obelisk_complex
@obelisk_complex@piefed.ca
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 2 weeks ago:
How is it legally murky? Someone asks if that’s your signature on the document and do you remember signing it, and it is and you do, so you say yes. End of discussion.
It’s only a problem if you’re claiming it’s not your signature. But then, they have to prove it’s your signature, you don’t have to prove it’s not. I’m not sure you can prove it’s not your signature, hence burden of proof being on the other party.
- Comment on Could machines develop consciousness just like we did? 2 weeks ago:
Hypothetically, if we got to the point that we could simulate the collective synapses of a human brain in real time, that should do it.
If you simulate fire, does it burn? I don’t think a simulation will do it. I think consciousness is an emergent property, but unlike others here I’m not so sure this property has to emerge from an organic substrate. Organics might just be the cheapest way nature found to do it.
Problem is, we don’t really understand consciousness itself, and that makes it hard to predict where or how it will show up.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Hey now, that’s not fair! A used tampon has contributed a lot more benefit to society than Ben Shapiro ever will.
- Comment on Should street racers who accidentally kill people really go to prison? 2 months ago:
Yes, they really should go to prison, for really reals, if they really kill, maim, or otherwise injure another person or damage property.
If they don’t hurt or kill anyone, and don’t damage property, you might convince me their vehicle and license should be confiscated, and they should be banned from driving for life.
- Comment on Anon watches redditors talk about bodycount 2 months ago:
The only thing dumber than your comments it’s the Piefed decision to replace the downvote button with an emoji button that doesn’t load until just before I try to click the close button.
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 4 months ago:
It’s great for sending money abroad. No bank, minimal fees. I use it for that all the time, to send friends gifts for weddings and birthdays and stuff.
Yes, this requires everyone in the transaction to be on the network and know how to sell cryptocurrency; the question is whether it’s useful, not whether it’s useful with no caveats 😋
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 5 months ago:
Can’t believe nobody has said why The Warp exists - or rather why it overlaps with and breaks into our reality.
Warhammer has Space Elves - the Eldar/Aeldari. Powerful psykers. Millennia ago they got so kinky and on so many drugs they fucked a hole in reality itself, a hole that promptly engulfed their homeworld and sent them on an endless exodus in their Worldships. They were such powerful psychics their sexcapades also manifested demons and the Chaos Gods from the formless energies of The Warp.
The ones that renounced their horny ways became the Eldar, the ones who didn’t became the Dark Eldar who are still really into leather and chains.
This isn’t super relevant to the story of the game, I just really like this bit of the lore. It reads like a joke: “Why’s the universe so jacked up? Fuckin’ space elves…”
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 5 months ago:
Yikes. Hadn’t heard about the openclaw use. That stack scares the bejeezus out of me.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 5 months ago:
Precisely this, yes, well said. We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us, one way or another.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 5 months ago:
Oh, I know the answer to this one. It’s because we don’t have single-payer healthcare, which Republicans don’t want because they don’t want bureaucratic death panels of disconnected doctors denying people access to medication.
They’d much prefer to have bureaucratic death panels entirely disconnected from any medical expertise denying people access to their medication and for spurious reasons.