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- Comment on Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC 5 days ago:
I feel like that’s the question, not if it was used as a binary flag.
Consumers want to know, so it’s probably a good idea to tell them.
But there’s a gradient. AI generated art assets aren’t the same as AI generated concept art, which isn’t the same as AI generated code, which isn’t the same as AI code completion. If you include the AI search results everyone is adding you’d be hard pressed to find something that didn’t use AI in a sense now.
What I care about is if your stuff is some generated slop code that will crash mid game and no one will ever be able to fix it. That any art that’s supposed to catch my eye has human intention behind it, and not just random generation.
I don’t want any AI that people feel the need to hide.
I should probably care more about filler assets, but I don’t really. If it’s the same to me if the creator handmade their grass texture or found a random one online, I’m kinda indifferent about if it’s AI. - Comment on me looking at my 190 cm/110 kg daddy 1 week ago:
100%! I meant my statement as building on yours, not contradicting. :)
Any time you talk about hormones you have to couch everything in a thick layer of “usually”, “often”, and “tend”. Biology varies a lot, and hormones vary more than most of the stuff.
- Comment on me looking at my 190 cm/110 kg daddy 1 week ago:
Testosterone is literally a steroid. It’s sort of a reductive statement but you don’t really think about it often.
It basically acts as a multiplier for the “grow muscle” signals your body can produce.
Men and women can easily have the same outcomes for muscle mass and calorie requirements, but men might not have to work as hard to get there owing to the higher testosterone multiplier on average.I’ve also heard that it makes your skin act weird. Several trans people I’ve talked to have all mentioned that getting their hormones managed made their skin care routine either way easier or harder in a sort of “holy shit” way.
- Comment on Well damn. Glad he's dead. 3 weeks ago:
What? That doesn’t even make sense. Being shitty makes you shitty, not thinking it’s shitty to be shitty.
You’re essentially sweeping all negative behavior under the rug of “confusion”.
Yes, he was wrong. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t also shitty. - Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
We had premature twins with some common, usually benign side effects. The “emergency C-section” and “dual booking in the NICU for a month” was just a whole thing.
If it weren’t for having good insurance it would have been financially unrecoverable.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
When two people love each other very much, they can decide they want to go to a series of various doctors appointments where the mommy gets given new and exciting risk factors and complications and the other desperately tries to keep track of the paperwork.
Then they have one final expensive doctors appointment and take home their brand new legal liability and tax exception, get ready for all of their new doctors appointments where everyone tries to sort the paperwork, skip sleeping for the next 6-36 months.
Thanks to evolutionary trickery they will ultimately rate this experience quite highly, on average. - Comment on Self sacrifice is honorable 5 weeks ago:
no one will ever know it was you and the company is not allowed to tell others.
That’s absolutely not true. The generally accepted policy is to only confirm dates of employment, conduct, and if they would rehire. The can share anything that isn’t a lie.
Additionally, if you commit sabotage you can have charges pressed against you. Serious ones with possible prison time. That would show up with even a rudimentary record search.
- Comment on It's actually that simple. 1 month ago:
They would have done better to make it more about talking someone into it or pestering them than about “hesitation”. Maybe “reluctant” would have been better.
Sometimes people need to do a little internal status check. “I had a headache all day, am I not feeling it or would it be a fun alternative to ibuprofen?” - Comment on It's actually that simple. 1 month ago:
If, as you say, consent doesn’t matter for animals, then you can’t rape one at all and we can fall back to the more conventional “abuse”, “mistreatment” or “animal cruelty”.
Your “contextual inference” seems to be the inference of consent, so I’m confused by what you mean. If consent doesn’t matter then clearly it doesn’t matter if the goat is tied to a pole.
I’m not seeing the hypocrisy. If you kill a goat, you’re a goat killer. If you buy a puppy, you’re a puppy buyer. If you fuck a goat you’re a goat fucker, and unless you passed the impossibly high bar of proving consent, you’re a non-consensual goat fucker, commonly called a “goat rapist”.
- Comment on It's actually that simple. 1 month ago:
If you can adequately prove to me that the animal understood and consented then what happens between you and the goat is your own business.
It takes more than enthusiastic participation: it also requires the ability to appropriately conceptualize what’s being consented to. It’s why drugging someone and then using their enthusiasm as consent doesn’t fly, or why a 13 year old can’t consent to a relationship with someone much older than them.A goat understands goat sex well enough that we all generally agree they can consent if they’re obviously into it.
A goat does not understand interspecies sex well enough to consent, regardless of their interest or arousal.At best your claim is that sometimes it’s closer to “statutorily raping” an animal, commonly known as “rape”.
So put the horse back in the barn before you let the horse out of the barn.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 1 month ago:
So, that technique is actually an attempt to avoid a major problem in road development: you make a road, and now it’s easier to travel so people use it and it’s congested. So you make it bigger and traffic flows again, and so more people start using it and it gets congested. This keeps going until you have the freeways in Texas: 26 lanes of bad traffic.
Instead, one notion is to make the road wider only when it needs to be. It usually keeps traffic more mitigated for a few years before habits adjust.
The real fix is to start removing lanes from the highways. People will find other ways to get there and schedule travel as needed. Or they’ll move out of the suburbs so they can get to work, or, the most ridiculous notion, they’ll vote for the creation of the most basic of light rail systems.
Realistically they’ll bulldoze another 50 mile stretch of urban housing so people can drive easier for the 4 busy hours a day for the next few years, until we eventually entirely demolish the cities to make way for the roads that bring people into them.
- Comment on Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal? 1 month ago:
There will probably be a small logo, a mark, or, commonly, a depiction of a fly.
Pee on that.
- Comment on Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal? 1 month ago:
There will probably be a small logo, a mark, or, commonly, a depiction of a fly.
Pee on that.
- Comment on Test ride 2 months ago:
Not all cops in all places are all bad all the time. They’re always part of a deeply broken system and all the other parts of the usual rant about cops, but that doesn’t mean they never do a good thing.
Most cynically: it’s basically a free bump to their performance numbers.
Most leftishly: a business called, which is closer to who they work for.
Most probably: theif was still there and someone was close enough that they’d be doing more than taking a meaningless report to file. - Comment on Witness 2 months ago:
Obviously fake launch picture. Have you ever noticed that our images of rocket launches increase in quality at nearly the exact same rate that our ability to simulate smoke on graphics cards increases?
It’s like they’re not even trying.
- Comment on Woke 2 months ago:
Wow. You really don’t respond well to people disagreeing with you do you? You went from embracing the future to “Yankee pigs can rot”. Certainly the enlightened thinker you are.
I take it you don’t see a connection between the 1905 and 1917 revolutions? The only thing that matters is they weakened the tzars, and then we should immediately stop looking when he was deposed a decade later? Or ignore the flaws in the Democratic reforms that led to said revolution?
you’re a mopey incurious sadsack
Buddy, you don’t know me. I was under the impression you were 15, but I try to keep uncharitable judgements to myself and assume the best.
Thinking the problems with America that can make people feel hopeless is deeper than a sophomores understanding of world politics doesn’t make someone “mopey”.What was your goal with talking if disagreement is this intolerable to you?
- Comment on Woke 2 months ago:
In any case, you’re still taking a very American-centric view. Ok, suppose that the loss of global hegemony doesn’t result in anything getting better for Americans. So?
I feel like this is the crux of the pointlessness of trying to communicate to you in a nutshell. Of course I’m taking an America-centric view. We’re in a thread about woke Americans being depressed. That’s called being “on-topic”. Arguing that Americans should be happy their lives, and the lives of everyone around them, are getting worse because it means that some people somewhere else have lives that will stop getting worse is going to get an academic nod of catharsis, at best. I’m seriously questioning if you’ve ever actually talked to or met people before.
make my neighbor not think we should hang trans people? Hopefully yes
Ah, I see you actually haven’t talked to people.
Nightmarish bigotry of all sorts has existed far, far longer than anyone could plausibly argue that it’s because of American hegemonic propaganda.1905, when Russia humiliatingly lost a war against Japan (a non-European power, so this came as a huge shock), the result was a wave of strikes, revolts, and mutinies that resulted in a revolution - the end of Tsarist autocracy, the establishment of a constitutional monarchy, and a broad democratization.
By “broad democratization” do you mean… The Soviet Union? I would hardly use the early to mid 1900s Russia to be a good example of things getting better after a loss.
As for your war analysis, I don’t actually care. I only responded to it because I think you’re giving it undue weight. “Bombed so heavily they must surely be running low on bombs by now” is not the sign of imminent defeat you seem to think it is.
- Comment on Woke 2 months ago:
I think you’re gravely exaggerating the significance of the iran war we currently have. The resources brought to force and the scale of losses are miniscule, and there’s no grounds to even say what “winning” is for either side.
That’s entirely aside from the point though. You’re arguing the a crack in the facade of hegemony is more responsible for emotional distress than a stark reminder that your next door neighbors are horrible bigots. That people should be comforted that people they don’t know will lose power.
Will Trump losing power make my neighbor not think we should hang trans people?
Will a loss of US influence in global affairs cause us to build a social safety net?
Will embarrassing the US military spur a wave of environmental reforms?The answer is “no”, because why would it?
I think you’re thinking about global politics a lot, and assuming it must be on everyone else’s mind as well.
I don’t think you actually know why people are exhausted and depressed, and you sure as shit don’t know what would improve that. - Comment on Woke 3 months ago:
Why do you think things need a more complex explanation?
Do you really feel like this Iran incursion is somehow significant feeling compared to Iraq or Afghanistan?
Do you actually think that the hegemonic status of the US really enters into the consideration of most people, to say nothing of having a significant impact on their emotions? Do you think an awareness of that would actually make people feel better? - Comment on Woke 3 months ago:
There’s a simpler explanation: people who aren’t shitbags are made unhappy by being beaten down by shitbags, and the shitbags becoming more openly shitty.
You don’t need to bring a geopolitical philosophy into it.
The failing power of the empire and the rising resistance of the global south instills them with a sense of nihilism, because we are supposed to be enlightened and civilized (though we can no longer be said to be, with the rise of overt fascism in the west), while our enemies are regressive, authoritarian barbarians - two equal evils fighting each other, with no hope for anything better
No one is being instilled with a sense of nihilism because of a loss of American influence in the global south, and no one really gives a shit about our enemies and their moral character. People care about stuff like “healthcare”, “poverty”, “civil rights”, “not burning the world”.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 3 months ago:
What countries have the word “America” in them? How many countries in the Americas are “united States”?
What do you call a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?For the record, The United States of America is the only country with the word America in it’s name. Our immediate neighbor, The United Mexican States, is another country you could, but no one would, plausibly call the United States.
The British isles contains two countries, Ireland and the UK. One of these is the home of the British, and the other would be much happier if you didn’t call them that.
Insisting that you not refer to the people of a country by the most unique name in the countries name, because the geographic region has that word in common is … Odd.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 months ago:
And you didn’t even read past the first sentence I see.
Saying they’re the same because they both use a neural network is roughly equivalent to saying things are they same because they’re both manipulating kinetic energy.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 3 months ago:
… How if flying a spaceship different from driving a car? They’re both controlled applications of kinetic energy to move people or objects.
At the end of the day, it’s all a pile of transistors and the only thing that is of import is the intent behind usage.
In one case it’s saying you can use a neural net to take something rendered at resolution A/4 and make it visually indistinguishable from the same render at resolution A.
The other is rendering something and radically changing the artistic or visual style.Upsampling can be replicated within some margin by lowering framerate and letting the GPU work longer on each frame. It strives to restore detail left out from working quicker by guessing.
You cannot turn this feature off and get similar results by lowering the frame rate. It aims to add detail that was never present by guessing.Upsampling methods have been produced that don’t use neural networks. The differences in behavior are in the realm of efficiency, and in many cases you would be hard pressed to tell which is which. The neural network is an implementation detail.
In the other case, the changes are more broad than can be captured by non AI techniques easily. The generative capabilities are central to the feature.Process matters, but zooming out too far makes everything identical, and the intent matters too. “I want to see your art better” as opposed to “I want to make your art better”.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 months ago:
That’s not bullying, that’s enforcing social mores.
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 3 months ago:
There’s no precedent at all. Precedent implies that it happened, which it didn’t.
Something being thought of and dismissed is just not evidence for that thing being done.It’s not like it was even that original of an idea. There had been two plane hijackings by cubans in the past year. Proposing “what if a third went wrong” is hardly a masterclasses in outside the box thinking.
We’ve done other false flag operations. Other terrible things to domestic civilians.
Using that time we didn’t actually do anything as an example is just odd.Personally, I think people like it just because it has a cooler name. “Mongoose” just doesn’t have the same ring.
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 3 months ago:
And? What happened next? Did they do an operation Northwoods? Did we go to war with Cuba? Was Johnson more aggressive on Cuba than Kennedy, or was he actually more engaged on diplomatic fronts?
I’m not forgetting anything. It just doesn’t fit with any narrative that makes a lick of goddamned sense. Like, Kennedy rejected Northwoods because he was worried the troops might be needed in Europe, so starting a war in Cuba would be a bad move.
He was strongly in favor of every other operation they proposed as part of the larger plan.Why would a massive conspiracy exist to kill Kennedy for rejecting a plan and then… Not do the plan?
- Comment on The list is realistically so much longer. 3 months ago:
I agree, and feel similarly about the inclusion of operation Northwoods.
It’s most prominently a horrifying plan that was rejected and remained classified, with the proposer being replaced shortly afterwards (it’s entirely possible that’s a coincidence).Someone thinking of something horrible and then not doing it isn’t evidence that they would do something similar. There’s no particular reason to think they hid evidence because they admitted in the same deeply classified documents to doing far worse things.
- Comment on Modern problems require modern solutions 4 months ago:
I mean, I get that. As I said, it’s the surprise that confuses me. I understand “ugh, why are we putting profit in _____”. It’s that someone would go “whoah, hold on, people are running daycares for money?”
- Comment on Modern problems require modern solutions 4 months ago:
I’m honestly slightly confused by this response. Any business type will end up with some that do well, open more locations and get some manner of central office. It’ll inevitably be some manner of corporation because that just how we structure any business beyond small. The daycare is where the kids go and the office their handles local stuff like contact forms and medical notes, and corporate office handles billing and such.
Like, yeah it’s weird for something as personal as childcare to be a franchise, but no one gets too worked up about corporate pharmacies and that’s literally trusting a stranger giving you a bottle of drugs to eat not to hand you the poison they keep a few feet over.
It’s weird and kinda dystopian, but I’m confused by the shock.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 4 months ago:
And significantly, if you needed someone to actually do a job that wasn’t made obsolete by the removal of material scarcity you’d need to find a way to make it meaningfully enticing to them. Material scarcity is the driver for so much suckage that it’s almost mind boggling how much would change if we even made a significant dent on it.