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 During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 2 days ago:
You can say "Nazi". When I first read that title I filled in a different N-word and was very confused.
- Comment on We should all be Luddites 3 days ago:
I've noticed that Firefox just recently added "search this image using Google Lens" to the right-click menu. Google Lens then uses an AI to OCR it, and lets me copy and paste the text. So here it is, courtesy of AI:
But here's the twist: they weren't anti-technology in general - they were against the way it was being used to exploit labor and devalue craftsmanship. In modern slang, though, Luddite has come to mean anyone who resists new technology or feels uneasy about its social effects - the person who grumbles about smartphones, Al, or self-checkout kiosks. In truth, the Luddites were early critics of technological displacement - a theme still echoing today every time a robot takes a job or an algorithm replac an artist.
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Ah, the Luddites - a wonderfully rebellious bunch from the early 19th century! They were groups of English textile workers who, around 1811-1816, rose up against the industrial machines that were threatening their livelihoods. Imagine skilled artisans who had spent years mastering hand-weaving, suddenly finding themselves replaced by noisy, automated looms run by factory owners who could churn out cloth faster and cheaper.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 6 days ago:
Except that it will also be trained on those other contexts, because the people who train these AIs are not morons. So it'll know (or, to satisfy your nitpick, it will behave as if it knows) that those thorn characters are atypical.
- Comment on Why did Thanos, with the power of all the infinity stones, never think to try doubling the amount of resources in the world? 1 week ago:
Back on Titan, Thanos told his people "you need to kill half the population to save our civilization from disaster." The people of Titan dismissed Thanos as insane. Thanos, being actually insane, decided he was going to prove he was right by going around massacring halves of populations.
In other words, he's not doing this to actually help anyone, he's doing it just to prove he was right. Solving the universe's problems by other means wouldn't do that so that's not an acceptable outcome for him.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Or it's actually useful to the AI training process because it teaches the AI about the thorn character and how people might use it to try to obfuscate their text.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
It can actually be useful to have misspellings in the training data. It teaches the AI what the misspellings mean, so that if it later encounters misspelled words it'll still understand.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
He claims it's to "poison" AI training data.
Innumerable people have explained to him that this doesn't work, but he appears to be either immune to education in this matter or is just using this as an excuse to do it anyway for some other reason.
- Comment on Fight me 1 week ago:
Make those heating coils out of superconductors and it'll be even more efficient.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 week ago:
Given that OP has ended with a complete lack of clarity in what his question actually means, I see no further point in discussing details like this.
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 1 week ago:
Quite so. Sorry, I interpreted your "how" in the "I don't understand, how can you find this fun? I'm only here because Microsoft has my family hostage and are making me post in exchange for their freedom" sense.
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 1 week ago:
I read about neat things and I write about neat things. Sometimes people are wrong on the Internet and I get to fix that.
If it's not fun for you then you don't have to.
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 1 week ago:
It's fun.
- Comment on unforgivable bad bad mommy 1 week ago:
Former motherfucker.
- Comment on unforgivable bad bad mommy 1 week ago:
I too am very interested in her politics.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 week ago:
You have yet to present a particularly well-formed question for me to answer. You still haven't even clarified your original post's question, what exactly do you mean by people "role playing as animals?"
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 week ago:
OP has been singularly unclear about what exactly he means by "role playing as animals" in the first place, so I don't see the problem here.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 week ago:
UPDATE: can't help but to notice not ONE of you have answered the question you just keep telling me about furries. I want an answer to why so many people are role playing as aninals
I think you'll need to be a little clearer about what you think the distinction is here. What is "animal roleplay" to you? Where are you seeing it being done?
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 week ago:
Did you actually look at the image of the sculpture? It's not reaching up. It's just standing.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 week ago:
Furries are a modern example of anthropomorphic animals in culture. It's a convenient shorthand.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 week ago:
Lots, this kind of thing goes back deep into pre-history. I mentioned in another comment in this thread that the oldest known sculpture is of a furry and the oldest known cave painted art is furry art. Lots of gods and creatures of myth are human/animal hybrids of various sorts, or straight up animal spirits.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 1 week ago:
Um, no idea what you mean. 👉👈😅
The oldest known sculpture is of a furry, and the oldest known cave painted art is furry art. We've been imagining what it's like to not be human for as long as we've been human. Nothing weird about it unless people want to make it weird.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 2 weeks ago:
And the AIs themselves can generate data. There have been a few recent news stories about AIs doing novel research, that will only become more prevalent over time.
- Comment on Bye Bye Existence 2 weeks ago:
Not to mention that in the atomic oxygen case it all comes back 5 seconds later, resulting in the greatest firestorm the Earth has ever seen.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 weeks ago:
Put them in jail. If you're in a position to execute someone, then you're in a position to imprison them. These are not supervillains who can break out of Arkham Asylum every time there needs to be a new round of villainy.
Would England have freed the United States without violence?
Why wouldn't it? It freed Canada.
Would Hitler have backed down from controlling Europe if you held a sign for long enough? How about Putin? Or Netanyahu? Or Pol Pot? Saddam Hussein? Hideki Tojo?
At these points you're in a state of active war with another country, execution is not an option. You need to fight the actual war at that point.
Afterwards, though, once you've won the war and have captured the leaders and war criminals and such? No need to execute them, the war has been won. Imprison them.
There are countless examples from history where meeting violent with violence is the only answer. They bring it. You either fight back or you die.
Those aren't the examples at issue, though. Unless you think a guillotine is a battlefield weapon?
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 weeks ago:
Stooping to their level ought to make things better, then.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 weeks ago:
If your execution equipment is wearing out from overuse then that raises further questions that a society should probably think about.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 weeks ago:
I've seen discussions about the future of automation where people speculate "what will rich people do with the general population when they're no longer necessary to keep industry running for them?"
Opening up the "let's just kill the people we don't like and don't want as part of society" box seems like a bad idea in a context like that.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 weeks ago:
If we're being actually realistic I think it's actually "tax the rich so that they are no longer so extremely rich, and use the resulting funds to benefit the general population."
There's no need for killing.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 weeks ago: