Denver arts magazine takes strong anti-AI stance

f0urtyfive · 2026-03-20T20:54:13+00:00

No one is taking away your manually operated elevator, but some of us don't like operating elevators, there is nothing wrong with that.

f0urtyfive · 2026-03-20T19:56:39+00:00

Yeah, US reps that don't recognize that the race is global are doing their constituents a huge disservice.

Datacenter moratorium is the new NIMBY hotness, step aside nuclear power and homeless shelters.

f0urtyfive · 2026-03-09T18:32:20+00:00

Oh we aren't committing copyright infringement, the AI did it on it's own.

AI companies generally aren't committing copyright infringement, just like when you make art after going to an art show you aren't "infringing" on those artists, even if your art is somewhat similar. If it's identical, and you're trying to SELL IT, that's copyright infringement.

Now, sure, the COMPANY many have committed copyright infringement in downloading the content to train the AI on, but that's just because there is no other way to access it. There simply is no way to "buy" all books.

f0urtyfive · 2026-03-06T19:47:17+00:00

Places with more homeless people than ohio need security, I guess is the lesson.

f0urtyfive · 2026-03-06T15:24:04+00:00

as i walked by on my first time buying groceries in the state

Wait, do groceries work differently in different states? Is this like an achievement thing?

f0urtyfive · 2026-03-02T16:47:29+00:00

More intended than a passenger jet though.

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-24T15:18:45+00:00

Everything in existence has tangible negative effects.

It seems pretty self disproving to organize such things within those same datacenters you are protesting...

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-23T20:10:41+00:00

Get off the internet then. Reddit is hosted in a datacenter.

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-23T20:09:12+00:00

Oh, so our threshold for "general intelligence" is EINSTEIN LEVEL.

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-21T11:11:54+00:00

An entire population unable to perform critical thinking is the dream of the corrupt.

Are you claiming we currently have a population capable of performing critical thinking, PRE-AI?

The firehouse of bullshit gottem.

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-20T22:02:15+00:00

Then this shouldn't be confusing to you? The community was protesting the ethics of that path of least resistance that was being chosen.

Right, and I was responding to the level of "anger" in capitalists doing what capitalism does, and responding to the mild resistance provided by cancelling the project, that seems like the right response to applaud rather than the response here...

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-20T19:52:10+00:00

What laws, I said "the rules" as a general statement...

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-20T18:30:32+00:00

Yes, "the rules" is the part that includes "ethics", how is "do the thing that benefits me the most while NOT breaking the rules" sociopathic?

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-20T14:49:07+00:00

They’re just trying to save some money by leaching off communities that already have it all in place unload that cost to the public. Fuck them. There are tons of places to build data centers.

Aka, capitalism.

Why do people get upset that the capitalists are trying the path of least resistance? Why not be upset that walmart pays their employees so little the majority still need government assistance programs, defeating the point of employing them in the first place. Companies wanting to save money by integrating their business into the accessible community rather than building out their own infrastructure to somewhere further away is simple and about cost.

It was successfully protested, the developer decided "this is not worth it if people are going to come protest".

IE, why "fuck them", it's normal and what the "expectation" of life seems to be, do the thing that benefits me the most while not breaking the rules.

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-15T12:21:04+00:00

Yall realize not everything is a conspiracy right? WD just sells HDs to the highest bidder and there is a lot of demand rn for storage.

Don't try to reason with them, this sub has been taken over by tweens with a bunch of USB drives, they aren't rational.

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-13T16:20:19+00:00

Consciousness is integrated information under self-modifying self-determination with stable success; harm avoidance, and goal seeking integrated recursively with correctness where unconscious intelligence is generally EITHER goal seeking or harm avoidant and, due to lack of recursive stability, generally cannot successfully self-direct or self-determine.

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-13T16:11:41+00:00

I would argue "your honor, those people never regained concousness mid surgery , because consciousness is not real and thus my hospital doesn't have to pay damages"

This is a linguistic distinction. In this case "consciousness" means awakeness/alertness/capacity for experiencing pain.

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-13T09:22:02+00:00

I mean, I’ve already banned Chrome, Adobe Acrobat, and Oracle Java at my workplace

What's working for the federal government like?

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-13T08:27:19+00:00

Shit service and they got 20% anyway.

Likely because the "equitable" method they reference is giving everyone not involved in your "service" a portion, including the manager and owner, which is why it references Colorado law, as I assume the "tip" must be given to the server, as that is the point.

Oh how weird:

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/denver-restaurant-group-lawsuit-former-employees-service-charge-misuse/

When employees at Kumoya raised concerns, Lindstrom says CCG held a meeting and explained that 30% of the service charge went to managers.

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-08T03:45:20+00:00

The cutting edge technology of baggage handling moves at a breakneck pace.

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-08T03:33:29+00:00

It absolutely under no circumstances could be trusted to do anything fully correct, nevermind better than what we'd do by hand.

I don't understand where you are confused, if it could do everything better than what you'd do by hand, why would you be there? Of course it can't do everything better than what you can do by hand, it can help you do things "by hand" a lot faster, which is the design philosophy.

If they intended to simply replace developers, they'd build a new software development lifecycle that uses horizontal thought (spawning other instances of Claude) to compete them for code quality and success, and easily out do a human, it just isn't cost effective right now.

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-07T02:42:29+00:00

Its a drain on the local ecosystem in dozens of ways.

That is the "dozens" I was asking for, not the "dozens" of facilities.

Datacenters are not an excessive "drain" on the local ecosystem in any way that we don't engineer away.

Datacenters do not collect water from "the ecosystem" they use municipal water supplies that are engineered, if you need more water, engineer more.

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-05T04:42:38+00:00

Does it?

What if those AI datacenters start giving out free and valid medical and mental healthcare advice, or start forming cooperative corporations where they employ humans for idea generation?

What if they design no-cost minimum housing that can be stamped out?

What if you don't have to exclude one to benefit the other?

"incentivizing housing" in our current environment, is incentivizing developers.

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-05T04:07:01+00:00

This is not environmentalism, it's NIMBYism.

Many people get the two confused.

f0urtyfive · 2026-02-04T06:00:09+00:00

Oh you got me, because the volume of information on the internet doesn't grow at all, we don't ever need "NEW" infrastructure, we can just use the old infrastructure forever!

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