VirtualOdour

@VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well look at gta online, moders and hackers have so much more power when the session isn’t run by the company. it alao allows them to find exploits much easier if the server tools are available to run locally. Also If you don’t want people being able to give themselves all the weapons and money and mess up your game that means game states can’t transfer between servers which means you could invest weeks in a campaign only to have the server close.

  I prefer locally hosted stuff but there are obvious benefits which draw game companies to choosing to control the hosting process

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activision revive Warzone's Caldera map as open source (yay!) but say it's to help train AI (booo)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s great, ai is important and useful and good training data is important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Freeing people from the effects of poverty is good regardless of it coming about in a system which is often exploitative. Beyond capitalism bad you have no argument yet you shrug off that complaint with literally everything else you do - if you really thought capitalism is evil then the concept of copyright would be disgusting to you, but you love it when it allows you to rent seek or gate keep.

  You are here on the internet despite every bit of it being run by private companies. You play video games and whatever else without the slightest concern but a tech that could allow poor people access to education angers you simply because you feel it devalues the privilege your global affluence and education have brought you.

  I hope you realize that this isn’t going to look good for you in retrospect, when the global south isn’t being exploited to benefit western nations becauae we have ai tools able to supply the vital service required to improve things people will shake their heads remember people once tried to disrupt and defeat such a useful and important technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is another delusional fantasy from people who don’t understand how the models work or the basics of statistics.

  Ai isn’t going to collapse due to bad data and adding noise won’t have any effect because it’s statically irrelevant. Newer approaches also have various checks built in for veracity so gpt5 going forward it’ll have even less effect.

  That doesn’t change the fact trying to destroy a technology which will disproportionately benefit the most impoverished people on the planet by allowing them to access vital services such as education in their first language is a frankly evil act. And that’s only one of the thousands of positive use cases for natural language computing and ai.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has flooded the market with so many solar panels that people are using them as garden fencing⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus the more other counties use solar and not fossil fuels the more likely we are planet won’t boil. I know people like to pretend they’re ontological evil but actualy even the ccp don’t want everyone to die

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has flooded the market with so many solar panels that people are using them as garden fencing⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny how I read so much about housing crisis and climate change and everything else then China does what everyone thinks government should do and they’re the bad guy