apotheotic

@apotheotic@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Toby Fox was forced to add trophies to the PlayStation release of undertale and deltarune, and made them oppressively annoying in protest, so I feel like there are exceptions to this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm just a sleepy guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is this so fried

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So in other words you had nothing to add to what we were actually talking about and decided you wanted to talk about something else instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody said there shouldn’t be consequences, but they have been labeled as terrorists, which is not a fair or correct response.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing they did makes them terrorists, no matter what you think of the action they took

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, just why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate this racist terf island

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's too hot to think of why or how⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a fist-stuffing guy

  Sure, but how do you eat your popcorn?

  Also eating the half popped kernels is absolutely a phase. Especially if it involves gradually lowering your standards of what a half popped kernel is until youre just biting off the point of the kernels

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Swan Song⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so happy you’re finding your way out of a pit! I don’t know why you think it would be an unpopular thing to share, you’re on Beehaw here! People tend to be(e) a bit nicer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jigsaw Trolley Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh what a trolly problem indeed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jigsaw Trolley Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, you’re quite right. My intuition is that the Bayesian portion would exactly offset the Monty hall portion. I think, at a glance, Bayes would give door 1 a 2/3 probability of having 6 gold, but Monty Hall would give door 2 the same probability, so we can effectively cancel these out and just consider a raw probability

  You either have 5 gold or 2 gold 3 silver behind door 1, and 6 gold or 3 and 3 behind door 2, which gives door 2 a very slight edge. Does that check out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jigsaw Trolley Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  The ball grid problem

  Albert knows that Albert doesn’t know where the ball is, and also knows that Bernard doesn’t know where the ball is, which means the ball is in a row where every ball has another ball in its column, which narrows it to C or D The information that the ball must be in C or D is enough to exactly select the ball given knowledge of the column, which makes it either C3, D2 or D4 The information that Albert knows which cell it is once Albert knows that Bernard knows means that it must be C3 because if it was a D cell then Albert would still not know C3 is the ball that was pulled from door 1, thus there was a gold ball behind door 1

  Monty hall problem

  Which means we dont know whether there were 6 or 3 gold behind door 1, which means its essentially a slightly different Monty Hall problem The first door either has 2 gold balls (and 3 silver) behind it or 5 gold balls, and the second door either has 3 gold balls and 3 silver or 6 gold balls The second door has a 66% chance of having 6 gold balls (guaranteed gold) and a 33% chance of having 3/3 The first door has a 66% chance of 2/3 and a 33% chance of 5 (guaranteed gold) Thus door 1 has a 2/3x2/5 + 1/3 = 3/5 chance of you pulling a gold ball Door 2 has a 2/3 + 1/3x1/2 = 5/6 chance of pulling a gold ball You should switch doors to maximise your chance of being allowed to swap tracks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cell wall is the wall of the cell.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a wall on that cell, like some sort of… Cell wall-

  Wait, say that again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*tap tap tap*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite metroidvanias?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to recommend Ascent DX - it is free, quite short, but it condenses everything I enjoy about the metroidvania genre I to a bite sized play session.

  Tunic is one of the best games ever made, nevermind just in the metroidvania genre

  Phoenotopia Awakening was stupendous fun and way bigger than I thought it would be. Strongly recommended.

  Death’s Door was so damn fun, and it felt quite fresh in a way I can’t describe

  AAAAXY was a lot of fun, and free and open source. Sort of like antichamber meets metroidvania

  Otherwise, as others mentioned, I can’t recommend these enough!:

  Hollow Knight

  Ori And The Blind Forest/Will Of The Wisps

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, some people miss the initial news cycle on things. I can’t speak to why old articles are being shared, but as for the people engaging with them, I think thats totally normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Strawberries are nuts 🍓⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The term is strictly only applied to those formed from one carpel, but is sometimes used for those formed from two carpels

  It is strictly only applied to ones with one carpel, but is used anyway to refer to ones with two carpels? That’s not confusing at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Naughty rats get the tube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Splitgate 2 Director Refuses to Apologize for ‘Make FPS Great Again Hat’, Then Apologizes Anyway - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I guess it wasn’t a safe space for autistic people” is an insane takeaway from being temp banned for talking about people fucking their mothers and how people downvoting you arouses you (on a thread about not using a right wing hate symbol).

  As an autistic person I’m baffled you’d try to hide behind your neurodivergence here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rough sleeping to be decriminalised after 200 years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good first step! Can we remove all the anti-human bullshit that we’ve put everywhere too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨\(　・ω・)/⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But its so fun and funny to sexualise the children’s cartoon, guys

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨\(　・ω・)/⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you know-

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What TV series has the best intro song or sequence? What TV series have the worst intro song or sequence?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your Lie In April - it has the entire plot of the anime in the intro, if you know what you’re looking for. But if you don’t know what to look for, it is totally innocuous. Also the song SLAPS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨\(　・ω・)/⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vaporeon looking-ass slug

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t agree with this argument at all, because if a human artist were to employ the same kind of algorithmic mimicry that an AI does, I would consider it plagiarism. There is a distinct difference between how a human observes and learns from other artists work, and how an AI does it.

  Moreover, to take things out of the realm of plagiarism, if a human artist was mimicking the style of another artist and making bank off of it, and the original artist were to say “hey, that’s kinda not cool, I don’t appreciate this” you could have a conversation about how to accommodate both parties. With AI, there is no such conversation to be had, because it will replicate without barriers and do so in volumes that dwarf any sort of output the original artist could dream of, no matter how nicely you ask it not to, unless it was not trained on it in the first place.

  Anyway, my pushback in my original message was not about the output being plagiarism or anything of the sort, it was about the usage of authors/artists work as training data (input) being non-consensual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree that its a misstep, but it feels like one that is not going to be corrected. It is going to be treated as the normal thing to do with training AI.

  I would hazard that there wouldn’t be nearly as many artists complaining about AI if it hadn’t been trained on immorally obtained inputs. The fact that it can effortlessly recreate the style of an artist that was added to the data without their consent is, I think, what gives most artists the visceral reaction that they have. “Not only is it doing what we can do (to some degree), it is doing so because our work was used without our consent”.

  AI is a valuable tool for art if used correctly, I don’t know if I agree that it is a disability aid. I can perhaps concede that someone who is entirely without fine motor ability can now make colours and shapes that vaguely resemble what they had in mind where perhaps they couldn’t before, but its difficult for me to consider that case “creating”. It is creating in the same sense as describing to your friend what you want and them trying to draw what you describe. There’s an output that resembles your input description, which might be enough for some?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, I get that there’s people who are mocking AI for the wrong reasons, and they’re silly for that, but there are very real reasons to dislike AI in many applications.

  Would chatgpt be able to do this if their dataset had consisted only of ethically obtained data where the authors had provided consent? My money is on no, at least not yet. The technology is in its infancy and has powerful potential, but is having its progress boosted through highly unethical means.

  I’m so very much for the concept of AI, its a monumental technology space at its core. But it needs to be done right, and I fear that it never will be, and we will have to live with the sins of the existing models forever. I hope I will be wrong.

  If we can reach a future where models are trained on entirely consensual data and the environmental impact of their training and usage isn’t as dire, I’d be so happy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK government is considering mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders – it’s an ethical and legal minefield⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, no! How about we treat people in our prison system like people we are trying to rehabilitate hmm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stunt Performer Sues Kevin Costner and ‘Horizon 2’ Over Unscripted Rape Scene⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fucking disgusting and, as mentioned by others here, literally fucking crime

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨they come⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Until recently, summer hasn’t really warranted air conditioning, you could get by pretty neatly with just fans when it was particularly hot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Official poster for "Zootopia 2"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I felt a great disturbance in the force. As if millions of furries suddenly cried out in horny and were suddenly silenced (they started to draw more Judy Hopps r34)