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- Comment on ISIS teaching recruits how to use AI ‘responsibly’ 3 hours ago:
This is actually a serious threat, because AI is so fucking stupid…
It wouldn’t give the most effective plans, it probably won’t even give plans that will “work”…
But it’s gonna recommend shit no one thought of with 100% confidence and convince already brainwashed idiots that crazy shit will work.
Not just ISIS, all our own homegrown brain rot idiots on Twitter using grok too. Stuff that requires no organization or coordination, just random solo idiots.
It’s likely already happening. The AI companies just aren’t admitting it.
Like the guy that blew a cyber truck full of fireworks up in Vegas in front a trump casino, grok would 100% say that’s a world changing plan and would make him an hero.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 13 hours ago:
What exactly do you mean when you keep saying “physical forces”?
The phrase doesn’t appear once in your link. Or anywhere else in reference to physics…
You 100% made that up, and at this point I don’t really care why
- Comment on I have a suspicion that most of men's problems and their ability to handle their lives stems from their incapability of sucking their own d***s. 14 hours ago:
Yeah, like finding out you could didn’t fuck anybody up…
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 14 hours ago:
I only care about the 4tb of personal data and I push that to a cloud backup
I have doubles of the data. Some of 'em. That way I know I have a pristine one in backup. Then I can use it, it gets corrupted, I don’t care.
Actually, I have triples of the W2s. I have triples, right? If I don’t, the other stuff’s not true.
See, the W2s the one I have triples of. Oh, no, actually, I also have triples of the kids photos, too. But just those two. And your dad and I are the same age, and I’m rich and I have triples of the W2s and the kids photos.
Triples makes it safe.
Triples is best.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 18 hours ago:
None of what you’ve said is n this thread makes any logical sense…
Which would be fine cuz it’s about ghosts, but you keep acting like physics backs up your wild statements and made up vocabulary…
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 day ago:
You keep saying “physical force”…
That’s not a real term in physics.
The only possible explanation, is you mean any force that is already explained by physics, is that what you mean?
Because that would be the same as insisting we know everything, which no one who knows anything about physics would ever try to claim.
So…
What exactly do you mean when you keep saying “physical forces”?
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 day ago:
Science has never in the history of science reliably shown a single interaction between physical entities and any sort of non-physical force.
Fucking magnets,
How do they work?
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 day ago:
The more you know the less stuff you’re comfortable ruling out.
There’s nothing that disproves ghosts, but there’s nothing that proves them either.
You could have said “souls” instead, because that’s just another word for consciousness. But it doesn’t work for ghosts
- Comment on Medusa likely would have had tiny snakes growing from her upper lip and chin as she aged. 3 days ago:
“Your pretty face is going to hell” had this joke, but with armpit hair.
- Comment on The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way 3 days ago:
It doesn’t sound simpler to you that people would naturally call what’s west of them “western” and what’s east of them “eastern”?
Like, if you’d pick any random place they’d do it the same way
If you’re mad other places adopted the European “point of view” for east/west, then logically your problem isn’t with Europeans. It’s the other places that just use the European definitions.
You’re mad at the only group who has a logical reason to use it, instead of all the places using it for no reason except to try and fit in with Europe.
Like, if Japan said China was the West and America was the East…
Nobody would give a shit.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Yes, racists and other bigots almost always put themselves in the best possible light
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
No you can’t…
Youre just being bigoted and judging people by appearance.
What’s weird is how supportive people are being of it.
- Comment on Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100-billion deal in favour of $30-billion investment 4 days ago:
A lot of the electrical grid is actually cooperativly owned
Sure, if you care about miles of wire and not customers, it sounds huge…
But anyone who hears that should be able to quickly figure out why it’s not relevant
- Comment on Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100-billion deal in favour of $30-billion investment 4 days ago:
So leave it with the oligarchs who are actively brining trump to make it worse?
What the fuck kind of learned helplessness is this?
Yeah they beat and starve us, but if we stop them from doing it someone might show up and if we let them they’d beat and starve us to!!!
Like, fucking newsflash man:
This is a continual fight, and boomers acting like it wasn’t is why shit is like it is today. No matter what happens this fight never stops
- Comment on Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shares her gamertag — what it reveals 5 days ago:
It’s a month old account.
But the biggest redflag is she’s never worked for a gaming company before, she went from AI exec to Xbox CEO…
She literally has no idea how any of it works
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 5 days ago:
It doesn’t matter who has it, it’s the one ring.
It’s sheer existence is too dangerous to be allowed. But everyone focuses on what they could do with the power and think they’ll be able to keep it.
That’s why there’s such pushback against opposition to datacenters, it’s not just the money from the stocks, everyone pictures themselves as the only ones who gets to abuse the tech once it’s built.
- Comment on For Americans, what do you really think of Latin Americans? 5 days ago:
Many people think Mexico is the only country that exists,
No, some people that you know think that “many people” believe that…
It doesn’t make it true
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 5 days ago:
Yeah, it’s just typical capitalism stuff.
People see talk about legit refurbs and then think a dust wipe refurb isnthe same thing and get ripped off.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 5 days ago:
However, it is is not coming from someone who does this stuff at a professional level (refurbished in other words), I am not sure if I can trust it.
It’s honestly not even worth trying to use the right terminology these days…
Every seller/manufacturer uses slightly different definitions.
So to clarify, what’s good is:
A product that was sent back to manufacturer and “manufacturer refurbished” meaning that common fail points were inspected and repaired even if a failure would be emmenient but it’s still working
Pretty much anything else, would be bad.
An example of what is bad is:
“Amazon/ebay refurbished” where someone may have wiped the dust off and possibly checked to see if it turned on.
Especially for hard drives, the refurbishing is built into the purchase contract of the new drives. And since the purchaser and manufacturer both understand the refresh is proactive and the old drives still have life in them, it knocks off a percentage on the new drives and that’s where we can find deals.
I think I’ve got a 1TB that’s ~20 years old I got that way. It’s still technically in my main PC, but at this point it’s an important archive drive that just doesn’t get read or wrote very often.
I’ve just literally never had a HDD or SD die tho. I don’t know why people act like they’re disposable parts of a PC still.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 5 days ago:
Yeah, that’s how politicians get the insider tips, it’s bribes to not go after the person who gave them the tip.
If enough of the right people make enough money, then everything about it becomes legal, or at worse a fine that’s less than the profits made.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 5 days ago:
Less skynet and more a surveillance state thats gonna put England and even CCP to shame.
They need the hard drives because they’re storing everything about us. Every time we drive by a camera, gps paths of our cell phones constant travel, every bank transaction including small purchases, every social media comment, page we view from WiFi or cellphone, all our connections to everyone else, tags for various groups.
Not even just the people we know we know, they’ll know who’s usually next to us in traffic on commutes and when, who makes our sandwich from the deli we go to every other Tuesday, what cops would be most likely to respond to a call to our house at a certain time…
Like, “skynet” is useful because everyone knows the term.
The real danger is what humans will do with access to that much information on everyone, and what a normal human would do to/for a stranger to protect all their darkest secrets.
Imagine if tech was 20 years ahead right now with trump in office, do you think someone like him would hesitate to start wide scale blackmail?
You think they’re above telling a couple thousand people in highly targeted districts that they had to vote a certain a way or else?
It’s not the AI we need to be scared of, it’s the data.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 5 days ago:
Wild that people were down voting you. Hard drives can last decades and are replaced from enterprise servers long before they’re close to failing.
Especially with lowered use compared to a server, you won’t see much functional difference between brand new consumer grade and used server grade.
Pretty sure caches and everything are better on used server grade still anyways.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 5 days ago:
These companies are publicly traded…
The people who run/own the AI companies would have been complete idiots to not invest in the hardware companies they were going to make these purchases from before making those purchases.
But 100 million in Seagate stock, then announce you just signed a contract buying up supply.
Your company may overpay, but you personally just made a shit ton of money. Which is the why you want your company to succeed
As a bonus, the news that you’re overpaying to buy up all the hard drives, doesn’t hurt your company it helps it.
There’s no way to monetize it anyways, the product is the stock price. And this move makes the company seem confident, which raises stock price.
That’s not even getting into the long term problem that even if AI fails, were seeing a huge migration in computing power from individuals to private corporations. That’s a big deal even if AI dies tomorrow. And they have a lot of motivation to never let us get it back.
- Comment on Awkward interaction with my doctor 5 days ago:
Just say it.
At least with that there’s no doubt if it’s intentional or not.
When I was right out of college I was interviewing for an internship at a pretty relaxed non-profit a friend worked out, and I was interviewing with her very attractive friend, all of us in our mid to late 20s.
Her boobs were like, fully out. Shirt ubuttoned down past her bra, not something you’d see in an office but maybe at a college party at the end of a night. I did what you did an just tried to ignore it and maintain eye contact
About 15 minutes into it my friend had to come into the office to grab something, took one look at us and said “Stella, your tits are out” and then left without saying anything else.
We both died laughing and she got a little embarrassed. But it was that weird grey area if I said something and it was intentional I’d be a huge dick.
No one is intentionally walking around with unzipped pants.
So everyone will appreciate the quick heads up.
- Comment on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago 6 days ago:
They didn’t.
They’re claiming they could have stopped it if not for those pesky privacy laws, as an excuse to get rid of them.
- Comment on At one time, a man seeing a female's naked knee was equivalent to a man seeing a female's breast today. 6 days ago:
No, because people are wired to like boobs.
Not just people, mammals in general
If you don’t like boobs, you might starve to death as a baby. So loving boobs is probably one of the most selected for traits for any mammal.
- Comment on xkcd #3210: Eliminating the Impossible 6 days ago:
It not being in the car is the most improbable thing tho…
- Comment on Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100-billion deal in favour of $30-billion investment 6 days ago:
but at the end of the day the dumb masses drove the country off the cliff
You still don’t understand.
But unfortunately repeati g my advice is unlikely to help regardless of if I do it now or a month from now if we run into each other again.
Nothing personal, I just don’t wanna go thru this again later if I know how it’ll end.
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 6 days ago:
Still, I don’t think it needs to be standard procedure to announce every fringe porn community. As stated above, the audience will find it. And it is unnecessary for new people to the Fediverse getting the impression that this is what it is all about.
I mean, to be honest if you’re trying to get that message to users of the porn instance, I never quite understood why you’re saying it here where there’s already a problem with spam about and none of them will even fucking see it…
And why you wouldn’t make this post over there where they’d see it.
But we all have different thresholds before we reach for that block button I guess. I’ll keep being proactive about not seeing stuff I don’t want to.
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 6 days ago:
There’s been a couple different accounts that do it, just block the account the first one time you see it, because they’ll keep doing it till they’re banned then make a new account.
Most likely its just one person who likes putting NSFW places it’s not meant to be, which is why they were/are using porn pics.
I just blocked the entire domain honestly, it’s what you need to do if you really want to prevent it.