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- Comment on Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube 13 hours ago:
If you’re using Firefox, there are several plugins available that remove YouTube Shorts completely.
- Comment on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 2 days ago:
the thinking model
Ugh… can we all just stop for a moment to acknowledge how obnoxious this branding is? They’ve already corrupted the term “AI” to the point of being completely meaningless, are they going to remove all meaning from the word “thinking” now too?
- Comment on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 2 days ago:
This has been my experience as well, only the company I work for has mandated that we must use AI tools everyday (regardless of whether we want/need them) and is actively tracking our usage to make sure we comply.
My productivity has plummeted. The tool we use (Cursor) requires so much hand-holding that it’s like having a student dev with me at all times… only a real student would actually absorb information and learn over time, unlike this glorified Markov Chain. If I had a human junior dev, they could be a productive and semi-competent coder in 6 months. But 6 months from now, the LLM is still going to be making all of the same mistakes it is now.
It’s gotten to the point where I ask the LLM to solve a problem for me just so that I can hit the required usage metrics, but completely ignore its output. And it makes me die a little bit inside every time I consider how much water/energy I’m wasting for literally zero benefit.
- Comment on Lessons from Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion House 2 days ago:
80 years ago, the ‘kit’ cost $6500, delivered.
That’s about 120k in today’s money.
- Comment on Upset about progress 5 days ago:
That’s like saying that advertising has become a “pillar” of society.
Like… yeah, I guess… but that doesn’t change the fact that anyone with a functioning brain fucking hates it.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 6 days ago:
Sadly a lot of us are stuck with GitHub. Enterprise loves it because it has “Metrics”, and most companies aren’t about to jump ship over something like AI — especially when so many of them are already doubling down on AI in other areas.
- Comment on AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents 1 week ago:
Oh, right… Well, probably still worth it. This decade is balls anyways.
- Comment on AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents 1 week ago:
1.8 gigawatts
Damn… think of what you could do with that much energy! That’s enough to go back in time, shoot Sam Altam before he founds OpenAI, and make it back home with 600 megawatts to spare!
- Comment on "Steam Did Not Respond To Us": Collective Shout Defends Calling On Payment Processors To Ban Adult Games 1 week ago:
Whoosh
- Comment on On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists 2 weeks ago:
Last time I checked, no car actively encourages you to drive into a wall.
- Comment on On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists 2 weeks ago:
This has sadly been the norm in the tech industry for at least a decade now. The whole eco-system had become so accustomed to quick injections of investment cash, that products/businesses no longer grow organically but instead hit the scene in one huge developing and marketing blitz.
Consider companies like Uber or AirBnB. Their goal was never to make a safe, stable, or even legal product. Their goal was always to be first. Command the largest user base possible in the shortest time possible, then worry about all the details later. Both of those products have had disastrous effects on existing businesses and communities while operating in anti-competetive ways and flaunting existing laws, but so what? They’re popular! Tens of millions of people already use them, and by the time government regulation catches up with that they’re doing it’s already too late. What politician would be brave enough to try and ban a company like Uber? What regulator still has enough power to reign in a company the size of AirBnB?
OpenAI is playing the same game. They don’t care if their product is safe — hell, they don’t even really care if it’s useful, or profitable. They just want to be ubiquitous, because once they achieve that, the rest doesn’t matter.
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 3 weeks ago:
I doubt it. The bots amplified natural human tendencies by automating bad behavior at a vast scale, but all of that stuff was already there before the bots hit the scene. Maybe they’ve accelerated the decline, but they definitely didn’t cause it.
- Comment on Nintendo refuses to repair water damaged Switch 2 console 3 weeks ago:
Mario and Luigi’s lesser known cousin, Pagliacci.
- Comment on Planck units 4 weeks ago:
10^9 Joules is roughly the chemical energy of a full tank of gasoline. The mass-energy of the car (or even just gas itself) would be many, many orders of magnitude higher.
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 5 weeks ago:
Also, what “nicer stuff”? It’s practically impossible to find anything on Amazon anymore that isn’t cheap, disposable garbage. Amazon sellers have been in a race to the bottom to deliver the lowest price for more than a decade, and the result is that everything on Amazon is crap.
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 5 weeks ago:
Projection is a hell of a drug, dude…
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 5 weeks ago:
No, we’d rather be lost at sea than have to participate in the broken society that makes people need therapy.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Right? Did AI right this title? Jesus…
- Comment on What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like 5 weeks ago:
Docker enshitification coming in 3… 2… 1…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
encourage innovation in the banking and financial system
What “innovation” do we need in the banking system?
- Comment on Running monkey 2 months ago:
- Comment on Will all these multiplayer games being released without support for LAN or hosting our own servers no longer be multiplayer when the company shuts down the servers? 2 months ago:
And it still has a thriving competitive scene more than 25 years later.
In fact, ASL (the biggest SC tournament) is going on right now!
- Comment on Liquid Trees 3 months ago:
What happens when one of these breaks and drains into the sewer system? Algae blooms cause noxious odors and would proliferate quickly in the nitrogen-rich environment of human waste water, potentially building up as clogs in the sewer lines. And if the system drains into a natural body of water, the algae can have devastating toxic effects on the natural wildlife. If it doesn’t drain and instead gets recycled, then the water treatment process becomes much more difficult and expensive.
- Comment on TV tie-in MMO looter shooter Defiance returns for a free-to-play third shot at life and gigantic messy boss battles 3 months ago:
Fingers crossed that Rift gets a similar revival… the game whose initial success paid for Defiance in the first place
- Comment on Marathon | Gameplay Reveal Trailer 3 months ago:
Escape will make me God
Other than the setting, this was the only reference to the original trilogy that I spotted, and man… the way it’s used here is just so disconnected from what made that line iconic and cool. I was cautiously optimistic before, but the media blitz they did today has completely killed any hope I had for the Marathon IP.
- Comment on Marathon | Gameplay Reveal Trailer 3 months ago:
Dancing through the wreckage of a beloved Bungie IP, Durandal was
laughingfuming. - Comment on Hades 2 will be a Nintendo Switch 2 console exclusive at launch 3 months ago:
Hades 2 is only console exclusive to the Switch 2; it’s also releasing on Steam.
- Comment on Hades 2 will be a Nintendo Switch 2 console exclusive at launch 3 months ago:
I suspect that Nintendo is offering them more than enough money for exclusivity to make it no longer ‘questionable’ for Supergiant, at least from a financial perspective.
- Comment on Marathon | Save the Date Trailer 4 months ago:
Shouldn’t you be laughing?
- Comment on Discuss. 5 months ago:
The guy in the hat between Curie and Oppenheimer is David Gilbert.