Coding landed on the right solution pretty early with this: Use whatever tools you want, but you’re responsible for what you publish.

This is not the case, there is an abundance of evidence to the contrary.

That is an approach being taken by some, but it's not coding specific and it's certainly not a standard, by any means.

Also people have never cared about the environment.

Some people do, just not the ones who stand to benefit from the decline normally, and those just happen to be the ones who can meaningfully make a difference.

Running an existing model isn’t any worse for the environment than gaming,

If you ignore the difference in scale and significantly different usage profile, sure?

How many gamers do you think you'd need to equate to a 24/7 data centre serving models, or even a mostly local setup running multiple GPU's at max capacity for a full work day, every day ?

and training them produces tools that can be useful as a coding package, like numpy for language.

Being subjectively useful isn't a good argument against environmental impact, unless you have a good example of something so useful it could practically be compared to the impact.

Yeah, everything is bad for the environment,

Not technically true, but in modern society i kind of agree in general.

but I didn’t see this level of outrage about bitcoin and people still like to pretend plastics recycling works.

The outrage is different because the surface area is different, crypto was semi-niche and didn't have the possibility to actively replace people.

More people are potentially impacted by this so you see more complaints (of varying levels of subjective legitimacy and accuracy).

Plastic recycling is an entirely different conversation but it's always been a scam for the most part, people believe because that's what they are told, repeatedly, and they have no reason to think otherwise unless they look in to it.

People aren’t actually mad at AI as a tool. People are mad about shabby work and increased spam. People are mad at losing their job when some jackass CEO fires them and being stung along when they apply for a new job.

Absolutely agree.

If we were brutally honest and insisted that AI has had little substantive effect on the economy (which is what the data actually says)

Citation? because to my (admittedly amateur) knowledge a large proportion of the US stock market is tied up in shenanigans to do with LLM's and the related resources.

Unless you mean the effect of the outputs that have come from LLM's, in which case , sure, it's probably not much of an impact overall.

CEOs and politicians would be forced to take responsibility and be held to account for their stupid decisions.

That has such a vanishingly small likelihood of happening, there is a huge fucking list of significantly worse shit from recent history and actively ongoing that is being ignored because money.

I highly doubt that "CEO makes line go up for quarter by axing 3/4 of still-needed staff, because they have no idea what they are doing" is getting anyone more than a kickback slap on the wrist.

We should definitely still be trying though, I’m just managing my expectations.

Best I can tell, this anti-AI crap is a distraction and excuse not to talk about workers rights, education, and good democratic systems.

"anti-AI crap" is a broad category, but i agree there is a lot of "Look over here" going on.

That's not LLM specific though , it's the norm at this point.

Didn’t robin williams have some other thing going on that gave him some sort of super depression.

edit: Yep, Lewy Body Dementia

That's a very narrow slice of a supply chain to be using it as a basis for conclusions like that.

I don't disagree that the "shortage" is artificial, i'm just saying that your local store having stock and raising prices isn't a good basis for determining overall supply chain health.

Like looking out your window and seeing rain, so obviously it must be raining everywhere.

Luckily "garbage at launch" isn't a phrase used to indicate something is bad "right now" so no steam need be held.

This is what I have been saying for a long time: The essence of being male is to not be female.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, would you mind elaborating ?

They should pay for prophylactic counseling?

Yes, because prevention is superior to treatment after the fact in both outcomes & overall cost.

Though it seems you have a differing understanding of "Medically Necessary" to my own so i suspect we won't agree on this.

"For profit healthcare" is a misnomer is should be called something like "profit equilibrium maintenance : healthcare edition"

The best outcome for a "for profit" is profit, not healthcare. Given the choice between larger profits and better healthcare outcomes the profit will win out, every time.

It's interesting as a subject but I dislike this as a presentation format.

This is the video equivalent of "this meeting could have been an email".

Also his voice and cadence are irritating, but I recognise that that's a personal gripe. Certainly an "old man shouts at cloud" moment but coked up youtuber energy isn't my jam.

It seems like you don't quite understand how federated services work.

Here's a quick primer on how you can improve your federated internet experience.

• You can block individual users
  • That will remove posts by them from your feed.
  • All future and historical posts by them will also be removed from your vision.
• If you feel like a community as a whole is allowing behaviour you disagree with you can block that entire community
  • You also have the option of creating your own space with a similar theme, a space that you can police in exactly the way you prefer. ( for example "Video No Politics" )
• In the possible case of disliking the content and/or moderation of an entire instance...you guessed it, you can block that also.
  • Creating your own instance is also a possibility, it can be a bit involved but is certainly possible.
  • Then you have all the control, you can invite your friends, success.

You could also continue to complain about things you can easily fix, that is also an option.

"Their upvote ratio is too damn high", is an instant classic btw.

Given your replies so far you seem to be looking for something a bit less echo-chambery (or as i suspect a chamber where the echoes are more to your liking)

Luckily this is entirely possible and relatively easily achievable, have fun.

Also money

The UK has recently done research on the matter and realised that children were not getting the support required for not transitioning.

Citation?

Absolutely within your rights, depending on the instance you are on and if the rules are enforced i suppose. Same as anything anybody else says. One of the main draws of the fediverse, no ?

I doubt "Absolutely wrong" would be read as "shut up and listen" in most contexts but i could be in the minority here.

Blocking people who persist is a simple mechanism to weed out anyone who refuse to listen to logic or feelings on a matter when they don't align with their own.

Agreed , i do it too, frequently.

Would you rather I be blunt and simply tell idiots to "Shut the fuck up"? Because that's definitely not civility. Don't try to argue semantics here; it's ugly and unnecessary.

i don't have an opinion on how blunt you should be with people, your call.

Don't try to argue semantics here; it's ugly and unnecessary.

Arguing semantics is ugly when done in bad faith ,but i'm not trolling or baiting you , i just happen to think word choice is important in some situations. (for a given value of important, i mean it's not life or death here or anything)

In this case i (personally) read it as "I block people who don't agree with my very well reasoned opinion, even after i graciously explained it to them, they just won't listen to me and keep replying".

and most of that comes from the use of the term "Absolutely wrong" which is an absolute, by definition and leaves no room for other opinions or options.

As you said, you can use whatever words you like, at least one person thinks your use of absolutes in statements detracts from your otherwise cogent arguments, do with that what you will.