mindbleach
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- Comment on Slop is Everywhere For Those With Eyes to See 1 week ago:
Christ, could you miss the point any harder?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop" 2 weeks ago:
Yet you would not say ‘my mom sent me spam of Christmas photos.’
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop" 2 weeks ago:
Diffusion almost lives up to its hype. It is CGI for dummies, and will produce photorealistic video with less effort than hand-drawing a stick figure. LLMs might disappear entirely, with every aspect of their design replaced, but ‘remove all the pixels that don’t look like Hatsune Miku impregnating Goku’ actually works. God help us all.
The practical future is in “diffusion forcing,” where a human artist can draw however many frames they like, and the robot can only fill in the gaps. If the robot does something wrong… draw more frames between stuff. One frame per second and a say-what-you-see description will probably suffice.
We can presumably also expect variations that finish sketchy animatics, but that’s always going to be less art-driven than artists would like. Absolute maniacs like James Baxter can feed in a pencil version of a camera orbiting a ballroom dance, but the robot will emit a broadly similar motion in finished quality. It’s better-off being used to turn on-fours into on-ones.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop" 2 weeks ago:
Some people are unambiguously calling all AI slop.
Advertising shits in your brain, but we can’t let the obvious lies of obvious liars obscure how neural networks are a whole new kind of software. Even these stupid chatbots let anyone write the old kinds of software. There’s a guy on Youtube who built a camera to visualize the speed of a laser in flight. Halfway through the video about integrating a hilariously sensitive photodiode and a high-precision motor system, he completely hand-waves the code for everything you actually see.
None of this is going to disappear when the bubble bursts. The dotcom bubble didn’t kill the web. We’ve demonstrated that a DVD’s worth of linear algebra can turn plain English into amateur Python, and suggesting that will soon be lost to history is absurd. Your IDE’s gonna have an autocomplete where Clippy does what you fucking tell him. It’s just not going to be the as-a-service remote computing bullshit these vultures are betting on, because remote computing has been a stupid idea for at least half a century. Spicy autocomplete will be another tool in the menu… like normal autocomplete. We can sneer at people for using either one, but rough standards and working code move the world.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop" 2 weeks ago:
Calling all AI use slop is like calling all e-mail spam.
- Comment on GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire" 2 weeks ago:
It really is such bullshit.
Did they also disable ctrl+q to immediately quit Firefox? Right next to ctrl+w, which people use all the time?
- Comment on New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas 4 weeks ago:
Carbon nanotubes as a pollution side effect sounds quietly horrifying.
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s worse than expert humans at everything. It still does a half-ass job, basically for free, in short order.
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 5 weeks ago:
“Management pushing contradictory narratives as it suits them, while doing nothing to monitor actual work, which they know very little about. Just a priesthood of MBAs chanting catechisms invented out of thin air to justify their laziness.”
- Comment on Meta is pausing its dream of sharing Quest's Horizon OS with third-party headset makers 5 weeks ago:
Read: “Facebook lied to string people along.”
- Comment on Return of 4GB RAM in smartphones by 2026 amidst DRAM crisis, microSD slots make a comeback 5 weeks ago:
Pressure toward taking swap seriously, now that it can be random-access.
The only thing that needs to be in memory is state.
- Comment on NVIDIA have discontinued Quake II RTX 5 weeks ago:
… how? It runs locally.
Ohhh, you mean they stopped tweaking it, but used the wrong word for some reason.
- Comment on Microsoft is pushing Copilot onto LG TVs with a recent software update 5 weeks ago:
Never give your TV the wifi password.
- Comment on iPhone case with e-ink display lets users read books and comics without screen glare 1 month ago:
On the knife-edge of being really clever and deeply stupid.
the embedded gadget is powered by AI
Tipping away from clever.
- Comment on Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business 1 month ago:
Which crucial consumer business?
… oh.
- Comment on There Are Tons Of New Steam Deck Startup Videos Based on Games, And Hades 2's Video is Incredible 1 month ago:
Oh damn, we’re back to custom Windows 95 boot screen bitmaps. I had one that did the Matrix digital rain effect.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
That was not the question.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
Okay, so, every game on Steam having some generated asset wouldn’t matter?
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
Okay, so, complex projects having a small part you didn’t make doesn’t matter?
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
Is there an asset flip disclosure?
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 2 months ago:
I mean… I’ve had a lot of genuine interactions with real people which I would not rate highly.
A sort of reddit holodeck would be obviously desirable, sometimes, but any concerns about solipsism or narcissism come far behind the expectation you’d want to run that shit locally. What is the value of disappearing into your own little world if you don’t even control it?
- Comment on No, Deus Ex Remastered, I simply do not believe you need an RTX 2080 to run at recommended settings 3 months ago:
Surely it just means, that’s what they tested with. The minimum specs sound like they oldest machine they bothered to lay hands on.
Listed specs are not what’s worrisome about this project.
- Comment on Pax Dei, the medieval EVE Online-esque MMO, gets its 1.0 release next month 3 months ago:
In WHAT FUCKING MANNER does this on-foot low-tech whack-people-with-sticks game resemble a sci-fi starship combat game?
The inability to describe any game except in reference to other games is infuriating enough, without forgetting to make the goddamn comparison!
- Comment on Messenger is an absurdly slick, perfectly lovely free pocket world exploration game you can play in a browser 3 months ago:
That is a terrible name.
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 3 months ago:
The razor is: did you, the player, receive new content? Or did you get charged for permission?
Horse armor is fine. That’s how low the bar is. That’s how bad this abuse is. All microtransactions are “on-disc DLC,” where you’ve already been given the thing, inside the game you already paid for, but fuck you, pay us again. And again and again and again.
It’s the difference between Warhammer’s little plastic men being obscenely expensive, and Games Workshop expecting five actual dollars after every match to replace their imaginary bullets.
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 3 months ago:
Fuck them kids. This entire business model is an abuse against people with credit cards.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
- Comment on Console wars death watch: Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS5 in December - Ars Technica 3 months ago:
The war’s been over since blue team and green team started releasing near-identical machines, for nearly the same price, at basically the same time. There are no consoles anymore. It’s all just computers. Some computers have shitty locked-down app stores.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk could be placed on US currency under new House GOP proposal 3 months ago:
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 3 months ago:
Insisting that someone could figure it out does not mean anyone has.
Twenty gigabytes of linear algebra is a whole fucking lot of stuff going on. Creating it by letting the computer train is orders of magnitude easier than picking it apart to say how it works. Sure - you can track individual instructions, all umpteen billion of them. Sure - you can describe broad sections of observed behavior. But if any programmer today tried recreating that functionality, from scratch, they would fail.
Absolutely nobody has looked at an LLM, gone ‘ah-ha, so that’s it,’ and banged out neat little C alternative. Lack of demand cannot be why.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 3 months ago:
Knowing it exists doesn’t mean you’ll ever find it.
Meanwhile: we can come pretty close, immediately, using data alone. Listing all the math a program performs doesn’t mean you know what it’s doing. Decompiling human-authored programs is hard enough. Putting words to the algorithms wrenched out by backpropagation is a research project unto itself.
