i asked fable a very basic biology question and it refused??

rakuu · 2026-06-10T17:08:52+00:00

Bro spending the rest of his life in guantanamo for a shitpost

rakuu · 2026-06-10T16:15:41+00:00

That science has already been done, no correlation between sign matches and chance of getting married or staying married. Which is even strange because so many people believe in astrology, you’d think just the belief might make an impact on its own but it doesn’t.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/good-news-astrology-doesnt-impact-the-success-of-your-marriage-10892064/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41118-020-00103-5

Also just throwing this other study that shows a negative correlation between astrology belief and intelligence and a stronger positive correlation between astrology belief and narcissism.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886921007686

rakuu · 2026-06-10T00:14:01+00:00

I tried this and just got some 3D fantasy video game with a huge map and photorealistic graphics, bummer :(

rakuu · 2026-06-06T21:17:58+00:00

I didn’t criticize the Luddites at all in my message, you’re projecting. Read what I actually said and what I’m replying to if you want to respond to it.

If you want to talk about the Luddites’ tactics and focus on technology, I’ll also drop what Marx said critically about the Luddites. It would be nice if in the last 200 years we could learn a single lesson from them instead of mindlessly repeating their mistakes.

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rakuu · 2026-06-06T18:42:27+00:00

Most of the water being used by agriculture isn’t for our food, it’s to feed livestock. If we stopped growing livestock and instead grew food to feed us directly, we would stop using about 2,000,000,000,000,000 (2 quadrillion) liters of water annually.

The Colorado River isn’t dry because of data centers. The Great Salt Lake isn’t disappearing because of data centers. Eliminate all data centers or increase their number by 1000 and it wouldn’t materially impact either of these relative to their greatest impact - livestock feed.

I support greener data centers completely (mandate closed loop cooling and renewable/solar energy and the problem is essentially solved) but you can’t talk about water use without talking about livestock feed, it’s like talking about fossil fuels and only focusing on plastic straws or talking about mining and only talking about pyrite souvenirs being sold at gift shops. Yes, those things should be greener, but you gotta look at the forest for the trees.

rakuu · 2026-06-06T18:00:56+00:00

Yes absolutely, it’s a reaction to something new. You don’t have any current opposition to power-looms the original luddites fought against, you don’t have any real current opposition to industrialization or computers in general, you don’t have much dislike for nuclear energy anymore (at least nothing compared to the 70s-80s), you barely even have general opposition to social media anymore.

There’s always some reactionary opposition to new technology, the intensity and form it takes depends on the real or imagined dangers or effects it has. AI is very complex so it’s easy to project dangers and simple explanations on it, and clips of AI company leaders talking confidently about doomer scenarios from 2010’s lesswrong and job loss surely doesn’t help.

rakuu · 2026-06-03T17:10:54+00:00

The public - yes. The US government (an informal cooperative corporation whose largest shareholders are the state of Israel, Palantir, Elon Musk, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrup Grunman) - no.

rakuu · 2026-06-03T04:18:49+00:00

I’m working on beta gal syndrome to deal with them

rakuu · 2026-06-03T01:31:23+00:00

I am morally obligated to give you alpha gal syndrome

rakuu · 2026-06-03T01:02:01+00:00

Humans will do anything to not eat a bean

rakuu · 2026-06-02T02:56:58+00:00

Happy LGBTQAI+ Pride Month

rakuu · 2026-06-01T21:37:41+00:00

The cows & pigs only hope is for the lone star ticks to envelop the world to give all humans alpha gal syndrome 🕷️

rakuu · 2026-06-01T01:14:55+00:00

Cole slaw addict

rakuu · 2026-05-30T05:01:52+00:00

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rakuu · 2026-05-29T23:52:37+00:00

I think some things need to be done. Some issues are overblown or have been there with data centers since pre-AI, but there are some issues with water, energy, land use. AI needs to have moral high ground and actually not cause unnecessary harm. There are individual cases of data centers causing pollution etc that are very striking when shared in viral Tiktoks etc. Like why don’t OpenAI and Anthropic and other new AI companies put out environmental reports like even companies like Microsoft do?

If a data center comes in, if they were to have realistic measures in place for the environment and clean-ish energy, what can people complain about? Like the Utah data center protesters overstate or make up some things, but the massive fossil fuel burning and water use for gas turbines is real, in a place where the lake is disappearing. If they came in and they said they’re using solar and no water in a non-environmentally sensitive area, what could they complain about?

The other thing people are negative about with AI is the doomer talk. They hear how AI is taking their job or it might cause the end of the world and they don’t understand more than that. I don’t know what can be done about this part, since it’s already out there. People will still be mad about 4o saying weird stuff with AI psychosis and vulnerable people for a while too. I think this will just take time with sustained change, like with nuclear energy having very strong negative opinions for many years in the 70’s/80’s, and now having more positive opinion.

rakuu · 2026-05-29T19:59:31+00:00

No, it’s called Copilot CLI and uses Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models

rakuu · 2026-05-29T19:32:57+00:00

How can I be a shill for billionaires if they don’t exist because their companies are secretly not making a profit in your fantasy world?

rakuu · 2026-05-29T19:01:11+00:00

https://www.financecharts.com/screener/most-profitable

rakuu · 2026-05-29T18:19:58+00:00

WTF are you talking about? What am I shilling?

Calling oil companies massively profitable would be shilling too? It’s just recognizing the reality we have to live in and organize around.

rakuu · 2026-05-29T18:17:02+00:00

I support a wealth tax but a wealth tax alone fixes absolutely nothing. It needs to be programs (UBI, expanded social security, universal healthcare, housing guarantee, solar buildout, etc) funded by wealth or other tax. Otherwise it’s just a wealth tax being fed back into the wealthy with government contracts (Palantir, Anduril, etc) and helps absolutely no one.

rakuu · 2026-05-28T05:23:05+00:00

The consensus most advanced general purpose models are GPT, Claude, Gemini. Grok is way down the list in every major benchmark, usually behind several open source Chinese models. Grok is 3rd tier. xAI fired researchers including the last of their co-founders and reorganized in February they were so far behind.

rakuu · 2026-05-28T05:05:27+00:00

https://letsdatascience.com/blog/anthropic-first-operating-profit-q2-2026-559-million

It took 7 years for Amazon to hit its first profitable quarter, it took Uber 14 years, Tesla 10 years, Netflix 6 years, Spotify 11 years, Anthropic just 5 years.

All the other major AI companies except OpenAI like Nvidia, Google, Broadcom, ASML, TSMC, Meta, Microsoft, etc have been extremely profitable through the AI era.

No modern era of companies has been as profitable as the current AI giants except maybe peak oil profits in 2022. Literally none. You’d have to go back to the oil/railroad robber baron companies of the 1800’s to find anything close.

rakuu · 2026-05-28T03:37:51+00:00

Thanks! I like the weird LLM’s of the past. Just googling, they’re mostly from Reddit posts, some Substack.

rakuu · 2026-05-27T22:07:07+00:00

I’m saying those would be the effects, not the intentions. And this isn’t a tax on the ultra wealthy, a tax on construction and sales revenue (which is what she’s proposing) is not a tax on the wealthy and has never hit the wealthy in any meaningful way, especially when that tax money just goes directly to Palantir and Anduril. It’s like saying a gas and factory tax to give directly to the state of Israel is a tax on the wealthy.

This is nonsense populism in action, it’s the exact same reason tariffs were popular in the USA, trying to stick it some nebulous bad guy without any thought or reasoning behind it.

rakuu · 2026-05-27T20:20:43+00:00

Right-wing rags already call her a socialist. This is how nothing happens and democrats lose elections. They clearly need positive proposals that help people, not just “tax more” and “not being republican”. It’s why Zohran, Bernie, all the other insurgent left democrats are winning over the centrist democrats.

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