“I just read this” in a review of someone very upset about requiring an account, while the signup server was offline over Christmas. I’m very sorry I came off so “confidently”, I thought writing “I read this” is a reasonable indication that this is second hand knowledge not first hand. Hearsay in a court of public opinion you could say. I guess this confidence is just my natural charisma which is my undoing again lol

It might also be that this is only true for the regional distributor in my country. I suspect my country is the original inventor of enshittification.

You’re welcome. Cunningham’s Law is proven to work flawlessly again.

This is a ridiculous comment from someone who prints too many Magic the Gathering characters.

Do you mean your own ridiculous comment? And what do you mean printing Magic the gathering characters, do you mean color printing the little card pictures in large? Or do you confuse this with 3D printing characters for tabletop strategy games like Warhammer 40k? I’m just going to assume you’re some kind of confused space ork.

This technology has been typical tech bullshit from day one. Wood framed houses are cheaper, stronger, and can be repaired or changed in the future.

Sure, robots are totally bullshit. They never have had any drastic effect how we live and work and if they did, it would surely stop at this specific point and go no further!

Have a robot dig foundations? You mean like this?

Yes, exactly like that! The advances I spoke of make it possible to control even hydraulic robot arms using software and computer vision. It’s all very technical though.

And they already can switch end effectors and are mobile and can drive around!!! You could in fact build a 3D house printing robot exactly like that and it would take very little setup time. Or have a small group of them work together, day and night digging, printing and building homes.

Probably very illegal! Drones would be relatively easy to track versus for example bullets from a random hunting rifle. They should really label every single bullet of ammunition in the US.

It’s shocking that they just seem to sit out there in the open. Afaik they are very delicate and fragile machines.

If you’re honestly asking, one thing I just read is that you need an account to use it. Not sure if that is a downside for many.

Presumably this:

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The problem is that AI actually can do useful work, unlike what the fuckais want people to believe. It can do that. Except you don’t get any updates or support, or help with fixing bugs. So not even sure how useful this is. But oh look how evil lol

All this shows is how stupid intellectual property, patents and copyright is. We’re not talking about “high art” or ingenious inventions or stuff, it’s all capital sucking up the work of workers and turning it into a commodity. A commodity that fundamentally is easy to copy. And copying isn’t theft, it doesn’t take anything away except the potential profit the capitalists are dreaming of. If you are taking away my copy, my ability to learn or enjoy culture, then you are the thief. Because most of the time there is no profit, only potential profit that would never materialize. We have a 1000 textbook variations about the same topic, because every one has their own copyright instead of collaboration and free resources. Pulp.

There are no artists posting on reddit, they are no genius comments or novels posted. Millions of books from an industry that produces slop. And LLMs managed to turn all that into something resembling intelligence which might be useful for quite a few things. And they don’t even copy, they use machine learning to turn it into a model of the thing.

And suddenly everybody looses their fucking mind and pleads for more stringent copyright laws lol.

Fuck the AI bubble and environmental BS and do address the avalanche of societal problems coming our way, but copyright law is not the fucking answer. It’s an oppressive and imperialist tool to collect rent. And it will make things much worse long term if there are no legal open source/weight AI models.

The video isn’t really about 3D printing houses, it’s mostly about corruption, scams, grifters, con artists, burocracy and idiots. It uses a very ominous tone that is very emotionally appealing and click-baity. What it has to say about actual 3D printing houses is very little:

One house had cracks, concrete is hard. 3D printing with clay takes a week to dry, that is soooo long. Concrete produces so much CO2!!! Where are the regulations!? But they also invented carbon neutral concrete and are experimenting with new binders and aggregates. They 3D printed a 2 story house in earthquakey japan, but OH MY GOD it’s inspired by a cave! I CAVE!!! Who wants to live in a CAVE?!?!?

A video like this is using the same type of emotional manipulation to feed the algorithm and engagement like the grifters in their example do. It’s disgusting to me.

3D printing houses has huge potential, it’s just in it’s infancy, and maybe not well suited to develop in the capitalist housing market. There are breakthroughs to control less precise robotics, self driving and SLAM that will allow this to be even cheaper and more flexible. Building materials to develop and software and tools to develop. Just look at plastic 3D printers and how they were held back for years by patents and capitalist interests.

The potential is there to not just 3D print rough structures, but intricately painted and sculpted beautiful structures… out of literal dirt on site. With new binders we could make use of local materials instead of transporting sand across the world. And not just one house, but a whole village for e.g. the millions of refugees from natural catastrophes we can expect over the next century.

There is an obvious potential for further automization, like have a robot dig holes and 3D print foundations, save on transportation costs, use new materials, circumvent long and exploitative industrial supply chains for building materials, print foam insulation. Have different “robot end effectors” to insert wiring and piping while printing, or place structural elements for roofing. Even a hybrid approach between 3D printing and brick laying could be useful. Scan a quarry of a million natural stones and puzzle them together.

Don’t just 3D print the framing, but finish and paint the walls too. And 3D print the kitchen and cabinet furniture and bathroom including shower and bathtub too. 3D printing the walls is just the beginning of the potential. And tearing down and systematically sorting and recycling all individual parts of a house at the other end of the lifecycle.

We should fund a whole university focused on this technological area as a mega project to solve housing once and for all through maximum automation. Making housing free and a universal right for everyone should be the goal.

Haha love the reference to Fahrenheit 451. There is also a good illustration in the horror story from _9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9 with people sinking into some kind of experience stream, similar to wireheading. Or in “Systema Delenda Est” about postbiological life there is the concept of “Elysium” virtual worlds where people go in and never want to come out again, because they live in a narrative that is always perfect for them. Instead of slop you have perfection that is irresistible. Star Trek had Barkley becoming holo-addicted. Cheese Pizza is really bad for you too lol.

You could argue that something like computer games the story is ultimately told by the player and his decisions and actions, and the world should just react. There is a fundamental limit to storytelling in computer games, which only tabletop role playing games solve with an intelligent narrator or game master. I do think LLMs can fill that role but not very well. But better than what open world games offer today. Not better than a well written movie.

AI slop is AI slop, but if you compare it to a film director explaining to a concept artist or director of photography what he wants, then selecting and refining examples and concept art and sketching out a storyboard, there is little difference to someone using AI to make some film. Just that the latter will typically be much worse because anyone can do it now, they won’t have studied film making, and AI isn’t very good at it so far. But either can be art, or it can be garbage.

Also with advances in hardware and better tools and software and models, we could see a new type of art form or medium. Something like the holodeck in star trek. Like a movie that is more interactive, like a role playing session in VR. Told to you by a narrator but you can interject and steer or derail the narrative. So the “directors” become more like world builders or campaign designers.

Graham did whatever was necessary to gain more power and hold onto it, voted for imperialist wars that killed many thousands and made the USA weaker as a nation and helped perpetuate and create needless suffering. And in the end he collaborated and joined fascism. People like that love power above anything else. They love nothing else, believe in nothing else. It’s a filter, only the worst or the least human make it to the top. It doesn’t matter what they feel inside, certainly they don’t care. No empathy, no pity, no sense of aesthetics, no pride. Only power. Graham was the perfect example of this.

And he won. He never faced consequences, prosecution or defeat for the consequences of his actions and died of natural causes at the peak of his power. Pissing on his grave is the least we can do.

Save your pity for the victims of the policies he supported. Like the people dying or being mutilated in Iran right now.

Yeah it has to be open weight and free to use for everybody, with regulation to tag all AI output as generated so we know what is what.

The worst outcome would be if somehow all open weight AI models that can’t show their training data will be subject to some kind of tax or rent by AI / IP collection agencies, ultimately going to the plutocrats. That would be techno feudalism. Big corporations can afford to negotiate and pay license fees and often profit from cumbersome regulation too that prevents others from producing value. So the worst outcome is if we have robots doing all the work, and all the robot IP is owned by the techno-feudalists. And we can’t even use robots to help with subsistence farming because we can’t pay the expensive AI IP licenses.

I believe in the American Gods mythology where there are like 10 different Jesus Christs lol. Every religious sect spawns a new god.

Well that doesn’t sound ominous and insane at all

Why allow Israel to participate and the USA to host the fucking thing?

Both are committing war crimes right now. But I guess pointing out blatant hypocrisy is rage baiting too lol.

What about Iran? So hypocritical lol. It’s really the neighbor that did Russia in, attacking a country halfway around the world is totally fine. Because they are not white, pray to the wrong god and speak funny.

I’m so tired of everyone complaining about fascist MAGA. Complain more about fascist liberals.

Russia bad lol… hosts “soccer” world cup in the fucking fascist USA. Fucking priceless grumble grumble

Well they will probably be massively over capacity. But then you could run the for half a day during sunlight hours and just use solar. Solar PM and wind kite power basically gives us near infinite super cheap energy at certain times, so you could still make use of those compute centers. Turn them off during the night, modernize the cooling and noise dampening, add some solar and you can use the compute to run models to create new medicines like anti-cancer meds or protein folding. Unlikely that’s going to happen but that is what a sane civilization would do with all that compute.

I don’t believe so. The elites do not know how to do anything but make the conditions for fascism worse.

The only thing that could save us would be a revolution and a “tabula rasa” strategy or a (non bloody) purge of most elites. A return to sanity and massive reform. But people are so indoctrinated with propaganda that they would perceive that as authoritarianism and suppression of the free press and tankyism. So no, it’s impossible. The solution is (gradual) collapse.

“internet indexer” should really be a government / EU / UN sponsored public utility thing. And then you have front ends that can improve the search query and filter and sort the results.

I don’t know how much it would cost / how large a data center it would take to cache the web pages like google does. But there is just no reason to have so much wealth / advertising drain from the public for such a fundamental thing.

I guess one solution to that is to have a second used or ultra low cost phone just for your personal ID and banking stuff. But then it’s no longer really mobile lol.