OmnipotentEntity
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- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 5 weeks ago:
LLMs are bad for the uses they’ve been recently pushed for, yes. But this is legitimately a very good use of them. This is natural language processing, within a narrow scope with a specific intention. This is exactly what it can be good at. Even if does have a high false negative rate, that’s still thousands and thousands of true positive cases that were addressed quickly and cheaply, and that a human auditor no longer needs to touch.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 1 month ago:
If only there were other things that a person could do outside of voting once every four years to participate in the political process.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 1 month ago:
Hey, look at that. It’s the inevitable consequence of the game theory of first past the post voting. Voting system reform is my #1 issue, and if you actually care about the fact that “99% of voters” are locked into voting for someone they dislike to avert disaster every 4 years, it should be yours as well.
There is no meaningful future for third parties until and unless this occurs. IRV is a good first step, but Score voting is better. Multimember districts are also important. Getting rid of the electoral college is a no-brainer.
- Comment on Game Dependency Graph of The Curse of Monkey Island (LucasArts, 1997) 2 months ago:
If you are taking requests, I am curious how ridiculous The Longest Journey would be.
- Comment on US senators claim car makers sold driver data for pennies 3 months ago:
Too bad you’ll never receive that option from any manufacturer.
- Comment on How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Security Awareness Firm KnowBe4 3 months ago:
The scam is that they are actually doing the work, getting paid well
Listen. I know that there are some really shitty stuff going on in North Korea, and very real threats that their government is capable of, and it sucks for the people living there who have to do this work under threat of death.
But if you say that “the scam” is they’re doing work and receiving full pay for work done, I’m going to make fun of you. Oh no, someone outside of the West did work and was slightly less exploited by capital than usual in the process. Horror upon horror.
- Comment on Adobe roofies all of their customers (Louis Rossmann's reaction) 5 months ago:
To add, let’s do some math!
Let s be the total annual salary of every employee using Adobe. Our goal is to find the productivity ratio r such that changing to Gimp and open source more generally is a net positive from the standpoint of productivity and labor.
s/r will be the total annual salary after changing over, because (for instance) if r = 0.8 then LTT will need to either hire or work his existing hires 1/0.8 times longer, giving (at best, ignoring overtime and so on) s/r as the new labor cost.
We then subtract the current labor cost to get the switching cost s/r - s, and if this is greater than $10,000 then the switch is not worth it.
For instance, let’s say LTT employs 1 person at $50k/year. He’s a bit of a skinflint. We solve for r and arrive at a ratio of 5/6 or 83.33%.
If we have a different world where LTT hires 10 people and pays each of them $100k, we solve for r and get about 99%.
In other words, the switch is worth it only if the labor cost is small, so the extra labor is not very expensive, or the difference between the two software is negligible.
- Comment on The Indie Chat & Recommendation Thread 5 months ago:
Cassette Beasts ;)
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- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 7 months ago:
A human made the graph
- Comment on AGDQ 2024 starts in less than two hours 10 months ago:
A pair of friends of mine’s game is being featured, and I’m pretty stoked about their game getting the exposure. Cassette Beasts, Monday at 13:18 UTC.
- Comment on The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI 10 months ago:
Yeah, you’re not wrong. I’m not saying it’s soon, there’s clearly a lot of work to be done in the space still, I’m just excited for unencumbered processor designs.
- Comment on The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI 10 months ago:
I would love to see it. But I’m far more excited for RISC-V desktops, truth be told.