This whole post seems founded on the shaky assumption that all PC gamers would be on a roughly 3 year rebuild cycle anyway…

Not in my experience.

Even my most PC enthusiast friends would only ever have been upgrading every ~5 years anyway. That makes the ‘40% in 3 years’ an unexpectedly high number of upgraders.

My main PC rig is closer to ten years now, and no upgrade in sight. Cost of living with kids has made expensive hobbies untenable.

When it comes to making a stand, better late than never.

They didn’t say it was… You’re reaching for a false dichotomy

I have some sympathy with your view, but still downvoted because I refuse to accept it’s conclusion. Look at Japan, Scandinavia and many other countries where social responsibility still prevails. Throwing hands up and saying “well it’s just human nature” is the laziest get-out to avoid fixing the broken parts of ones own excessive, hedonistic culture.

It might be true that the ones that need to be convinced won’t listen to the argument itself. But we can start to re-empower more responsible citizens to impose shame - yes, fucking shame - on those that raise their kids and otherwise act irresponsibly in so many ways: the polluting shit they consume, the regimes they support with the subscriptions they pay for, the inefficient gas guzzlers they decide to drive off the forecourt. It needs checking.

You lost me at “misnomered as AI”. Artificial intelligence as a branch of Computer Science is a broad field covering not only LLMs - themselves a sub-branch of Deep Learning - but also Fuzzy Logic, Bayesian Reasoning and other statistical methods.

By any canonical definition; LLMs very much are AI.

Perhaps you meant ‘AGI’ as in Artificial General Intelligence which means ‘human level across every domain’. Or, perhaps you know this and we’re just being snarky about their current capabilities.

Truth. I don’t support US tech either but their LLMs are state of the art and VERY useful… No point lying about it. I’m supporting Mistral.ai instead now. Their model is good enough for my use cases, and I’m hoping their recent reported uptick in users like myself helps fund the research and hardware to make them even more competitive.

What happened to it!? It’s a new technology in the early stages of adoption. A little patience…

This is really interesting, appreciate your taking the time to share, thanks 👍 Now I have a fresh experiment for all those ESP32’s in my drawers 😁

Wonder how much solar power it would take to run one of these nodes, it’s be fun to guerrilla a few across town to create a bit of uh…civic infrastructure.

I’m playing my part… Undoing a large part of a SaaS platform I’ve been building, to detangle it from AWS and reimplement for Scale way/UpCloud. This is a significant personal cost, but I can’t live with myself giving dollars to both Bezos AND a fascist regime every month. Not to mention the direct risk of the US fucking with my business down the track for any old batshit reason. Account closed.

As AI and other forms of automation become more prevalent in our lives it has become urgent to teach kids about different forms of programming/AI/ML and their characteristics. The current situation is a shit show: too many people think ‘ChatGPT’ is merely plugged into everything and it’s just not like that.

Are we to believe it’s entirely accidental that Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ sounds like ‘Bored of Peace’.

Funny; I joined Lemmy today in hopes of a slightly higher standard of discourse than the last platform. But, I have to admit, that’s very accurate… well done.

Even in current circumstances; your average Joe could perhaps pass the suggestion off as some kind of sardonic humour… but actually being the US Ambassador to Iceland and saying it? That’s either a brain-dead lack of self-awareness, a thinly veiled ‘flex’ to your Republican peers or, of course, both.