Sounds similar to [Jevon's Paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox), although here the resource is developer time.
Readit Newstokyolights2 commented on AI is making us work more tawandamunongo.dev/posts/... · Posted by u/elcapithanos
tokyolights2 commented on Gravity can explain the collapse of the wavefunction arxiv.org/abs/2510.11037... · Posted by u/dboreham
The description she gives of what she is doing is a stellar example of good scientific inquiry.
The problem, or at least my perception of the situation, is that she does not do what she claims to be doing. She forms uninformed opinions optimized to be engaging, interesting, and conspiratorial, instead of boring sound interpretations of what she has read.
The sad thing is that the only way for someone reading this to know whether I am gatekeeping or warning about an actual crank is to do all of this work from scratch yourself.
(I easily concede that there are plenty of problems with the institution of "Science" today -- I just think she exploits the existence of these problems to aggrandize herself instead of engage in fixing them in a productive way)
Its the curse of engagement. If she read the literature and came to a "boring" opinion it would be much harder to gain a following online. It isn't impossible to gain a following without getting conspiratorial, but it is much harder.
tokyolights2 commented on German government comes out against Chat Control xcancel.com/paddi_hansen/... · Posted by u/SolonIslandus
A simple way to end the discussion:
No matter what the state says, or what legislatures pass what laws, we're going to continue to live out our right to general purpose computing, including sending only what we choose to send over the wire, and encrypting content as we see fit.
Now let's talk about something else.
I like the sentiment but it sounds very similar to Soverign Citizen nonsense. You can't just plug your ears and say that a law doesn't apply to you because you didn't consent to it.
tokyolights2 commented on The forgotten meaning of "jerk" languagehat.com/the-forgo... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
I wonder how much of it is that in today's society it is worse to be disagreeable than it is to be inept.
tokyolights2 commented on AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators passo.uno/from-tech-write... · Posted by u/theletterf
Tangentially related: for those of you using AI tools more than I am, how do LLMs handle things like API updates? I assume the Python2/3 transition was far enough in the past that there aren't too many issues. How about other libraries that have received major updates in the last year?
Maybe a secret positive outcome of using automation to write code is that library maintainers have a new pressure to stop releasing totally incompatible versions every few years (looking at Angular, React...)
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Is it really a lot of water? There are significant variations but I thought, as a broad generalization, an average fracking well uses, in its lifetime, about as much water as an average golf course in two weeks.
FTA
> pumped so much fluid underground in the Permian Basin that it leaked into a prolific oil-producing layer of rock, making it all but impossible to extract crude, according to an April court filing.
> The Permian produces almost as much oil as Iraq and Kuwait combined. But its wells generate up to five barrels of chemical-laden waste fluid for every barrel of crude, creating a growing disposal challenge.
its a lot of water
Personal tracking? What is stopping you from building a bot that uses this feature to view other peoples personal taste and building a shadow profile that then is used to manipulate them?
You can already do this by scraping their follows list and building a pseudo display of what a person looked at.
You are just describing what advertisers actually do in practice. Maybe if everyone had the same access people would realize how invasive it is.
tokyolights2 commented on Sandia turns on brain-like storage-free supercomputer blocksandfiles.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I feel like we're just trading one bottleneck for another here. So instead of slow storage, we now have a system that's hyper-sensitive to any interruption and probably requires a dedicated power plant to run.
Cool experiment, but is this actually a practical path forward or just a dead end with a great headline? Someone convince me I'm wrong...
Sandia National Labs is one of the few places in the country (on the planet?) doing blue-sky research. My first thought was similar to yours--If it doesn't have storage, what can I realistically even do with it!?
But sometimes you just have to let the academics cook for a few decades and then something fantastical pops out the other end. If we ever make something that is truely AGI, its architecture is probably going to look more like this SpiNNaker machine than anything we are currently using.
tokyolights2 commented on Writer Underwriting Writer localnewsinitiative.north... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
This is so amazing to see. I'm reminded of traditional apprenticeship structures and guilds. I think it would be really amazing if we could build modern worker-owner cooperatives, worker compacts, and other mutual aid and mutual self-help structures to invest in ourselves and our fellow workers in a postive-sum future. If the work is worth doing, it's worth funding and perpetuating.
Things like Patreon and GitHub sponsorships are subscription based. I wonder if something that includes a compounding interest bearing component could help make these funding mechanisms more stable for those who benefit from them? Does anyone have any ideas in this space?
I'm confused, couldn't a Patreon owner take their money and invest it if they want compounding interest?