Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Should parents be allowed to euthanize their children if they have a diagnosis that just isn't worth dealing with? 3 days ago:
You should explain why it’s had for its own sake.
He said “this is eugenics”, which is such an extensively discussed and well documented term that the word itself is sufficient explanation of why it’s bad.
- Comment on Should parents be allowed to euthanize their children if they have a diagnosis that just isn't worth dealing with? 3 days ago:
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 – First-look trailer 4 days ago:
Nintendo makes handhelds?!?
- Comment on How to take CPU out? 1 week ago:
If you can, find and watch a video. There is some part of the instruction that is missing, or you missed it, and a video will make it more obvious.
- Comment on Atomfall | Official Gameplay Overview Trailer 1 week ago:
Guysfall
- Comment on Chants of Sennaar, a puzzle game where you decipher an alien language (Demo available) 1 week ago:
mi mlatu cimle
- Comment on Chants of Sennaar, a puzzle game where you decipher an alien language (Demo available) 1 week ago:
I loved this game. Puzzles that I felt I needed to understand the plot and culture to solve, made the world so much more alive.
- Comment on How can I use an LLM to generate a 10k word long coherent story? 1 week ago:
You think Humans aren’t pumping out 100% derivative works all the time?
Don’t worry. I don’t think that.
A big hope I have for AI is that 100% derivative work by humans is now easier to call out. If a rock with a 9V battery could produce it, why should we value it?
- Comment on How can I use an LLM to generate a 10k word long coherent story? 2 weeks ago:
Randomness can give novel combinations, sure, but we shouldn’t call than an original idea.
As for the various ways humans come up with original ideas, they are based on a level of reflection, reasoning and thought processing. We know that’s not possible for an LLM: while they are complex in their details, the way they work is very well defined. They imitate.
- Comment on How can I use an LLM to generate a 10k word long coherent story? 2 weeks ago:
This concerns me:
stories of 100,000+ words from a single prompt
An LLM excels at making passable derivative work. It does not, by definition, come up with original ideas.
What are you going to do with 100,000+ words of 100% derivative writing where anything potentially original can be summed up in a prompt of a few dozen words?
Will this be published or sold somewhere? Undercutting or crowding out original works?
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 2 weeks ago:
Remain indoors.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 2 weeks ago:
Seasons of Bergen, Norway:
December - February: Cold and dark and wet season. Stock up on antidepressants, good food, “Hygge”-paraphenelia, asthma medication and remain indoors.
March - mid-July: Cold and green season.
Mid-July: Summer!!!
Mid-July - August: “pretend it is still summer”-season. Yes, we can grill and drink beer in the garden dammit just put on an extra jacket.
June - August: Wet and windy season.
September - November: Soggy cold season. Shoes and jackets go to the Drying Rack, not on thr regular rack.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 2 weeks ago:
SuperHot
The DOOMs
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- Comment on Communism 3 weeks ago:
Easy: purge the oppressed!
- Comment on Communism 3 weeks ago:
The notion of “state” differs wildly across people, so that probably adds to the confusion.
The core concept is that ownership of a thing belongs to the people of the thing. This is where it clashes with feudalism and capitalism, where ownership of e.g. a farm is not held by the farm workers.
The organizational unit is “group of people cooperating”, or a “commune”. This can be small, like a hippie farm, or it can be big - a traditional state.
A democratic state can be communist if it forbids private ownership of common resources. I.e. your house is your house and your car is your car but some rich fuck can’t decide to build a fence around the local hiking trail.
An authoritarian state may technically be communist if it is strongly democratic. That is theoretical. The ones currently claiming communism are dictatorships.
- Comment on Is Dustborn actually a bad game or is it culture war bullshit? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s clear some of the angriest critics completely missed that. :D
- Comment on Is Dustborn actually a bad game or is it culture war bullshit? 3 weeks ago:
Not bad. Most reliable critics point out it’s solid, with some flaws in dialogue and drag in the combat system. Inter-person relationship building in the expanded cast seems to be a strong part. My personal category of the game is “it has a punk soul”, which I tend to value higher than any flaws a thing may have.
It is also very much a deliberate “Fuck you! Fight me!” entry in the culture war, so the reactionary responses are correspondingly strong and angry.
- Comment on if you are a doctor or registered nurse, what's the point of manipulating a patient to stay at your unit even if he wants to leave against medical advice? 3 weeks ago:
Sorry to hear that. Sounds awful.
But yes, am aware. I understood the scenario as detaining cognizant patients.
- Comment on if you are a doctor or registered nurse, what's the point of manipulating a patient to stay at your unit even if he wants to leave against medical advice? 3 weeks ago:
What is the premise? Most countries, US included, does not grant doctors, nurses or any medical professionals or staff the power to hold people against their will.
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 3 weeks ago:
Rimworld! For me it is right after Factorio in playtime list if I filter out idle or semi-idle games.
- Comment on What games have you sunk the most time into? 3 weeks ago:
Factorio for me. Steam has 3000 hours logged, but I played it for ages before getting Steam version so really no idea. Estimating 4000 hours total.
- Comment on How would you describe a power-lifter-type physique specifically? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve actually seen people use the word “powerlifter” for this purpose. Id est using it to describe someone’s physical build even if they are not a full-on powerlifter.
- Comment on Is there any security in the communication with Voyager I? 4 weeks ago:
Correct. But also xkcd.com/538/ . Hence why I said “or bribes and kidnappings”.
- Comment on Is there any security in the communication with Voyager I? 4 weeks ago:
Well, sorta. I ruled it out because hardware of that era, limited by Voyager’s power supply, could not do encrypted communication beyond wet paper bag levels.
Buy encrypted communication is all based on same as a passkey in the end (a sequence of secret bytes), whether we are talking encryption based off public/private keys, symmetric keys, elliptic curve, passphrases etc, so it’s comparable enough for the point I was aiming for. :)
- Comment on Is there any security in the communication with Voyager I? 4 weeks ago:
Consider why a very strong passkey is protective: It is expensive to crack it. Either you spend a ton of expensive computing power to crack it, or you arrange bribes or kidnapping. At some point, the cost is beyond “lol” budget and needs to be worth it for a lot of powerful people.
So basically it’s protected by an extremely strong password. :)
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
If you are treated badly, don’t get mad at people who are treated a bit less badly.
- Comment on Funko gets community noted 5 weeks ago:
Yep. Literally copied in full from ChatGPT output.
- Comment on where do you draw the line if you ponder quitting a job? 5 weeks ago:
Also feeling a bit lost now :) What is the job of a manager?
They are responsible for the work, productivity, and well-being of everyone they are managing, both individually and as a group who needs to work together.