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lucia
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thiel-funded transfem computer connoisseur
nyc Inscrit le Nisan 2022
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@liz_love_lace D/s submission carries ample power. maybe you wanna be abused for real? that is it's own kind of fun
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I'm back in Ireland and it just feels so strange, as if I was here the whole time, that I just timeskipped a month, that being in SF for inkhaven was some weird dream
I don't remember writing 60 posts? If i try, I can mostly remember writing each individual post, but its a blur
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Yayyyy I was accepted to inkhaven ^^ Guess now i have to start a real blog and become a real blogger >w<
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@deanwball it'd be cool if 'we' could just pay 'them' off since 'they' tend to be broke
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The sheer tonnage of condescending replies I got re: solar made me realize that the solar and AI communities use the same politically obtuse arguments for their preferred infrastructure. No wonder the rest of the internet hates AI data centers so much.
I really cannot emphasize to you enough how bad of an argument this is: “hey, ‘we’ should replace [a bunch of land that isn’t mine that sustains other peoples’ livelihoods and is deeply rooted in their identity], which is pointless and dumb anyway, with [my preferred thing]. That would make ‘us’ better off.”
This is what created local opposition to renewables in so many cases. There was no positive story beyond the infrastructure being abstractly “good” for “us.”
I used to track the politics of local renewables pretty closely. Beyond similar attitudes and talking points among the opposition, I even see some familiar names and groups. Indeed, a lot of these local data center bans and restrictions I see are also zoning restrictions on utility-scale solar and batteries. All these things have been infected: opaque, foreign, not for you, instead for “us.”
I know some will reply that we should change laws to make NIMBYism harder to exercise institutionally. I support federal permitting reform and, what’s more, I would be a big supporter of metropolitan or regional-level planning as opposed to hyperlocal planning.
But those aren’t the laws on the books, and even if permitting reform happens, it’s unlikely to stop the kinds of bans/moratoria on data centers and moratoria that are being enacted. You have to deal with the world as it is.
I’m still not sure how bad NIMBYism will affect the AI infrastructure buildout. It seems right now as though it might end up being pretty bad.
Unfortunately I have bad news: I am aware of no one who handles these politics well here on x dot com. This is an elite signaling platform for the most part, so that’s fine, but I don’t know anyone who handles the politics well IRL either.
I am grateful, however, for all the patronizing replies about solar. You made me realize a connection—two case studies in political malpractice—that I hadn’t seen before.: The AI industry is making the same mistakes of the climate left. It was hard for me to see this, because I am “pro-AI” and definitely “pro data center,” whereas I always found myself weary of the climate left. But now I see clearly that the pro-AI community looks to many Americans like a rationalist imposition on their lives from the same
opaque “we”—the purveyors of reason, the arbiters of truth, the ones you never meet but who come to your town and tell you that your way of life (corn ethanol growing, say) has been Deemed Obsolete (not “is obsolete in my opinion,” but, “Is Obsolete”)—who brought you the climate movement and so much else.
Understand this is political analysis. I’m not trying so much to express my own views as to diagnose a problem in my own “movement” from the outside. Indeed, surveying some of my old work, I can see how it fits the critique I am making perfectly.
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it's all one struggle and we should join forces in finding the optimal nandralone dosage for mogging p*t bulls
Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞)@teortaxesTex
it's disappointing how transhumanism is bootstrapped from transgenderism. I developed objections to human body the instant I realized I'm living on borrowed time and a sizable dog can break my bones. Apparently for almost everyone that's OK, being "wrong" gender is intolerable
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@oldestasian it's common to get got by en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27… when you first parallelize smth
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@birdpathy funny that these three kinda rest on each other to remain true
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@lcmedium i like to see "pole-zero analysis" in there it makes me feel like i understand the world a little bit. i know about poles and zeros. (showed today that there are only 6 non-constant holomorphic maps C\{0,1}->C\{0,1} using poles and zeros...pretty cool...)
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