AlteredEgo
@AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 2 days ago:
1.6 billions worth of propaganda
- Comment on Do americans living in Red States really despise american living in Blue States? 3 days 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 4 days 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 5 days ago:
Hahaha! The guberment!
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 5 days 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 🐟💥 5 days ago:
Thanks. Not sure if that makes it feel more or less gruesome lol
- Comment on 🐟💥 1 week ago:
Exploding is a quick and probably mostly painless death.
Orcas are such nice and ethical creatures!
- Comment on Centrist and Establishment Democrats when they see Zorhan and AOC coming up with profound and capacitating strategies on world issues: 1 week ago:
They’ll purposefully throw the midterms.
Voting will continue until morale improves.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
But can’t you use very simple agentic AI to constantly update the code for web scrapers on new reddit? From what I understand that is the kind of coding LLM can do well and you can just unit test for errors and feed it back to the LLM until it works. Even requiring accounts, creation can be automated using LLMs too.
This sounds like it a loosing proposition and will only piss off hardcore users. Not that this would stop them. But I don’t think protection from web scrapers is a good explanation. Probably it’s just enshittification, forcing users to use their new interface to optimize business metrics. Someone is going to get a bonus because they improved the short sighted metrics.
- Comment on Man Sets Off Explosive Device Outside Federal Building in Manhattan 1 week ago:
“Mr. Arrabaca came armed with bad intentions,” Mr. Barnacle said.
Jesus fuck this is the stupidest timeline
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 1 week ago:
It’s a trap. Open source / weight models will become mandated to pay for use locally. So we won’t be able to use local models for our own purposes and gain, while the big corporations simply pay a small percentage.
Hardware and software breakthroughs will make it possible to run LLM models and advanced AI on local, solar powered hardware. For example you can pack a ternary 27b model on a smartphone now.
In the best case, 50% will belong to the US empire. Which is controlled by the worst of the worst people on earth.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 1 week ago:
Does linkedin they also have instructional infographics on how to get a raise or promotion by blackmailing or extorting your boss?
- Comment on Why are so many new programming languages being developed? 2 weeks ago:
If you’ve been programming for a while, you can learn how to make your own language variant in something like 1 or 2 days. Not just compiler but tooling for an IDE and code completion too. So it’s relatively easy to do.
Personally I’d want to create a language that combines the memory model of rust with the syntax of python and has pipeline coding like nushell or powershell. When it’s done it will be the perfect language and everyone will want to learn and use it!
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 2 weeks ago:
Advertising is brainwashing and should be illegal globally. No more ads!
- Comment on 3D-Printed Houses Are Already Failing 2 weeks ago:
This is a ridiculous comment from someone who prints too many Magic the Gathering characters.
Do you mean your own ridiculous comment? And what do you mean printing Magic the gathering characters, do you mean color printing the little card pictures in large? Or do you confuse this with 3D printing characters for tabletop strategy games like Warhammer 40k? I’m just going to assume you’re some kind of confused space ork.
This technology has been typical tech bullshit from day one. Wood framed houses are cheaper, stronger, and can be repaired or changed in the future.
Sure, robots are totally bullshit. They never have had any drastic effect how we live and work and if they did, it would surely stop at this specific point and go no further!
Have a robot dig foundations? You mean like this?
Yes, exactly like that! The advances I spoke of make it possible to control even hydraulic robot arms using software and computer vision. It’s all very technical though.
And they already can switch end effectors and are mobile and can drive around!!! You could in fact build a 3D house printing robot exactly like that and it would take very little setup time. Or have a small group of them work together, day and night digging, printing and building homes.
- Comment on Looking for a game where reading an immersive in-game manual is one of the main gameplay aspects 2 weeks ago:
It’s a bit off topic but I’ve had the most curious experience trying to play Elite Dangerous in VR when that came out. It is a complex game and you really need that “alt-tab” to read something in a browser or notepad or markdown viewer. But with a VR headset that wasn’t possible! Or very cumbersome, having to move your headset and balancing it halfway to look at your real screen, which is obscured by a weird game window to look at a document lol.
It was a frustrating experience and I eventually developed something like bit like VR claustrophobia, feeling like you’re actually trapped in a small tincan of a spaceship with no comfort and connectivity. I see the lack of a proper virtual reality desktop OS or VR accessible shell is a real problem for complex games.
- Comment on 3D-Printed Houses Are Already Failing 2 weeks ago:
The video isn’t really about 3D printing houses, it’s mostly about corruption, scams, grifters, con artists, burocracy and idiots. It uses a very ominous tone that is very emotionally appealing and click-baity. What it has to say about actual 3D printing houses is very little:
One house had cracks. 3D printing with clay takes a week to dry, that is soooo long. Concrete produces so much CO2!!! Where are the regulations!? But they also invented carbon neutral concrete and are experimenting with new binders and aggregates. They 3D printed a 2 story house in earthquakey japan, but OH MY GOD it’s inspired by a cave! I CAVE!!! Who wants to live in a CAVE?!?!?
A video like this is using the same type of emotional manipulation to feed the algorithm and engagement like the grifters in their example do. It’s disgusting to me.
3D printing houses has huge potential, it’s just in it’s infancy, and maybe not well suited to develop in the capitalist housing market. There are breakthroughs to control less precise robotics, self driving and SLAM that will allow this to be even cheaper and more flexible. Building materials to develop and software and tools to develop. Just look at plastic 3D printers and how they were held back for years by patents and capitalist interests.
The potential is there to not just 3D print rough structures, but intricately painted and sculpted beautiful structures… out of literal dirt on site. With new binders we could make use of local materials instead of transporting sand across the world. And not just one house, but a whole village for e.g. the millions of refugees from natural catastrophes we can expect over the next century.
There is an obvious potential for further automization, like have a robot dig holes and 3D print foundations, save on transportation costs, use new materials, circumvent long and exploitative industrial supply chains for building materials, print foam insulation. Have different “robot end effectors” to insert wiring and piping while printing, or place structural elements for roofing. Even a hybrid approach between 3D printing and brick laying could be useful. Scan a quarry of a million natural stones and puzzle them together.
Don’t just 3D print the framing, but finish and paint the walls too. And 3D print the kitchen and cabinet furniture and bathroom including shower and bathtub too. 3D printing the walls is just the beginning of the potential. And tearing down and systematically sorting and recycling all individual parts of a house at the other end of the lifecycle.
We should fund a whole university focused on this technological area as a mega project to solve housing once and for all through maximum automation. Making housing free and a universal right for everyone should be the goal.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not from the US or UK, but I assumed that Starmer having directly succeeded Corbyn had a hand or was beholden to those in Labor who politically assassinated Corbyn. Reading a bit more (Starmer’s Resignation Speech and Corbyn’s Rebuttal | Telegraph.com) I don’t think it’s only unjust blame. I assumed the Labour party got completely ratfucked under Starmer.
But we’re seeing the same rightward and fierce anti-socialistic / anti-pacifist / anti-solidarity push in France and Germany too. Like Labour, the SPD and Greens in Germany also aided and abetted in the genocide in Gaza. What sane party is left to vote for?
In the USA I can’t imagine the Democrats doing any serious reconstruction or “new deal” program to undo the economic, institutional and political damage Trump has done. Not with all the plutocrats, establishment and media against them. Just look at the reaction to Mahdami. Or them shooting themselves in the foot with Platner lol (See this article from 2025 that should have cancelled him).
Honestly, I believe the era of social or liberal democracy is pretty much over. It’s like they are doing everything they can so fascist parties rise and take power. They don’t know how to do anything else. The elites are not dumb, but they are stupid. They’ll accelerate and drive us straight into a global collapse.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t Labour right wing now too?
- Comment on Sony 3 weeks ago:
Games used to be much more simple too, and easier to test and fix.
- Comment on Butter 4 weeks ago:
This calls for a Butterian Jihad!
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
Thanks! I just wondered what could be in the game that triggers banning it in my region.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
Any idea why “This item is currently unavailable in your region”?
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 5 weeks ago:
You wrote “they stole all their data”. Since they mostly use publicly available data like books, articles, papers, internet forums, social media (all public info) it must mean they “stole” that public data.
Which means you believe that data should be intellectual property and belong to someone like meta or reddit (who else?). This is exactly what the oligarchs want.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 5 weeks ago:
I said no such thing. Private is private. I’m saying there is no such thing as public information, information that you put on the public internet, meaning for the public to see, then being somehow not “free”.
You can argue about copyright a little, I’m against it, but this has nothing to do with private messages or private information or data protection.
You’re just arguing a strawman and trying to make the discussion about something else and an ad hominem calling me a troll.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 5 weeks ago:
Public information vs private information
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 5 weeks ago:
Well yeah, they suck. I’m a fan of anna’s archive.
But this doesn’t change the fact that AI models will continue to improve, and the tactical question is if we give them munition to monopolize it using “intellectual property” rights. I want open source/weights models to use locally without paying some license to meta or reddit or some publisher cartel.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 5 weeks ago:
That is incorrect though, it follows the fallacy that it’s just like a big database where all that (much larger) data is being copied and compressed into. It’s called machine learning and denying the reality of how it works is just not useful.
Imagine you study as an engineer in whatever field, but now laws have been passed that you only licensed the knowledge from university and publishers. If you work you have to demonstrate who you learned it from and then pay royalty fees. Obviously that would be insane for humans, but I do forsee that they will try to do this for machine learning. Because of the argument you made.
So any open source / weight model you find and could run locally (like e.g. deepseek) will now be illegal because you can’t prove where “dey tuerg dur dartae” from.
Thus all potential future gains from AI will be monopolized, while the costs socialized.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 5 weeks ago:
Every book ever published, every article anybody ever wrote, every comment anyone ever posted on a public internet is “consent” to read and learn from it.
I’m pro piracy as you can tell. The idea that something can be out there publicly on the internet but it’s “not consent” to read is the intellectual property one. Look at how they try to gatekeep publicly owned scientific papers. Big AI is clearly hypocritical doing this, but corporations are just soulless, amoral programs executed by sentient humans.
But the RESULT of all that (e.g. deepseek) should belong to all people. And THAT is why these IP arguments by fuckAI are dangerous, because it is only a threat to open models. The answer is open source (or weight) AI models and with advances in computing to run them locally.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 5 weeks ago:
they stole all there data
Obviously fuck the capitalists and AI scammers. But reading and learning from a library, then writing and selling your own book based on that is NOT stealing. It’s the wrong argument.
The answer obviously is to keep the actual source material and libraries and book archives open and just run open source AI models at home. You can run smaller versions on a solar powered PC no problem.
The issue with trying to make “AI is just stolen” happen is that it will make open source AI models illegal. AI companies would love that because they can afford to license and pay or work around or obscure or whatever. The “intellectual property” argument is always a disgusting capitalist one. Knowledge is either free or nothing is.