Wait, you don't imagine elaborate narratives where, say, Adrien Brody's car breaks down in a stretch in the wilderness with nothing but your cabin for miles. So he walks toward the only structure and I'm there studying mosses and it's so remote I have a sat phone I let him use to call for help, but it'll be a while so I make him some tea and we get to talking. Night falls before help comes so I light a fire in the pit and let him borrow a sweater I stole from an ex and pull out a bottle of whiskey I was saving for something special but it's special enough. It keeps us chatting untill the early hours when a tow truck finally shows and I see him off. When I get home from my studies I find a package waiting for me—it's the sweater he borrowed, a thank you card, and a bottle of fine whiskey?

(I'm uncomfortable sexually fantasizing about real people.)

I have some big news for you about libraries and second hand book stores.

I don't think you understand this game.

It comes with amnesia and severe personality disorder.

Like slime girls from the legends of Rule34, I imagine.

That's my point. We don't allocate energy resources based on importance, and when this argument is brought up there's no scale for comparison when someone says AI, specifically, is destroying the planet.

More scarecrow. He's always in the background, doing his strange little fear experiments. I'd like to see something like the Year One comic, going into his unhinged actions as a professor, his weird shit with grandma, and Batman tracking him down like a serial killer.

Do we know how energy usage of AI compares to other daily tasks?

Like: rendering a minute of a fully animated film, flying from L.A. to New York, watching a whole series on Netflix, scrolling this site for an hour, or manufacturing a bottle of tylenol?

How does asking AI "2+2" compare to generating a three second animation in 1080p? There has to be a wide gamut of energy use per task.

And then the impact would depend on where your energy comes from. Which is a whole other thing, we should be demanding cleaner, more efficient energy sources.

A quick search on energy consumption by AI brings up a list of articles repeating the mantra that it's substantial, but sources are vague or non-existent. None provide details to be able to confidently answer any of the above questions.

That's not to say AI doesn't consume significant power, it's saying most people don't regulate their lives by energy consumption.

they grow back really fast

they grow back

Overhearing other people being cute when they don't know I can hear them.

Jokes on them I LOVE the time prison

I'll spend a thousand years learning to speak in limericks and then we'll see who's in a prison of cruel design

You know what? I was so out of brain this morning I stared at that for a whole minute wondering if it was right. I write for work every goddamn day and I was like "WTF... how did I forget this. I use these words EVERY DAY." I knew until I thought about it.

I almost looked it up but then was like... no, 50/50 shot and everyone will know what I mean. No one will point it out.

"We found a drug that extends someone's perception of time. Imagine having small moments of extended peace during a busy week, or time to decompress after trauma, or using it to prolong pleasurable moments..."

"Okay but what if we used it to make hell a reality?"

It's almost like outside factors may effect someone's health and wellbeing.

I've read plenty of specific papers on the subject of menstrual cycles and effects of hormones and, in short, well, you're kinda full of shit. I don't think you know what a menstrual cycle or hormones actually are, and I don't think you've read tons and tons of studies on how hormones affect our bodies. Because you're just kind of explaining being a person. Those are the things that hormones affect for everyone, every day. And women do not have more of them than men.

I wish they had those same ethics with my first birth control when I was hospitalized with severe depression. I wasn't even told it was a side effect. Ten years later there was a class action lawsuit and it was discontinued.

Considering men default humans and women an "other," is the exact bias that has held back medical care for half the fucking population.

Everyone's hormones are always in flux, every day. Eating food can drastically affect your hormones. Aerobic excercise can affect your hormones. Men have hormonal cycles as well.

What you wrote here about costs associated with medical research on women seems paraphrased from some out-of-date medical journal. Unless menstrual cycles are being studied, you do not "have to do all kinds of correction and analyses" to make sure they're not affecting that study. I have no idea where you heard that, and would go as far as to say you just made it up. I don't even know where to begin with the pregnancy test thing, unless you're thinking of only medical trials, specifically.

It was one of the worst pains I've ever experienced and they gave me mother fucking tylenol.

I got the IUD after twelve years of trying to convince doctors my cramps were unusually bad, and being prescribed mother fucking tylenol, for what I later learned were "muscle spasms similar to labor," every. single. month.

The IUD helped! If you have the same, ask about a Mirena and bring a flask of something strong. Like opium.

That's just me doing naked fart yoga because my tummy hurts.