kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on No swiping involved: the AI dating apps promising to find your soulmate 2 days ago:
I feel like I’ve been saying this every day since like 2015 (Or maybe 2001. Or maybe 1999. Idk. Anyway…) but: This is a really bad idea.
- Comment on Words Without Consequence 2 days ago:
Well-argued.
Unlearning Economics has a similar analysis of AI through the lens of cybernetics: youtube.com/watch?v=Km2bn0HvUwg
- Comment on Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT 2 days ago:
I’m guessing they meant “raw milk”?
- Comment on Badabadeedabadie! 2 days ago:
He’s even got some yellow as a backup
- Comment on Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel 3 days ago:
Not my own invention, but I’m glad you appreciated it: www.thenerdreich.com
- Comment on UK ad agencies undergo their biggest exodus of staff as AI threatens industry 3 days ago:
Classic example of what Cal Newport calls “vibes reporting”.
No quotes from agencies saying “we fired people because of AI”, but if you put “people got fired” and “AI threatens jobs” next to each other, you can get the reader to assume a more salacious story without technically lying.
- Comment on Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel 3 days ago:
vendor whose major investors include Thiel’s Founders Fund
To be fair, most SaaS vendors probably have investors associated with the nerd reich
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Oviraptor
Oiaptor
Overaptoreye twitch
- Comment on mullberry figs 1 week ago:
When the moon hits your knees
And you mispronounce trees
Sycamore - Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 1 week ago:
It’s massively impractical. You’re never gonna believe it.
These things require silicon (good luck finding sand!), but they’re mostly glass and aluminum (ridiculously rare substances that we can’t use willy-nilly on stuff that only lasts for 25 years, and then how are we gonna recycle that? we have no idea how to recycle glass and aluminum!), and then to make it scalable you’re gonna want some safe battery technology like sodium-ion (but where are we gonna find a bunch of salt on this blue planet?)
- Comment on What games similar to hardspace shipbreaker can you recommend? 1 week ago:
Hey there, cutter.
If you’re really after the deconstruction aspect, then I’m not sure there’s a whole lot out there. But if you zoom out to the level of “methodically tinkering with a system that requires careful attention”, there’s a lot of those.
Hardship Breakspacer is part of a (pseudo-)genre known as “dad games”.
- Powerwash Sim
- Viscera Cleanup Detail
- Goblin Cleanup
- Pacific Drive
- Papers Please
- Quarantine Zone
- House Flipper 2
- Star Trucker
- Dredge
On the “hardcore nerd” end of the spectrum, there’s even:
- Satisfactory
- Factorio
- Scrap Mechanic
- Any Zachtronics game
A little more chill:
- Unpacking
- Potion Craft
- Please Fix The Road
- Comment on OpenAI is discontinuing GPT-4o, GPT-4.1 and o4-mini in ChatGPT 2 weeks ago:
The horrible names of these things…
o4-mini, not to be confused with 4o-mini
And 4o, not to be confused with 4 (aka 4.0 or v4, but 4V is different)
- Comment on Austrian Supreme Court rules that FIFA loot boxes are not gambling 2 weeks ago:
The loot boxes require skill? How?
- Comment on Looking for real-time RPGs with combat based around positioning 2 weeks ago:
Star Ocean
- Comment on Deep Time 3 weeks ago:
Looking at the state of the world… you might be right.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 3 weeks ago:
Of course it is! We’re just animals, after all. Is documenting the behavior of different species of beetles a science? The only difference is that we can replicate behavior through culture, not just genes.
- Comment on Deep Time 3 weeks ago:
Chronologically, sure. But are years really the appropriate measure of accuracy here? Biological evolution moves a lot slower than cultural or technological evolution does.
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on New He-Man Movie 3 weeks ago:
Jared Leto is method-acting again
🙁
He’s playing a corpse
😀
- Comment on conditional soap 5 weeks ago:
Also the specialized shampoo is 15.99, the 17-in-1 everything-soap is 1.19.
But the specialized shampoo is pink, so that you know that’s the one you’re supposed to buy.
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 1 month ago:
Molly White’s coverage:
…maintained that they were merely developing privacy-preserving software, and that they were not responsible for criminal use of the software. Prosecutors have argued that the developers actively intended the software to be used for criminal purposes, pointing to marketing aimed at “Dark/Grey Market participants” and those engaged in “Illicit activity”.
Judge Cote cited a letter to the court in which Rodriguez continued to say that he was merely motivated by a desire to protect financial privacy and not “a desire to facilitate criminal activity” as evidence that Rodriguez “has not come to terms with what he did. … The letter indicated to me that you were very much still operating in a world with moral blinders on.”
- Comment on UK Wants All iPhones to Block Explicit Images Unless You Prove Age 2 months ago:
eff.org/…/age-verification-wont-protect-children
Imo, if you wanna protect kids from big tech, you gotta make their abusive business practices unprofitable. Enforce antitrust, make it legal to circumvent digital locks, require interoperability. Basically: restore competition.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 2 months ago:
Why is that image giving the same vibes as:
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 2 months ago:
All of the needed words. Gotta be careful here. LLMs don’t deal in information. But yes, they are good at stringing together tokens if that’s all you need.
- Comment on Bread mold 2 months ago:
It’s stabs all the way down
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 2 months ago:
You must have done something bad to deserve this. Trying thinking about everything bad you’ve ever done. That’ll help.
- Comment on Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands 2 months ago:
See, this is why you shouldn’t encourage bikes. That street looks totally unusable! 😤😤😤🚗🚗🦅🇱🇷
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 2 months ago:
The seal looks like this:
Code completion is probably a gray area.
Those models generally have much smaller context windows, so the energy concern isn’t quite as extreme.
You could also reasonably make a claim that the model is legally in the clear as far as licensing, if the training data was entirely open source (non-attribution, non-share-alike, and commercial-allowed) licensed code.
That said, I think the general sentiment is less “what the technology does” and more “who it does it to”. Code completion, for the most part, isn’t deskilling labor, or turning experts into accountability sinks.
Like, I don’t think the Luddites would’ve had a problem with an artisan using a knitting frame in their own home. They were too busy fighting against factories locking children inside for 18-hour shifts, getting maimed by the machines or dying trapped in a fire.
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 2 months ago:
Technically, BazaarVoice is the one preventing you from leaving a review.
This is actually an example of technology working correctly. Web sites are able to delegate parts of their functionality to other services that are able to act independently. Your browser refuses to interact with BazaarVoice, but Petsmart continues to function.
It’s also an example of markets working poorly. It’s great that companies can use a third party service to handle reviews, so we don’t have to constantly reinvent the wheel. It’s not great that companies like Petsmart are so big that they don’t have to care about who they delegate that job to. They can use a cheap-as-hell sketchy AI service that will grind their users into an algorithmic paste, and pocket the savings, with no worry that you might go elsewhere (what are you gonna do? shop at kind-hearted Bezos’ store instead?)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
For a majority of men, probably, but not an overwhelming majority. Which still leaves a ton of people you could be compatible with.
Don’t overthink it and try to be something you’re not. Just take your time, get to know people, be curious and honest. Stay true to yourself. Don’t apologize and adapt just because you assume you have to.
You’re not trying to date everyone, just the right one. So why bother with what the rest think?
You’ll find someone that “just works” with who you already are. When you do, your dynamic with come naturally as a result of your unique relationship, and it won’t be precisely the same as any timeshare sex model you might have tried to plan ahead on Lemmy.
