I never go much past 200 with volcano

Another hi tech, inaccessible, centralized (cause most don't have resources to do it) food production thing that is still so expensive it can't break profit, and due to sterile environment it needs, likely never will.

Even if it would, it still would be a luxury alternative most people can't afford. I guess better than killing animals ethically, but not the kind of vibe we need to cultivate in food production.

This article goes more in depth debunking it:

https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-scale/

I was originally very interested on this topic as I went vegan like 9 years ago. More I have been following it, sillier it seems.

Afaik some were using gov emails but that's not majority. Not a psyop, just dumbasses

Techno fix for a solved problem. Just eat plants.

Much more reasonable than that other larger AI scenario piece that has been going around recently

Mfw I have been gooning for free all these years

People who think you need to have optimist outlook of the future to be able to somehow manifest that into being are fucking idiots. I can enjoy my life, while being pretty hopeless about the future for human race, while still trying to do whatever I can to try to make things better.

If you can't do whatever you believe is right, because you are "pessimistic" about it working the way you want, then in my opinion you have fundamentally flawed view of the life as a whole, and probably don't know how to deal with negative emotions in a healthy way.

"We act because we have values, not because we know that our actions will definitely succeed"

-Jem Bendell.

And on topic of resiting tech, I work in IT and have more versatile tech skills than most people I know. Show me something that works and is useful, and I won't resist it just because it is new. But if you keep trying to sell me bullshit disguised as progress, than I will always tell you to fuck off.

If your AI product doesn't get mass adoption because of my negativity, then it is a shit product.

Comparisons in the article are also stupid. Sure I don't like coal used over nuclear, but nuclear is also kinda overhyped tech, that has been given so much benefit of doubt, but failed to deliver. Sure there has been some people who are irrationally afraid of it.

"Countries such as India, Brazil, Mexico and Thailand have run from vapes – outlawing them, while permitting traditional tobacco cigarettes for 1.8 billion of their citizens. Better unsafe than sorry."

Not a cigarette fan, but harder to ban those at this point, but with vapes it is still doable, and if not to protect peoples health, then maybe to avoid e-waste from disposable vapes.

"In the US, Robert F Kennedy Jr runs from vaccines towards natural herd immunity – although he might be having second thoughts now that the risks have become less abstract." Sure use antivaxxer idiot as an example of a tech critic, instead of anyone credible.

Same with 5G, sure there are conspiracy theories about it, but how about just asking wtf we need that fast internet for everywhere? For my phone use past 50 megabytes it doens't really make any difference if it gets faster.

"Stories that don’t make us forget that brain chips can liberate paraplegics, robot dogs can protect us from landmines, AI can prevent super bugs and VR can connect us rather than cut us off from reality – even if their vibes are “a bit Black Mirror”."

This last sentence really revealed the author as a tech bro. -Superbug thing is overhyped, they had used same AI for previous similar study, giving AI extra context that made it easier to solve that. Still impressive, but not representative of AI as a whole.

-VR is the rich kid of tech, always given money and second chance and always fails to deliver anything useful.

-Robot dogs and landmines, really? How about police using robot dogs to target protestors? Much more likely scenario for most people, and we already have used robots to defuse bombs for a long while now.

-Brain chips might liberate paraplegics and then company goes bust or stops supporting the product, re disabling that person. Has already happened with other tech meant to help disabled people. If I had to choose between neuralink (or anything from Musk) and being wheelchair bound for rest of my life, I would still take the latter.

I always consider both good and bad sides of tech, but most of the tech we are hyping now seems to come more down than upsides tbh.

/rant but this article really annoyed me.

Bullshit advertising is not news

That's fine, but most posts don't get enough activity for need, I can get the vibe of all three comments with one glance.

Partially kidding, but I've never been overwhelmed by amount of lemmy comments like sometimes on other platforms, which I don't use, where I might need tool like this.

local AI thread summary. If it's local whatever but these threads ain't long enough to need a summary.

Worm weapons were easiest way to actually kill yourself in that game. Agreed.

I mostly want them to fix spawning, so I don't see when enemies spawn.

Otherwise I never had any particular issues with bugs, and don't expect major gameplay changes since it's remaster not remake.

Yeah same, I don't want to dismiss it as useless, just don't vibe well with the hype people either. So I'm quite critical on what I consider good use case.

I agree, one of my favorite games. Remake is surprisingly good coming from EA and this day and age although badly optimized and they stopped making patches for it really faat.

It works very well that Ishimura is freely explorable, and no place is truly safe even after you cleared it due to intensity director AI that basically makes your game harder and randomly turns out lights or spawns enemies if you're doing too well.

Dead space game. Hallucination of your dead GF called Nicole.

Dead space

I mostly hate AI but constantly try to find actual usecases for it past the hype.

I have made a VST audio effect plugin where I used AI as coding assistant, set up different local AI things, like fabric to get summaries from youtube videos, autogen where I have been testing AI agents, LM studio/Ollama local server etc.

I also use local AI to make instrumentals out of songs for singing practice (UVR).

These things said I'm still bit unimpressed with gen AI. Like sure as tech savvy person I find uses but don't think any of those are particularly revolutionary as is claimed.

Why I'm on this community, like any other AI community is to follow any developments as I continue this search for actually good use cases. With many things I just don't find AI reliable enough, or if it's something I'm good at, I rather use my old non AI workflows.

For what it's worth, I buy this. We had tech bubbles before but this is so big, while also one of the few sources of growth anymore, while real economy is stagnating.

Fair but I wouldn't ever work for weapons manufacturing. Also sabotage in that context would have heavy punishment, and at worst could cause collateral damage.

Similar cases with my old company. In my case people who would had suffered the most direct consequences would had been my colleagues who I respect.

But I could totally cause trouble without any backdoor access.