Ryan
@ryansmits.bsky.social
teacher, luddite, hiker
publications listed at www.ryansmits.com
publications listed at www.ryansmits.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"This, in turn, would warp the direction of global economies, requiring the construction of ever-larger data centers. The economic and environmental overhaul would be done in the name of outsourcing our human thoughts and memories to an omnipresent machine...
June 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"This, in turn, would warp the direction of global economies, requiring the construction of ever-larger data centers. The economic and environmental overhaul would be done in the name of outsourcing our human thoughts and memories to an omnipresent machine...
"This means that, if we all started using our personal A.I. machines dozens of times a day, as we do our iPhones, the environmental toll of our personal technology would skyrocket—imagine something like turning every car on the road into a diesel truck...
June 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"This means that, if we all started using our personal A.I. machines dozens of times a day, as we do our iPhones, the environmental toll of our personal technology would skyrocket—imagine something like turning every car on the road into a diesel truck...
"Some research estimates that generating a typical e-mail using A.I. consumes a bottle’s worth of water to siphon heat away from the data centers’ servers to separate cooling towers...
June 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"Some research estimates that generating a typical e-mail using A.I. consumes a bottle’s worth of water to siphon heat away from the data centers’ servers to separate cooling towers...
Can we add learning styles, aka VAK, to this list?
May 31, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Can we add learning styles, aka VAK, to this list?
Continued...
"The soundest fact may fail or potential in the style of its telling: like the singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Facts are no more solid, different, round, and real than pearls are."
"The soundest fact may fail or potential in the style of its telling: like the singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Facts are no more solid, different, round, and real than pearls are."
May 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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"The soundest fact may fail or potential in the style of its telling: like the singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Facts are no more solid, different, round, and real than pearls are."
"The soundest fact may fail or potential in the style of its telling: like the singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Facts are no more solid, different, round, and real than pearls are."
This shouldn't have to be news to people, but unfortunately it needs to be spelled out plain as day like this .. 😔
May 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This shouldn't have to be news to people, but unfortunately it needs to be spelled out plain as day like this .. 😔
This was a fantastic article from Dr. D. Graham Burnett. Of everything I've read in argument for the benefits of AI, this was the most moving and articulated.
May 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This was a fantastic article from Dr. D. Graham Burnett. Of everything I've read in argument for the benefits of AI, this was the most moving and articulated.