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- Comment on An AI Just Attempted Murder... Allegedly... by SomeOrdinaryGamers [21:15 min] Video 6 days ago:
Jesus fucking christ how stupid are you people. You’re going to lose. We’re going to die because all the idiots in opposition to power are trying to defeat a massive, inhuman system of oppression and power accumulation with semantics and half-baked philosophy debates. We’re fucking doomed, and we deserve it.
- Comment on An AI Just Attempted Murder... Allegedly... by SomeOrdinaryGamers [21:15 min] Video 1 week ago:
No, you completely missed the point. I don’t disagree with any of that. I think you are right. It just doesn’t matter. At all. If an AI is made by thousands of people over the course of a decade and run in a billion dollar data center no one will ever be held accountable for it’s actions. There is no intent in the AI or in the inhuman systems of humans that led to its creation.
I’m not arguing that AIs have intent. I’m arguing that talking about the “intent” is a dangerous distraction from talking about what is happening and what we could do to prevent it.
- Comment on An AI Just Attempted Murder... Allegedly... by SomeOrdinaryGamers [21:15 min] Video 1 week ago:
The problem with that line of thinking is that all these things are being done by large corporate entities, and the entire purpose of those entities is to make sure that responsibility is distributed across so many people that no one can be held accountable. That may or may not have been what they were originally designed for, but that is their current primary purpose.
No one will be held accountable, so there is no point in discussing intent and responsibility. There is none anywhere in the entire system by anyone that our justice system still has authority over. It is a meaningless thing to discuss.
It is far more useful to discuss what we are doing and why it is a bad idea for the self interest of the people actually doing it. That has a much better chance of accomplishing something.
- Comment on An AI Just Attempted Murder... Allegedly... by SomeOrdinaryGamers [21:15 min] Video 1 week ago:
If it had the power to do so it would have killed someone, and the people running the world are giving more and more unchecked power to these same systems every day. Maybe you should be less worried about semantics and whether machines have souls, and more worried about what will happen if we continue down the path we are on.
- Comment on Deus Ex Remastered, a "modernized" version of Ion Storm's classic cyberpunk RPG, releases early next year 2 weeks ago:
I dunno man. If you’re going to remaster a game this is certainly the era of games that could benefit from it the most. Just a new coat of paint and a slightly updated control scheme can do some massive work toward making early 3D games way more accessible for newer players, but those new graphics look about as generic as it gets. I am not feeling good about this one. I’ll probably be sticking with the original here.
- Comment on Steady 2 weeks ago:
A pulse of 136 and an SpO2 of 81 are far from ideal, but they’re also far from deadly. I’d say if you’re fundamentally altering someone’s biology traumatically and that’s the worst thing it does to them they’re doing pretty good, actually.
- Comment on Barely sustainable 4 weeks ago:
We don’t want coffee that hot. That’s the fucking lie, stooge. McDonald’s own market research shows that the overwhelming majority of their customers drink their coffee immediately in their car. Serving it burnt to crap and too hot to drink quickly is actively terrible for the vast majority of their customers, which is why even McDonald’s doesn’t actually serve coffee that hot anymore. They stopped doing that over a decade ago.
Do you really expect me to believe some corporate ass-kisser that makes lawyer jokes like they think they’re being insightful actually knows anything about doing a honest days work. We don’t have time to casually sit around the office sipping coffee all day. We have to slam that shit and get to work, yuppie.
- Comment on Barely sustainable 4 weeks ago:
You don’t have to give up your ability to defend yourself in the world that actually exists to fight for a better one. That’s childish thinking.
- Comment on Barely sustainable 4 weeks ago:
Oh goodie, so now we’ve reached the point where you’re trying to flood the argument with so much meaningless gibberish that you hope it’ll fool someone into thinking that you’re making point somewhere in that mess. I don’t care that you have creamer in your coffee, dude. I don’t really even care that you think a meat thermometer can accurately measure the temperature of liquids. Sure, you can take a tiny sip of 185° coffee. Whatever.
The facts of the matter are that 185° is hotter than any other chain serves their coffee, they received multiple health code violations for it, serving it at even slightly lower temperatures dramatically reduces the possibility of getting severe burns, McDonald’s knew all this, lied about why they were doing it, ordered their employees to keep getting health code violations anyway, settled with other people out of court before this case for upwards of $500,000 because it was such a small expense for them, only offered this lady $800 for some bizarre reason, the judge actually reduced the settlement to $640,000 before it was actually paid out, and she ended up spending all that money on a live in nurse because she was in so much pain and barely capable of walking for the rest of her life. We do not base our regulations on the assumption that no one will spill any coffee ever. That is an insane thing to assume.
Have fun giving up your only defense against corporate negligence though. I’m sure that could never possibly backfire.
- Comment on Barely sustainable 4 weeks ago:
You have to boil water to make coffee. You don’t have to serve it still boiling. That is, again, actually against the law to do the way they did it. They were already in trouble for it before they gave that lady third degree burns. They had to go out of their way to set their warmer to boiling, because it’s McDonald’s. They don’t actually make every cup of coffee custom for you. It just comes out of warmer that they get to set the temperature of, and setting that to be too hot to drink would be stupid even if it didn’t burn the crap out of the coffee and leave it tasting like charcoal. They had to knowingly and intentionally break the law to serve coffee that hot. You just got played by your corporate overlords trying to pretend they’re the victims.
- Comment on Barely sustainable 4 weeks ago:
No, he’s right, that’s clearly on the flap on the lid that gets folded inside the box. You can only read that while the box is open.
- Comment on Barely sustainable 4 weeks ago:
Coffee isn’t supposed to be served hot enough to give third degree burns causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical bills. That’s actually illegal. When the health department gives several warnings and a senior corporate executive orders employees to disobey the law, that makes judges very, very grumpy. Lawsuits are a stupid system, but they literally the only system we have for legally fighting back against corporations. There is nothing else you can do if they wrong you. Spreading the idea that you shouldn’t sue is only taking away your only method of defending yourself within the law. You are being a corporate shill right now.
- Comment on Google Not Required to Sell Chrome in Court Antitrust Ruling 5 weeks ago:
That’s a separate point in the same case, but yes. The judge also ruled to allow google to keep paying for search engine placement.
- Comment on US Takes Nearly 10% Stake in Intel, Clinching Unorthodox Deal 1 month ago:
But that’s kinda my point. He’s not just a wanna be dictator. He is the fascist leader of a fascist movement, and his supports are fascists, even if they don’t like that terminology. Fascism isn’t just a mean word for politician I don’t like. It’s an actual populist political ideology. The whole movement is fascist. Not just the guy at the head.
- Comment on US Takes Nearly 10% Stake in Intel, Clinching Unorthodox Deal 1 month ago:
Well, obviously. It’s just that a nationalist, authoritarian government led by a populist strongman merging corporate and state power is the primary goal of fascism. We really shouldn’t think it’s hypocritical or surprising when the fascists support fascism. That’s what they do.
- Comment on US Takes Nearly 10% Stake in Intel, Clinching Unorthodox Deal 1 month ago:
Merging corporate and government power is not at all the same thing as the workers seizing the means of production.
- Comment on 0°mg 1 month ago:
Or alternatively they’ve only ever had temperatures below 0°.
- Comment on salty 2 months ago:
Mmm, yes. I too love eating metals that explode when they touch water. Extra spicy. It does more than double the sodium content of your salt though, so watch out for that if you have high blood pressure.
- Comment on Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor 2 months ago:
I love how these tech companies are so desperate to prove that AI is useful that every time an engineer ever uses any kind of software that has even the tiniest element of machine learning they’re all like, “See, AI did this! This was AI! Isn’t AI so useful, and amazing, and definitely worth all the money we’ve spent and environmental damage we’re doing!”
- Comment on Avowed's summer update revamps fighter and ranger skills so those pesky wizards aren't having all the fun 2 months ago:
I’m starting to get worried that Obsidian will be the first of Microsoft’s recent acquisitions to get EAed. They make neat little $40 AA games that I really like, but Microsoft seems just convinced that if they can use a massive budget to fix the bugs and give them the shiniest new graphics then they’ll somehow turn an Obsidian game into the next Skyrim, and that just doesn’t even begin to make a lick of sense. They do not and have not ever made that kind of game. The closest they ever came was Fallout: New Vegas, and that’s because they were literally working with Bethesda’s game engine, and the things people love most about that game are the things that make it the most different from a Bethesda game.
Now not only were they trying to sell this game for $70, but the next one’s going to be $80. Obsidian is screwed, and that makes me sad.
- Comment on Mozilla Turns Firefox Away from Open Source, Towards Spyware: Firefox Labs Now Requires Data Collection 3 months ago:
Look, Mozilla makes tons of decisions I disagree with, and this is one of them, but some of y’all have turned hyperbolic, misleading, unwarranted Mozilla hate into your entire personality.
Feel free to point out when they do something stupid, but if you’re going to do that try to keep it to the facts instead of trying to make it seem like every dumb little thing they do is the apocalypse. It’s impossible to take you seriously with titles like this.
- Comment on Klarna CEO says company will use humans to offer VIP customer service 4 months ago:
So… How many burritos worth of debt do you need before you count as a VIP?
- Comment on what is north? 4 months ago:
The entire Weddell Sea is just north of Antarctica. That’s where the Weddell Sea is. The problem is that everything near Antarctica is just north of Antarctica, including things on the complete opposite side of the entire continent. It’s just a way of saying near Antarctica that sounds like you’re giving more information than you really are.
- Comment on Valid point 4 months ago:
It can vary from location to location, but honestly I think a lot of it is that a pretty significant percentage of management can’t get an erection unless they’re watching people suffer.
- Comment on who are you? 4 months ago:
A lot of food doesn’t even have an expiration date. It’s more common on a lot of foods to have a sell by date, which is not the same thing as an expiration date, and some foods are even just labelled with a packaged date, which is hopefully always in the past. Otherwise you’ve got bigger problems than spoiled food. MREs are especially notorious for this.
That being said though, I’m still usually the one throwing food out. At some point you just have to admit you’re not going to eat it, and no one wants your dubious opened packages or half eaten leftovers. It’s just gonna have to go eventually.
- Comment on Neutronium would like a word. 5 months ago:
I guarantee that it is physically impossible to fill a cardboard box with pure neutronium. Is it physically possible to get over 70 lbs of the stuff in there in a stable, shippable manner? I don’t know, and neither do you. It’s certainly far, FAR beyond the capability of any technology on Earth, but I guess it might maybe possibly not break the laws of physics. I can’t prove that though, and neither can you, so neither of us can actually prove the statement wrong.
- Comment on Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats 7 months ago:
It is. I mean, it’s also true, but it is pretty cringe.
- Comment on While Democracy Burns, Democrats Prioritize… Demolishing Section 230? 7 months ago:
Oh come on. Seriously? They’re going to lose “freedom”, and democracy, and the economy is going to go to shit, and the world is going to be less stable, and also they’re not the ones who are going to end up homeless and destitute and worrying about the government killing them. It’s not that fucking complicated.
- Comment on While Democracy Burns, Democrats Prioritize… Demolishing Section 230? 7 months ago:
The problem have isn’t that they don’t have all the same goals as me. The problem I have is that they’re idiots who are going to lose everything they care about because they refuse to accept reality and they’ll be mostly fine while the rest of us suffer for their failure.
- Comment on place yer bets 7 months ago:
If it is on a collision course we probably have time to do something about it. If we don’t do anything about it it’ll probably hit the ocean and it’s not big enough to cause any kind of crazy mega tsunami or anything like that. If it does hit land it’ll probably hit in the middle of nowhere and kill, like, 12 people, and if it does manage to beat all the odds and hit a major city it will be a major disaster, but it’s not going to be the apocalypse or anything.