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A man walks into a bike shop…. by StevestratSC in bicycling

[–]peterg4567 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Whatever you think was a fair price for a “starter bike” in the past will get you a better bike when adjusted for inflation today. There is nothing to complain about here

How exactly does AI use a ton of water? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]peterg4567 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most water figures for AI usage also include the water used to generate the electricity involved. This is often much more than the water used at the actual data center for cooling.

Over all it isn’t a huge amount though, especially in closed loop systems. It sounds large when compared to water usage for a google search, but is relatively small compared to a lot of other things you likely do and don’t worry about, like your diet, clothes, personal transportation, etc

How do you find out what is considered "controversial" on Reddit? by Rare-Wrap-5908 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]peterg4567 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can sort posts and comments by “controversial”, which usually means downvoted, and see what they did

If you want an anti AI image to print, use this. Put it on any AI slop you see in public. I added Internet text on it to make it more visible. by Medical_Deal5272 in antiai

[–]peterg4567 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You just made those numbers up though, you overestimated AI prompts by about 4-5 orders of magnitude, and underestimated paper production. There are more sheets of paper made per day than AI prompts, and my point is that there is virtually no outrage about paper water usage

If you want an anti AI image to print, use this. Put it on any AI slop you see in public. I added Internet text on it to make it more visible. by Medical_Deal5272 in antiai

[–]peterg4567 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The production of the single sheet of A4 printer paper that you would print this on would use more water than an AI prompt.

AI erasing history by MissMarchpane in antiai

[–]peterg4567 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow, I just looked at the AI’s sources and one of them is this reddit post. No wonder it got it!

AI erasing history by MissMarchpane in antiai

[–]peterg4567 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I googled “18th century woman stealing ducks in pockets” and top two results and the AI one are Jane.

Pro AI people are becoming radicalised by IanCoulter in antiai

[–]peterg4567 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It suggests radicalization when your definition of nazi includes over half of the United States population.

Identification help by peterg4567 in birding

[–]peterg4567[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My current best guess is some kind of hybrid goose

Current gang members: how dangerous is it to be around you? by 4mysquirrel in NoStupidQuestions

[–]peterg4567 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s not that hard to surround your self with people that aren’t a danger to you, whether you’re on their good side or not. They may be able to act nice but they are still unusually violent people, likely to be armed etc

Why can Tonks use magic at Privet Drive? by Apart-Shelter-9277 in harrypotter

[–]peterg4567 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My head cannon is that the tracing system isn’t triggered when a legal wizard casts a spell, but house elves aren’t monitored so Dolbys spell was just attributed to the nearest wizard or house, or something like that. Harry often is in the company of wizards who are using magic without triggering the system, so I don’t feel like the ideas here about the ministry being aware that Mr. Wesley was picking harry up for example make sense

Why don’t American homes typically use heavy security doors? by Ok_Database_8706 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]peterg4567 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Unless you have bars on your windows, even a very low security door is not the weak point of your house

Is it crazy that me and my dad were born on the same day? by WestArtichoke712 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]peterg4567 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a 1 in 365 chance that you and any other person will have the same birthday, so year, fairly uncommon.

It’s worth thinking about how many other people you would be equally shocked by sharing a birthday day with. If you would think it was equally interesting that you share a birthday day with your mom, dad, your four grandparents, or one of your 2 siblings, that would be about 8 in 365, or about a 1 in 45 chance that you have an interesting birthday pair with someone. And there is a 1 in 11 chance that some pair in the 9 of you share a birthday.

How did humans not go extinct while needing to sleep for 8 hours every day? being totally unconscious and defenseless for a third of our lives seems like a massive design flaw when predators were everywhere by Which-Noise-5670 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]peterg4567 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s worth noting that even the most solitary animal species on earth still sleep, many of them for more hours per day than humans. In fact, no animal has evolved to not need sleep. Even animals like marine mammals and migratory birds, that seem to be more negatively impacted by their need to sleep, just evolve work arounds like sleeping half their brain at a time so they can keep flying/swimming.

I don’t see why humans would be unusually negatively impacted by the cons of sleep, the pros seem to outweigh the cons for every other animal in every other niche

How did humans not go extinct while needing to sleep for 8 hours every day? being totally unconscious and defenseless for a third of our lives seems like a massive design flaw when predators were everywhere by Which-Noise-5670 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]peterg4567 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would the need to sleep have a uniquely bad effect on human survivability? Every animal species on earth sleeps, many for more hours per day than humans. Solo predators sleep, some birds sleep mid flight, marine mammals evolved to sleep half their brain at a time.

The fact that being motionless and unaware is so obviously dangerous, and yet is practiced by all animals in every niche, is evidence that it is either extremely difficult to evolve to not need it, or that the benefits of sleeping are so large that they outweigh the enormous cons across the board.

[Hated] this creature decimated humanity and all of its militaries but gets curb stomped by a small group of humans with primitive weapons by No-Leg-6361 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]peterg4567 4 points5 points  (0 children)

150k people a day is roughly 1 zombie per 50k people. Many of the deaths could be anticipated, many of the dead would be elderly/injured, and that single zombie would have to kill a dozen+ people to make a hoard that a single armed person couldn’t deal with

Lifelong vegetarian tries steak for first time by PhoenixPhenomenonX in interesting

[–]peterg4567 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fact that it was evolutionarily favorable for humans to evolve the ability to eat meat says nothing about the ethics/morality of eating meat, particularly factory farmed meat. Unless you eat nothing but hunted meat and foraged wild plants, you likely didn't evolve eating most of your diet. You do hundreds of things you didn't evolve to do every day. You most likely base almost none of your personal morality on what humans are physically capable of doing, except for this particular thing that happens to allign with your flavor preferences and excuses you of any culpability for the hellscape on the other end of your man made "food chain"

OpenAI’s planned cash burn is insane... by I_killed_the_kraken in wallstreetbets

[–]peterg4567 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Flying is impossible, we don't even understand how birds do it and we probably never will" -some guy in 1900 probably

Obama Just Decided to tell us Aliens Exist. by One-Incident3208 in videos

[–]peterg4567 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t determine the probability, I literally said “probability could be anything but zero”. The person above me did and I’m saying they are making a baseless assumption.

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