FunderPants
@FunderPants@lemmy.ca
- Comment on We hardly knew ye. 1 day ago:
Oh Canada 🇨🇦 Three day weekend!
- Comment on Size Matters? Penis Dissatisfaction and Gun Ownership in America 3 weeks ago:
I love science, this was an interesting read thanks.
- Comment on To drive to a Trump rally 4 weeks ago:
Jesus take the wheel
- Comment on Praise Sheezus 1 month ago:
Jawsus!
- Comment on Peter Jackson Working on New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Films for Warner Bros., Targeting 2026 Debut 1 month ago:
Well, the original trilogy is being returnd to theatre this summer.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
This sounds safe
- Comment on Effective decolonization requires a radical transformation that can only be realized through a radical praxis. 3 months ago:
I use sci-hub because it is quicker and easier than logging into my multiple legal affiliation’s library accounts, navigating through their janky web portals and search tools, and then finding out I need to switch to a different acclint/library /catalogue /whatever to read the paper.
- Comment on The Last of Us Online is Dead 6 months ago:
If what they’re saying is true, that it looked like they had to use so many resources to support the game it would fundamentally change them into a live services studio from a narrative driven single player studio, then I’m glad they took this decision.
- Comment on Trappedmunk 6 months ago:
Drowning in custard is not a good way to go out.
- Comment on After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI safety' isn't a real thing 7 months ago:
If the leaks/rumours/reports are true, and project Q* really is ahead in terms of AGI, then the world is in a really … I don’t know, interesting? Scary? Exciting place?
OpenAI uses an interesting definition of AGI. Rather than thinking a out cognition, they say AGI occurs when AI is superior to humans in the majority of economically viable tasks. This definition is , to me, more frightening than the cognition version because it lays bare the intention of developing the AGI, to simply out compete most people. In a world with AGI under this definition, the limiting factor to replacing most of the human workforce becomes access to compute and associated resources (power, chips, etc). So what are people going to do? In a world of AGI as defined here, most people do not have economically viable skills. Which means no way to make money at all. Do we starve? Well, we won’t want to, so the displaced will change jobs at first, competing with tradespeople, and those who work with their hands. Which will devalue that work because, again, most people won’t be able to afford those now over saturated , overly available services to being with. Would we riot? Demand techno-communism? Have a UBI? Descend into a violent hellscape where the poor kill each other for scraps while the rich live in fortresses? Or maybe some bright /terrible future I’m too limited to imagine. Not sure, I’m not sure. If I knew I doubt I’d be posting about it here.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 02-10-2023 8 months ago:
Just finished Sea of Stars on PS5, true ending. Loved the way they improved on most aspects of SNES era RPGs , I just wish the story had been as impactful as the awesome gameplay.
Picked up Star Ocean First Departure R, and almost immediately regretted it, especially in comparison to Sea of Stars. Wandering aimlessly trying to trigger the next event , talking to every NPC in the village trying to move the plot along with barely a clue on where to go, that old design may have worked in 1996 but it’s just not worth the time anymore.
I think I’ll drop it and maybe try starfield on the PC, or I’ve got from final fantasy stranger of paradise sitting in my unplayed collection.
- Comment on Bing ChatGPT image jailbreak 8 months ago:
Fantastic
- Comment on September 29 - October 1, 2023 - Weekend Box Office (Estimates) 8 months ago:
This is great, are you hand crafting it or do you scrape the data and build the image?
- Comment on I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal 9 months ago:
I bought it for less than that from a pawn shop during the peak hate. I remember the pawn guy being like that ones got real bad reviews" and I said “I’ll try any game for $14”.
I tucked it away for a year or so and then loved it. - Comment on Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee 9 months ago:
I quit prime after the last prime day and have saved so much money. It’s really something how much influence that subscription had on me, and how cancelling it changed my buying habits.
- Comment on Burger King facing legal action over size of its Whopper 9 months ago:
Over 20 years ago I worked at Mcdonalds and I still rember the time a customer returned two big macs for not looking as good as the picture. The burger assembly engineer was kind of a rough fellow, and he came marching out of the back room with the second big Mac, handed it back to her and said “lady, I work on the back, I can’t see the picture. Take your big Mac”
Good times.
- Comment on How are slavery reparations fair? 10 months ago:
There are a few mistakes worth pointing out here. I’ll try not to “flame you” and just get to the mistakes or misconceptions. First, just because time has passed does not mean the impact of slavery is gone, not for the countries that were sources of slaves nor the families descended from slaves nor the states that benefitted from slavery. Think of the way wealth and influence get passed down between generations. In a similar way the King and the house of Windsor accumulates intergenerational wealth on the backs of slavery, the decendents of slaves accrued an intergenerational debt that is still weighing on many of them. The whole idea that historical wrongs “impacts nobody today” is, frankly, just false.
Another issue is this idea that slavery doesn’t continue to impact these countries seeking or reccomended for reparations. There areany lingering impacts, but let’s just look at population impacts. Conservatively,1833 was 8 generations ago. Take just 2 people out of a slave source country 8 generations ago, and assume they would have stayed behind to have children, assume 3 kids per pair, that’s 3281 people just missing from that country. 3281 people that would have worked, farmed, conducted trade, produced art and conducted academics for every 2 slaves taken in 1833. How many slaves were taken? Just based on the population math how can anyone deny the impact.
Another mistake is to conflate you, personally, with the state. The state is permanent, its human members ephemeral. You may not personally be responsible for slavery, you may not benefit in any way, but the state did and the state is still responsible today for its historical wrongs and the continuing damage. You’re worried about your £569, but a bigger concern is that the state can freely commit attrocity, then avoid culpability by just waiting out the directly impacted. Honestly, you should be focused not on denying the damage of slavery, historical and current, and focus more on which rich asshole the state should tap to make pay. Got any old money arristocratic families hanging around the UK that could use lighter wallets?
- Comment on ‘Rick and Morty’ Team Gives Update on Recasting Process Following Justin Roiland’s Dismissal 11 months ago:
Hi, adult swim, yes this idea right here thanks.