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- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 4 days ago:
This is why I greatly appreciated how in This Is How You Lose the Time War, there are only two characters that matter and their names are Red and Blue
- Comment on Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ 5 days ago:
There is more information in the article about which algorithms it does not consider to be algorithms:
Opt-out options for algorithms would give users the choice to make their social media feeds only feature content from friends and groups they choose to follow.
- Comment on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting 5 days ago:
Given the Snowden leaks, it seems inevitable that if that data is being recorded and collected into the servers of a small number of US companies, that it will end up being used to enable nationwide searches regardless
- Comment on Anon questions the epidemic 6 days ago:
I wanted to check if anon was lying, but the only recent numbers I found are on what looks like a website of a conservative think tank with a pronatalist/marriage ideological mission (a little creepy imo). It does reference a cdc survey that seems real as the data source but still a bit sus to me though too much effort to reproduce their work. I’m pretty sure it’s anon’s source of information since it also covers ages 22-34 and they chose that range deliberately:
We focus here on males and females ages 22-34 because this is the key window in which people tend to marry and start families
And the other numbers that I looked at seem to match up. If I’m being paranoid I’d wonder if anon is actually their intern doing social media propaganda campaigns.
- Comment on 📡📡📡 1 week ago:
“Other inmates have access to adult games while I only have the right to play less interesting kids games,” the 35-year-old kid-killer wrote. “One example is ‘Rayman Revolution’, a game aimed at three year olds.”
During his trial, Breivik told the court that he had played marathon sessions of violent video games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare as “training” for his attacks.
wow
- Comment on “Tf???” 1 week ago:
Oh so the caption is completely made up
- Comment on DANNY621/H3-World · The first interactive world model built on MiniMax-H3 1 week ago:
Looks pretty cool, though I’m guessing this takes way more vram than I have
- Comment on Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed? 1 week ago:
Couldn’t you also address that issue by decriminalizing being a sex worker, but keeping the other side of it illegal?
- Comment on Anon comes into some money 2 weeks ago:
Might want to throw a cheap rice cooker in there to avoid the inevitable mishap from anon’s likely unfamiliarity with operating a stovetop
- Comment on Anyone out there? 2 weeks ago:
That’s a fair argument, but regardless of whether it’s wrong violent rhetoric does have the effect of intensifying echo chambers through intimidation, especially if there isn’t a restrictive line for who it may or may not be applied to that limits it from being applied to a broad segment of the population. Also offputting to people used to spaces where it’s forbidden. Probably a lot of people are ok with that though.
- Comment on Anon peaked in 2012 2 weeks ago:
2018 is closer to 2012 than it is to 2026. Maybe anon has a girlfriend by now.
- Comment on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics 2 weeks ago:
“Saw the very first cutscene, before any gameplay, and how the generative AI they used couldn’t even keep the main character’s model consistent,” reads the “most helpful” Steam review for Vapor World. “From the trailers the gameplay looked pretty fun [but] unfortunately I support people not robots. If the look you want to go for is beyond the scope you can achieve right now then I suggest you change it or wait until you can produce the art and style you want with people doing it.”
That’s pretty representative of the Steam reviews at the moment: Vapor World is currently sitting on 64 “mostly negative” reviews.
Can you leave a steam review and then refund a game? Otherwise how are so many people making the mistake of buying it when other reviews are already saying it has this dealbreaker issue of having used AI?
- Comment on Anon gets called to the blackboard 2 weeks ago:
Anon should have said chemistry class instead of math class, those have slick floors and sometimes eyewash stations with no drain
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 2 weeks ago:
It’s creepy when they questionably ascribe motivations to how someone has voted and make accusations and threats based on it, act like a downvote is a personal attack, demand people vote a certain way to demonstrate ideological loyalty, or otherwise be really weird about it. If they’re not doing that, it is probably fine imo.
- Comment on IP can’t save you from AI 2 weeks ago:
initially meant to protect against corporate/capitalism over reach like this
The article makes this argument much better than I can summarize, so I really recommend reading it, but the idea is that the promise of intellectual property rights as a protection for creative workers is fundamentally flawed and is not fit for that purpose even if it seems to be on the surface, rather than being an otherwise good idea that has been corrupted by corporate influence.
- Comment on IP can’t save you from AI 2 weeks ago:
Better to push for something difficult that could actually help workers than something some corporate factions are ok with precisely because they know it won’t.
- Comment on IP can’t save you from AI 3 weeks ago:
The closest example to that given in the blog post is the writer’s guild strike:
If we’re workers, then we derive our power from labor rights. The Writers Guild – the only creative workers in world history to have comprehensively beaten AI in their workplace – won their AI fight with a strike:
pluralistic.net/…/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-…
The Hollywood guilds are able to pursue a limited form of “sectoral bargaining” (where all the workers in a field bargain with all its bosses) called “multi-employer bargaining.” Bosses hate sectoral bargaining, and in 1947 they got it banned outright through the Taft-Hartley Act.
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- Comment on All aboard the Pythagorean Express 3 weeks ago:
Why would they make a triangle train
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 3 weeks ago:
I thought this bill did that, but it looks like they crossed out the consumer circumvention clauses.
- Comment on Celebratory Return to Online Meme 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s outrage bait because again, often the context is someone talking about themselves, and no arguments are started. But this didn’t used to be a thing, so what changed?
- Comment on Celebratory Return to Online Meme 4 weeks ago:
What’s with the trend of mentioning that people are white and connecting it with things they do? I also see live streamers do this a lot (including in reference to themselves) and it’s strange to me
- Comment on Is Anon the asshole? 4 weeks ago:
I kind of have a hard time imagining such a thing being done with sincerely good intentions, how many people would really do that? Easy to imagine it as a way to exercise power over someone with a plausible pretense though.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 4 weeks ago:
Just imagine a world in which the only products manufactured are exclusively chasing the dollars of wealthy investors. So like yachts, custom giant statues, kill drone perimeters, etc.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 4 weeks ago:
My theory is that it’s so they are beyond the reach of protesters, the law, etc. I think that is going to be a very in-demand property for servers going forward.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’d believe it with evidence, but this would absolutely get coverage from real journalists if it was real and directly involved academic researchers and a government agency like claimed, and that coverage doesn’t seem to exist.
- Comment on Could machines develop consciousness just like we did? 5 weeks ago:
Did we?
- Comment on EA's deal to go private under Saudi Arabia is officially complete 5 weeks ago:
I already committed to never giving EA money years ago but maybe this can get some more people in on that
- Comment on Anon overdoes it 5 weeks ago:
Nofap propaganda mastermind strikes again
- Comment on How do you people read books? 5 weeks ago:
I read mainly in bed (with my kobo) but finding it tricky and I am turning into a hunchback
I do the same but it’s not uncomfortable or causes me to strain my back, I lay on my side and prop the ereader up with pillows