ReallyActuallyFrankenstein

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delta Air Lines is using AI to set the maximum price you’re willing to pay⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The article isn’t very clear, but the novelty here is that this is unprecedented hypertargeting to individual users. Instead of the current demographic, website, days-before-flight, and other factors, think Uber’s pricing, where you are quoted $40 for a ride, and the person right next to you is quoted $25 for the exact same ride thanks to their dynamic data-driven (and ethics-free) prcing.

  This opens the possibility that Delta will charge you more solely because the data Delta has been able to acquire for you suggests you’ll pay more. And that black-box AI system could base it on all sorts of nefarious reasons - e.g., your mother is dying in the hospital, increasing your desperation to get a flight to that location, which makes its way into the dynamic “motivation” index in the AI calculus, which doubles the price of your flight.

  We’re not there yet, but when you see the sorts of things Uber does for reference, I feel it’s a clear path to airfare’s little corner of our coming dystopia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if any of them believe they are praying, their “faith” is a sham in support of their real religion: power. To Republicans, “politics” is the religion founded on increasing personal power through symbolic speech and conduct.

  They are hollow, nihilistic simulacrums of human-like virtue, expressing themselves only to drain the actual human value and agency from the public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Match.com isn’t satisfied until everyone is miserable.

  It’s weird to think about how dominantly successful any app that took a principled position and resisted enshittification starting in 2010 would be now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think civilization is probably just ending after these last few generations, frankly.

  Probably for the best…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think she will notice when she gets home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just the creative writing variant of shitposting.

  Sometimes more literal than others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the same boat. The only reason I’m considering getting a Switch 2 now is because the first gen consoles always end up the easiest to hack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy devouring the artist⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You raise a good idea - replace this as Trump’s official portrait wherever possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How streaming changed the way you watch TV⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And for retro games, emulators have left even that in the dustbin of time.

  Sick of the last RPG save happening 20 minutes before a boss fight? Save at literally any moment with save states.

  That too much work? You can rewind the entire game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess I’m an outlier. For me, games were the way to disconnect from the stress of relationships. I’ve been an introvert since the beginning, and so games’ positive associations for me are a safe place away from social pressures.

  I also imagine every “retro” generation thinks its games are the best. Like, there was a meme post about joy at finding a PS2 torrent recently with strong implied nostalgia, and that’s ok. People usually experience video games at an age where the games teach them archetypical feelings of intellectual pleasure, the first time they experienced joy at solving complex problems for example. That becomes a core association through life.

  So I think we’ll all have strong feelings linking the systems we played at our formative years. And again, that’s ok. That we can form such strong associations is an expression of the basic human value of video games, as an art and modern cultural necessity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨House members erupt into a screaming match following senators forced removal from press conference⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was she the one who kept ad hominem attacking with “antifa” at the end?

  Relatedly, I’ll know we’ve left the worst timeline once it’s no longer a mainstream slur to be anti-fascist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays Metroid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on PS1 revitalized the genre so much, I think it’s fair that it took on half the genre name. Modern metroidvanias are as much SOTN as Metroid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 90% of JPMorgan employees reported a decline in morale following RTO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is it about CEOs that makes this the ego power trip issue for them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought....⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The federal agency ICE is completely captured by fascists. They are arbitrarily staging immigration crackdowns using hastily deputized agents who arrest people off the street while hiding their identity. They came to Los Angeles, a fervently anti-fascist area. It triggered massive but mostly peaceful protests. Trump is using the protests as a pretext to mobilize the federal military against citizens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought....⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what the hostility is for. The very thing the protesters are standing up for is the correct idea of America. The flag should be for real patriots who believe in the Constitution, not Trump and his insurrectionist ilk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Tech CEO Bubble is real and one of the most harmful, even if it doesn’t get talked about like our respective political bubbles, geographical bubbles, etc. I actually believe he was actually that deluded that people were as hyped about AI replacing workers as he was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many people delete their posts?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I do it, and it’s just because I don’t really like what I wrote. I read it and it’s just banal, and I’m like, “you’re not moving the discourse forward at all.”

  What annoys me are people who did that to thousands of their posts after leaving Reddit to their posts. They’re their posts, they have the right to do it, but I’m like, c’mon, Reddit isn’t suffering from it. They’re selling the data for the same price with or without, and they have all the backups. No, all the users who are googling a one-place-on-the-Internet solution to their extremely specific problem are suffering.

  I think that’s like getting angry at your boss and taking it out on your family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He was also in South Park, and Rick & Morty. He had a great PR team considering what they were working with behind the scenes. They dressed him up real nice.

  Then he fired them, because he didn’t like having to wear anything in public. Metaphorically-speaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleep well⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a hell of an act. What do you call it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A real American⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The term in the industry is “gross-up.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I view others in social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My father loved this meme. My favorite memory is of reading this meme with him sitting on the couch with the family puppy. He died tragically ten years ago, hit by a runaway dildo delivery truck while taking our puppy to the vet to have puppy aids treatment. I cry every time I see this meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How can you shame that which is shameless?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stable Diffusion Now Optimized for AMD Radeon™ GPUs and Ryzen™ AI APUs — Stability AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose it’s too early to tell, but I’m assuming all of the civitai models and loras remain incompatible unless they are similarly optimized, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, I just mean, look how long BOTW has been sold - it will be a fraction of that length of time before Switches cease being sold. Mostly I was pointing to the system refresh as not only a chance to reissue BOTW, but to reset pricing expectations.

  There will be a future where BOTW S2-edition is still being sold and the Switch is not. From them on, BOTW will be a $90 game, since it will be the only way to get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a Switch, once manufacturing ceases.

  Nintendo famously never discounts. But this is actually Nintendo’s way of not only never discounting, but increasing the price over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a good list, and to add:

  • Consumer sentiment in general is terrible. A large part of the population are stressed and exhausted, and that’s not a “let’s go see something fun” mindset for many, it’s “let’s get through the day and watch comfort content.”

  • This is a bad time of the year I’m general for movie releases.

  • Because of that, studios tend to bury their “whatever” slate projects, and except Mickey 17 it seems like these all are pretty mediocre movies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's everybody using for AI art and video generation nowadays?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the same issue.

  I was running Automatic 1111 a year ago and than stopped using it regularly. I just picked back up having some fun with Krita’s AI plugin since I’m-painting integrated into an image editor is really nice, but of course that isn’t a serious single tool replacement.

  I’ll probably move to Comfy so I can start playing with video generation, but I’m just putting off learning it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s 2024 Pay Rises 4% to Nearly $52 Million⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unrelatedly in two months: We’re excited to announce mass layoffs and a brilliant plan to replace all the necessary workers with AI that can do 10% of the work at 50% of the cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series '3 Body Problem' to Film Seasons 2 & 3 Back-To-Back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I responded to a similar comment above, but just thanking you for the response - I actually am taking what you say to reach the opposite conclusion (that I personally would probably hate the show because of the re-focus on the characters), but that’s why it’s so helpful that you explained why you liked it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series '3 Body Problem' to Film Seasons 2 & 3 Back-To-Back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, this is very aligned with how I have been thinking of the books. It’s really interesting to me, because the “Cixin Liu can’t write characters” critique is legitimate, but I honestly didn’t notice it that much while reading and more heard about it from others after.

  I think the reason why is that I am very sensitive to “lazy” plot and character conflict - e.g., a character makes a stupid irrational decision and we spend 200 pages resolving it. That is not a trope that Cixin Liu ever engages in - his characters may make decisions I disagree with (like the misanthropic decision to respond to the alien signal that underlies the entire trilogy), but they are always coherent and not “cheap” plot devices.

  So in fact, the Cixin Liu style of “character” creation, where characters are basically stand-ins for different pluralistic archetypal motives and “model” humans rather than believable humans with their own dramatic arcs, I actually strongly prefer, because it not only doesn’t impede the sci-fi ideas, but elevates them.

  So yeah…It actually sounds like I’d hate the show! The characters are the part I care about the least, and are spent more time/attention on, whereas the ideas sound like they’re deemphasized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series '3 Body Problem' to Film Seasons 2 & 3 Back-To-Back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked the books too much to watch season 1. Should I reconsider?