I know this is missing the point (qubits vs bits), but still I find it amusing that today's mass-produced computers are called "classical" even though transistor behavior is dependent on quantum tunneling of electrons.
"poetic justice" is the same mentality as people writing articles glorifying rich Chinese criminals for using South America's drug trade for money laundering because something something Opium War.
In either case, it's not the same. The United States benefits greatly in the short term from larger agricultural output, and herbicide manufacturing centers still create significant health risks for their local communities wherever they are located. So, whether you're the buyer or the seller, you're losing.
Remember when the word, "zine" used to have the connotation of a hobbyist project, because most people couldn't afford/justify the cost of printing full-sized magazines at scale?
Rather than a tool of mass-distributed propaganda, in an internet medium where making digital copies is cheap, masquerading under the guise of the "little man"?
Currently, only the perma-part of permalink is possible per post (or jot).
Something like this: https://jottings.vishalvshekkar.com/jots/19620509 always links to that specific jot.
Where `19620509` is the permanently assigned ID to that specific jot.
It is not human-readable and not extracted from the post (jot) itself because the post may be edited and over time, may go out of sync.
But, I am open to allowing this setting to be adjusted per site, where the site owner may choose to go with a human-readable ID that is extracted from the jot content.
Is your need more the stable permanent link to a jot, or a human readable permanent one, @gradientsrneat?
In the United States specifically, deaths from violent crime have mostly been trending down over the past few decades, with the exception of a year or so.
W stands for Watts, which means Joules per second.
The energy usage of the human body is measured in kilocalories, aka Calories.
Combustion of gasoline can be approximated by conversion of its chemicals into water and carbon dioxide. You can look up energy costs and energy conversions online.
Some AI usage data is public. TDP of GPUs are also usually public.
For those that don't get the reference, this is referring to the "Universal Paperclips" clicker game (inspired by Cookie Clicker) where you try to make as many paperclips as possible.
If you're reading this far down this comment chain, you might find this interesting:
The paperclip maximizer is a thought experiment described by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003. It illustrates the existential risk that an artificial general intelligence may pose to human beings were it to be successfully designed to pursue even seemingly harmless goals and the necessity of incorporating machine ethics into artificial intelligence design. The scenario describes an advanced artificial intelligence tasked with manufacturing paperclips. If such a machine were not programmed to value living beings, then given enough power over its environment, it would try to turn all matter in the universe, including living beings, into paperclips or machines that manufacture further paperclips.
Way too many social media CEOs claim that if they just force their users to dox themselves, that it will somehow prevent all the toxic engagement. You need look no further than Facebook to see where it goes. Not only does the toxicity not go away, but Facebook makes tons of money off political ads and "boosted" posts; they even have had an office of sorts in China, where Facebook is banned, for the purpose of making it easier for Chinese to sell ads/engagement on Facebook. And it's not just China doing this.
I'd reckon Twitter's long-term goal isn't to make the trolls go away, but to pay for the privilege of visibility.
It is telling that none of the online ad platforms engage with the advertising standard council type organizations that defined the standards that old school media use to self regulate. Most people don't realize that this was once a solved problem.
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