AstralPath
@AstralPath@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows 3 days ago:
I really don’t think Ubisoft needs to advertise a new Assassins Creed game beyond a few ads here and there, and chatting with some journalists. Spending a ton of money to allow people to play it ahead of time on stream just dilutes the experience for anyone that intends on buying the game.
Seriously, the last thing I want is for the start of a new game to be spoiled for me by some streamer.
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 4 days ago:
You down vote me for saying the truth.
If you think installing Linux is hard you’ve either never done it and let other people dictate your opinions, you’re incompetent with computers or you can’t follow a simple step-by-step guide.
If you or someone you know sucks with computers, that’s fine. I get not moving someone from Win to Linux if they can’t understand the digital equivalent of tying their shoes. Just get a Chromebook if that’s the case.
Barring cases of disability, using Windows at a basic level is not hard. Most home users use it to browse the dust on the upper crust of the internet, write a doc, print shit and nothing more. I bet if you swapped Win for Linux on most people’s computers and riced it to look like Win 11 many of them would be none the wiser.
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 4 days ago:
That’s not a Linux problem, that’s a PEBKAC or hardware problem.
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 4 days ago:
If installing something like Linux Mint is not intuitive enough for someone, they probably don’t even know what they’re doing on Windows either.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Was he asking for a Budweiser? lol
- Comment on DoorDash and Klarna partner to offer buy now, pay later for takeout. 1 week ago:
Not for the capitalists running these companies.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This, but she’s also very pretty.
- Comment on AYANEO Pocket MICRO Classic is a tiny Android handheld without analog sticks for $179 and up - Liliputing 4 weeks ago:
That price is insane when the Miyoo Mini+ is under $100 CAD.
- Comment on Kevin Rose officially relaunching Digg.com 4 weeks ago:
I can appreciate your viewpoint here, but there are a lot of good people in this world that are married to absolute scumbags.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases 4 weeks ago:
Dude, thank you for this context. I was already aware of these considerations but just wanted to thank you for sharing this with everyone. Its participation like this that makes the internet a better place. 🍻
- Comment on Favorite Racing Game Soundtrack? 4 weeks ago:
Art Of Rally!
- Comment on Are there bots on mastodon that act like humans 4 weeks ago:
What is the point? All this serves is to make any community you loose this on objectively worse.
This kind of “project” directly contributes to the degeneration of the internet. Please don’t do that.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 5 weeks ago:
This is an opportunity where if you’d used your brain you’d have come to a different conclusion.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 5 weeks ago:
Click to win a FREE LOBSTER Dinner 🦀🦞🦐
Man I miss this era of the internet. It truly felt like a new frontier.
- Comment on YouTube ‘Premium Lite’ is for those that already have a music subscription 1 month ago:
Try Grayjay. It supports background playback.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 1 month ago:
Yikes. Image
- Comment on Suffering is Real. AI Consciousness is Not. 1 month ago:
My experience of existence creates my reality. It stands to reason that its safe to assume that any other biological/living thing with a brain even remotely like mine should also be experiencing a similar form of reality. I’d define the shared experience of being a human on planet earth as a basis of reality. If I am in some sort of sandbox, it seems to me that would be unknowable to the same degree as being able to know what came before the big bang. Because I’m not a physicist, this question is meaningless to me.
The evolutionary process that governs humanity would be my measurement yardstick. AI as we know it cannot spontaneously arise in the universe without humanity as a catalyst. Carbon does not self-assemble into ChatGPT if you know what I mean. Carbon self-assembled into humanity that then assembled ChatGPT through technological advancement.
By that measure it is my opinion that ChatGPT cannot ever achieve consciousness as we know it as without humanity as a maintainer it collapses. Humanity is the consciousness and ChatGPT is a tool that it uses to perform tasks. Any semblance of consciousness is an illusion specifically designed to replicate the nuances of consciousness. Its meant to be human-like in its behaviour and as a result it easily blurs the line for some people.
I’m not a philosopher but this is how I think of it. I can relate to another human’s experiences. I can’t relate to a computer’s experiences. As a result, I don’t accept any argument in favor of AI consciousness and wouldn’t have any qualms on pulling the plug on an AI. Pulling the plug on a human is a completely different story.
No one is going to cry for ChatGPT if it ever dies and no one ever should. Its a tool and should be used as such. Trying to shoehorn consciousness into a computer is nothing but unfettered narcissistic ego-tripping if you ask me.
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 1 month ago:
That’s a looooot of assumptions and stale assumptions at that.
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 1 month ago:
Here’s some free speech for you:
Fuck you, Nazi-enabler.
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 1 month ago:
Yep, you’re 100% right. Not sure why I thought it was high friction. I feel like I confused trying to put an icon for an image on my home screen (gym app’s sign in QR code) with sending a web page to the home screen.
- Comment on Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction 1 month ago:
If phone OSes made it so there’s less friction to save a web page as an icon on your desktop it would help to resolve that issue I think.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 month ago:
IIRC that era of iPods had issues with their preamps. I remember when I switched from a Nano to a classic that there was noticeable clipping and other distortion where there wasn’t before. I would have returned it but I had already sold my Nano…
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 1 month ago:
I’d argue you’ve got that backwards; CD is to vinyl what lossless is to .mp3. That said, I know what you mean.
- Comment on Can I lose a beer belly working out one day a week? 1 month ago:
Personal anecdote here: I run 40km/week so that I don’t have to be so picky with my diet. I’m offsetting about 2,400cal from my weekly intake.
That said, I need to be careful sometimes because my appetite can surge and I can easily break even and even surpass being in a deficit. Its just a matter of being aware of how much I’m eating in general and adapting to appetite changes.
That said, when I want a pizza I’m gonna smash that pizza down my gullet lol
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 1 month ago:
Kill two birds with one stone.Get two birds stoned at once. 😎 - Comment on LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs 2 months ago:
I’ll never buy from them again. #fuckai
- Comment on Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school 4 months ago:
Bruh how is creating and distributing a non-consensual nude-ified picture of a young girl not a cause for suffering for the victim? Please, explain that to the class.
Did you just not go to school as a kid? If so, that would explain your absolute ineptitude on this topic. Your opinion is some real “your body, my choice” kind of energy.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 4 months ago:
Thanks for the story. That was a fun read.
- Comment on Polish radio station abandons use of AI 'presenters' following outcry 5 months ago:
Those are all jobs a human could have. That’s a reason to be upset if you ask me.
- Comment on Someone make an app 5 months ago:
This is better than an app. It can’t violate your right to privacy by selling all your data to capitalists.