Vespair
@Vespair@lemm.ee
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 1 week ago:
I dunno. Frankly they’re both absolutely pantheon, legendary games that deliver a near-perfect gaming experience, but I feel like Portal 1 delivered a kind of tighter package where Portal 2 meanders just a little bit, and while Wheatley is still brilliant I’m not sure I he hit the same way or struck the same tone as GlaDOS. But we’re talking about like nanometers of difference in quality here either way as both games are goddamn stellar.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 1 week ago:
East Coast USA, born and raised and lived in all my life. So no, not Australian.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 1 week ago:
I play almost every genre (minimal interest in sports games, admittedly), and my favorite changes all the time. But in general, here are some of my all-time top games:
Final Fantasy Tactics
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (people who think BL2 is better than TPS are wrong)
Spider-Man (PS4)
Hades
Civilization 6
- Comment on 5 stars means 5 star service. 2 weeks ago:
Weird that we’re still out here just casually using Nazis in memes as if they weren’t Nazis.
Maybe… Don’t?
- Comment on Is someone falling for this crap? 2 weeks ago:
Now we’re talking!
- Comment on Please allow ads! JK, you need to subscribe, too! LOL 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like they’re doing something right
- Comment on If you want to learn how to work from home make sure you learn from an expert 3 weeks ago:
This reminds me of the proliferation of content creators who make content advising content creators. Like if you had the tips for success wouldn’t you just be successful rather than barely scraping by? It feels like there are more of these content coaches than non-coach content creators these days
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 3 weeks ago:
I am not saying the two are equally comparable, but I wonder if the same “most rapid change in human written communication” could also have been said with the proliferation of computer-based word processors equipped with spelling and grammar checks.
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 3 weeks ago:
The reason chatgpt would recommend Nike though is because of its human-based training data. This means that for most humans the Nike ad campaign would also be the first suggestion to come to mind.
I’m not saying LLMs aren’t having an impact, or denying that said impact is negative, but the way people talk about them is infuriating because it just displays a lack of understanding or forethought on how these systems work.
People always talk about how they can tell something “sounds like chatgpt” or, as is the case here, is the default chatgpt answer, while ignoring the only reason it would be so is because of the real human patterns which it is mimicking.
Brief caveats: of course chatgpt is wildly fallible and when producing purely generative content it pulls from nowhere because it’s just remixing unrelated sources, but for things within the normal course of discussion and output chatgpt’s output is vastly more human-like than we want to pretend.
I would almost guarantee that Nike’s “just so it” was the singularly most popular answer to this kind of assignment before chatgpt existed too.
- Comment on Current World situation has me like 4 weeks ago:
Bring back the days when you assumed the internet was dangerous waters unless specified safe instead of the other way around.
- Comment on Please allow ads! JK, you need to subscribe, too! LOL 4 weeks ago:
Always here to rain on any otherwise sunny day 😎
- Comment on Please allow ads! JK, you need to subscribe, too! LOL 4 weeks ago:
Yes, actual typos. LLMs don’t perform spell checks. Yes, they can “spell check” you input, but that isn’t what is actually happening. It’s all predictive text, and if they’ve learned to predict that the appropriate word in this context in 98% of cases is Minnesota, but since their dataset includes real human errors, it’s not unrealistic that they the LLM could also conclude that the appropriate word in 2% of cases is “Minneosta” instead, which means given enough output variables the misspelling will appear.
Again, I have personally had LLMs generate output with typos, not just factual errors.
- Comment on Please allow ads! JK, you need to subscribe, too! LOL 4 weeks ago:
100% this.
- Comment on Please allow ads! JK, you need to subscribe, too! LOL 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t though. Because AI was trained on human data, it contains and can replicate human errors. Its extremely rare yes, especially compared to real human output, but I have personally seen ai make misspellings and other human-like errors in its output.
- Comment on Please allow ads! JK, you need to subscribe, too! LOL 4 weeks ago:
I’ve said it before, but news companies and magazines like this deserve some of the blame for the proliferation of “fake news.” Monetary needs or not, when they lock legitimate reporting behind paywalls that simply guarantees people are going to get their news from “free” sources instead.
I understand the need for revenue, but another solution should have been found that didn’t effectively turn facts and reality into premium subscription content.
- Comment on Rate my breakfast 4 weeks ago:
protein, fiber, carbohydrates, and a staple grain - feels like an exceptional and healthy choice to me
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 5 weeks ago:
There is validity to this argument, certainly, but we are not talking about a social moral defined solely by legality, we are discussing a case where legality was defined within the confines of social expectation.
Legality is not inherently morality, but it can be an indicator of social morals.
There will be times when they are at odds, but I have yet to hear a compelling case in this situation.
So I ask, why social harm is being caused by defining adulthood at 18? And let’s be clear, I am looking for actual harm here, not potential for harm; going through a dangerous intersection is not the same thing as experiencing a car accident.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 5 weeks ago:
I think you’re making serious assumptions and assuming a binary where none exists.
First off, nobody, here or in mainstream popular culture, is holding Leo’s relationships as model behavior. Leo may perhaps have “role model” status, but all avenues to which that moniker can be affixed apply to his body of work, talent, work ethic, etc; there is just nobody in mainstream culture referring to him as a role model in terms of romantic entanglements, at least not seriously.
So with that in mind, let’s discuss the binary here. Things aren’t either good or bad, they just simply aren’t. A entire gulf of experience in neutrality lays between the enviable and damned. So as I see it, the question here, at least the one posed by my comment, isn’t “are Leo’s relationships enviable role model behavior?,” because I don’t think that was ever in question, but rather “are Leo’s relationships damnedable?”, and to that the answer is a clear and resounding no, for me at least.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 5 weeks ago:
There are a million valid reasons to value and date a person, and their looks, even potentially the youthfulness of those looks, is one the same as any other. We don’t live in the world of perfect reason devoid of animalism that you’re pretending; sexual attraction is and is always going to be a part of the equation. While we should continue making strides to ensure women are valued for their contributions to society and have more equitable positions and opportunities, I do not believe that means sterilizing or desexifying society nor artificially pretending the inherently inequitable nature of human attractiveness is somehow something that can be forced into equity through social pressure. Life is just simply more nuanced than that.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 5 weeks ago:
No, it doesn’t. I address this with “I personally believe it is a reasonable one, designed conservative enough so that one can safely assume anyone on the other side of the line has had the chance to develop and grow free of unnecessary outside influence to rightly be deemed an adult after,” where I clearly state that I think 18 is a reasonable age. You’re welcome to disagree with and argue with my points but I am not going to allow you to insult my character for the sake of attempting to win your argument.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 5 weeks ago:
Legality.
For most of humanity “childhood” wasn’t even a concept in the way we think of it today. Our ability to give the people in society this society is truly one of the greatest achievements of modernity. But it’s still a somewhat arbitrary line in the sand we drew, yes. I personally believe it is a reasonable one, designed conservative enough so that one can safely assume anyone on the other side of the line has had the chance to develop and grow free of unnecessary outside influence to rightly be deemed an adult after.
If society wants to redefine the terms of where that line is drawn, that is fine, as we as members of society can do so.
But for the time being we drew the line at 18. It seemed fucked as hell to say “this is the line, this is what’s appropriate” and then demonize a man for staying within those lines. It’s fucked to say “here’s the line” when you actually mean “actually the real line is way over there and by being this close you’ve actually broken the rules.”
Dude is staying inside the lines, and interacting with those we have deemed full legal adults imbued with the right and power of autonomy. To the best of my understanding there have been no claims of coercion, abuse, or anything of that nature. So I’m sorry, but trying to convince me that dude is doing something wrong by adhering to the rules as laid for him just isn’t going to vibe with me.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 5 weeks ago:
What shit? Allowing adults to make autonomous choices rather than infantilizing and pre-ascribing victim status to them?
Again, y’all can’t pretend we’re talking about children, we are talking about full legal adults with rights to autonomy.
If there is coercion or abuse, absolutely demonize and mobilize against that. But until there is, all you have is suspicion and suggestions that infantilize the real adult women in the scenario.
- Comment on Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post 5 weeks ago:
I can’t fathom how people have been using the redesign in the first place. Old.reddit was the only way.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 5 weeks ago:
Adulthood is the difference.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 5 weeks ago:
Do you? Because that sounds like an assumption to me.
- Comment on Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke 5 weeks ago:
Hot take, but with so many actual sexual assailants and literal pedophiles in the world, I will just never be able to give two shits about what Leo does or does not do with other legal consenting adults, sorry.
- Comment on A daunting realization 5 weeks ago:
Reminds me of this modern classic: youtu.be/Cf2Q-McO_Fw
- Comment on Yes that is definitely what I was going for, thank you 1 month ago:
God I can only imagine!
- Comment on Yes that is definitely what I was going for, thank you 1 month ago:
What’s 100x more annoying is when you type a real word but they decide you must have meant something else. That shit makes me bonkers
- Comment on English is a strange language. 1 month ago:
This seems to apply to a number of speech impediments, as “rhotacism” is the term for people with difficulty saying R sounds and apparently “stutter” is a particularly difficult word for people with stutters.