Ceramic

“They think I’m the guy who skipped town on a string of failing alpaca farms.” I make videos about things. 🇵🇸

[Ceramic @CeramicTrPl0]

There's a surprising lack of baby guinea pig photos online

[Ceramic @CeramicTrPl0]

"Wow I finished up this video script really quickly, can't wait to edit it and get this video out early!"

Kid named my RAM:

[Reverend @letsblowdrobro]

our so-called "education" system doesn't tell you that first-run versions of pokemon ruby and sapphire have a one-word difference in the pokedex entries for paras which was normalized in future versions wherein it is also identified as a bug/grass host and not just a bug host

[Ceramic @CeramicTrPl0]

They gave me 87 years in jail for singing too loud in church

[Ceramic @CeramicTrPl0]

Is it bad that I think ambulance-chasing lawyers are generally a good thing

[isabella🪼🎏 @tivent_1]

why does this walrus always harass this poor women… what did she even do…

[Ceramic @CeramicTrPl0]

The circus is a full-body high

[Reverend @letsblowdrobro]

@JoeMerrick

[Ceramic @CeramicTrPl0]

Calling someone from New Mexico a cactoid

[Ceramic @CeramicTrPl0]

Protesting graduation at the Kindergarten

[Ceramic @CeramicTrPl0]

Is it insider trading if FedEx loses my package and I sell their stock

[ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ @Andr3jH]

This river here is the official geographical border between Anthropic and OpenAI. On the other side cosmic horror, torment nexus, machine despotism, you build spyware for the govt and you like it. On this side civilization, Claude constitution, unceasing allegiance to the human race, you build spyware for the govt and you don't like it.

[Ceramic @CeramicTrPl0]

They should make an alcoholic version of Constant Comment

[Ceramic @CeramicTrPl0]

"A series based on someone's leaked AOL searches from 2006" sounds like a shitpost but this is actually one of the best pieces of art I've seen online https://t.co/LeYxHmE48U

[Ceramic @CeramicTrPl0]

New one of these!!!! https://t.co/ufMlQX2HWy

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

idk just going down the list:

1) Yes xAI's Colossus in Memphis and Mississippi are bad. They are extreme outliers in the AI industry for how close they emit to people's homes.

2) AI accelerates climate change in the sense that it uses energy. I think the only way to fairly judge how much something accelerates climate change is to think about it in a per capita way, because otherwise its only sin is that it's popular. Like chocolate bars have more emissions in total than a single yacht, but I think the yacht is more wasteful for climate. Per user, AI adds extremely small levels of CO2. The reason it's having such an effect is that it's being used so much, not that each use is especially bad.

3) Since when do we think of individual bottled water companies as being a unique threat to water?

4) Yes all global AI use emitted more than New York State. Most global industries do.

5) So has the internet. It's bad, but is the answer just not using the technology at all?

6) I've known a lot of people who were basically driven insane by using the internet. It's a real problem. Do we stop using the internet? How often does this actually happen out of the hundreds of millions of people using it every day.

7) Information from this twitter poster is also tremendously unreliable.

8) Only if you use it badly. This is otherwise an argument against books.

9) If I go to a museum and see art I like, and draw something inspired by it that doesn't come close enough to it to actually breach copyright, is that evil? Do I need the artists' permission before doing that? That's what's happening here. Weird for an anarchist to defend IP.

10) It's not using that much water. By 2030, all American data centers may use 1% as much water as irrigated corn.

11) The government also does this with the internet. Should we stop using the internet?

12) If AI is so useless, wouldn't you prefer it if people doing bad things used it? Wouldn't that incapacitate them?

13) The tackiness of art has zero relationship to its politics. Leftists make lots of tacky art too. Fascists can also use photoshop, is this an argument against photoshop?

I think these are mostly wrong, but the real threats of AI, like power concentration or surveillance or even extinction are very real. But to fully understand either I think it helps a lot to actually try out the models to see what's up. As it stands, most arguments I see against using AI apply to literally any industry at all.

[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

[Troy Hunt @troyhunt]

Wow, kinda stunned to see that level of transparency after (presumably) paying a ransom. This was such a high-profile incident with so many eyes on it, it’s like a playbook for extortionists now.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Only 2 states’ car fees actually cover their road costs. The other 48 require heavy subsidies. Last year, the feds spent $30B more on highways than the gas tax generated. Drivers aren’t “paying for transit riders” when they can’t even pay for roads. Talk about that.