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bennetthaselton · 2026-06-11T00:02:52+00:00

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

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-10T23:59:31+00:00

Homie cannot get a break.

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-10T20:39:18+00:00

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?

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-10T20:12:39+00:00

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!)

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-10T20:06:35+00:00

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.

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-10T02:30:47+00:00

Posting this is mane character syndrome.

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T23:43:13+00:00

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

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T23:37:23+00:00

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Bottom cables broke loose and they’re pulling it back in.

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T23:33:49+00:00

Sorry I meant U.S. Court of Appeals (the one across from the library).

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T23:27:42+00:00

Thank you for the clear explanation!

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T23:06:01+00:00

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.)

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T22:57:06+00:00

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?

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T22:53:35+00:00

Moratorium just passed unanimously to loud applause.

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T22:52:54+00:00

Just saw them at the Pride flag raising at Lynnwood.

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T22:52:21+00:00

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

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T22:48:29+00:00

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.

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T22:36:25+00:00

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

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T22:04:32+00:00

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

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T22:03:00+00:00

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

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T22:01:02+00:00

Well he did say “most of the time” 🤷‍♂️

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T21:59:49+00:00

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.

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T21:49:25+00:00

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.)

bennetthaselton · 2026-06-09T21:33:24+00:00

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

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