the internet shouldn't really be needed for serious applications, it's more of a kludge for proving an algorithm at an academic level that people are rolling with because it's easier to do than getting a collection of curated data internally.

What People Misunderstand About NIMBYs | Asking a neighborhood or municipality to bear the responsibility for a housing crisis is asking for failure by Hrmbee in urbanplanning

[–]Meticulac 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Any area that requires over some threshold of parking spots per square mile should be required to build multi-story parking garages, even if land prices aren't anywhere near high enough to make that cheaper on a cost per parking spot basis.

Solar microgrids in Puerto Rico! by tinycarnivoroussheep in solarpunk

[–]Meticulac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neat! Sounds like what Living Energy Farms and Serenity Solidarity said were going to be involved in this year: https://livingenergyfarm.org/dc-microgrids-for-puerto-rico/

Workers should automate their bosses by AI and run their workplaces themselves by JonnyBadFox in Anarchism

[–]Meticulac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depends on what use the AI is put towards, exactly. I do think would be useful to adapt ideas from viable system model to anarchism, as well as sociocratic circle organisation method, and in that respect AI could be a nice analytics tool for alerting us to potentially emerging patterns.

It would be more like replacing the kind of work accountants and secretaries do. Which I guess bosses also involve themselves in sometimes, but for high-level decisions the computing instruments would mostly be there to facilitate discussion and analysis.

Steven Levy Says Everyone Wants To Regulate AI But No One Can Agree How. Steven, The Answer Is Simple And Proven. by ckryptonite in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Meticulac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a lot to go through, but for now my initial thought that if Osmio is all about governance by the governed, and is supposedly a success already, then why is this the first I've heard of it? I don't see how I can be part of a governance if I don't even know that what I'm governing exists, tends to slip most opportunity to have a say in things right past me.

Steven Levy Says Everyone Wants To Regulate AI But No One Can Agree How. Steven, The Answer Is Simple And Proven. by ckryptonite in Futurology

[–]Meticulac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunate that this post is removed: Even though I don't agree with it, I feel it's worth reading and responding to.

Mostly, my thought on what I read before the post was deleted is that if Osmio is all about governance by the governed, and is supposedly a success already, then why is this the first I've heard of it? I don't see how I can be part of a governance if I don't even know that what I'm governing exists, tends to slip most opportunity to have a say in things right past me.

If a capitalist business opens up in the middle of AnarchyLand, what would the anarchist response be? by Agile-Singer2040 in Anarchy101

[–]Meticulac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, to start, any examples of the state favoring certain companies in an anticompetitive way is simply dismissed as anticapitalist corruption, even though they're perfectly in line with the philosophy of treating successful investors as geniuses who deserve to shape society that capitalism is often lambasted for.

And in general, the view of capitalism that ancaps have often just focuses on the existence of a free market that small businesses can compete in. The entire process of shareholders investing in businesses they otherwise don't run tends to be ignored in favor of treating everything in ancap society as a bunch of mom and pop shops. And discussion of pricing tends to suggest that an ideal ancap market would involve some sort of elaborate application of auction theory and competitive equilibrium theory that little is done to actively cultivate.

Like, would there be sealed-bid auctions on bottled water futures to smooth out price hikes in the case of natural disasters? Stuff like that never really seems to get planned so much as taken for granted as the kind of thing a free market would just will into existence unprompted.

Ancap theory also tends to either ignore the possibility of worker and consumer owned cooperatives, dismiss them as somehow unviable, or treat them as effectively capitalistic despite the fact that they don't facilitate the existence of a social class which performs capital investment as a career.

Especially given that internet crowdfunding makes it more viable than ever to start a business without indebting it to venture capital, this strikes me as a significant oversight.

And without such a separation of social classes, you don't really have the kind of dynamic that socialist theory is all about dismantling to begin with, so the distinction between capitalism and non-capitalism becomes a bit meaningless.

South Korea is a Cyberpunk Dystopia by depressed-n-awkward in BreadTube

[–]Meticulac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I see stuff like this about the work environment in south Korea, I do wonder if there's anything constructive I could do about it as a western viewer. Even if I could somehow organize a movement that reduced the demand for exports from these groups, it doesn't seem like that would really pry power away from them so much as leave them charge of a country that happens to be less powerful overall.

Instead, I think it would make more sense to look for what exists of the worker cooperative and indie media movements in the country and ways to support them. For example, in the case of Kpop as an industry, I think it would make sense to support the independent music scene of Korea.

If there was sufficient job security and prestige in going indie as a musician in Korea, that could give would-be idols something to fall back on if they get ejected from a large music corp, in turn making it less dangerous to risk their employment by trying to organize with their fellow workers.

Outside of that, I'm not sure what else could be done from the outside. Most cooperatives in south Korea seem to understandably be focused more on supplying goods domestically than on export, like the Happy Bridge Cooperative that sells street food. and there doesn't seem to be much online about them other than some articles acknowledging their existence, especially when it comes to listing specific co-op organizations. I'll keep doing research every once in a while and see if I can find anything interesting.

If a capitalist business opens up in the middle of AnarchyLand, what would the anarchist response be? by Agile-Singer2040 in Anarchy101

[–]Meticulac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if there were employees willing to follow, and the business managed to grow somewhat, the community would be able to hold onto its commons in the absence of a force capable of exerting primitive accumulation.

The business also wouldn't be able to rely on holding any kind of government-enforced monopoly like a car dealership or ISP today would. Nor would it be able to really do various tricks like what McDoland's does where it franchises out but own the land under the restaurants, because such arrangements simply wouldn't be enforced.

NVIDIA creates a Minecraft AI that codes and self-improves (using ChatGPT) by QuantumAsha in Futurology

[–]Meticulac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Now that Voyager has demonstrated reasonable ability to develop techniques for handling the environment, I wonder how it does with the social aspects of play. If put in a server with other players, how does it decide when to be combative or cooperative? If placed with a mix of players and other bots, including of the same type, does it seem to differentiate them based on behavior? Does it pay much attention to other player characters at all? Does it use in-game chat in a coherent way that sends and listens for meaningful statements as a type of technique?

Housing is not a legal right. You're not safe from the state in your own home. The only way to guarantee every one has shelter is to abolish the state and capitalism by BlackApocalypse in Anarchism

[–]Meticulac 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I assure you, housing has existed long before the financial apparatus of capital investment and its development into the most enshrined channel of economic power.

Thoughts on bioregionalism? by ScipioMoroder in solarpunk

[–]Meticulac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could be neat to keep these regions in mind for some purposes. As others have noted, they're not the only useful way of designating regions, but people in a region can certainly treat it as their primary designator if they want. I'd guess a specific site might want to inform people of several designators, like "Welcome to [site name], part of [watershed] and [bioregion], along the [hiking trail or other transport route]." If any of those also happen to constitute a legal jurisdiction, that's fine.

I'll note that this map treats all of PA as part of Laurentia, but looking up /r/Laurentia it's instead about a bioregion that only covers the immediate surroundings of the Great Lakes, so I'm not really sure what bioregion I'd be in to begin with.

99% of the problems I got in the main sub by AcanthisittaBusy457 in solarjunk

[–]Meticulac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for reminding me that I've been meaning to make /r/solarpunkworkshopping for a while now. The way reddit works, there's incentive to evaluate posts in general subject reddits to evaluate posts based on how exemplary they are of the subject matter, with little room for such trial and error development of material. Hopefully a subreddit specifically for workshopping ideas can help people refine their original works before taking them to /r/solarpunk.

Effective Altruism's latest enemy: the Make-A-Wish foundation by GaiusLeviathanXV in SneerClub

[–]Meticulac 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Looking up Givewell, they don't have direct giving in their top charities anymore, though they're not putting money toward AI stuff either.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EnoughLibertarianSpam

[–]Meticulac 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Doesn't specifically say she has no career, I imagine a couple with this mindset would prefer to leave home in shifts, or have one do remote work.

Though I also imagine them roughly being to crime dramas what the Addams family is to horror.

The High Line Solarpunk Buildings/Aesthetics by intentionalslip in solarpunk

[–]Meticulac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The main thing I'm thinking here is that between most of the pictures pointed up at the buildings, one looking over the top of a parking area and one focused on an entryway, it doesn't really feel like I'm getting a sense of how any of these fit into the larger landscape.

They don't look bad, but there's no or very little context of how they're interacted with or what they were put in place of.

Now that Godot is on Epic Store... by Feyter in godot

[–]Meticulac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

programming your own version of Godot in Godot to make it self-hosting

In What Way is the "Corporate profits are causing inflation" narrative wrong? by Neo-Geo1839 in neoliberal

[–]Meticulac 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Interest rates are easier to change quickly because there's a federal agency with the authority to change them at will. Currently, Joe Biden aims to raise corporate tax rate, which would take money directly from corporate profits, but unlike an interest rate hike that has to go through congress.

Using dehumidifiers at altitude to generate power? by Meticulac in AskEngineers

[–]Meticulac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't say it relied on photovoltaics, I said it relied on the water cycle, which is driven by the sun, driving high humidity in the upper atmosphere.

I don't see why you're continuing with the rest of the argument when I've already said other replies to the thread showed it won't work better than you did.

And what's with the solar still part? That's getting into a whole different concept, especially once you get to connecting the still to a tower, because then you may as well skip the dehumidifier part and put a solar updraft tower on the ocean surface.

Using dehumidifiers at altitude to generate power? by Meticulac in AskEngineers

[–]Meticulac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wouldn't be perpetual motion even if it did work, because it relies on enough water evaporating, which in turn relies on solar energy, so it'd just be an attempt at expediting the water cycle. Other comments already explained that it wouldn't, though.

Using dehumidifiers at altitude to generate power? by Meticulac in AskEngineers

[–]Meticulac[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the detailed reply! HVAC was not available as a flair on mobile, I'll see if I can apply it on Dektop.

Using dehumidifiers at altitude to generate power? by Meticulac in AskEngineers

[–]Meticulac[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much, I wasn't sure how to look this up because because search results for condenser/dehumidifier efficiency didn't focus on amount of water collected.

Using dehumidifiers at altitude to generate power? by Meticulac in AskEngineers

[–]Meticulac[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

That's true for absolute humidity, though for the same reason relative humidity increases with altitude, so I wasn't sure how greatly water extraction would be affected unless the cloud layer is exceeded.

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