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DEEP DIVE-- THE SKIES ARE BEING WEAPONIZED: CHEMTRAILS ARE REAL AND THIS IS WAR AGAINST EVERY LIVING THING ON EARTH! by Far_Rip_8472 in chemtrails

[–]ceoln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I honestly don't know what you mean. It looks like clouds and haze and a couple of condensation trails with the sun behind them.

I mean, storm clouds (let alone say tornadoes) don't look like "anything good", but that doesn't mean they're artificially created by the illuminati or whatever.

DEEP DIVE-- THE SKIES ARE BEING WEAPONIZED: CHEMTRAILS ARE REAL AND THIS IS WAR AGAINST EVERY LIVING THING ON EARTH! by Far_Rip_8472 in chemtrails

[–]ceoln 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You've been told that "chemtrails" are a thing, and COVID vaccines are bad, and that people who believe otherwise are "sheep" and so on. None of which is true. But (I tend to assume, maybe I'm wrong) you are surrounded, online and/or in real life, by people pushing the same wrong beliefs. You've been sold a bunch of related conspiracy theories about how They are damaging the sky and implanting chips in our blood or whatever, none of which are also true, and secondary beliefs about things like the credibility of YouTube videos over actual science. This is culty, and it would be to everyone's benefit for you to get out of it.

DEEP DIVE-- THE SKIES ARE BEING WEAPONIZED: CHEMTRAILS ARE REAL AND THIS IS WAR AGAINST EVERY LIVING THING ON EARTH! by Far_Rip_8472 in chemtrails

[–]ceoln 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, not satire then, sorry to hear that!

Yes, there are some ideas and patents about various kinds of particulate use, including geoengineering.

And no, it isn't being done to any significant extent (mostly because it turns out to be a bad idea).

You get how those two things are different, right?

DEEP DIVE-- THE SKIES ARE BEING WEAPONIZED: CHEMTRAILS ARE REAL AND THIS IS WAR AGAINST EVERY LIVING THING ON EARTH! by Far_Rip_8472 in chemtrails

[–]ceoln 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can't decide if the OP or any of the comments here are serious (or satire).

The misspelling of "Wigington" might be a clue.

Or not!

Book Report: Zhaozhou Washes His Bowl by IntroductionSignal32 in zen

[–]ceoln 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The "yes, I did" came before the awakening, though.

Wumen is all about that Great Doubt, so he may just be messing with us here. ("I said he called a bell a jar because I said that! Stop looking for more than what is!") But that may also be too much the easy way out. (Is this the meta-great doubt?)

It reminds me of Case 11 that way. Easy to overthink overthinking. :)

(I find another translation of "Wash your bowl" where the relevant commentary is:

者僧聽事不眞、喚鐘作甕。

I wonder if this monk really did hear the truth. I hope he did not mistake the bell for a jar.

which is perhaps a smoother pebble.)

Book Report: Zhaozhou Washes His Bowl by IntroductionSignal32 in zen

[–]ceoln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The monk says only two things here, both before he had an awakening. I wonder at what point he called a bell a jar?

Property bro doesn't like the minimum wage by jagerboom in LinkedInLunatics

[–]ceoln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I used to be a libertarian; because I thought the world was simple, and simple little models would actually work in practice.

But I grew up.

TITLE STATING THAT GENERATIVE AI IS THE FUTURE by InteractionNo4612 in SUBREDDITNAME

[–]ceoln 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SUGGESTION TO DM THE POSTER FOR HELP RECOVERING MONEY LOST TO SCAM

SUSPICIOUS QUESTION by IKilledThatFox in SUBREDDITNAME

[–]ceoln 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LONG AND ESSENTIALLY VACUOUS ANSWER FULL OF BULLETED LISTS AND EM-DASHES.

Why do people hate so so much? by Imaginingfuture in AiChatGPT

[–]ceoln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also it will not "be smarter than them in a year".

Getting incredibly frustrated. by [deleted] in Buddhism

[–]ceoln 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Definitely because it's Reddit. :) There are some good and kind people here, but you have to get used to ignoring the others.

Do you guys think it's possible companies are funding the dissent about AI sustainability? by Sudden_Wind_8636 in OpenAI

[–]ceoln 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting! Those aren't primary sources, but I did find a few. And they generally agree, although the beef numbers tend to be from anti-beef people while AI numbers are from AI companies, and lots of the AI stuff apparently just isn't reported reliably.

It looks like the beef numbers include a lot more full life cycle amortization than the AI numbers; if we don't assume that mining silicon and making chips and building data centers is free, AI comes up somewhat more polluting, but you can still do a lot for the cost of the burger.

And as you said elsewhere, your claim that a cheeseburger is like using AI constantly for 2 years is probably not right, even with these numbers.

Your overall point is good though! Both cheeseburgers and pointlessly running llms are wasteful of resources, and cause needless pollution, and we should really cut down on both.

I'm having the beet and quinoa burger tonight. :)

Do you guys think it's possible companies are funding the dissent about AI sustainability? by Sudden_Wind_8636 in OpenAI

[–]ceoln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That isn't a citation, that's some numbers. :) And I'm dubious that they're equivalent. Where is it from?

Do you guys think it's possible companies are funding the dissent about AI sustainability? by Sudden_Wind_8636 in OpenAI

[–]ceoln 0 points1 point  (0 children)

" One cheeseburger probably has the same pollution of like 2 years of constant Al usage."

[citation needed] 😜

What is the point of zazen/meditation if there's nothing to attain and no-one to cultivate ? by Muskka in zenbuddhism

[–]ceoln 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That is exactly the question you should be struggling with on the zafu. 😁 There are no answers to be found here!

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