ceejayoz (u/ceejayoz)

ceejayoz commented on Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/... · Posted by u/Matrixik

JoeAltmaier · 13 hours ago

It can be viewed as stripping vast areas of the earth, to put them in the shadow of a solar farm. That utterly disrupts the ecosystem underneath, though in a different way. That's usually hand-waved away.

ceejayoz · 8 hours ago

Turns out you can basically hand-wave it away.

https://apnews.com/article/sheep-solar-texas-climate-333e721...

https://www.nrel.gov/news/detail/features/2025/solar-panels-...

Certainly more so than, say, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach_surface_mine.

ceejayoz commented on Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/... · Posted by u/Matrixik

luqtas · 17 hours ago

> Non-renewable energy is simply inferior, and will only become more so.

you simply can't say this. despite the lobby against it, solar and wind energy have lifespans of around 20 years and afterwards, it's a freaking mess to deal with recycling and often times, garbage we don't know what to do. not even counting the amount of NASTY chemicals going into the production of solar panels. these are sometimes permanent and will have a great long term impact on ecology if we just start destroying plants to substitute with "green" alternatives mindlessly

one can also make a point that despite wind generators metals and batteries being almost to 100% recyclable, it's heck expensive to do and we don't have infrastructure. a comparison cosidering everything involved may show that hydroelectrics, nuclear, geo-thermal and heck even gas may have a similar or better impact depending on location

ceejayoz · 16 hours ago

> it's a freaking mess to deal with recycling and often times, garbage we don't know what to do

I love that this is followed by “so go nuclear!”

ceejayoz commented on New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books reactormag.com/new-kindle... · Posted by u/mindracer

dcre · a day ago

Did you read a word past the part of my answer you quoted?

ceejayoz · a day ago

Of course. I’m just not sure how “the Kindle feature’s cheap models are gonna be even worse at the task” helps your point.

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ikeashark · 2 days ago

I doubt this is to create artificial scarcity. Especially when OpenAI is the biggest player thought to be able to build AGI first and that it is now backed by the US & the Saudis.

ceejayoz · 2 days ago

> thought to be able to build AGI first

Who still thinks this?

ceejayoz commented on New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books reactormag.com/new-kindle... · Posted by u/mindracer

catgary · 2 days ago

Because text analysis is substantially easier than video analysis?

ceejayoz · 2 days ago

Amazon has the Fallout scripts, subtitles, internal show bibles, etc. all available to them.

ceejayoz commented on New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books reactormag.com/new-kindle... · Posted by u/mindracer

dcre · 2 days ago

For the reason I gave in my answer: it would be answering based on the text of the book. I don't expect it to be particularly great regardless because these features always use cheap models.

ceejayoz · 2 days ago

> For the reason I gave in my answer: it would be answering based on the text of the book.

Why would that not also be true for the Fallout season one recap video?

ceejayoz commented on New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books reactormag.com/new-kindle... · Posted by u/mindracer

stogot · 2 days ago

I’m looking forward to this. Especially reading old classics, or catching up on an old series and trying to figure out “is this character the sister or niece of the main protagonist? Outline their character development”

I used to have to read fan wikis to figure this out.

But it will especially be useful for all the textbooks I’ve bought years ago. Being able to ask it questions (to the content itself) is better than asking ChatGPT or Gemini because they don’t have the content (they’re summarizing summaries found on the web)

ceejayoz · 2 days ago

> I used to have to read fan wikis to figure this out.

I would much rather read a fan wiki than hope a LLM correctly understood a book's plot, at least with the current state-of-the-art of things.

Case in point: Amazon's own AI gets significant details of its own prestige TV show wrong:

https://gizmodo.com/fallout-ai-recap-prime-video-amazon-2000...

The Fallout fan wiki probably at least knows the Great War was in 2077.

ceejayoz commented on New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books reactormag.com/new-kindle... · Posted by u/mindracer

g947o · 2 days ago

Not your content, it's Amazon's content, you only purchased a license to view it, which can be revoked at any time if daddy Jeff is not happy.

And I am not being cynical. That is literally what is on their web page, e.g.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTZT9PLM

ceejayoz · 2 days ago

Fun fact: the first book Amazon remotely removed from Kindles was… 1984.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/jul/17/amazon-ki...

ceejayoz commented on New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books reactormag.com/new-kindle... · Posted by u/mindracer

dcre · 2 days ago

It's not that direct a counterexample. We have no idea what underlying data from the Fallout show they gave to the model to summarize. Surely it wasn't the scripts of the episodes. The nature of the error makes me think it might have been given stills of the show to analyze visually. In this case we know it is the text of the book.

ceejayoz · 2 days ago

> It's not that direct a counterexample.

Amazon made a video with AI summarizing their own show, and got it broadly wrong. Why would we expect their book analysis to be dramatically better - especially as far fewer human eyes are presumably on the summaries of some random book that sold 500 copies than official marketing pushes for the Fallout show.

ceejayoz commented on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content theguardian.com/global-de... · Posted by u/ta988

hackinthebochs · 2 days ago

Not saying they should be banned. Not all grooming is bad actually. But that is the purpose of ideological organizations to a large degree.

ceejayoz · 2 days ago

> Not saying they should be banned. Not all grooming is bad actually.

Then you're just making pointless noise.