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- Comment on Not that limit 4 days ago:
There’s no way ChatGPT would be creative enough to put a number on its side
- Comment on How Big Tech Killed Online Debate 5 days ago:
Really hate this, the article focused on other platforms but I want to call out the stuff Reddit and many of its moderators did to actively prevent debate from happening, like generally regarding disagreement as something to be moderated away, the way the updated block feature works, and locking any thread with a contentious topic that people wanted to argue about.
- Comment on How Big Tech Killed Online Debate 5 days ago:
IMO verbal debate is a poor substitute for writing, where you can take more time to consider what is being said and look up or cite information. Anonymity also helps a lot in various ways, when in person social considerations normally trump the interest of crafting good argument.
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 5 days ago:
The video gets into this a bit; what the workers are threatened with for not working is stuff like being put in a more dangerous environment and not being able to see their families.
- Comment on Whoever thought it was a good idea to let me legally own a welder should not have done that. 6 days ago:
Most likely. Being able to figure out that shitting in your neighbor’s yard will make people mad at you is pretty basic stuff.
- Comment on Whoever thought it was a good idea to let me legally own a welder should not have done that. 6 days ago:
It’s a cool idea if you pretend he did it for some entirely different reasons though
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
To me it entirely hinges on what kind of features. The Firefox local website translation feature is cool and useful. A chatbot reading my emails and giving me dialogue options, a program harvesting data on everything I do on my computer and sending it to a server, those kinds of things I do not want and will go out of my way to avoid. Normal rules of what makes software good or bad still apply.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN 1 week ago:
and once you make amazing entertainment you have to market it worldwide, and the people who are best at marketing entertainment worldwide are big, significant entertainment enterprises with the balance sheet to actually support those launches, companies like us. So I feel more optimistic than ever that new technology is going to allow us to supercharge our business.
So the argument is basically that their company will not be overshadowed because they’re using AI too, and because the important part of making a successful game is advertising it.
- Comment on OpenAI is discontinuing GPT-4o, GPT-4.1 and o4-mini in ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Not your server, not your waifu
- Comment on Anon looks back 1 week ago:
Saying no because you don’t feel like it and/or you’re being asked on a date in a demeaning way shouldn’t be trumped by the feeling that you might not get another chance and you’re pathetic for being a virgin.
- Comment on If the government raided your house and found a bunch of .mkv files but you insist its all legally obtained, how do they ascertain if they are actually pirated or not? 1 week ago:
In the US, virtually no one has been legally prosecuted for consumer level piracy since around 2010. The only exception is a small group of copyright trolls that focus on porn videos. The government was never the one doing it; if the government raided your house and found evidence that you illegally torrented .mkv files, they wouldn’t care or do anything with that information.
That said you should still use a VPN, because industry groups are now completely focused on getting ISPs to send intimidating letters to people and eventually shutting off their internet. If you use a VPN and bind your torrent client to it, you are entirely safe from all consequences that actually happen.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
So if all we did was decide to stop growing corn to turn into ethanol, and we used only that land for generating only solar power, we’d be able to generate 84% more electricity on an annual basis than we do today from all of our energy sources.
Damn. Factorio lied to me about the space efficiency of solar panels.
- Comment on Why do video game skeletons put themselves back together? 2 weeks ago:
It makes for some pretty neat (infuriating) game mechanics. Like an infinite mob spawner, but more intuitive and less dull.
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 2 weeks ago:
Makes sense, in other contexts I’d watch at lower speeds (I watch starcraft games sometimes at 1.25x), but for me this is kind of like the video equivalent of skimming an article, actively reading and listening at the same time and not multitasking. I also manually skip around to get to relevant information faster.
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 2 weeks ago:
Not OP but informational podcast/interview type videos that are heavy on talking and long I watch at 2.25x with subtitles on.
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure it helps a lot that these are games with player hostable servers
- Comment on Advice Dog 3 weeks ago:
That dog has said some terrible things
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 3 weeks 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 5 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? 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
It’s not fixed, I also get this problem atm
- Comment on Anon asks 4chan for parenting advice 1 month 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 1 month ago:
exactly
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 1 month ago:
If they can turn off your ability to play the games you don’t own them
- Comment on Facts 1 month ago:
ok fair, I didn’t play that one. The point is Morrowind is exceptional.
- Comment on Facts 1 month 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 1 month ago:
I guess I’m not totally sure, I know Oblivion used a bunch of procedural generation and I assumed Skyrim did the same.