chicken

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon time travels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The cloud is basically by definition someone else’s computer, kind of inherently opposed to user control

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure it helps a lot that these are games with player hostable servers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice Dog⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That dog has said some terrible things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So what is the alternative? A lot of artists and their allies think they have an answer: they say we should extend copyright to cover the activities associated with training a model.

  And I am here to tell you they are wrong. Wrong because this would represent a massive expansion of copyright over activities that are currently permitted – for good reason.

  He goes on to say that prohibiting AI works from being copyrighted and worker collective bargaining are better solutions, and I really agree with the arguments for this. I also liked this bit about how some of what remains past the bubble could be useful:

  And we will have the open-source models that run on commodity hardware, AI tools that can do a lot of useful stuff, like transcribing audio and video; describing images; summarizing documents; and automating a lot of labor-intensive graphic editing – such as removing backgrounds or airbrushing passersby out of photos. These will run on our laptops and phones, and open-source hackers will find ways to push them to do things their makers never dreamed of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Perhaps most frustratingly, all of the tickets, pull requests, past release builds and changelogs are gone, because those things are not part of Git (the version control system),” Sauceke told me. “So even if someone had the foresight to make mirrors before the ban (as I did), those mirrors would only keep up with the code changes, not these ‘extra’ things that are pretty much vital to our work.”

  What can be done about this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the money ones, I think it works because there are many people who just really want to feel some hope financially

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was replaying Super Mario Bros a while ago and it was really striking to me how deliberate the game seems to be about trying to teach patience and impulse control. Games ask more from you than social media content does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly personalized results⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting harder to afford the setup, but there’s very compelling reasons to use local models instead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly personalized results⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not fixed, I also get this problem atm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks 4chan for parenting advice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like the implication that having an active sex life and bullying someone to death are basically the same category of thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  exactly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they can turn off your ability to play the games you don’t own them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ok fair, I didn’t play that one. The point is Morrowind is exceptional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they started with Oblivion though, and it’s a very noticeable difference. For instance Morrowind doesn’t have a quest arrow telling you where to go, you follow signs and manual directions based on landmarks, which is possible because of more thought being put into the landscape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I’m not totally sure, I know Oblivion used a bunch of procedural generation and I assumed Skyrim did the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m biased having played Morrowind first, but I’d argue it’s way better than its sequels in a lot of ways, so people are definitely missing out to skip it. The whole game world is hand crafted rather than being procedurally generated, the writing and worldbuilding are better, there was obviously a huge amount of work that went into building the RPG side of Morrowind that felt missing in later games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want to make accounts on lots of sites and search all of them every time I buy something, so I think of it like a convenience fee if the way an ebay package is wrapped implies the seller arbitraged it from elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how much has changed since I was doing it, but the main trick was to get the tasks associated with academic studies that were typically higher paid, by using a sniping bot to grab it before others could. So that way you get paid around minimum wage instead of a small fraction of that. Though tbh the situation is probably worse now since there have been all those funding cuts to academia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i hate to break it to you but Discord the company is sending everything that goes through all servers and all private DMs through LLMs: this is done as a part of their trust and safety system. it’s right in the privacy policy that they use OpenAI

  This is a good argument, but more for not using Discord than it not mattering if they put in a chatbot nobody wants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake ‘One Battle After Another’ torrent hides malware in subtitles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh, so it wasn’t a video player having an absurd exploit then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake ‘One Battle After Another’ torrent hides malware in subtitles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So wait, literally all it took was putting command line commands on their own line in a subtitles file? Am I interpreting this right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked up some stuff about Argentina’s financial crisis since you mentioned it before, and it looks like they actually did something a bit like what I’m talking about, directly appropriating the valuable assets they could in an effort to keep being able to function:

  In addition to the corralito, the Ministry of Economy dictated the pesificación; all bank accounts denominated in dollars would be converted to pesos at an official rate. Deposits would be converted at 1.40 ARS per dollar and debt was converted on 1 to 1 basis.[69]

  There’s some indication that this also applied to financial products:

  As noted above, a number of U.S. investors have filed ICSID arbitration claims against the government of Argentina. Most of these investors consider the January 2002 pesification of dollar-denominated contracts, and/or the ex post facto prohibition on contracts linked to foreign inflation indices, to be an effective expropriation of their investments

  I can’t specifically confirm this included gold held on paper, but I think it probably would have.

  As for the plausibility of this sort of thing happening in the US, in addition to the actions of Roosevelt mentioned by @diablexical@sh.itjust.works, the main trigger for Nixon abandoning the gold convertibility of US dollars was France attempting to physically withdraw the gold they had stored in US banks, which they didn’t want to allow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what they’re saying is that in a hyperinflation scenario, it is an option for the government to seize the physical gold backing the financial products people hold in order to continue paying to run the government now that fiat is worthless and they are having trouble with that.

  Gold you have buried in your basement, they will have to work a little harder to get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the developers write that “our studio was mistakenly accused of using AI-generated art in our games, and every attempt to clarify our work only escalated the situation”. They say they’ve received a lot of insults and threats as a consequence.

  This is a bad thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AI witch hunt strikes again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t hate this article, but I’d rather have read a blog post grounded in the author’s personal experience engaging with a personalized AI assistant. She clearly has her own opinions about how they should work, but instead of being about that there’s this attempt to make it sound like there’s a lot of objective certainty to it that falls flat because of failing to draw a strong connection.

  Like this part:

  Research in cognitive and developmental psychology shows that stepping outside one’s comfort zone is essential for growth, resilience, and adaptation. Yet, infinite-memory LLM systems, much like personalization algorithms, are engineered explicitly for comfort. They wrap users in a cocoon of sameness by continuously repeating familiar conversational patterns, reinforcing existing user preferences and biases, and avoiding content or ideas that might challenge or discomfort the user.

  While this engineered comfort may boost short-term satisfaction, its long-term effects are troubling. It replaces the discomfort necessary for cognitive growth with repetitive familiarity, effectively transforming your cognitive gym into a lazy river. Rather than stretching cognitive and emotional capacities, infinite-memory systems risk stagnating them, creating a psychological landscape devoid of intellectual curiosity and resilience.

  So, how do we break free from this? If the risks of infinite memory are clear, the path forward must be just as intentional.

  Some hard evidence that stepping out of your comfort zone is good, but not really any that preventing stepping out of their comfort zone is in practice the effect that “infinite memory” features of personal AI assistants has on people, just rhetorical speculation.

  Which is a shame because how that affects people is pretty interesting to me. The idea of using a LLM with these features always freaked me out and I quit using ChatGPT before they were implemented, but I want to know how it’s going for the people that didn’t, and who use it for stuff like the given example of picking a restaurant to eat at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stuff like this makes me wonder, at what point is it bad enough that the truisms about leaving medical advice to licensed healthcare professionals become wrong, and everyone would be better off turning to anything else instead of engaging with the system? Are we not there yet? How much further would there be to go?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ramble about something for long enough that people should be able to tell is how I do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨zingiberales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  eating grass will destroy your teeth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think for some people the only way they can think of to help is attempting to bully someone over the internet, and it ends up applying to whoever happens to be around that disagrees with them, even though that makes zero sense as a strategy.