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.
IME Lemmy is more predominantly far left although a very small userbase.
Mastodon has islands of different culture on both the left and the right that don't interact much save a few of the largest instances. Some of the medium-sized ones vouched by joinmastodon have a lot of far left people. There's also a lot of mastodon forks which have been rebranded and closed off (at least one is far right), which complicates things. If you look at Mastodon blocklists you can get a feel for the boundaries.
Yea and the use of the phrase "severe repression" in the article is arguably a bad faith euphemism given that millions of Muslims have been detained by China while women were forcibly sterilized, which is genocide by the United Nations definition. Meanwhile their culture has been repressed as well, in a manner consistent with cultual genocide, which the United Nations does not recognize as a concept.
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.
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