chemical_cutthroat
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
- Comment on you need this reminder 3 days ago:
I’ve been looking to grab a ricoh for a while now and never pulled the trigger. The monochrome might be the one that takes me over the edge.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 1 week ago:
Eh, I didn’t go for the OLED upgrade and I’m still stoked about mine.
- Comment on Destiny 2: Every End is a New Beginning 1 week ago:
Maybe they’ll let us play all the story content they removed once they have a reason to stop removing content to sell more.
- Comment on Anon reads horror 2 weeks ago:
I think he actually avoided that in The Stand by having Harold cum on himself.
- Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates 2 weeks ago:
It is, and it’s great so far :) Enjoy, fellow crawler.
- Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates 2 weeks ago:
No, they don’t have a handheld, and that’s kinda the problem. The ecosystem is growing without them. Steamdeck, Xbox ROG Ally, Nintendo Switch. That’s 100% of their competitors, each with handhelds that nearly came out of nowhere in the last few years. Sony is SUPER behind the curve on this, and no amount of “New PSVita5” is gonna save them. They biffed it with the mobile market, and instead of buying in and playing second fiddle, they want to take their ball and go home.
- Comment on PS5 console sales drop 30% in April after price increase, while Switch 2 dominates 2 weeks ago:
There strategy right now is literally “Let’s charge more to sell less, and let’s also kneecap a revenue stream that could prop us up during this memory crisis.” So has been winning so long that they forgot how easy it is to lose. They are gonna find out.
- Comment on Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase 3 weeks ago:
Sony: “I can’t hear you over the sound of me shooting myself in the foot.”
- Comment on StarFox (N64 Remake) Gameplay Reveal 3 weeks ago:
I want a NEW traditional LoZ with dungeons and an actual progression path. I want a Pokemon game that plays like a Pokemon game and doesn’t run like dog water. I want a new IP that takes a risk and does something interesting that ISN’T a multiplayer focused shitfest on Nintendo’s anemic online service. AND GIVE ME A NEW MARIO MAKER, GODDAMNIT.
- Comment on StarFox (N64 Remake) Gameplay Reveal 4 weeks ago:
As much as I want to play this, it’s not gonna get me to buy a switch 2. I need more, Nintendo.
- Comment on Elon Musk settles with the SEC for $1.5 million after years-long dispute over his Twitter investment 4 weeks ago:
The interest he made in that time is more than enough to cover this joke of a fine.
- Comment on Anon gets scammed 1 month ago:
Y’all are getting full tracks?
- Comment on Anon teaches you about their culture 1 month ago:
My culture is super unique because it’s built on classism and religious wars.
- Comment on how things become science 1 month ago:
And people have been launching products without thought to the ramifications since the dawn of time. I don’t think that will change, either. What we need to do is educate ourselves better when it comes to identifying potential fraud. Taking anything at face value, regardless of it’s source, is dumb. If it’s worth knowing, it’s worth verifying.
- Comment on how things become science 1 month ago:
That isn’t a fault in the LLM, though, that is a fault in the general make-up of human skepticism, or lack their of. We didn’t invent the word ‘Propaganda’ without having a sentence to use it in. Those that don’t practice skepticism, critical thinking, and even mild reasoning are the ones that will get led astray. That didn’t just start happening when LLMs came around, it’s been here since we first started talking to each other. It’s only more visible now because everything is more visible now. The world is much more connected than it ever has been, and that grows with every literal day. All these fucking idiots that don’t double check what they are being told are the problem, regardless of if it came from an LLM or a human, because I guarantee you they are being led astray by both. They don’t trust the machine because it’s a machine, they trust what they are told because they are lazy. That isn’t the LLMs fault.
- Comment on how things become science 1 month ago:
Additionally, the parents didn’t place the cake on an actual plate. They placed the cake on a napkin which can be very questionable anyway as there is no solid foundation for the cake. The child chose to ignore the napkin and treat the cake as food.
I really don’t understand why people think that LLMs are GOFAI. They aren’t making the hard choices. They aren’t giving novel solutions to the energy crisis. They aren’t solving the trolley problem. They are shitting out what you feed them. If you feed them garbage, you get garbage in return. No one is surprised when the dog gets worms after eating poop it found in the yard. Why are we shocked that an AI that doesn’t know fact from fiction treats everything the same?
- Comment on how things become science 1 month ago:
I’m failing to see how this is different from making up a fact and then spreading it to news outlets. If you are the authority, and you say something is true, you don’t get to point and laugh when people believe your lies. That’s a serious breach of ethics and morals. Feeding false information to an LLM is no different that a magazine. It only regurgitates what’s been said. It isn’t going to suddenly start doing science on it’s own to determine if what you’ve said is true or not. That isn’t it’s job. It’s job is to tell you what color the sky is based on what you told it the color of the sky was.
- Comment on NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess 1 month ago:
So, just to make it clear here, this is an Opinion piece.
The core argument that the author makes is that NASA has played too much into politics and is forgetting the science.
However, the evidence that the author presents is that when NASA Administrator Jared Issacman was asked about climate change, he said:
for NASA to assemble scientists and put out papers on politically charged issues, whether or not this is an impending climate catastrophe, is not helpful to the broader NASA mission.
And I get it, that can be a very damning thing to read if you take it at face value and out of context. Here is the actual context from the article in question:
When there is a market beyond just NASA for a service, you should strongly look in that direction, because every dollar we spend building bespoke Earth observation, or even at this point space weather satellites, is a dollar that comes away from, like, a planetary science mission, your next Dragonfly, which no one else is going to do. There are no mass-produced assembly lines of satellites for Titan right now, but there sure are for Earth observation. I mean, not just SpaceX, right, Planet, Black Sky, and others.
Second, I would just say, you know, earth sciences has strong bipartisan support. … Because it matters to agriculture and floods and wildfires, real humanitarian issues. So we’re not getting out of that business.
For NASA to assemble scientists and put out papers on politically charged issues, whether or not this is an impending climate catastrophe, is not helpful to the broader NASA mission.
You have a previous administration that puts out on NASA letterhead the world is going to end, and then you have the next administration put out on NASA letterhead that this is all a hoax. How is that useful to anyone right now?
What [NASA] should do is fund the data that benefits all humankind, and you put it out there and let people draw their conclusions.
And that doesn’t quite fit the narrative that the author has built in their own world as well as the book they are selling, and probably has nothing to do with the fact that she quit the agency a few weeks ago and is now searching for independent funding, and so publishing NASA attack articles in every science magazine and periodical she can find… So, you know, believe whatever you want, but look for all the facts before trusting the Opinion articles of the NYT, or anyone really.
- Comment on not the ichor of long forgotten gods I promise 1 month ago:
It’s more like, hey, this stuff burns and we don’t have to wring out a whale to get it!
- Comment on The Digital Plague: When World of Warcraft Accidentally Simulated a Pandemic (my article!) 2 months ago:
I remember seeing videos of people licking ice cream and putting the lid back on. I’m so glad I never ran into one of them in real life.
- Comment on German man says american are savages 2 months ago:
Must be nice living in a world where population dynamics and physics don’t exist.
- Comment on German man says american are savages 2 months ago:
Berlin is larger (892km^2 vs 783km^2) and less population dense (6 million vs 20 million in the matro areas). So… Kinda comparing apples to oranges.
- Comment on Anon blows his dad's mind 2 months ago:
I’ve got nipples, Greg, can you milk me?
- Comment on Do RICH people of color ever get harassed by ICE? 2 months ago:
Something something trickle down
- Comment on (Slay the Spire 2) If they replace this placeholder art, I will be upset. 2 months ago:
I kinda wish this was a reward for the early purchasers. Buy the EA release and you get free DLC at launch that gives you the option to use placeholder art or new art. Hades II had some great placeholder art and it’s all gone now.
- Comment on Ubisoft Finally Confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the Remake We All Knew Was Coming 2 months ago:
They just made two of them
- Comment on No u 🫵 2 months ago:
In addition to what everyone else is saying, I’ll say that relying solely on your own perception is a pretty weak scientific measurement. That’s like trying to tell me a banana isn’t radioactive because it doesn’t taste like it. If you use any form of measurement to check the curvature of the earth, then you see that it is round. Using your eyes is the absolute worst way to base fact.
Also, this wasn’t targeted at you. I’m not calling you dumb or anything, just making the argument. I know you are presenting the devil’s advocate stance in good faith.
- Comment on That e-mail you register when you are 13 3 months ago:
Oh, it’s not real. I can’t remember what I was using before gmail. I was too hip for hotmail, so it was likely some boutique bullshit that sold itself to a marketing firm for their URL.
- Comment on That e-mail you register when you are 13 3 months ago:
There is a chronodarkprophet@something.com still out there getting spam email from every site I could put my email into.
- Comment on From Suburbs to Cosmic Horror: The Legacy of EarthBound 3 months ago:
Hell yeah, I’ll read it when I get off work. One of my top 5 games of all time.