I'm not sure what's going on with the ordering of the sections, but it's definitely creative.
- 01: Section 1
- 02: Section 11
- 03: Section 10
...
- 10: Section 3
- 11: Section 2
- 12: Section 12
Everything I Know (1975)
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#23Am I understanding correctly that around 1997 a single person transcribed 42 hours of recordings? Wild and impressive. I wonder how long it took them? Modern tools would likely do it in 42 minutes?
Even if the transcription was instantaneous, you'd still need to manually vet it, i.e. listen to all of it.
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#24I remember this comic about Energy Slaves: https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/energy-slaves/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_slave
It's funny, I had a similar experience taking a nap in the office. I listen to the home of the spinny hard drives all around me, and suddenly my mind zoomed out, and I became aware of how many computers there were around me, and try to imagine how many there were in a 10-mile radius.
That radius kept expanding and I became painfully aware that most of them were just sitting there, not doing anything useful at all.
Not a very original idea — I was familiar with SETI@Home — but it was weird to me how little it had caught on.
Most computers are just spinning their wheels most of the time. That's a lot of power just sitting there.
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#25I remember this comic about Energy Slaves: https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/energy-slaves/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_slave
It's funny, I had a similar experience taking a nap in the office. I listen to the home of the spinny hard drives all around me, and suddenly my mind zoomed out, and I became aware of how many computers there were around me, and try to imagine how many there were in a 10-mile radius. That radius kept expanding and I became painfully aware that most of them were just sitting there, not doing anything useful at all. No…
Most of them these days are smart enough to NOT spin their wheels when idle.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's funny, I had a similar experience taking a nap in the office. I listen to the home of the spinny hard drives all around me, and suddenly my mind zoomed out, and I became aware of how many computers there were around me, and try to imagine how many there were in a 10-mile radius. That radius kept expanding and I became painfully aware that most of them were just sitting there, not doing anything useful at all. No…
Most of them these days are smart enough to NOT spin their wheels when idle.
It's still a big waste of compute power. Most of the lifecycle emissions come from manufacturing, not electricity.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's funny, I had a similar experience taking a nap in the office. I listen to the home of the spinny hard drives all around me, and suddenly my mind zoomed out, and I became aware of how many computers there were around me, and try to imagine how many there were in a 10-mile radius. That radius kept expanding and I became painfully aware that most of them were just sitting there, not doing anything useful at all. No…
Most of them these days are smart enough to NOT spin their wheels when idle.
Well I was thinking mostly of the CPUs. They're just sitting there. It's a waste of power sure, but more importantly it's a waste of a massive amount of useful computation that could have been happening.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most of them these days are smart enough to NOT spin their wheels when idle.
Well I was thinking mostly of the CPUs. They're just sitting there. It's a waste of power sure, but more importantly it's a waste of a massive amount of useful computation that could have been happening.
That's what the AIs are going to say when they harvest the whole world to make more AIs.
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#30For those unfamiliar with Bucky, I highly recommend his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Its a short, light read. He has a really interesting take on technology’s role in pirates and he was a firm believer that there is enough resources for everyone. He even talks about the US’s vulnerability to an attack on its water system. https://archive.org/details/operatingmanualforspaceshipearth...
"Your Private Sky - The Art of Design Science" is also really good. Lots of photos and sketches.