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I love this idea, though I wish they some information about what software it is running.

Sure, it can’t count how many Rs are in strawberry, but it definitely for sure can predict future affairs in bean stew ingredients. /s

Yeah, that’s pretty similar, the main difference being the setting. For me, I can only really tolerate books if they’re science fiction for some reason.

But yeah, that book was so bad it honestly makes me want to take a crack at the idea myself and see if I can do it better.

I know I probably can’t, I have very little writing experience. But it’s gotta be at least worth the attempt.

100%

Honestly everyone hot.

Not a film, but a novel:

Starflight 3000 by R.W. Mackelworth

If I remember, it was about this asteroid called “The Biosphere” that got hollowed out and sent on relativistic speeds through deep space to seed other solar systems with human colonies. The inside of it was set up like a giant rural town with massive skies, and a foot print the size of New York. And that’s a cool ass premise.

But the book was so fucking milquetoast and bland. I could not tell you anything about the protagonist, their challenges, or anything.

I don’t know where “🏳️‍⚧️” is, but all the girls from there are hot.

A potential strategy for using it for good would be dealing with the problem of comparitive effort to spread and debunk bullshit. It takes very little effort to spread bullshit. It takes a lot of effort to debunk it.

An LLM doesn’t need to worry about effort. It can happily chug away debunking bullshit all day long, at least, if you ignore the problem of them not being able to reason, and the other ongoing problems with LLMs. But there is potential for it being a part of the solution here.

Using their example of industrial heat, I think they’re overstating how fucked this is in terms of technology:

Take industrial heating as an example. By some estimates, 10% of global emissions come from industrial heat, the high-intensity heat needed to produce steel, cement and other materials. Those high temperatures come from burning fossil fuels, and we don’t currently have the means of replacing those fossil fuels with alternate green sources of high heat

The thing is, for this example, we do have the technology, the catch is the cost:

In terms of production costs, one ton of steel currently costs in the order of €400, which includes about €50 required for the coal used. Replacing this coal with hydrogen would require around €180 worth of hydrogen at current best prices (€3.6/kg), which would increase the total price of a ton of steel by about one third. If the large-scale production of hydrogen drives down the price of hydrogen to €1.80/kg by 2030, the price difference between conventional steel and steel produced by green hydrogen would drop to the order of 10 %.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2020/641552/EPRS_BRI(2020)641552_EN.pdf

Capitalism is definitely contributing to this part of the problem, but it isn’t alone. This is a switching cost, one inherent to decarbonizing industry, and so it will be a problem regardless of the economic model used (assuming the same output of steel). The rest of this article has good insights.

Obligitory: Eat the rich, down with capitalism, communism for all

How can the onion ever hope to compete with reality

doesn’t sound like ‘working class high density housing’ to me.

It sounds like your arbitrarily gatekeeping this.

Now a ‘major city’ without rats and roaches??? It has to be a cold as fuck city, definitely not a thing in temperate climates.

It’s temperate.

My group did a multi-shot where we played ourselves, and we each set each other’s stats. Each of us took a turn being DM so we could each play ourselves.

Mine was something like 8, 9, 8, 14, 12, 8

I’d have to dig up that ancient sheet to know for sure.

Then I spent a decent chunk of the campaign trying to build a phone charger out of random things you’d find in Chult.

the power consumption is much more dependent on the quality of the buildings.

To a degree yes, but a larger HVAC system that cools 100 apartments is going to be more efficient that 100 window units. It’s not a guarantee, but it’s far easier to fix when it’s all one building.

I get the impression that all the proponents of these ‘high density’ housing ideas haven’t lived in a high density working class area ever, and probably wouldn’t last long if they get themselves in one.

I live in the heart of a major city in a large apartment building complex that has about 90 units. I don’t have rat problems, cockroaches, or junkies around. The walls are soundproofed well, so I don’t deal with any more noise than a suburb.

You’re confused about the source of your problems.

Higher density leads to:

• Less concrete use
• Less power consumption for heating/cooling
• Less power lines needed
• Shorter distances for power lines
• Less sprawl

It absolutely makes sustainable communities.

I didn’t mean it in a derogatory way. Commie blocks weren’t perfect, but they were a massive success.

It looks like they’re still using I beams and steel for the structure. The wood is for panneling & walls.

So psuedo commie blocks but slightly more eco friendly and capitalist.

If only they were told it was a bad idea of a multitude of reasons.

A lot of people will die before that ever happens

It looks pretty cute. But holy shit the mouse on that thing looks awful to use.