FaceDeer
@FaceDeer@fedia.io
Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.
- Comment on Art of The Deal 1 day ago:
Next: Trump demands US ownership of greentext@sh.itjust.works for national security reasons.
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 4 days ago:
If this was fiction I'd be complaining about how on-the-nose it was.
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 4 days ago:
Had a whole civil war over it and still didn't get rid of slavery.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
What I'm pointing out is that this target audience of AI haters is actually the whole gaming community.
Where do you get that from?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
They titled it with the objective of getting clicks. OP chose to post it here with the objective of getting upvotes. Same basic goal.
- Comment on Get that silicussy 5 days ago:
And remember: if you're not running her on your own hardware she's not an AI girlfriend. She's an AI prostitute.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
According to “The Evolving Ecosystem”, a recent Connected Intelligence® report from Circana, LLC, 86% of U.S. consumers 18+ are aware of AI in smartphones and other technology devices
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Of consumers who are aware of AI, 65% are interested in AI features coming to at least one of the device types studied — most commonly the smartphone. This figure rises to 82% of consumers between ages 18 and 24 and steadily declines among older groups.
So, an alternative headline that would be just as truthful: "A majority of US consumers are interested in AI features coming to their devices."
That's not going to get the upvotes here, though.
- Comment on You are being misled about renewable energy technology - YouTube 6 days ago:
Make sure to stay for the post-credits scene.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 1 week ago:
Yes. I addressed that. Fasten it to flat pieces of stiff material, not to the floor. The stiff material keeps it from curling but can be moved.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 1 week ago:
I addressed that. I'm not proposing fastening it to the floor.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 1 week ago:
Use carpet tape (double-sided tape that's meant for sticking rugs to the floor) to fasten stiff squares of material to the undersides of the corners. The stiff material will keep it from curling, but it won't be stuck down to the floor so you can still move it.
- Comment on It always makes news when the "Doomsday Clock" is moved by a second or minute. What would actually happen if it got to 00:00 2 weeks ago:
Would make a good premise for a Fallout-style post-apocalyptic RPG. The quest is to reach the Doomsday clock and set it to 00:00.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 weeks ago:
I'd consider that a "lose" condition.
It's possible for everyone to lose a war.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 weeks ago:
Most Fediverse clients (probably including whichever app you're using) have a block feature, you can use that on me if you prefer not to see my comments.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 weeks ago:
I'm not "minimizing" nukes. I'm describing them as they are. I provided sources.
You may not be aware, but many people survived Hiroshima and the city is populated to this day.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 weeks ago:
This is ridiculously binary thinking. I'm saying it's not as bad as the person I was responding to thinks it would be, and you're interpreting that as "it's fine, there's no downside"?
Being punched in the face is less bad than being shot. Would you interpret that as "it's fine to be punched in the face"?
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 3 weeks ago:
If they're well programmed there's no way to know at this point. AI is able to pass the Turing Test without even needing particularly hefty resources, I've been doing a bunch of fiddling with local LLMs and I could probably write something up that could do it. I don't personally see a point because I comment here for my own enjoyment rather than to push an agenda, but if I was trying to push an agenda it'd be reasonably straightforward to whip up a population of AI characters who agreed with it in various ways.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn't be the first time in history that a major power started a war and then promptly proceeded to decisively lose it.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 weeks ago:
Currently there are 12,331. These weapons are divided up among many nations, and only a fraction of them are actually "ready to launch" at any given time. If launched most of them will be targeted at military targets, which are often located in remote places - silos in the middle of nowhere, carrier groups out in the ocean, forward military bases or stockpiles, and so forth. They wouldn't be fired with intent to "wipe out" humanity. There would be entire continents that nobody bothers firing at - why waste precious nukes on countries that are uninvolved in the conflict?
Nuclear winter is no longer thought to be as bad as the most extreme predictions from back in the 1960s. And even with those extreme predictions it still wouldn't lead to human extinction. Humans are an incredibly robust species. We don't need infrastructure to survive in harsh conditions. Inuit survived in the arctic for thousands of years without anything fancy, and you're not going to see conditions that harsh everywhere on Earth regardless.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 weeks ago:
By some standards WWIII is already in progress. And no, America isn't winning. Its power and influence are contracting rapidly.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 3 weeks ago:
I assume you're worried about nuclear war? It'll be bad, but there simply aren't enough nukes in existence to pose a threat to humanity as a species.
- Comment on I don't understand how Trump gets away with all his senial BS. How come everyone is telling him to piss off or use the constitution to shut him the hell up? 3 weeks ago:
Because America is a democracy and enough of the voters wanted this.
- Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 4 weeks ago:
Carney didn't "clap for the attack on Venezuela." He called for international law to be followed, which should be an obvious rebuke to anyone who isn't at a Trump level of understanding of how diplomacy is done.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 weeks ago:
And now I expect we'll see another League of Nations fiasco soon, Trump has already denied visas to world leaders that he doesn't like so that they theoretically can't come to the UN. The treaty the US signed regarding the UN means they don't need visas for that, but we all know how Trump loves to follow agreements.
Maybe the UN can survive in some form by relocating, IIRC they do have a secondary office in Geneva already.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 weeks ago:
And unfortunately due to the prevalence of American media it "leaks" into other cultures as well. I'm Canadian and it's not uncommon to hear about people being arrested or whatever and claiming that their "first amendment" rights were being violated, or "taking the fifth" (ie, the fifth amendment's right to remain silent). We actually do have somewhat analogous laws for those things but of course they only know about the American ones and often get the details wrong as a result.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 weeks ago:
Ah yes. I was still awake after midnight on the 2nd when I saw the news, so it went down on that date in my mind.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, we see it, you can stop demonstrating the annoying behaviour now.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 weeks ago:
They did the shooting in Venezuela that day.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 5 weeks ago:
Alright, here's another one. Americans bragging about their democracy until all of a sudden it's more convenient to blame the politicians for bad behaviour rather than the electorate that put them in power.
Take some responsibility for your government, does it represent you or not?