t3rmit3
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- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grokipedia launches with AI-cloned pages from Wikipedia 4 days ago:
“We think people just like Blahaj because their friends online do, not because of the shark itself, but we have no evidence either way, and also mainstream media is liberal and bad.”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I always keep one 24" 1080p monitor at my desk, alongside the larger and wider gaming monitor, because that size and resolution is (to me) perfect for text (and side viewing of old films that I don’t want to over-stretch).
I got my first 4K, widescreen monitor recently, and it’s a hugely noticeable difference from 1080p, but depending on what I’m doing, it’s often not an improvement.
- Comment on The Goon Squad 1 week ago:
But gooning is more goal-oriented and more communal. The gooner goons to reach the “goonstate”: a supposed zone of total ego death or bliss that some liken to advanced meditation, the attainment of which compels them to masturbate for hours, or even days, at a time.
Is this Fox News? I think their GenZ consultant trolled them hard.
- Comment on Generative AI is a societal disaster 1 week ago:
So far the only real “regulation” I’ve seen governments push vis a vis social media is using it as an excuse to kill anonymity and privacy, rather than doing anything about the harmful content itself. What evidence do we have that governments ‘regulating’ AI is going to actually solve the issues presented, and not be just another backdoor to control their populaces?
I don’t think there’s nothing to be done, but perhaps I’m just getting a little tired of this strange cognitive disconnect from people rightfully recognizing that governments globally are shifting rightwards, turning into vehicles of oppression and re-stoking the fires of colonialist-era racism, paying vast sums to companies like Palantir and other AI-heavy “defense” companies to help surveil their citizens… but then people also going, “hey, you’re totally the right people to help us solve this capitalist problem, right”? Like, if they wanted to help you, they already would be.
the superintelligence argument has sent governments chasing that red herring as they try to present themselves as being friendly to tech investment to attract a small slice of the trillions of dollars
Perhaps they are well aware that superintelligence is a distraction? Perhaps they are, in fact, distracting you (royal ‘you’), rather than them being the ones distracted?
- Comment on DayZ creator Dean Hall is a changed man - after years of living the high life, he's focused on saving a studio that flew too close to the sun [Eurogamer] 1 week ago:
Arma is pretty cool… despite BI. DayZ has been (for me) a continual disappointment. I don’t have any particularly strong feelings about Dean Hall, but I don’t get the impression he knows what’s wrong with DayZ, or how to fix it.
- Comment on Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet 1 week ago:
This is why no one should be putting their anti-IP laws hopes on AI. Corporations are corporations; they’re never going to let you benefit from the rules they fight to get applied to them.
- Comment on California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime 1 week ago:
I agree 100%, I’m not arguing it’s a good idea, these are just other arguments than “in order for it to be useful it needs to be able to counter Russia and/or China, otherwise it would be strategically useless and economically infeasible”.
North Korea is the only one that could fall under that category.
In the status quo, I still don’t think that’s true; India and Pakistan are both nuclear-equipped, but with moderate-to-low warhead counts that could potentially reach the US. Western European countries have nukes (France and UK), and very small land areas to cover. SLBMs are another issue altogether, ofc. If you’re planning to make any of them enemies, it could absolutely be useful.
- Comment on California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime 1 week ago:
To be fair, you don’t need it to perfectly counter China and Russia to have value. There are other countries that have nuclear capabilities or ambitions, who don’t have thousands of ICBMs.
- Comment on Sony accuses Tencent of playing a 'shell game' with its Horizon-like survival game, seeks a preliminary injunction against it 2 weeks ago:
I was/am responding to something you said in your comment, specifically that they were copying HZD.
I think it’s entirely possible that Sony wins, though they shouldn’t. But it will be about whether this constitutes an infringement on Sony’s Horizon trademark, not copyright. I don’t think it does, and I do think this amounts to Sony wanting to own the concept, like Nintendo wants to own creature catchers, but it is obviously possible another court would make another bad ruling in the IP space, especially if that means siding with the non-Chinese corporation.
- Comment on Sony accuses Tencent of playing a 'shell game' with its Horizon-like survival game, seeks a preliminary injunction against it 2 weeks ago:
I will also remind you that you said it would be absurd to take Sony seriously, which is not the same thing as stating “there’s no trademark violations here”. The latter is literally what the court has to make a decision on. The former is about whether there’s any basis to go to court which already means you think you know better than Sony lawyers and, if the court doesn’t instantly throw out the case, also better than the legal system. Maybe you are some godlike lawyer who knows better than everyone else, but if you are I think you can understand why I’m calling bullshit on that.
You should really check who you’re responding to.
- Comment on Sony accuses Tencent of playing a 'shell game' with its Horizon-like survival game, seeks a preliminary injunction against it 2 weeks ago:
They won’t mistakenly buy the game based on that image, which is the standard for trademark violations.
- Comment on Sony accuses Tencent of playing a 'shell game' with its Horizon-like survival game, seeks a preliminary injunction against it 2 weeks ago:
It’s not copying it, it’s ripping it off, which isn’t illegal. Sony is trying to claim that it being a ripoff means customers would be confused into believing it’s actually a Horizon game and purchasing it in error, which is stupid.
If they had called this Horizons: Motiram, they’d be 100% in the right. But they are just trying to essentially claim they own the combination of style and theme of “colorful world with tribal humans vs robot animals”. That’s not how trademark works.l (this is trademark btw, not copyright, just in case anyone is getting them mixed up).
- Comment on Sony accuses Tencent of playing a 'shell game' with its Horizon-like survival game, seeks a preliminary injunction against it 2 weeks ago:
It’s not copyright, it’s trademark. Sony isn’t claiming there’s the same characters, there claiming that the style is so similar that people would mistakenly believe that Light of Motiram is actually a Horizon game, which is why this case is so stupid; it is a blatant ripoff, but ripoffs aren’t illegal, and no one is going to actually mix them up.
- Comment on Name a game that you found SO FUN, but no one talks about it anymore. 2 weeks ago:
Still can play it, and it’s still insanely fun.
- Comment on Name a game that you found SO FUN, but no one talks about it anymore. 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s hard for me to differentiate which games didn’t get the recognition they deserved in their time, and which games I love are just too old for people to think about much anymore.
NOX is one of my all-time favorite ARPGs, but I remember it being pretty popular in its time.
Earth 2150 is probably my answer: it was one of the best RTSes of all time. OF ALL TIME. I don’t get why it never seemed to be popular.
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, I have never tried it.
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 2 weeks ago:
requires a victim to first install a malicious app on an Android phone or tablet
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 2 weeks ago:
Hardware support.
If I have to own a specific phone or line of phones, that I otherwise would never buy, I’m not going to get one just to run Linux on it.
- Comment on Microsoft support for Windows 10 officially ends today, but a third of Steam players still use it | VGC 2 weeks ago:
They can pry it from my cold dead SSD.
- Comment on The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says 3 weeks ago:
As someone who’s been through the Bay Area/ Silicon Valley Startup gauntlet, I can assure you that there are plenty of engineers who are deep in the AI koolaid.
- Comment on Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support? 3 weeks ago:
Goddammit, Framework!
- Comment on Rating the Vibes of Megastructure Games - nocaps (YouTube, 8min) 3 weeks ago:
Why is The Ascent not included? Thats the game that gave me the most Nihei-esque megastructure vibes.
- Comment on Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes 3 weeks ago:
Card games are classed as tabletop games due to the top of the table being the place where they’re played.
- Comment on Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure when her eventual layoff or resignation hits, she’ll be crying all the way to the bank.
- Comment on New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs 3 weeks ago:
Surprisingly, they found that the rate of change in the labor market’s makeup in the wake of AI closely matches the pace when computers and the internet were first taking off. In other words, AI doesn’t appear to be more disruptive than those two technologies — at least so far — despite heavy hitters like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei saying that AI will cause massive upheaval in the world and that entire sectors of jobs will be lost forever.
So jobs are being lost to AI, but the job loss is in-line with other disruptions, as opposed to being more outsized. I don’t think the emergence of computers and the internet were that un-significant, and there absolutely are job sectors that were lost.
- Comment on An AI Just Attempted Murder... Allegedly... by SomeOrdinaryGamers [21:15 min] Video 4 weeks ago:
eh, using the “computer/ software engineers aren’t certified PEs so they’re LYING” things is such a silly argument. Government certification programs don’t dictate language, and easily half if not more of computer jobs are called “engineers” of some kind.
He called it a ‘film degree’, but it’s actually a 2-year broadcasting and cinematography diploma.
Sounds like a degree about filming stuff to me? This is nitpicky stuff, and I’m not sure why I’m supposed to dislike (or care at all about) this guy in the first place. The thumbnail literally calls the guy a fraud, but it just seems like the creator has an axe to grind.
- Comment on Australian authorities ask platforms to self-assess potential 'child endangerment social media' 4 weeks ago:
Ah ye, all the kids chatting in the PR comments as they merge more porn into their git repos.
Clearly Australia has some savvy folks in charge.
- Comment on Sports piracy site Streameast returns after US government let domain expire 5 weeks ago:
That is absolutely HILARIOUS.
- Comment on Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s macroscopy vs microscopy.
Food and nutrition and health is all “invisible” to you in a way that a cat engine isn’t. To the average person, even hearing cellular functions explained sounds like magic, because it takes SO MUCH knowledge to get to the point where you can truly grok how a specific medicine works in the body.
That also explains why fuel additives are an area where that happens in cars. You can’t see the difference in e.g. AKI ratings in action. You can’t see summer vs winter fuel blend changes. So why isn’t it possible that this additive could do things you can’t see as well?
- Comment on Download Eden a Switch emulator as long as you can 5 weeks ago:
Nintendo is the worst.