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- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 days 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? 5 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago:
AI witch hunt strikes again
- Comment on To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything 1 week 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 week 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 week ago:
Ramble about something for long enough that people should be able to tell is how I do it.
- Comment on zingiberales 1 week 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? 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 2 weeks ago:
If there’s one person who knows their applied zk proofs, it’s that guy.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 2 weeks ago:
There are some pretty strong arguments that even zk proof is a flawed way of preserving privacy though, in a variety of ways. It prevents pseudonymity by enabling one-user-one-account, and it leaves users vulnerable to being coerced to reveal their full online activities by handing over cryptographic keys.
- Comment on now kith 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 2 weeks ago:
That’s literally what the comment above it was doing too though. It’s a very common anti-AI argument to appeal to social proof.
- Comment on The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? 3 weeks ago:
TikTok
I think you’re always going to have problems with a lack of authenticity on platforms where opaque algorithms do all the work of deciding what gets popular and what gets shown to who.
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 3 weeks ago:
I like it, more people should adopt unusual typing quirks imo
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer 3 weeks ago:
and there’s a well-defined mission in each zone
It’s been a long time but I remember there being missions with scripted events and objectives and stuff, but then also areas where the main thing to do was simply travel through it to get to other places. My favorite moment from the game was when I worked out that you could skip a portion of the normal progression by getting to a higher level area early to buy more powerful equipment, but actually getting there was a real challenge due to being underleveled and the difficulty of getting past enemies without killing them. I got a group to make the attempt (which took some explaining and persuasion because it wasn’t the normal next thing to do) and we spent hours on it and got to the last leg of the journey, but ultimately had to give up because our death penalties were stacked too high to get through that last bit. I was able to make it on a later attempt with a different group using character loadouts more specialized for the task.
Something I think GW1 did really well was doing various things like this to build up a sense of location and meaningful travel, which does a lot of work to compensate for the gameplay itself happening in isolated instances and making the world of the game feel expansive and epic.
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 3 weeks ago:
Emote only chat
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 4 weeks ago:
I hate the idea of software/hardware that can prove that the user does not have control over it so much
- Comment on Anon travels overseas 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business 4 weeks ago:
I have read some articles about this, and I can see how it makes sense in some contexts. Like iirc when this happened to Red Lobster, they were able to make money through a combination of ripping off a certain group of investors, and the significant value of the company’s real estate holdings. That makes sense.
In the case of online magazine equivalents though I really don’t get it. What is there to sell off? Shouldn’t any potential long term profits be priced in at the point they get bought out? If the company has tangible assets like offices, couldn’t they just sell those without firing anyone and have people work from home? The intangible assets are all directly tied to the publication’s reputation and audience, which seems like it would die off fast without anything worthwhile on the site.
- Comment on There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business 4 weeks ago:
In many cases, the best decision for the firm is the one that directly undermines the company it controls.
How though? I don’t doubt this is a real thing, but there isn’t really a satisfying explanation being offered here. What the article is saying sounds like the process is, take profitable business, throw in garbage, somehow more profit. Where’s the money coming from?
- Comment on FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site 5 weeks ago:
The FBI really wants people having discussions that are limited to just the headline I guess…
Even if legal attacks don’t work, I’ve noticed a few sites I read articles from have paywalls that are no longer bypassable by archive.is, and so I’m kind of at a loss as to how to link them, except maybe by copying the text myself. But that has a number of disadvantages, such as, copied text is not an authoritative source because most people can’t verify it wasn’t altered. It’s usually not a problem reading it myself because all the text shows up in the rss feed, but what’s lacking is a way to share it.
- Comment on better act fast! 5 weeks ago:
How many GB per jar?
- Comment on Anon hates dark fantasy 5 weeks ago:
Valid but personally I’m way more sick of the gameplay style than the dark fantasy theme. It was fun for Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, and Dark Souls 2, but after that I just can’t stomach another game based on melee combat with dodge rolling and reacting to telegraphed enemy attack patterns.
- Comment on Anon has had enough 5 weeks ago:
But then you risk it touching the inside parts of the toilet which is nasty
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe a manual dial to cycle through the available nearby vehicles then. The idea is just that there should be a way for it to be clear who you are contacting and where their vehicle is on the road relative to yours.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 1 month ago:
I just want a way to save the chicken :(
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- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 month ago:
I don’t know but now I’m wondering, do the Greek gods qualify?
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 1 month ago:
AI article and website