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- Comment on Stripe apologizes for customer service agents claiming LGBTQ products were banned 6 days ago:
It got it’s initial funding from people like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel…
Of course it’s run by pieces of shit
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They’re operating under the long outdated assumption that all you need to simulate a brain is match the number of neurons…
That’s not how any of this works, but they’ve been saying “we’ll be there soon” for so long now that we’re almost able to do it, their gonna lose their main excuse and main reason for fundraising.
They’ll have to tell investors the timeline just changed from years to maybe decades if we’re lucky
And it’s gonna divebomb our whole economy because fucking every fund manager is dumping insane levels of money into it.
- Comment on Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes 1 week ago:
A neurotypical human mind, acting rationally, is able to remember the chain of thought that lead to a decision, understand why they reached that decision, find the mistake in their reasoning, and start over from that point to reach the “correct” decision.
No.
What we learned from those experiments was that if we don’t know a reason for why we did something, we’d invent and whole heartedly believe the first plausible explanation we come up with.
I didn’t read any further because you had a fundamental misunderstanding about what those studies actually proved
- Comment on Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes 1 week ago:
Why would an AI system provide such confidently incorrect information about its own capabilities or mistakes? The answer lies in understanding what AI models actually are—and what they aren’t.
What’s ironic is this is one of the most human things about AI…
when an object is presented in the right visual field, the patient responds correctly verbally and with his/her right hand. However, when an object is presented in the left visual field the patient verbally states that he/she saw nothing, and identifies the object accurately with the left hand only (Gazzaniga et al., 1962; Gazzaniga, 1967; Sperry, 1968, 1984; Wolman, 2012). This is concordant with the human anatomy; the right hemisphere receives visual input from the left visual field and controls the left hand, and vice versa (Penfield and Boldrey, 1937; Cowey, 1979; Sakata and Taira, 1994). Moreover, the left hemisphere is generally the site of language processing (Ojemann et al., 1989; Cantalupo and Hopkins, 2001; Vigneau et al., 2006). Thus, severing the corpus callosum seems to cause each hemisphere to gain its own consciousness (Sperry, 1984). The left hemisphere is only aware of the right visual half-field and expresses this through its control of the right hand and verbal capacities, while the right hemisphere is only aware of the left visual field, which it expresses through its control of the left hand.
academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/5/…/2951052?lo…
Tldr:
They split people’s brains in half, and only the right side of the body could speak.
So if you showed the left hand a text that said “draw a circle” the left hand would draw a circle.
Ask the patient why, and they’d invent a reason and 100% believe it’s true.
It’s why it seems like people are just doing shit and rationalizing it later…
That’s kind of how we’re wired to work, and why humans can rationalize almost anything.
- Comment on UK government inexplicably tells citizens to delete old emails and pictures to save water during national drought — 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems' 1 week ago:
This is plastic straws all over again:
As some onlookers have noted, the recommendation rings a little hollow when juxtaposed next to the UK government’s commitment to turbocharge growth using AI. Perhaps more pertinently, the advice rings hollow because it’s likely not very sensible. While it’s true that data centers do consume large amounts of water through evaporative cooling (where it’s used), the vast majority of this power draw comes from CPU and GPU computation, not the storage of pictures and emails. Once the data is stored, the storage devices generate very little heat and are often spun down (placed into low- or no-power states) and called upon only when needed.
The impact of an individual deleting emails and old photos on data center water usage is likely to be so infinitesimal as to be considered futile. In fact, rooting out old emails and photos and deleting them from your online archives might well use more energy and water than storing them in the first place, making this a counterproductive exercise.
Corporations are the real problem, but they bribe the government into doing something that won’t help but will make some people against the entire cause and will reflexively start saying there is no problem and nothing should be fixed.
They need to be called out repeatedly and loudly before that mentality sets in again.
- Comment on AI-generated music is here to stay. Will streaming services like Spotify label it? 1 week ago:
So there are 2 disputed (both denied inflating their numbers) examples in 19 years?
…
If I said California had two NFL teams, would you take that to mean there’s only two teams in the NFL?
Because that’s what you’re doing by acting like the only mentioned examples are the examples.
- Comment on AI-generated music is here to stay. Will streaming services like Spotify label it? 1 week ago:
If ratings were so easy to manipulate we would dispute every single top hit no matter if it was LLM-generated or not.
I mean, yeah…
Drake just told on himself that was something that was done to inflate his own hits, so he assumed Kendrick had to have done the same thing.
Like, this has always been a thing, even back when it was giving a DJ an envelope of cash to get radio plays.
With an AI band, they don’t have to pay a band. So they’ll spend on this bullshit that, yes, human artists also use.
- Comment on AI-generated music is here to stay. Will streaming services like Spotify label it? 1 week ago:
We don’t know that.
Now, I don’t use Spotify, but what I use allows me to pick specific songs, but it defaults to “shuffle”. Sometimes it’s stuff I listen to, sometimes it’s new.
I’m not aware of anything showing a breakdown of intentional listens and popping up on “shuffle”.
From a label perspective, AI is the best kind of band because it will do whatever you say, it will never refuse to do anything out of integrity. So it seems a reasonable assumption that what they’re aiming for is “elevator music” something innocuous enough that people won’t hit skip.
If it’s too good, people look into it, discover it’s AI, and stop caring about it.
Like the vast majority of AI stuff, it might work short term, but that’s only a novelty and those wear off. If people could opt out of AI music, the overwhelming amount of people would take the time to do so.
- Comment on AI-generated music is here to stay. Will streaming services like Spotify label it? 1 week ago:
A band of four guys with shaggy hair released two albums’ worth of generic psych-rock songs back-to-back. The songs ended up on Spotify users’ Discover Weekly feeds, as well as on third-party playlists boasting hundreds of thousands of followers. Within a few weeks, the band’s music had garnered millions of streams — except the band wasn’t real. It was a “synthetic music project” created using artificial intelligence.
The big problem is the people doing this are also gaming the algorithm to get on those “discover” feeds. You think someone that uses bots to fake a band wouldn’t use bots to inflate play count and make it look like they’re popular?
If companies don’t take a stand, they’re gonna end up just burning bandwidth so bots can listen to bots and real humans move on to a platform not filled with slop.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 2 weeks ago:
It’s a small detail in a video game…
No one’s life is effected.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 2 weeks ago:
You don’t need to have driven a car to make a racing game…
But it helps.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 2 weeks ago:
If people making a game where guns are a heavy focus don’t know anything about guns…
You end up with shit like Cyberpunk’s magazine fed revolvers.
Guns aren’t rocket appliances, you don’t need to spend years obsessing about them to know how they work.
Like, what if someone made a racing game with zero idea how a car actually worked?
Doing research should be a pretty low bar
- Comment on Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship 4 weeks ago:
I’d ask why you were using a thorn. But I know the answer is going to be annoying…
- Comment on Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship 4 weeks ago:
“Humanity has prevailed (for now!),” wrote Dębiak on X, noting he had little sleep while competing in several competitions across three days. “I’m completely exhausted. … I’m barely alive.”
The competition required contestants to solve a single complex optimization problem over 600 minutes. The contest echoes the American folk tale of John Henry, the steel-driving man who raced against a steam-powered drilling machine in the 1870s. Like Henry’s legendary battle against industrial automation, Dębiak’s victory represents a human expert pushing themselves to their physical limits to prove that human skill still matters in an age of advancing AI.
So …
When against an already overworked coder who hasn’t slept in days in a competition designed to be longer than a standard workday…
It’s like they tried as hard as possible to favor the AI and it still couldn’t do it.
- Comment on Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet 1 month ago:
“worth”
- Comment on Rumor: Sony Interested In Acquiring WB Discovery Streaming & Services, Including WB Games 2 months ago:
Another step closer to cyberpunk dystopia with a handful of corps…
But at least this way we might get a new game with the nemesis system
- Comment on Cursed Dora The Explorer clip explaining "sigma" taken down after backlash 3 months ago:
Did you try a play a video in a screen shot of a screenshot about a video that’s no longer up?
Like…
That’s the entire point, the video was taken down, but there’s just so much more.
- Comment on Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines 4 months ago:
Amazon tried this at Whole Foods…
They told investors AI was keeping track of what shopper picked up and charging them when they left, turned out it was just people in India or something individually following every shopper via security cameras. Obviously mistakes were frequent
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 4 months ago:
It is, but we stopped teaching it literally decades ago, so what are kids supposed to do?
That was a victim of No Child Left Behind, along with a lot of other important shit.
- Comment on UK: Couple arrested and shut in cell after complaining about daughter's school on WhatsApp. 4 months ago:
Link is a little questionable, so I googled the names
independent.co.uk/…/parents-arrest-school-whatsap…
They had been banned from the school already, had been banned from harassing the school online, so they started a WhatsApp group to manipulate other parents into doing the things they legally couldn’t do…
- Comment on How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become. 4 months ago:
It’s hard to tell if CNN doesn’t know, or is just biased now that the new owners want to be the “Faux News of the left”…
But it wasn’t foreshadowing, it was the beginning of a plan.
Bannon got into WoW gold, and found out how impressionable and angry young men were. So they targeted them with propaganda.
- Comment on X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. 5 months ago:
This isn’t 2014, most twitter accounts aren’t even people, let alone employed people
It’s just bots arguing with bots with a sprinkling of idiots.
- Comment on Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch 6 months ago:
Dude literally has bipolar disorder and doesn’t take his medication
I said:
Because the people around him always say “yes”.
Meaning the reason he doesn’t take his pills is people telling him he’s a genius.
I hope that finally made sense, but when you need as much help to understand things as you do, you shouldn’t act like that when people try to help you understand
You think you’re being cool and edgy, but the truth is people who can help you just give up on you.
Online it’s easy, if I block you its like you never existed.
Watch…
- Comment on Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch 6 months ago:
Dude literally has bipolar disorder and doesn’t take his medication
Because the people around him always say “yes”.
They’re like an improv group, no matter what Kanye says, they call him a genius. Because if you do t, you’re out of his orbit.
Not taking his medication is a symptom of the problem, not the cause. But it 100% exacerbates the problem.
- Comment on Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch 6 months ago:
someone well known as him he deserves special treatment
Kanye wouldn’t be this crazy if he wasn’t famous, so it’s not really special treatment.
The constant positive reinforcement no matter what just makes them go crazier.
Like, “pushing the envelope” isn’t sustainable, eventually you get to the point where you’re only paying attention to topping yourself, it’s not “is this better?” anymore its just “is this crazier?”
It apparently doesn’t take long till you’re throwing swastikas on everything just to get people to notice.
Most people grow out of that shit. But Kanye got paid insane amounts of money to act like that, he’s going to keep doing until it stops working.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Dev Believes Unreal Is Ill-Suited For Open World Games, And Is Slowing Down Work On Witcher 4 6 months ago:
They really buried that this is an 11 month old quote…
But yeah, I was guilty of expecting a groachical experience like Seluna’s without realizing the trade off was an N64 level of being stuck on rails.
5ish years from now it could be different.
But it’s not about making the best games, it’s about making the most money.
If you have a propitiatory engine, your hiring base is limited. And studios don’t want long-term employees, so they want generic engines with a readily available labor pool.
- Comment on ‘Humiliated’ mom sues Airbnb after ‘grossly inaccurate’ background check leads to ban 6 months ago:
You can have an argument with me about it, or you could read the article…
Personally, I think the chances of you believing the article is a lot higher than you believing me rewording the article
- Comment on ‘Humiliated’ mom sues Airbnb after ‘grossly inaccurate’ background check leads to ban 6 months ago:
How are these public?
They’re copies of old records that are owned by private companie
Like, that’s the entire point of the article and the lawsuit…
- Comment on ‘Humiliated’ mom sues Airbnb after ‘grossly inaccurate’ background check leads to ban 6 months ago:
Booking the family into hotels and RV parks became the only option for Doe, which were often either unaffordable or too small for everyone to fit, the complaint states.
I dunno about all that…
It’s a legit question about how the expungement of records works tho. Back in the day no one kept records on hand, now if a record exists and part of it is expunged…
Those records still exist out there somewhere.
- Comment on Rumor: Marvel Is Making Another Avengers Game 6 months ago:
It’s insane to me Disney hasn’t bought up game studios.
They had one till 2016, but they closed it instead of buying up talent.
Just not having to pay for licensing fees is huge, it’s not like Disney to not want the whole pie instead of just a slice.