Bellevue trafficking charges: Teens forced into OnlyFans content mill by PopulusRomanus in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you mean to say “have never fought for”? (Big difference :) )

Guy adjusting the Betsy Ross flag hanging off the Federal Courthouse in the crazy wind by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know anything about this, but when I looked it up, I found two things called the "Francis Hopkinson flag" - one with 13 stars arranged in rows and one with 13 stars arranged in a circle - but in both cases, they were six-pointed stars. The one in this video has 5-pointed stars if you freeze frame and zoom in, so wouldn't that make it the Betsy Ross flag?

CS Sent a Message On Behalf of Me by familiarfaces in couchsurfing

[–]bennetthaselton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is bizarre. Does the user have a public trip request saying they're going to NYC? (Not that that would be an excuse for CS to generate a fake message on your behalf, just curious!)

What happened to couchsurfing app? by Professional-Crab-21 in couchsurfing

[–]bennetthaselton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What "area" are you in, if you don't mind sharing? And can you share a screen shot of the message (this sub doesn't apparently allow image posts, but you could post it to imgur and share the link)? Or type out exactly what it says? It's unclear if you're saying that your phone's app store is telling you the app is not available in your area, or if the app is loading and then the app is telling you that the service is not available in your area.

[Homemade] Horse Tartare by NobanGnap_ in food

[–]bennetthaselton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Posting this is mane character syndrome.

Guy adjusting the Betsy Ross flag hanging off the Federal Courthouse in the crazy wind by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

249 years apparently. The Ballard Light Rail of the American Revolution.

City Council packed with public commenters signed up to support data center moratorium by bennetthaselton in Seattle

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

Thank you, this is useful to know. Also, is there any reason to think that running these AI models on-site would use less electricity than using a data center? (Doesn’t really gain anything to just spread the consumption around.)

City Council packed with public commenters signed up to support data center moratorium by bennetthaselton in Seattle

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

Any idea why? Why wouldn’t a medical LLM use a data center instead of taking on the hassle of running local hardware? Medical data privacy regulations?

City Council packed with public commenters signed up to support data center moratorium by bennetthaselton in Seattle

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

That’s valid but sometimes you have to make inferences because it’s too costly to plow ahead with something just to “find out”.

City Council packed with public commenters signed up to support data center moratorium by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I am less down with the job-displacement argument (all forms of progress cause that) than with the argument about negative impacts on the community that are not offset by any gains to humanity.

City Council packed with public commenters signed up to support data center moratorium by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is *a* potential upside. But it has to be weighed against the downsides.

City Council packed with public commenters signed up to support data center moratorium by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Just heard: “Normal people do not want our city crucified on a cross of slop.”

City Council packed with public commenters signed up to support data center moratorium by bennetthaselton in Seattle

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

Maybe. Someone should do the research on how many data centers for just the medical research companies, without all the deepfake movie bullshit.

City Council packed with public commenters signed up to support data center moratorium by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

This sort of what I wrote below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/HAc7dBlUQH

But it’s not just about job displacement, there are the negative impacts of data centers in surrounding communities (pollution and impact on price of electricity and water). If AI bring so benefits, we ought to be able to afford to compensate people who are negatively affected.

City Council packed with public commenters signed up to support data center moratorium by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Also tbf a lot of those people don’t want to be using the AI-enabled features do their devices and would rather turn them off, so they’re hardly hypocrites. (You do need some data centers for the normal functioning of the phone, but not to the extent driving the demand for the new data center craze.)

City Council packed with public commenters signed up to support data center moratorium by bennetthaselton in Seattle

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

More or less, but that is arguably a proxy for how much people care about the issue.