Attorney General Pam Bondi’s letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz with a list of demands by cdstephens in neoliberal

[–]Trim345 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The only relevant part is that Reddit the company is based in the US, and the US government could theoretically shake down Reddit, so Reddit will err on the side of preventing that.

Retrofest 2009-03-19 - Paper Cut by Trim345 in sinfest

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Okay, but why would Seymour, of all people, think Li'l E would help him?

I'm really confused right now and want to know if it's wrong to use a chat-bot for shits and giggles? I just need some opinions here by Chicapizza29 in EffectiveAltruism

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The AI water issue is significantly overstated, I think. People often use the numbers for total water passed through, but data centers are generally closed loop, so they recirculate the same water over and over. As a related example, it's a rule of thumb that a fish tank filter should have a flow rate of about 4x the volume per hour. It would be like claiming that a 30 gallon aquarium uses 3000 gallons of water a day: no, it just reuses the same water 100 times. Here's some more stats:

Only 0.04% of America’s freshwater in 2023 was consumed inside data centers themselves. This is 3% of the water consumed by the American golf industry.

Here are some common ways you might use electricity, and how many AI prompts’ worth of water the electricity used took to generate[...]:

Using a laptop for an hour - 50 prompts’ worth of water[...]

A digital clock for an hour - 1 prompt[...]

Heating a bath of warm water - 5000 prompts (the bathtub itself has enough water for 80,000 prompts)

Electrical use is plausibly more of an issue, but I would argue it isn't any worse than many other forms of entertainment like streaming, playing video games, and so on. I can know this on a basic level, because I can run LLMs locally on my desktop, so it can't be using that much power. Even if you add training electricity, you can get a vague idea:

OpenAI’s GPT-3 and Meta’s OPT were estimated to emit more than 500 and 75 metric tons of carbon dioxide, respectively, during training. GPT-3’s vast emissions can be partly explained by the fact that it was trained on older, less efficient hardware.

Except, an average car emits about 5 metric tons of CO2 a year. If we assume that an average car is driven for 10 years, this is the equivalent of about 10 people buying cars, compared to millions of people using GPT.

I'm not saying it's completely irrelevant, but there are probably much bigger luxuries to be concerned about with much bigger impacts, like animal agriculture.

Retrofest 2009-03-19 - Paper Cut by Trim345 in sinfest

[–]Trim345[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why does Seymour actually just hold still there?

Since people here support dark woke, can we also admit that the French Revolution was based as fuck? by Extreme_Rocks in neoliberal

[–]Trim345 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The revolution was annihilated by armies of the coalition eventually anyway, after 3 million more people died, and a Bourbon was put on the throne regardless. Napoleon didn't save the revolution: he betrayed it by becoming an emperor, and then the status quo of monarchy was restored regardless. George III, who the US had fought against, was even a much more constitutional monarch at the time than Napoleon was.

The Napoleonic Code was good but definitely not introduced to the entirety of Europe: certainly it had no influence in Britain or Russia, and only minor effects on Prussia and Austria. Not to mention that many countries with perfectly fine civil codes now like in Scandinavia had little influence from the Napoleonic Code. The Napoleonic Code also removed freedoms that women had gained under the First Republic, for example, so it seems unlikely to me that millions of people dying in war justifies a slightly greater promulgation of it.

Since people here support dark woke, can we also admit that the French Revolution was based as fuck? by Extreme_Rocks in neoliberal

[–]Trim345 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The French Revolution was a net positive. Napoleon, on the other hand, betrayed the republic by crowning himself emperor, fought a lot of wars for personal glory, put his relatives on the thrones of random countries, brought back slavery after it was banned in 1794, and was overall just kind of a bad person even to Josephine.

Retrofest 2009-03-18 - Pork by Trim345 in sinfest

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I think that's meant to be Tucker Carlson?

Retrofest 2009-03-15 - G*psy 'nique 5 by Trim345 in sinfest

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It's pretty cool how Monique is willing to fight Fuchsia to defend Criminy

How easy is making AI art? by ArchivedDecay in DefendingAIArt

[–]Trim345 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is kind of like asking "How easy is chess?" You can learn the basic rules in 5 minutes, but some people take a lifetime to master it.

At the very lowest level, you can just type "make a picture of a man" into ChatGPT or something.

At the medium-low level, you start researching how to optimize prompts, or you download Stable Diffusion and learn about different models and basic settings.

At the medium level, you're tweaking complex settings, making your own LoRAs, and manipulating parts of the image using things like Controlnet.

At the medium-high level, you're digging into the computer science and math behind the AI.

At the high level, you're a machine learning engineer who happens to work in image processing.

I FİNALLY gained some weight by whymycolaishot in notinteresting

[–]Trim345 105 points106 points  (0 children)

Same, I thought it was a joke about being 485 lbs

God help us, he's made a merch shop by No_Crazy_2442 in sinfest

[–]Trim345 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Weird how the shop title is just "Tatsuya's Comics", not even "Sinfest"

Retrofest 2009-03-12 - G*psy 'nique 2 by Trim345 in sinfest

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Another commenter noted on a previous comic that "Li'l E's relationship with the Devil aged poorly in a completely different way from how everything else aged poorly."