t3rmit3
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- Comment on Quantum Computer Solves a Problem in 15 Minutes That Classical Methods Can’t Practically Compute 1 day ago:
Here we go boiiiiiis!
- Comment on Unwinding the Great Tech Power Grab 4 days ago:
This is why I have such a hard time trusting any “only war is the class war” pusher. Pretending that all will be well if we give one group what they want reeks of a desire for power rather than a desire for liberation, and you know that those people are not going to either 1) share any power they gain with people they worked with to get that power, who have a different idea of what the post-revolution society should look like (e.g. the USSR banning other Socialist factions), or 2) actually ensure the society they build does not recreate the same social issues (specifically, the ones that didn’t affect them personally).
WRT the tech backlash, I’ve been pushing myself to have a fully offline-capable tech ecosystem. I’ve been sharing that (though it’s seen only marginal adoption) with my family, who are long-distance, and I’ve been really really happy with how much I find myself actually using it versus using ‘online’ media. I don’t know if that fits into the models of interaction that the movements mentioned in the article are advocating, though, or if they’re going more “use tech less”, rather than “use tech that serves Capital less”.
I’m not telling anyone else to do this; it’s definitely my version of reclaiming time and money and attention from Big Tech, but I guarantee that if you find a way to decouple from a major corporate-run platform you rely on, you will realize just how unenjoyable those platforms are.
- Comment on ChatGPT, LLMs, and Automating the Fun Out of Roleplaying: Don’t let billionaires poison the beautiful creative collaboration at the heart of TTRPGs 5 days ago:
Ah, it pulled a Christopher Nolan!
- Comment on Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet 5 days ago:
Yes, self-hosting and small-group AI hosting needs to be legal, accessible, and feasible.
Despite the pessimistic (and largely technically incorrect) takes here, the internet is actually an incredible feat of human collaboration; the most distributed, interconnected, democratized, and resilient communication system ever built.
- Comment on Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet 5 days ago:
“organizations need alternatives to proprietary AI systems to gain greater control over their data and infrastructure”
- Comment on ‘Nightmare fodder’: Roku’s AI slop channel is even worse than expected 1 week ago:
It’s 0% porn. It’s corporate-approved and safe AI slop. So not even something you can fap to in self hatred.
- Comment on US water facilities targeted by ‘malicious cyber actors’ – who’s to blame? 1 week ago:
What?
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 1 week ago:
I thought it was a Weird Al reference…
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 1 week ago:
Now that’s crispy
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s now one massive round touchscreen. Takes like 4 different tattoos just to change the AC temp.
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 2 weeks ago:
1000%
I have a Mini Cooper, and we took it in for service and got a loaner 2026 Mini, and it has this massive, ugly touchscreen.
Look at these gorgeous physical toggles! And even more overhead! All gone! FFS!
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Luckily, revolutions have never required the majority of a populace to actively participate in to succeed, just a majority going “meh, sure”.
But yes, I am personally also very worried that we’re reaching a point with technology that surveillance and violence will both be too easily applied and too pervasive for the revolution to overcome.
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 2 weeks ago:
I think this is actually advantageous to us in a way, because clearly AI is something of a system shock to many people right now, whereas in a hundred years it may have not been nearly as apparent as the danger it is (and I don’t mean LLMs, I mean AI in general, especially for surveillance and weapons).
- Comment on AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s a doomer comment at all, I think the last paragraph is trying to tell you without saying the word “datacenter” to go look up the addresses of data centers.
- Comment on Deal finalised between Saudi Arabia and EA 2 weeks ago:
EgAd
- Comment on US water facilities targeted by ‘malicious cyber actors’ – who’s to blame? 2 weeks ago:
That’s true, but the reasons they did it are not their fault.
There’s a name for the thing that demands minimal spending on public services and national spending on private business, even at the expense of human life…
- Comment on BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat - The Autopian 2 weeks ago:
In other countries than the US that distinction actually means a lot more. For instance, some countries will not allow a bank to repossess cars or houses once a simple majority of the loan has been repaid. In the US, you could be on the final 1 cent payment and the bank, from a legal standpoint, can foreclose on the whole thing if you fail to pay it. In realistic terms, it’s theirs until the loan is entirely repaid.
- Comment on BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat - The Autopian 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, I think that a “hobby” should be linked to use, specifically, not simply ownership. Even the original meaning implied building or crafting. Consumerism for the endorphins isn’t really a ‘hobby’, it’s an addiction at best (and I have some personal experience in this area).
If you’re renting or leasing cars for a specific use, like racing or camping, I think that’s completely defensible; I even think certain vehicles like RVs should probably mainly be rented or leased, to make sense.
But “having the newest car for my ego” isn’t a ‘hobby’ without diluting the meaning to nothingness.
- Comment on Is Myspace coming back? Owners confirm relaunch plans 2 weeks ago:
No one would surrender to the Dread Pirate Tom.
- Comment on I dont know 3 weeks ago:
This is so good
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 5 weeks ago:
Valve isn’t public. That’s the healthy business model.
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 5 weeks ago:
Any time you attempt to convert it into a usable asset, including using it as collateral or citing it as an asset for loans or investment capital solicitation, it should be taxed. Once someone accepts its value in exchange for something, it’s no longer speculative.
- Comment on Streamer claims Microsoft “deleted” his account because it was hacked 5 weeks ago:
He just wanted to make sure Cortana has image-gen training data.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 1 month ago:
Yes, absolutely. Laziness (on anyone’s part) isn’t the result of or unique to AI use. That includes laziness on the part of schools in not doing their job in staffing properly, and pushing professors and teachers to pick up the slack.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 1 month ago:
The article is really discussing bachelor degrees, and this is mostly true for those. Masters and doctorate degrees (or med school or law school, etc) are where specialized learning that actually sets you up for specialized roles happens.
The pre-med student who stopped after getting their bachelor’s is not meaningfully better prepared to be your doctor or psychologist than someone with no degree. You wouldn’t trust either one.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 1 month ago:
It’s not just posers, it’s also an issue of just being easy, so even a seasoned, experienced professor can use it to avoid hours of prep for materials that would then be above the cut of the LLM content. Still lowers the standard, but without even changing the professors.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 1 month ago:
I just started a new job, and after I (imo) aced the remote interview, they brought me in for an in-person, which didn’t seem unusual. I was surprised when they started asking all the same questions as in the remote and take-home interviews, but clearly they’ve been hitting issues with this.
- Comment on RPGs focused on crafting items/equipment 1 month ago:
I was going to say Mana Khemia, but I think technically that may actually take place in the Atelier series universe. Best crafting-centered RPG imo.
- Comment on Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society 2 months ago:
Cory Booker, no surprise there.
- Comment on Updates to our Privacy Policy | Antrophic 2 months ago:
It will be interesting to see if this is just a prereq for certain models like Fable, or if they roll this out more widely.