@arararagi@ani.social Don’t forget Metaverse, they took a fuckin bath on that.

I’ll shill for them - if you play DND, the dice set is sick. Nice wooden case too (but the fit is a little jank, the lids don’t sit flush). Still, it’s an eye pleaser.

Got me there.

Vance’s stance on Russia is less important IMO than his stance on Americans.

Nothing lasts forever, especially on the Internet, but I’m happy to say I enjoyed kbin.social for as long as I used it.

Thanks Ernest! Good luck on your recovery and next projects!

It must be exhausting being this way.

That’s kind of my hope yeah.

BG3 is the only game I can think of that’s worth an $80 price tag and the moniker of “AAAA.” There is a frankly ludicrous amount of stuff in this game. The amount of effort it just have taken, let alone to ship 8 fully featured patches, borders on lunacy.

They went to unmask the editors so they can send their cult followers to harass them. They would love if it turned violent too, because the goal is to silence opposition and make them submit.

You misunderstood, I wasn’t saying you can’t Ctrl Z after using the output, but that the process of training an AI on a corpus yields a black box. This process can’t be reverse engineered to see how it came up with it’s answers.

It can’t tell you how much of one source it used over another. It can’t tell you what it’s priorities are in evaluating data… not without the risk of hallucinating on you when you ask it.

Wild to see you call for a “sane take” when you strawman the actual water problem into “draining the oceans.”

Local residents with nearby data centers aren’t being told to take fewer showers with salt water from the ocean.

Beyond the copyright issues and energy issues, AI does some serious damage to your ability to do actual hard research. And I’m not just talking about “AI brain.”

Let’s say you’re looking to solve a programming problem. If you use a search engine and look up the question or a string of keywords, what do you usually do? You look through each link that comes up and judge books by their covers (to an extent). “Do these look like reputable sites? Have I heard of any of them before?” You scroll click a bunch of them and read through them. Now you evaluate their contents. “Have I already tried this info? Oh this answer is from 15 years ago, it might be outdated.” Then you pare down your links to a smaller number and try the solution each one provides, one at a time.

Now let’s say you use an AI to do the same thing. You pray to the Oracle, and the Oracle responds with a single answer. It’s a total soup of its training data. You can’t tell where specifically it got any of this info. You just have to trust it on faith. You try it, maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t. If it doesn’t, you have to write a new prayer try again.

Even running a local model means you can’t discern the source material from the output. This isn’t Garbage In Garbage Out, but Stew In Soup Out. You can feed an AI a corpus of perfectly useful information, but it will churn everthing into a single liquidy mass at the end. You can’t be critical about the output, because there’s nothing to critique but a homogenous answer. And because the process is destructive, you can’t un-soup the output. You’ve robbed yourself of the ability to learn from the input, and put all your faith into the Oracle.

Others have explained the unicode-in-URL aspect sufficiently, but I can speak to the author of the site somewhat. His or her blog posts have hit the fediverse several times before. They’re often insightful and skeptical, highly privacy conscious. I hope they don’t mind if I take this part from their FAQ:

Can I trust the information on this website?

No. And you should never trust any single website or entity. Especially not the ones that have sponsored content or have no academic/professional background in the topics they post about.

Take this information as mere pointers into different directions, that scratch the surface and ultimately provoke your itch to find out more about the individual topics. Do your own research and come to your own conclusions.

I think you should apply to Burger King, I think that might be more your speed.

“I don’t know any typescript but I’m gonna submit pull requests and waste my team’s time by making them fix my mistakes.”

This kind of rhetoric would make you unhirable in my industry, AI or not. What a disrespectful way to work with other people.

So does purchasing groceries at Walmart, but many Americans have no choice in that matter.

I do appreciate that you had a more empathetic comment for the guy whose girlfriend is still on Facebook. Thank you for having the civility to not call her a fascist sympathizer to his face. But don’t worry, your true feelings are safe with me.

This is not how you make allies btw.

I bet she also puts sugar in her porridge.

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Fascist techbros were already somewhere between wealthy and ultra wealthy.

There are plenty of non-fascist tech-savvy Americans, they just don’t control Scrooge McDuck amounts of money.

A game would keep people entertained or engaged in some way, some kind of focused shared activity. But to 4chan, coordinating with other anons about what YouTube comments to spam, what subreddit to brigade, that was the game. Organizing a personal army of trolls (yes that personal army) was the whole point of being there.

In your analogy, a game of LoL takes place where all 10 players don’t play the game, they use global chat to decide on raiding Battlefield, DotA, or Overwatch. They then make a bunch of accounts, join some games, and rile people up with hate speech. Then they go back to LoL to share how angry they made other people.

Believe me, they’ve already been everywhere you’ve been. It’s not like once you post on 4chan you’re forbidden from making accounts on every other website.