Blue_Morpho @ Blue_Morpho @lemmy.world

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Bill Gates hasn't been CEO of Microsoft in 25 years. He left completely in 2008.

The problem is that the theft begins by simply becoming a billionaire in the first place.

That's why that was my first sentence!

Why did you cut your philanthropic efforts to fight climate change and disease? Why have you and your buddies fought for minimizing

The problem is that billionaires should not exist but come on. $80 billion already donated. $7 Billion more just for Africa. Hundreds of millions in malaria research.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/11/17/bill-gates-foundation-pledges-7-billion-to-support-africa-health-and-agriculture/

Could he do more? Sure. But attacking someone who is doing a little because he isn't doing more doesn't seem fair.

Years ago Elon said he was disappointed when he met Bill Gates because Gates only wanted to talk about philanthropy and climate.

There's also a cutout for the CPU hsf? The CPU is getting better cooling than before.

I think because I warned some users a couple of times over a year ago, that he thinks I'm a sock puppet of the person/people he has banned. When he got angry about my warning the user, I didn't engage at all. But a year later in that thread about Discovery, I wasn't paying attention and didn't notice that I replied to him.

He seems to have a lot of drama around him.

Is there a Lemmy equivalent to karma court?

Look at my history. That wasn't the reason I was banned. Over a year ago I warned another user that I saw that mod ban an account for arguing. That post history was there and flying squid warned him to not do that sort of thing in Ten Forward. A year later I made the mistake of replying to a post that he posted to me. The post was about the writing in Discovery.

You can see my last post on tenforward that got banned. He deleted it but of course in Lemmy it's only hidden so you can still view it.

So yeah, not only did he ban me but he lied about the reason.

Here is the proof.

https://lemmy.world/comment/14647300

I got banned from tenforward for saying the ending of Star Trek Discovery didn't make sense. No name calling, no back and forth arguing, just my statement and a reply explaining one point of my previous post. But that reply was to a mod who didn't like my explanation.

I messaged mods and nothing.

Bluesky didn't start with millions. Europeans chose it when there were none. Like Facebook getting its start because Savarin used his college frat connections across the country to get the ball rolling, I'm sure there were paid influencers who got things moving for Bluesky.

GUI. Ray Tracing. Generative Adversarial Networks and Diffusion Models.

Those things can have their place. But not on a restaurant website when I'm trying to order curry.

It's infuriating!

Check the Discord.

There was a time when the Internet didn't exist and not everyone wore a wristwatch.

Having time on every other corner was useful for your bus stop.

If gta5 was the only game sold, it wouldn't be an energy issue!

I addressed that in my second paragraph.

In another thread someone brought it up so I did some quick math to see if it was true:

Gta5 cost $300 million. 4000 developers each with the latest GPU burning hundreds of watts per employee to create the assets. A rough estimate of 750watt pc, 4,000 developers, 8 hour a day, 300 days a year, 5 years = 36 giga watt-hours. That’s the energy to power 3.6 million homes for a year and I’m not even including the HVAC costs of the office space. For 1 game.

AI training energy use is small in comparison. ChatGPT 4 cost $80m to train.

However if I used AI more, I would still play the same amount of video games, thus increasing the total energy use.

Then that's like writing about the evils of cars while driving a giant SUV for fun.

Do you agree with me on my other main point on reliability?

The Google AI forced on me in searches has seemed correct because every sentence has a footnote with a link to source that I usually click. The OpenAI code generation I used a year ago was brilliant. It wrote working VBScript for me which was a language I had no desire to learn. The microcontroller code for another project was also fantastic because it gave me an outline to start working with.

I thought Apple started the stopping support of Intel Mac's a couple of years ago? If you had the newest Intel from 5 years ago, support is supposed to end this year.

make profiting AI companies pay for UBI

As I said, many companies steal content and repackage it for sale. Google did it long before AI. AI is only the most recent offender. Courts have been splitting hairs for decades over music similarities and that's ignoring that entire genres are based on copying the work of influential artists.

There's a huge difference between an outright Nazi like Musk and an average techbro.

These endless "AI bad" articles are annoying. It's just click bait at this point.

Energy use: false. His example was someone using a 13 year old laptop to get a result and then extrapolating energy use from that. Running ai locally is the same energy as playing a 3d AAA game for the same time. No one screams about the energy footprint of playing games.

AAA game development energy use ( thousands of developers all with watt burning gpus spending years creating assets) dwarfs AI model building energy use.

Copyright, yes it's a problem and should be fixed. But stealing is part of capitalism. Google search itself is based on stealing content and then selling ads to find that content. The entire "oh we might send some clicks your way that you might be able to compensated for" is backwards.

His last reason was new and completely absurd: he doesn't like AI because he doesn't like Musk. Given the public hatred between OpenAI and Musk it's bizarre. Yes Musk has his own AI. But Musk also has electric cars, and space travel. Does the author hate all EV's too? If course not, that argument was added by the author as a troll to get engagement.

There are a ton of great printers under $1000 these days. If I needed a larger bed I'd get a Qidi Max 3. I got an Anycubic s1 with an ams that dries for $600.

OP doesn't realize that an optometrist isn't an ophthalmologist. Optometrists check your vision. Opthalmologists will also check medical conditions like glaucoma.