xbmcuser (u/xbmcuser)

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kortilla · 2 days ago

“But what about America’s racism” in a thread about censorship is a pretty bog standard disinformation tactic.

It’s not the topic and whataboutism isn’t a defense even when it’s related to the topic.

xbmcuser · 2 days ago

Ah no on a topic of censorship someone was saying how good western countries were before about personal freedoms and I called out that lie as many of those freedom are just for TV shows and literature only. All citizens did not and still do not enjoy all the freedoms he is spouting the only difference the restrictions are being more broadly applied so he is effected so talks about the past was better. The past was better only for white skinned straight man maybe you could add rich as when when it come to personal freedoms

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idiotsecant · 2 days ago

'The West also does bad stuff' is not the same thing as 'China and the west are the same' or 'Russia and the west are the same'. That's a false equivalency. The west has a long tradition of respecting individual rights. You aren't going to get disappeared like you absolutely will in those places. Say what you will about the failings of the west, but there's a clear moral high ground there, even if that height is an inch tall.

xbmcuser · 2 days ago

Don't make up stuff learn your own history individual rights in the west have been by race, color, education, wealth or sexual orientation and easily forgotten when the individuals are not white.

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xbmcuser · 2 days ago

Western countries had no morality before just a facade of one. Now that they are loosing economic power they are also loosing the ability to control the narrative.

xbmcuser commented on US attack on renewables will lead to power crunch that spikes electricity prices cnbc.com/2025/08/24/solar... · Posted by u/rntn

HPsquared · 3 days ago

100% solar on electricity, or all energy usage including vehicles? Vehicles use a lot of energy.

xbmcuser · 3 days ago

If all vehicles in the US were electric US total Electricity demand would rise from about 4,000 TWh to only 4,800 TWh. That’s it. And this is exactly why the U.S. risks losing both the trade war and the AI race to China.

China is going all-in on electrification, and that alone gives it a massive efficiency edge. Layer on top the fact that renewables and batteries keep getting cheaper every year, and the advantage compounds exponentially.

Take heavy equipment as an example: a Caterpillar machine might cost $10 million, while the Chinese electric equivalent is just one-fifth the price and burns only a third of the energy. That’s already nearly half the cost compared to diesel or gas-powered machines before you even count lower maintenance and fuel savings.

The math is simple: electric wins. And renewable compound the victory

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xbmcuser · 6 days ago

A Solar electric and efficiency revolution is about to hit Africa. As they adopt cheap solar panel and electrify hopefully many of the countries can get themselves out of poverty.

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xbmcuser · 6 days ago

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furyofantares · 11 days ago

I have a theory about why it's so easy to underestimate long-term progress and overestimate short-term progress.

Before a technology hits a threshold of "becoming useful", it may have a long history of progress behind it. But that progress is only visible and felt to researchers. In practical terms, there is no progress being made as long as the thing is going from not-useful to still not-useful.

So then it goes from not-useful to useful-but-bad and it's instantaneous progress. Then as more applications cross the threshold, and as they go from useful-but-bad to useful-but-OK, progress all feels very fast. Even if it's the same speed as before.

So we overestimate short term progress because we overestimate how fast things are moving when they cross these thresholds. But then as fewer applications cross the threshold, and as things go from OK-to-decent instead of bad-to-OK, that progress feels a bit slowed. And again, it might not be any different in reality, but that's how it feels. So then we underestimate long-term progress because we've extrapolated a slowdown that might not really exist.

I think it's also why we see a divide where there's lots of people here who are way overhyped on this stuff, and also lots of people here who think it's all totally useless.

xbmcuser · 10 days ago

There is also an adoption curve. The people that grew up without it wont use it as much as children that grew up with it and knowing how to use it. My sister is an admin in a private school (Not in USA) and the owner of the school is someone willing to adopt new tech very quickly. So he got all the school admin subscriptions for chatgpt. At the time my sister used to complain a lot about being over worked and having to bring work home everyday.

2 years later my sister uses it for almost everything and despite her duties increasing she says she gets a lot more done rarely has to bring work home. And in the past they had an English major specially to go over all correspondences to make sure there were no grammatical or language mistakes that person was assigned a different role as she was no longer needed. I think as newer generations used to using LLM for things start getting into the work force and higher roles the real effect of LLM will be felt more broadly as currently apart from early adopters the number of people that use LLM for all the things that they can be used for is still not that high.