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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • I think their point is that for a business a captive audience is a good thing. Kind of like how some grocery stores have noticed that when checkout takes longer, people are more likely to buy the drinks and snacks they put for sale near the checkout line. Likewise a charging station could have an overpriced restraunt selling low quality burgers for twice the price of the restraunts 2 minutes away by car, and customers will eat there because, they don’t want to sit around for 30 minutes, and then drive down the road and stop for another 10.

    Unless I’m missing something and fast chargers charge by the watt instead of the hour, in which case that’s pretty big BS.



  • Well technically yes, but defending them from what. IMO I don’t get the point of gratuitous punishment.

    IE I see 2 possibilities.

    1. Someone can be rehabilitated. IE we think it’s reasonable that after the punishment we consider them able to be low enough risk that more or less they can contribute to society and function as a normal person again.

    2. Someone can’t be rehabilitated. In which case punishment is completely meaningless, and we need to keep them away from any potential victims for the rest of their lives. Of which I do understand but not agree with the concept of shortening it.

    But in the case of 2, I flat out don’t get the concept of intentionally adding suffering in that point for any purpose other than keeping them from getting near innocents. If we’ve given up on changing them, then we’ve negated any potential purpose to the suffering, and thus it’s just gratuitous and… makes those involved in it’s execution the monsters.



  • I agree with the overall concept, LLMs seem extremely useful, I’d say our direction for them is just idiotic. Local devices trained for what they are actually doing, without sending everything back so you can confidently train it on your styles of things etc… I see as a very practical idea. But of course the US’s super focused giant corporate controlled everything goes to a data center of some huge dangerous tech company is beyond ridiculous, and of course just the build out scale of investing literal trillions of dollars into it.