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Now they are litterally scavenging/destroying, almost even burning books just do digitilize them/feed then to AI… Fuck these billionaires!
One frees knowledge for everyone. One steals knowledge and locks it behind a paywall.
The first one sometimes has a physical paywall, though.
Incredibly rare
We still do. Libraries and parks and playgrounds today are sooooooo much nicer and useful and prevalent than when I was a kid. We still have these.
The people building the new data centers aren’t human tho
They’re transhumanists
Literally the enemy of humanity
Look it up
They’re only transhumanist up until the human in question is trans. Basically the same way they treat free speech, rules for thee but not for me.
They want to become uploaded themselves into the matrix and then kill all of the humans, trans or otherwise.
Also, look up the Zizians, AI psychopathy is not limited to cis-gendered people unfortunately.
Transhumanists are human. Holding a certain belief, even if it’s an awful one, doesn’t make you an alien or reptile or something.
The beliefs they hold are unbecoming of a human
They would eagerly shed the title of human themselves if they were intellectually capable enough to produce the technology they fantasize about. Instead, they’re destroying the environment for a moronic word guessing machine.
They don’t want the title, and frankly they’re not deserving of it
Transhumanist aren’t anti-humanism???
It got infected by corpo bastards and they created a splinter group of fasc-transhumanism
But it’s a leftist ideal originally, and still has lots of leftist philosophers that believe in it. Popularised by Aldous Huxley’s (Brave New World author) brother, Julian
A simple idea: to merge humanity and artificial to make humans that are able to customise their selves as easily as changing clothes, and to defeat death
Some existing not fasc transhumanist factions:
- Abolitionism - complete removal of all suffering, through technology
- Equalism - even redistribution of all resources, through technology
- Postgenderism - complete removal of gender, through artificial wombs, artificial penis with functioning ejaculate, etc, so that people can change gender and sex as easily as clothes, through technology
- Technogaianism - applying transhumanist ideals to all of nature, to restore Earth’s environment and developing safe, clean, alternative technology
“transhumanists”
Should be in quotes. “Ubermensch” is what comes more to mind.
Yeah, that’s an apt comparison
Oh those are lamps. First I was thinking there’s a bunch of storm troopers reading at those tables.
There is a bunch of stormtroopers reading at those tables.
They simply don’t wear their uniforms at the moment, right.
We reached so high and now are falling so deep into capitalism…
i can’t tell if this is slop or just a weirdly smudged photo and that scares me
The ladder.
I wish people would learn homonyms/homophones and how to fucking spell correctly. You had me zooming into the photo looking for an actual ladder. 🤦🏼♀️
Sorry, just bad at english sometimes.
Really? “The latter” is a fairly advanced English-speaking concept.
Idk, don’t speak it every day. Not to natives atleast. After years of that the decline is clearly visible.
It’s a doggy dog world out there
The lahrer
We need to build a society of library socialism.
And you’re going to tell me this doesn’t consume any water? It’s just as bad as data centers!
Obviously,
/s
it does, but only the bathroom and plants, but those have net benefits.
its also the datacenters that doesnt hallucinate on command, thats why the gop trying to destroy “truth areas”
won’t be long before they get transformed into shopping centers. or convention halls! they are empty most of the time, and the small community ones are getting closed.
Books are expensive to produce and quite pricey to maintain, but nowhere close compared to digital computer draining water source dry, polluting soil and make loud noise disrupting entire neighborhood.
That’s a pretty room, but it doesn’t seem ideal for a library. If you’re trying to study / concentrate it would be loud: too many people, a big open space with hard surfaces, etc.
If you were waiting to meet up with a friend at the library, that’s a great room for that – as long as when that friend arrives you’re allowed to talk to them at a normal volume. But, you don’t need a room that huge for just meeting up at the library.
If you were allowed to just hang out and chat at normal volume, that would be nice. Especially in places with awful, cold winters, a big, open space like that would be so nice when you’re always stuck inside. But, with all those hard surfaces people would get louder and louder to make themselves overheard over all the other noise.
If the library hosted events of various kinds, that would be an amazing event space. Science fair type things, science demonstrations, a reading by an author followed by a Q&A, a charity ball, etc. It just seems not ideal for quiet reading, studying, etc.
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Nothing wrong with data centers or information in digital formats, plenty of evil has been done using paper and ink as well. Fetishizing print makes no sense to me as a response to shitty practices.
books cost an initial investment and returns on that investment with an unlimited amount based on the longevity of the book.
data centers have a high initial investment with a similar ROI but lack the longevity and includes expensive long term maintenance.
books are a better investment, and I’m saying that as someone who works in big tech.
Digital information can be copied indefinitely. Every copy can be perfect, no degradation. It can be searched, have embedded cross-references and sent around the world in seconds. Books suck as a medium in comparison, and that’s just for text.
Digital information can be copied indefinitely.
true, but books can be printed indefinitely too.
Every copy can be perfect, no degradation.
Untrue. data degradation is a real thing and can result in complete data loss or corruption. even if you store the data in the best case scenario it’s not a matter of if, but when.
Books similarly can be damaged but are often repairable unless completely destroyed.
It can be searched, have embedded cross-references and sent around the world in seconds.
We used to call that research when books were the primary source of knowledge. indices and glossaries still exist, you know?
Books suck as a medium in comparison, and that’s just for text.
data can be rewritten because it is stateless. this allows overbearing individuals to literally change how history is remembered.
can’t do that with books. once printed, they stay printed forever.
books are a more favorable medium when you account for corruption, propaganda, and environmental impacts. even the paper they are printed on can be recycled, further reducing environmental impacts. can’t say that about data.
don’t be mad, thank a book you can even read this.
I’m not even going to argue with this, nice trolling.
everyone I disagree with is a troll
The type of data center they build now. Ever shocked watching the film Matrix? Well now you have to get used to it.
Edit: Was in fact AI, you have the right to call me a gullible, idiotic sh’t.
Every data center I’ve ever been in has not looked like this.
What is the point of the overhead walkway? Why the blue lights? Way too many doors to get in and out. There aren’t clear definitions of hot aisles and cold aisles…
Yeah, this looks like AI slop. The racks aren’t tall enough, the aisles are too wide, there’s no cooling / networking / power on top of the racks, the Blinkenlights are too white…
3 years I felt confident that I would never do something like this. 3 years. Damn. I’ve failed as a self proclaimed “technically ept person”.
The guy was right, and the racks are not in frame, some are distorted.
