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pingou commented on AI is booming so are household utility bills bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

floppiplopp · 20 hours ago

The AI hype is probably collapsing soon. But that won't solve the issue. It's basically the only thing that drives the ponzi scheme, sorry, the "stock market growth". It'll end in tears for working people again.

pingou · 19 hours ago

If it really grows that much and households then consume a small fraction of the generated electricity, it would be easy to tax the electricity generated for AI and just make it free for household consumers.

pingou commented on Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/ksec

pingou · 4 days ago

Aren't most search queries duplicates? Then after a while they don't even need AI for those duplicates, unless they feed it some different context specific to each user.

pingou commented on 'Reading crisis' prompts Denmark to end 25% tax on books rte.ie/news/world/2025/08... · Posted by u/austinallegro

quanto · 6 days ago

> The latest education report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) raised alarm in Denmark when it found 24% of Danish 15-year-olds cannot understand a simple text, up four percentage points in a decade.

So, in 2015, 20% of 15-yo could not understand a simple text. Isn't that unbelievably high?

pingou · 6 days ago

I could imagine a significant portion of the students tested can't be arsed to make the effort of reading carefully, especially since the test result wouldn't even impact them, I'm not sure how they can control for that.

pingou commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults? asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein

AIPedant · 14 days ago

I don't think Yudkowski is at all like L. Ron Hubbard. Hubbard was insane and pure evil. Yudkowski seems like a decent and basically reasonable guy, he's just kind of a blowhard and he's wrong about the science.

L. Ron Hubbard is more like the Zizians.

pingou · 14 days ago

I don't have a horse in the battle but could you provide a few examples where he was wrong?

pingou commented on Who got arrested in the raid on the XSS crime forum? krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

bretpiatt · 17 days ago

He's been a target numerous times https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Krebs#Career

Thankful he's willing to continue on the mission.

pingou · 17 days ago

"An article by Krebs on 27 March 2018 on KrebsOnSecurity.com about the mining software company and script "Coinhive" where Krebs published the names of admins of the German imageboard pr0gramm, as a former admin is the inventor of the script and owner of the company, was answered by an unusual protest action by the users of that imageboard. Using the pun of "Krebs" meaning "Cancer" in German, they donated to charitable organisations fighting against those diseases, collecting more than 200,000 Euro of donations until the evening of 28 March to the Deutsche Krebshilfe charity".

I approve of this kind of retaliation.

Posted by u/pingou a month ago

Dying for gold: who killed the miners of Buffelsfontein?economist.com/interactive...

pingou commented on A proof-of-concept neural brain implant providing speech arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/LorenDB

pingou · 2 months ago

Telepathy is on its way. Next step they just skip the conversion of brain signals to words and just directly send the signals to another brain. But I think some conversion/translation would still be necessary.

pingou commented on New band surges to 500k listeners on Spotify, but turns out it's AI slop arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/Willingham

pingou · 2 months ago

Makes me thing of https://xkcd.com/810/

pingou commented on The AIpocalypse is here for web sites as search referrals plunge theregister.com/2025/06/2... · Posted by u/rntn

pingou · 2 months ago

"Google's average ratio of pages crawled to visitors referred was 2:1. Six months ago, that ratio had increased to 6:1. Today, according to the Prince, it's 18:1", that's interesting but are we sure it has something to do with AI?

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