kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on Fascism bad. 2 hours ago:
A man
A plan
Amygdala
- Comment on Fascism bad. 4 hours ago:
Fear is, famously, an excellent impetus for rational decision-making.
- Comment on Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing 20 hours ago:
Yes. AI allows the user to separate output from understanding, accountability, and obligation. It can launder intention just as well as inattention. AI is the ultimate tool of fascism.
- Comment on Nintendo sues to prevent Trump from dodging full tariff refunds 22 hours ago:
PSA: Check out Deku Deals to keep an eye out for Nintendo sales
- Comment on Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so. 6 days ago:
If a weak crypto market can tank your company, I’m not sure you should be trusted for business advice.
Still, maybe he’s exactly the right kind of businessman for these times. Genuine value and productivity don’t matter anymore. It’s a potemkin economy, so why not staff it with potemkin labor?
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 1 week ago:
Palantir has been doing this for ages, but yeah the LLM aspect is an interesting evolution of it. Probably overkill in the long term, but the availability and (for now) affordability is the main selling point.
- Comment on meow meow meow 1 week ago:
~pe~e^2^n~e~
- Comment on iykyk 🪰 1 week ago:
“But it feels good”
- Comment on Zero-hour contracts(Zero-hours contracts let employers hire staff with no guarantee of work, with employees only offered the hours for which they are needed) reach new record high 1 week ago:
“Flexible labor” is a euphemism for “derisking capital” (Cory Doctorow)
- Comment on Life Hack for you 2 weeks ago:
Along those same lines: add “anal” to any car model you see. Hours of entertainment.
- Anal Explorer
- Anal Avenger
- Anal Fiesta
- Comment on Always him 2 weeks ago:
Description
The hero is rescued from a final plight from an unexpected source.The rescuer may be someone who had previously abandoned the hero or even someone the hero does not know. In mythic stories, this intervention may come from a god.
Example
In Star Wars, Han Solo returns to help Luke fight the Tie Fighters. In Return of the Jedi, Luke needs the redeemed Vader to destroy the Emperor.
In Lord of the Rings, Frodo is unable to destroy the ring by himself, needing Gollum’s unwitting help to complete the deed. Soon after, Frodo and Sam are rescued by the eagles.
- Comment on Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake | Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools 2 weeks ago:
This is a terrible idea for Amazon, the cloud services company.
But for Amazon, the AI company? This is them illustrating the new grift that almost any company can do: use AI to keep a plausible mirage of your company going while reducing opex, and sacrifice humans when necessary to dodge accountability.
But his job wasn’t even to supervise the chatbot adequately (single-handedly fact-checking 10 lists of 15 items is a long, labor-intensive process). Rather, it was to take the blame for the factual inaccuracies in those lists. He was, in the phrasing of Dan Davies, “an accountability sink” (or as Madeleine Clare Elish puts it, a “moral crumple zone”).
- Comment on No swiping involved: the AI dating apps promising to find your soulmate 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
I’m guessing they meant “raw milk”?
- Comment on Badabadeedabadie! 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Oviraptor
Oiaptor
Overaptoreye twitch
- Comment on mullberry figs 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 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 5 weeks ago:
The loot boxes require skill? How?
- Comment on Looking for real-time RPGs with combat based around positioning 5 weeks ago:
Star Ocean
- Comment on Deep Time 1 month ago:
Looking at the state of the world… you might be right.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
