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[–] StopTech@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I never heard that in movies actually. And we know there are limits according to laws of nature but that's beside the point. Here's a good explanation of how technological progress has been accelerating.

The current generation of AI hallucinates as a fundamental property

The key word there is "current"

[–] StopTech@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Interesting thanks!

[–] StopTech@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Where did I say otherwise?

You may not need external pressure for some things but you still need motivation. And I think motivation would be very rare in a society where everything can be done by robots with a simple request.

[–] StopTech@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I think it's quite obvious that for someone to do something that they know will take a lot of effort they will need some motivation to do it. Anybody who did anything did it out of necessity, some perceived benefit to someone or some personal interest in doing it. Nobody ever dug a hole for no reason unless they were extremely bored and had nothing else to keep them occupied but a shovel and some dirt.

[–] StopTech@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] StopTech@lemmy.today -1 points 1 week ago

He is unironically more enlightened though

[–] StopTech@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

This is incredibly cringe-inducing. Violence is the answer? Growing food is bad? AI is evil but not because it uses water.

[–] StopTech@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

Right. The propaganda against growing food (you know, like happens all by itself in nature and is necessary for human survival) is so dumb. If you have a problem with certain agricultural practices then name them, don't just blame "agriculture" as a whole. That's like blaming humans as a whole for what corporations do. Oh wait, that's what the same propaganda also does!

[–] StopTech@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's not going to stay this way for much longer. Technology progresses exponentially and in a decade or two at most AI will be able to outperform all humans in everything. The future is dark unless it's all unplugged.

[–] StopTech@lemmy.today -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's the other way around. Right wing media got popular because people reacted against the rapid devolution of mainstream and left wing political discourse and sought other media. But I've accepted that people like this will live and die without ever understanding this.

[–] StopTech@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I'm not saying everyone will be unproductive unless there is a necessity to be productive, although from experience it appears that most people will. But even if everyone will be productive without necessity, surely people still need motivation to be productive right? And how can there be motivation in a world where machines do everything faster and better than us and we could just get them to do all our projects? Even the self-improvement projects like losing weight or learning things are hard to motivate when you can just take a drug to lose weight and instantly look things up or rely on an AI brain chip instead of learning things.

Regarding my first paragraph not being what you said then you'll need to clarify in order for me to understand what you meant, but I appreciate you don't want to continue this discussion.

 

The chemicals used were sodium hydroxide and Rhodamine Water Tracer.

IDENTIFICATION AND USE: Rhodamine WT a fluorescent, xanthene dye, has long been used as a hydrologic tracer in surface water systems. HUMAN STUDIES: There are no data available. ANIMAL STUDIES: Rhodamine WT is reported to be a skin and eye irritant. Mammalian toxicity data available indicated a low to moderate acute injection toxicity in the mouse. Rhodamine WT produced mutations in the Salmonella typhimurium (Ames test), and was a weak inducer of chromosomal effects and DNA damage in cultured mammalian cells. No chromosomal damage or sperm abnormalities were seen in mice treated by intraperitoneal injection. ECOTOXICITY STUDIES: There was no aquatic toxicity detected for Rhodamine WT in oyster eggs, silver salmon and Donaldson trout.

1.2 Skin, Eye, and Respiratory Irritations

Rhodamine WT is reported to be a skin and eye irritant.

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/source/hsdb/8427

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/49451102

The downside to this translator is only more related languages can be paired. But you can still get an understandable translation by going through an intermediate language. E.g., French -> Spanish -> English.

Edit: You can translate between any two languages with the beta version: https://beta.apertium.org/

 

The downside to this translator is only more related languages can be paired. But you can still get an understandable translation by going through an intermediate language. E.g., French -> Spanish -> English.

Edit: You can translate between any two languages using the beta version: https://beta.apertium.org/

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/49434861

This wiki can be a good place to get instructions on building and using low tech systems that will make you more self-sufficient and less dependent on centralized systems that could fail or deny you service.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/49434861

This wiki can be a good place to get instructions on building and using low tech systems that will make you more self-sufficient and less dependent on centralized systems that could fail or deny you service.

 

This wiki can be a good place to get instructions on building and using low tech systems that will make you more self-sufficient and less dependent on centralized systems that could fail or deny you service.

 

Want to reduce the money you give to the corrupt state, reduce waste and save money? Make your own diesel.

People are complaining about fuel prices going up because of Operation Epstein Fury, but part of the reason prices are high is because of high taxes:

Biodiesel is easy to make from new or used vegetable oil and can be used instead of diesel in 21st century cars.

If you want to save a lot of money, ask restaurants for their old cooking oil cheap or for free. Biodiesel can also be made from animal fat, which is cheaper than vegetable oil, but there are fewer guides on the process.

Diesel can also be made from used motor oil if you have a centrifuge and a still for distillation: https://carobjective.com/how-to-make-diesel-fuel-from-used-motor-oil/

How to make a simple still from a pressure cooker, copper tubing and bucket: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-make-a-still/

Making a fractional distillation column isn't that much harder: https://www.instructables.com/Build-a-Lab-Quality-Distillation-Apparatus/

With this you could potentially separate crude oil into various components and use them for both gas and diesel cars, stoves, heating, oil lamps or sell them. Small sellers may be exempt from taxes depending on where you live.

For gasoline you could also try the ideas here, although they seem to be expensive or impractical for road users: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Synthetic-Gasoline

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