• laziestflagellant [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    I feel like eventually google (and other websites but especially google) will realize the extent of the damage and will have to rebuild their foundations to combat the endless, automated and financially incentivized math hallucinations, but I really wonder how bad the damage is going to get before we reach that point.

    Probably a bunch of dead people tbh, see Ann Reardon’s series on Litchenberg woodburning

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I think it’s an open question at this point if highly financialized western capitalism can undertake that kind of productive re-building. Personally I don’t think it is capable.

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      aw that’s sad. i assumed people knew better. This and Jacob’s Ladders are the kind of thing where you set it up in one room, and you plug it in from the other room. That video of someone holding the HV end with their bare hands is nuts, I wouldn’t even do that with line voltage. Same old story: people get acclimated to the danger, until one day they’re working in the shop alone late at night and make a tiny mistake.

      “we’re talking 2000 volts here, we’re not playing with tiny amounts of current”

      aghh