"The issue of who gets water and who doesn’t was highlighted during Taiwan’s two most recent drought crises, in 2021 and 2023, in which semiconductor manufacturers fell into direct competition with Taiwanese farmers. (...) rice farmers in the south were forced to stop planting rice for three years in a row, from 2021 to 2023. “Farmers say they are being sacrificed for [the] semiconductor industry, and I think that’s a fair assessment,” said Po-Jen Hsu."
Water being diverted from growing food to growing profits lays bare the inherently suicidal nature of capitalism.
"The large language model group showed up to 55 percent reduced connectivity in key brain regions associated with memory encoding, semantic processing, and executive function. (...) Behavioral testing reinforced these findings. When asked to quote from essays they had just written, 83 percent of ChatGPT users in the first session failed to provide any quotation, and none could quote correctly. (...) Delegating content generation to external systems disrupted metacognitive feedback loops, leading to psychological distance from written work."
What if the true purpose of LLMs is to make everyone stupid? That would explain the otherwise nonsensical investment spree we're seeing these days...
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"GWM Worlds offers an interface for digital environment exploration with real-time user input that affects the generation of coming frames, which Runway suggests can remain consistent and coherent “across long sequences of movement.”
So we're basically destroying the planet to create short simulated clips of *checks notes* the planet we're destroying?
