Erika2rsis
@Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
This is a second account of Erikatharsis@kbin.social
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- Comment on What future AI applications are you most excited about? 6 months ago:
LLM/AI tools can massively decrease the cost of dubbing media into smaller languages, including the cost of creating audio descriptions for the visually impaired. I don’t know the extent to which these uses are actually being implemented at the moment, but yeah. It’s by all means possible, and in my eyes pretty cool. These uses would not replace real people, would not require unethical practices, but would still reduce the workload.
I’m kind of disappointed by the ways in which AI is being presented as a “terk er jerbs” thing in fields where it has no rightful place, the ways in which AI is presented as a “procedurally generated Netflix and chill with my robot girlfriend” hyperreal horrorshow, the ways in which AI is being used for scams. AI absolutely has its places in society, and helping with accessibility and localization is one of them.
- Comment on Writing of quality 6 months ago:
She neon my genesis till i evangelion my hand
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I mean, if your measure of modernity is just how good home computers were back then, rather than that any substantial number of people had home computers at all, then of course 1994 is going to seem non-modern.
I guess I have a skewed perception of how long ago 1994 was, though, because 1995 was when my parents first came into contact with each other from opposite sides of the globe, through the ol’ information superhighway. For me that makes 1994 seem incredibly recent, even if it was nearly 30 years ago and a lot has changed since then. The '90s were this whole decade of pop culture, technology, and political and social change whose shadow I grew up in, basically the beginning of what I would consider in most contexts to be the “modern day”. But if I had actually been alive and conscious at the time, then maybe I would be more practically aware of the differences between then and now, and hesitate to call it “modern”.
But modernity always is relative. If I were talking specifically about computers, then obviously even a computer from as recently as 2008 would really be stretching the definition of “modern”. But then in another context I might even say that something that happened in 1898 would’ve been “recent”, though I wouldn’t necessarily refer to that as “modern” per se.
Put another way, an apparent slim majority of the world’s population (but not of South Africa’s population) was alive when Nelson Mandela took office. Probably a lot of them were infants or small children at the time, but still: even for the people who weren’t alive at that time, or who were too young to really remember it personally, there are so many people who were very alive and very conscious at the time, that everyone’s bound to know a good few. My mom attended anti-apartheid protests when she was in college, for instance. Mandela himself was president until 1999, and only died in 2013, which it’s hard to believe was already ten years ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Calling Israel’s apartheid “modern” to me kind of implies that South Africa’s apartheid, whose transitional period ended in 1994, was somehow “ancient” or “old-fashioned”… Yeah, you can rest assured that apartheid/segregation always has been far too modern.
- Comment on i’m living in a school with gamblers 7 months ago:
Komi, Hitoribocchi, Watamote, or something else?
- Comment on i’m living in a school with gamblers 7 months ago:
Boyyoass we gotta catch us some muthaflippin CLOW CARDS
- Comment on Bored ape NFT event attendees get their faces burned by event lighting 7 months ago:
Of all the industries to profit from bored ape NFTs, white cane manufacturing was not one of them.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 8 months ago:
Frankly, I’m not seeing any negative replies or downvotes.
I’m a US citizen myself, though I live in and am also a born citizen of Norway. So being in basically a quantum superposition between being and not being a US-American, you could imagine that I’d have a bit of a specific perspective about the country, that would draw me to using words like “Seppo”.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 8 months ago:
NZ and UK use it too. I think I first learned it from a Brit.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 8 months ago:
The word I use most often aside from American is Seppo, which is derogatory rhyming slang (sep + -o, from septic tank → Yank → Yankee)
- Comment on Truth 8 months ago:
“See, the problem is that you see everything as black and white.”
“SOMETIMES THAT’S HOW THINGS ARE!”
- Comment on SanDisk's Name is Now Mud 10 months ago:
I guess I was thinking that if Gwyneth Paltrow could found a company called Goop that anything goes these days.
- Comment on SanDisk's Name is Now Mud 10 months ago:
Curse English idioms, I literally thought they were rebranding to Mud.
- Comment on YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer 10 months ago:
I’m using Alexandrite and see no thumbnail.
- Comment on People would use "Hide all political posts and comments" more often than any other filter 10 months ago:
I genuinely appreciate how you put scare quotes on “becomes” in “becomes political”, because it’s legitimately baffling how some people think that Rage Against the Machine “wasn’t political” before. Like, they literally donated their profits to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and interviewed Subcomandante Marcos for one of their video releases! You can hardly get more political!
- Comment on People would use "Hide all political posts and comments" more often than any other filter 10 months ago:
RDJ_pointing_at_self: What counts as politics is a political question in itself, with a subjective answer melded by the hegemon. Absolutely everything can be connected to politics in some way.