I don't think I want to live below a data center. With regular coolant leaks and loud ventilation fans and diesel generators turning on at peak energy times.

There are 640 acres in a square mile

[Sighs in metric]

That it can be mistaken for AI then well, shit man I'm sorry.

That said AI is fundamentally plagiarism on demand. This means that the same tools that have been developed for a long long time for detecting plagiarism will work just fine. The real problem is people are assholes and they will accuse people of using AI to write stuff and people will join in because people are assholes.

The solution is to start discouraging people from being assholes. But that is a big lift because behind every asshole is our competitive culture. We really like to turn absolutely fucking everything into a goddamn competition. Nobody can have any fun unless they are either making a shitload of money from it or they are the absolute best at it. It's especially bad here in America where puritanical bullshit means that anything you do that isn't inherently valuable is a moral failing on your part.

Basically fix the actual problems in society and dumb little problems like this go away. But that requires change that I don't think anyone wants to make. A cooperative society would be better for everyone except a handful of assholes but well here we are

But I saw something that only about 7% of data centers are failing to go through due to moratoriums and most of that 7% is a single project.

They're just ignoring us. If we tell them no they just keep building the data center.

American spent 50 years undermining democracy and dismantling our institutions. We can't expect them to save us or protect us now. We need to rebuild them and it's going to take decades. And we need to learn what a moral panic is and why we should ignore it

Build the data centers in Mexico where property prices and labor are lower.

The proper response to being in an area where datacentres are crowding in is "lobby your elected officials to increase property taxes and not give out tax increment financing deals". Tax everything, and tax it well. They'll stop building new datacentres in your area, and the ones that are there will (unless they were given a long-term sweetheart deal beyond your already-low tax rates) start being cash cows for your area.

I have no ethical problems with people covering, defacing, or destroying cameras that are pointing into public spaces. I'm sure there are legal issues with doing that, but there are lots of unjust laws on history that shouldn't be obeyed.

I wonder if rigging up a laser pointer on your own private property into the lens of a flock camera continuously is legal. Enough to prevent it from taking clear pictures. And it isn't interfering with an ongoing investigation because they are not actually police controlled or owned, just a private company claiming to offer some incidental monitoring of public spaces.

Maybe the police should police the "few bad apples" before kicking in doors and shooting innocent people in their own apartment. Despite all this tech, flock, gps, body cams, etc. Seems like it doesn't really help them improve the quality of their work. Almost like to protect and to serve (the public) was never the point.

Really, you don't see any difference between Elon Musk and, say, John Stankey? Is John Stankey actively transforming the US into an autocratic fascist-adjacent state?

Would you buy from a company called Plantations Inc which proudly advertises that all of its products are made by daily-whipped slaves? Are there no limits to how self-focused you are in your consumption?

It's one thing to say "this particular issue isn't mine, so I'm only going to think amount myself". It's an entirely different issue to have no moral bounds.

This headline sounds like something you'd hear coming from a news report on a TV in the background near the start of a horror movie.

Sorry! The comment landed in the wrong thread.

Motives matter. You're arguing that the means justifies the ends, which is perhaps a worst version of the original phrase.

Dogs obey humans relatively easily through training, in some ways more reliable at following commands than an AI chatbot. Dogs are able to read secondary cues from humans. Their facial expressions, body posture, voice stress, etc. so dogs have long been integrated in human groups for hunting and war.

Goddamn apocalypse creators. We were warned for many decades.