t3rmit3
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- Comment on Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive 3 hours ago:
I actually love my foldable Razr. I never could afford one as a kid, and the smaller form-factor is actually really nice.
- Comment on Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive 3 hours ago:
Basically yes, a chatbot and the ability to do simple actions (agents). So in their fantasy universe, instead of clicking on Firefox and typing a query in the search bar, you’d ask the desktop to search for something, and it would do those steps.
That’s all just an excuse though, to explain why they need to collect all your local data. :P
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 3 days ago:
Probably none. Now I’ll name one that is large and influential, and isn’t trying to combat the problem: X
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 3 days ago:
No, bots are not real people, so them masquerading as real people holding an opinion is, by definition, misinformation.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 3 days ago:
This isn’t misinformation.
Right, the other example was. The whole point is the difference between propaganda (the bots) and legitimate political sentiment.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
When these crappy "AI"s finally do displace my job, I will become a fireman, but in the Fahrenheit 451 sense, and it’ll be servers instead of books.
- Comment on I need to talk about Mouthwashing 3 days ago:
There not just reading into it, if that’s what you mean; the SA, and the rest of the crew’s behavior towards Anya is all very much what they described. Jimmy seeing Anya as a disfigured womb with a foal (as in, a horse) is literally what happens, not a figure of speech.
- Comment on I need to talk about Mouthwashing 3 days ago:
My partner loves this game, and also endorses anyone here who hasn’t played it to do so. :)
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 3 days ago:
I think it’s important for groups of people to be able to choose to ban propaganda and misinformation, because propaganda is not simply information being imparted, it’s an entire ecosystem of deceptive methods to disseminate information and to alter your perception without you realizing.
If it were calling for the EU banning X solely because they don’t like Musk’s shitty personal opinions, I’d agree with you, but they cite the disinformation, misinformation, and outright propaganda that the platform is being used to spread, and I think that’s perfectly valid.
Take 2 scenarios:
5 million actual people telling you that ‘x’ political view is common and popular, causing you to doubt, or at least temper your own personal beliefs.
500 thousand actual people, plus 4.5 million bot accounts telling you that ‘x’ political view is common and popular, causing you to doubt, or at least temper your own personal beliefs.
In reality, you don’t even need the bot accounts to outnumber the real users if you control the algorithms that determine what people see, which is exactly the situation that X is in right now.
tl;dr This isn’t about banning the viewpoints themselves, it’s about banning a platform that deceptively alters visibility of viewpoints to manipulate people.
Banning things you don’t like is not a solution
Tell that to Musk; X bans TONS of people over their viewpoints.
- Comment on at this point it just feels vindictive 3 days ago:
I want to pay them for Bloodborne on PC, but Sony won’t let me! Sounds like that’s their choice/ problem.
- Comment on What type of game do you want to see? 1 week ago:
I think it would probably become “2X” in that case, given the “exploit” and “exterminate” parts. :P
Against the Storm is sort of a citybuilder/ 4X hybrid, that’s all about a bunch of fantasy species (humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies) working together to reclaim the world from this (un)natural blight.
The Bustling World is an RPG/ Citybuilder/ 4X hybrid that looks pretty interesting, but is not out yet.
I can’t really think of a 4X that leans towards the Grand Strategy side, that isn’t pretty combat-heavy. Distant Worlds: Universe can be played very combat-light, but it’s definitely still there.
- Comment on What type of game do you want to see? 1 week ago:
I’ve played 8.2 hours of BO:BB according to Steam, and it feels much closer to the OG Ghost Recon ( +Desert Siege and Island Thunder)… BUT right now the AI is pretty mediocre (and often breaks entirely and enemies just sort of stand there), and the shooting doesn’t feel as good as Ready or Not.
There was another cool tactical shooter + extraction roguelike that I was playing, but I think it’s now disappeared off Steam entirely, so… welp.
- Comment on What type of game do you want to see? 1 week ago:
holy shit, fucking MICROPROSE is still around!? LETSGOOOOOOOO
- Comment on What type of game do you want to see? 1 week ago:
Little side-tangent, but @trslim@pawb.social if you like base-building RTSes, you should check out Earth 2150 if you have not already. It’s old, but it’s imo one of the best out there. There are 3 factions, each with their own campaign, and very different styles of units, and during the campaign you have a home base that you build, and from which you can build and send out units to your in-progress missions (i.e. build a tank in your homebase, load it into a helicopter, send the helicopter to your in-mission base’s landing zone, and unload tank for use… and vice-versa for keeping units that you build in the mission zone, etc).
There are also Earth 2140 and Earth 2160, but I never fell in love with those 2 (Earth 2160 isn’t bad, and has a cool alien faction that is basically a roaming mothership that builds units, rather than a traditional ‘base’).
- Comment on Endangered bees stop Meta’s plan for nuclear-powered AI data center - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
Sadly true.
- Comment on Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You 2 weeks ago:
Not friendly enough when talking to customers? Bad employee.
Too friendly when taking to customers? Bad employee.
This is just about 1) creating an algorithmic justification for the racial profiling that managers already do, and 2) keeping employees in fear of termination so they put up with bullshit.
Side story about how shitty retail management is:
When I was working retail years ago (big box electronics store), our management employed a system of getting every new employee to 3 write-ups as far as they could (I’m taking, within a month of starting), using literally any excuse they could, so they could hold the “one more write-up and you’re fired” over their head.
“AI” is definitely going to become a new tool for employee suppression.
- Comment on Kamala Harris' 'Fortnite' map bans guns, has less than 400 people playing 2 weeks ago:
We’re old. Fortnight used to be a kids game, because GenZ were still kids. Now they’re adults, and Fortnite ain’t a GenAlpha game.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 27th 3 weeks ago:
That’s awesome, thank you for that!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You heard them, you’re in charge of video hosting now.
- Comment on Media Literacy Can't Save Us 4 weeks ago:
you’re failing to see the biases inherent to the content you’re consuming
You are underestimating people, I think. People choose their echo chambers because they understand that their positions are being challenged elsewhere. It’s not an inability to see the bias in what they consume, it’s a dislike of the alternative.
- Comment on Media Literacy Can't Save Us 4 weeks ago:
Media literacy was never the problem, because it wasn’t actual confusion about what was real or not that was drawing people to the extreme alt-right sphere, it was confirmation bias that allowed people to choose not to critically assess the content for veracity.
But I don’t think you can solve this through “media ecology” either. Curating this volume of content is impossible, and there are legitimate dangers in giving the government too much ability to shut down free speech (see Germany condemning any form of pro-Palestinian rhetoric as antisemitic) in order to guard “truth”.
I think that this is similar to the issue of biased GenAI; you can’t fix bias at the human-output side, you have to build a society that doesn’t want to engage with bigotry (and that’s not an end-state, it’s an ongoing process).
- Comment on The original Facebook was something we’ll never get back 4 weeks ago:
Defrauding corporations sound like praxis to me.
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
I think you are confused about the delineation between local and federal governments. It’s not all one giant pool of tax money.
- Comment on How Harmful Are AI’s Biases on Diverse Student Populations? 4 weeks ago:
Products of a bigoted society goes in, bigoted product comes out.
In that regard, developers and decision makers would benefit from centering users’ social identities in their process, and acknowledging that these AI tools and their uses are highly context-dependent. They should also try to enhance their understanding of how these tools might be deployed in a way that is culturally responsive.
You can’t correct for bias at the ass-end of a mathematical algorithm. Generative AI is just caricaturizing our own society back to us; it’s a fun-house mirror that makes our own biases jump out. If they want a model that doesn’t produce bigoted outputs, they’re going to have to fix their inputs.
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
I think you may have misunderstood the purpose of this tool.
It doesn’t read the deeds, make a decision, and submit them for termination all on its own. It reads them, identifies racial covenants based on patterns of language (which is exactly what LLMs are very good at), and then flags them for a human to review.
This tool is not replacing jobs, because the whole point is that these reviews were never going to get the budget and manpower to be done manually, and instead would have simply remained on the books.
I get being disdainful or even angry about LLMs in our unregulated-capitalism anti-worker hellhole because of the way that most companies are using them, but tools aren’t themselves good or bad, they’re just tools. And using a tool to identify racial covenants in legal documents that otherwise would go un-remediated, seems like a pretty good use to me.
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
Apart from just a general dislike of LLMs, what specifically do you believe would make this particular use prone to errors?
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
Santa Clara County alone has 24 million property records, but the study team focused mostly on 5.2 million records from the period 1902 to 1980. The artificial intelligence model completed its review of those records in six days for $258, according to the Stanford study. A manual review would have taken five years at a cost of more than $1.4 million, the study estimated.
This is an awesome use of an LLM. Talk about the cost savings of automation, especially when the alternative was the reviews just not getting done.
- Comment on Alan Wake, Control developer Remedy reveals first-ever multiplayer game [FBC: Firebreak, Co-op multiplayer control spinoff] 5 weeks ago:
Is this going to be Lethal Company, but in the Control world? 'Cause I’d play that.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 13th 5 weeks ago:
Really been enjoying Guild Saga: Vanished Worlds. I haven’t found a TBS RPG that captured my interest for a long time, and this combines a lot of the things I like from Divinity: Original Sin (like elemental effects with the environment and talking to animals), with nice pixel graphics and very classic DnD game feel. It reminds me of Icewind Dale, vibe-wise.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Final Fantasy 5 weeks ago:
I’m the weirdo that thinks FF8 was the best one. Squall actually grew as a character, matured from an angsty emo teen into an adult who assassinates authoritarian leaders (or at least tries to)… And don’t forget that Rinoa launches her dog like a wrist-mounted crossbow, as an attack. Best FF game.