Deestan

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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

An economic bubble isn't when something is fake and ceases to exist when the bubble bursts.

We use the term when the market is inflated way beyond its value.

A bubble bursting is when people realize the market is inflated way beyond its value and pull out, leaving debt-ridden companies to their debt.

Some go bankrupt, stock prices fall, economy news outlets insist nobody could have predicted this, investments go elsewhere, people are laid off, and the people responsible fail upward to another grift.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Wait, you’re surprised it did what you asked of it?

No. Stop making things up to complain about. Or at least leave me out of it.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 91 points 4 days ago (18 children)

I tried the image of this real actual road collapse: https://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/60-mennesker-isolert-etter-veiras/12875776

I told ChatGPT it was fake and asked it to explain why. It assured me I was a special boy asking valid questions and helpfully made up some claims.

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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The devs were not told what needed to change even after asking, so they tried to remove anything that they suspected could be taken the wrong way, asked for reconsideration or clarification, but receive no response.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

The fucking lunacy of the AI bros he lists as examples...

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Heyyyy! Who switched the labels on the pods?

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Now who's going to clean up Gene?

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And explain it to his family?

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Rob, can you show up to Gene's wedding pretending to be him while we figure this out?

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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Please step into the Science to be cleansed, human

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some Christmas gifts I WANTED TO BUY two weeks ago, but saw that they had jacked up the prices to have "sale" on black friday and so had to just wait.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Be careful. Don't get too close to the psychosis machine.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 69 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

The energy requirements for storing one ton of co2 are many many times higher than the energy gained from generating one ton of co2 (by oil, gas, coal or biofuel).

So each MWh spent "storing co2" would be ten times more efficient if used to offset oil extraction to get one MWh less out in the first place.

This is wasteful greenwashing. If it wasn't, we'd have broken physics on the level of making perpetual motion machines.

 

Current LLM-in-coding trends keep bringing this post up in my head.

I see a lot of the mentioned "King David fetish" in companies trying to cut salary costs by using more AI tools.

Like, the idea that you can make something worthwhile without strong skill, by just adding enough mediocrity to make up for it.

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