AlteredEgo

@AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So are they like extinct or something?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Come across any rhombus shaped amazon boxes yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So are they like extinct or something?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine living as a farmer in medieval Europe near a small village and you make MOST of your shit yourself or with help from the local blacksmith. You’d use all kinds of things and ideas that we don’t use any more. You need to be creative to solve your daily problems and find ways to do stuff efficiently. Like imagine you’d need to dig out a bit of earth for an “almost square” and need to calculate the area and volume of earth you’ll have to move.

  I’m not sure what I’m trying to say, but I think modern education is wasted on the modern human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bunnies are metal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Get the holy hand grenade!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some things that deserve their own word?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

  For me most of all: Ballagàrraidh: The Awareness That You Are Not at Home in the Wilderness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to unironically say this is a skill issue with the prompt engineering.

  Like you can imagine this is just some stupid prompt like “Characters A to F look very very sad at the bulldog crying on teh floor” or something like it. Like nothing that describes or shows how fucked up this situation is or some variety. It’s like “licked clean” of any kind of nuance. It makes you feel as empty as the heart of the one who generated it.

  Compare that to some better AI slop (music video) that just goes in the other direction and throws the weirdness that AI can generate and then tries to form that into some kind of cohesive thing. Like you can hate it but the editor who assembled this layered it into something more complex, even though the individual scenes are pretty random and slop. At least the lyrics are (I think) human written.

  Now imagine OP images with this kind of gusto about mascots reacting to a school shootings. Obviously it’s much less fun if it’s about anything serious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not sure they will⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? Purity politics. I’m not sure what to make of it. I believe it’s mostly driven by profit. I haven’t read anything about anyone actually driving this as a general strategy. It makes little sense except for general disruption of social cohesion and it feels too spontaneous.

  I believe it started with climate / science denialism and fascism, things that you cannot tolerate because they lead to intolerance. Things where the emotional abuse eventually got too much and people just categorically rejected anyone from the other camp. But this has been massively expanded now. Veganism, cars, vaccinations, conspiracy theories, diplomacy, AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a paranormal experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe he drank some cider?

  There is anecdotal evidence that it can lead to an overwhelming sense of impending doom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German joke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Germans hate humor so much that hey renamed “The Simpsons” to “Die Simpsons!” in German TV.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I mean it was just a shitpost because the EU IS becoming more and more fascist. E.g. Italy banned VPNs.

  But I have really no clue if using Chinese digital services is even an option. They often seem to need some kind of national id.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Use Chinese digital services lol. Europe are vassal states and the current leaders are downright eager to be subservient to Trump and the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this true?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gothic does sound awesome especially with the Gothic 1 Remake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this true?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah San Andreas was the open world game I was thinking of too, with the expanding of your crime syndicate. It’s pretty much the only game I’ve played that implements an open world properly and I’ve been chasing that since then. Fallout 4 maybe, but building settlements or forts didn’t have real impact. Diablo IV is way too driven to rush through and get to the endgame.

  I think you really need to design it to be more of a simulation game that reacts to player actions and with a story inserted, not as a “feature” to check off. And a distinct goal or win condition for playing the open world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but you see, for that there is precedent in American history.

  Abolish NYT? There is probably precedent for that too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who get "happy ending" massages, is there like a common keyword or process?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Get a Turkish massage. I promise you it will not have a happy ending

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You never know. It might well be there are some ancient alien Bracewell probes out there that have been recording Earth’s Funniest Caveman videos for millions of years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, is this someone’s actual ancient journal??? How incredibly exciting? And what was that slightly different recipe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you’re also “made to practice” these cray things. Like e.g. attend a lecture, then homework is “write a compiler for X language”. Which at the time to me who was unfamiliar with things out of my field of interest seemed crazy.

  Of course many coast by without learning much in group projects. But you ultimately learn for yourself, not for your employer. Speaking as someone from a country where higher education is free of course lol.

  But ultimately even if you want to start your own IT business I’d still recommend studying IT. Plus marketing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect AI will still take decades to catch up with the deep intelligence that you need for more complex programming. So good programmers will be far more valuable than code monkey.

  If I were starting out I’d pick some combination, most likely biochemistry + AI programming / models. Like learning both biochemistry and how to program and train and research AI models that can e.g. fold proteins or synthesize some new medical molecule that could cure some illness. Medicine is still stuck in the dark ages.

  Or robotics and manufacturing. All those jobs that went to China, China itself is planning to replace with robotics.

  So instead of becoming a programmer, become someone that can develop and train and use AI models to solve problems in emerging fields.

  Above all, focus on chances to become some kind of entrepreneur. If you’re not a shareholder you’re just a tool like an LLM to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I once thought like you. But you learn algorithms, theory, math, and practice all this way outside what you normally do. It’s a much “broader” and less narrow education that you give yourself to complete some project you are working towards. You don’t know what you don’t know. So there is real value. Besides that it is also a test and a qualification, although that really depends on the university.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They recognize the wave of wave of democratic socialism social democrats and fight it tooth and nail.

  We do not have a free press.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In case anyone is wondering why something so idiotic: The destruction of 3D printing: Bloomberg is behind it - YouTube

  Of course this is not something a rag like the register and a fraudulent “Cybersecurity reporter” Connor Jones would tell you, but instead trying to actively hide from you. Even thought the evidence is right there. They’d rather tell you some stupid story.

  This is yet another mad plutocrat meddling in democracy and neoliberalism and pundits providing some nonsense explanation to distract people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They really hate artists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a totally legitimate argument against capitalism I agree with and which should be the bases of activism and demands for regulation. E.g. China passed a law that jobs may not be eliminated through AI.

  But OP is yet another post inciting and misdirecting hate in unproductive ways. The vitriol and misinformation and non-sequiturs about AI are hampering sensible discussing about AI. And it’s being injected into every sub. Like a social contagion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They really hate artists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Here is this very extreme post that was shown to me by the algorithm that machine learned that outrage is best to increase engagement and sell ads and increase profit, AND IT CLEARLY SHOWS HOW ALL THESE APOSTATES ARE EVIL AND NEED TO BE CRUCIFIED!”

  Also that post in spanish might have been meant as a honest warning, or jokingly, or sarcastic, or just as a statement of fact.

  I’ve worked with animation artists before. Character animation is a PITA. And they will welcome a tool that you could just describe the visual gag you want to animate instead of animating keyframe by keyframe. Instead of “animators” they will become “motion choreographers” using AI tools to be more productive and more free in their creative expression.

  And AI animation will allow you to have dynamic animations in game that react to the player. Something that isn’t even possible to hand animate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Japan 🌸⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  1.6 billions worth of propaganda

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do americans living in Red States really despise american living in Blue States?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a culture war. This is the result of decades of talk radio preaching christian or fundamentalist or reactionary values and talking points. Ever since 2008 the economic outlook has become much worse and fascism is on the rise. But fundamentally it’s nothing new, playing one group of people against another. I’d recommend this book about political theory of anti fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries dating apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That story makes me think of arranged marriage. Not a fan, but it did have it’s advantages, at least as long as the parents aren’t psycho or marry you off for political or monetary advantage or lands. More experience and more of an eye for the materialistic part of marriage and raising a family. Again not promoting this, there will be untold horror stories of ruined lives there, but I also think part of our modern mindset about romance is probably pathological on opposite ways.

  In the past you were just expected to love your arranged partner - before the idea of “falling in love” became ubiquitous. Love was seen as a more active thing like a craftsmanship that you have to practice every day to get good at it. The feelings then just “grow” over time (see e.g. this book)

  In any case any government interference should be based on well meaning and science based knowledge. Right now the government allows those who own the dating apps influence this essential part of human nature. That is not “non interference”, by not acting to protect people from predatory corporations the government causes harm. Obviously there should be socialist government policy for child rearing (healthcare, maternity leave, financial support, free high quality kindergarden and schools). A lot of stress in relationships can no doubt be traced back to financial stress or “materialist” problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries dating apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha! The guberment!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries dating apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dating apps should be publicly funded like a kind of public utility. And private dating apps heavily regulated and prevented from advertising.

  Like water and air, love should not be for profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐟💥🫍⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Not sure if that makes it feel more or less gruesome lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐟💥🫍⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exploding is a quick and probably mostly painless death.

  Orcas are such nice and ethical creatures!