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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When The Internet Grew Up — And Locked Out Its Kids⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  For many young people, social media platforms are not simply entertainment. They are places of learning, authorship, peer support, political awakening, and cultural participation. They are where teens practice argument, humor, creativity, solidarity, dissent — often more freely than in offline institutions that are tightly supervised, hierarchical, or unwelcoming.

  Very much this, age gates are a horrible idea and this is one of the reasons. My biggest problems as a teenager were isolation and lack of agency and the internet was a small reprieve from that I really needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the translate feature, just make all the AI stuff local and I’m fine with it, though if not I hope

  AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.

  is a commitment they take seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: Israel Used Palantir Technologies In Pager Terrorist Attack In Lebanon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In a recent interview, the former head of the Israeli Mossad, Yossi Cohen, revealed that Israel has similar “booby-trapped and spy-manipulated equipment” in “all the countries you can imagine”.

  Chilling. Which of our devices are actually Israeli remote controlled bombs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked up some stuff about Argentina’s financial crisis since you mentioned it before, and it looks like they actually did something a bit like what I’m talking about, directly appropriating the valuable assets they could in an effort to keep being able to function:

  In addition to the corralito, the Ministry of Economy dictated the pesificación; all bank accounts denominated in dollars would be converted to pesos at an official rate. Deposits would be converted at 1.40 ARS per dollar and debt was converted on 1 to 1 basis.[69]

  There’s some indication that this also applied to financial products:

  As noted above, a number of U.S. investors have filed ICSID arbitration claims against the government of Argentina. Most of these investors consider the January 2002 pesification of dollar-denominated contracts, and/or the ex post facto prohibition on contracts linked to foreign inflation indices, to be an effective expropriation of their investments

  I can’t specifically confirm this included gold held on paper, but I think it probably would have.

  As for the plausibility of this sort of thing happening in the US, in addition to the actions of Roosevelt mentioned by @diablexical@sh.itjust.works, the main trigger for Nixon abandoning the gold convertibility of US dollars was France attempting to physically withdraw the gold they had stored in US banks, which they didn’t want to allow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what they’re saying is that in a hyperinflation scenario, it is an option for the government to seize the physical gold backing the financial products people hold in order to continue paying to run the government now that fiat is worthless and they are having trouble with that.

  Gold you have buried in your basement, they will have to work a little harder to get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elevator. (by Nhim)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Helping the man wearing a sleep mask on the elevator catch some Zs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As AI Data Centers Disrupt US Cities, Wisconsin Woman Violently Arrested After Speaking Out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the main effect of allowing them nearby is your electric bill going up it seems reasonable to not want them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ramble about something for long enough that people should be able to tell is how I do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like an additional reason to be doing it in a way where participants can’t be debanked by payments middlemen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the headache here is that this situation inherently props up a few monopolistic platforms, rather than allowing people to use whatever payment system is available in their own countries. Some of this can be worked around using cryptocurrencies – famously, the Mitra project leverages Monero for this very purpose, although I’m told it now can accept other forms of payment as well.

  Hell yeah, I didn’t know about Mitra. It sounds like it’s a Patreon esque kind of deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That kind of painting seems more likely to come alive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨zingiberales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  eating grass will destroy your teeth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quitting Spotify for Navidrome⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quickly and effortlessly get some music playing that can act as a backdrop for your real activity such as working, driving, cooking, hosting friends, etc. Keep it rolling indefinitely.

  “Discover” new music by statistical means based on your average tastes.

  This is the main thing I want out of music software tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel bad that you think that’s what I’m getting at with this, arguments shouldn’t be about getting one over on someone, they should be about improving mutual understanding. I’m just not putting effort into finding and posting a link nobody wants to see or thinks they could benefit from, that’s really it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  people in general don’t hate AI I swear guys

  That’s not really the point, but whatever. Honestly this comment thread is exhausting, and I question whether anyone actually cares, which is why I don’t feel like taking the time to look up that information. But if you will tell me with full sincerity that you care whether it exists, I will try to find the link for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  so having rules against AI on a platform is “vigilante enforcement”

  I feel like you’re dramatically misinterpreting my statements on purpose now, this one is more obvious. I’m on the fence about whether disclosure requirements are a good idea, but am not emphatically condemning it, it’s understandable that they have them. But I am emphatically condemning efforts to use AI disclosures to brigade and harass developers, and I think the existence of those efforts is the reason why requiring disclosure is questionable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think for some people the only way they can think of to help is attempting to bully someone over the internet, and it ends up applying to whoever happens to be around that disagrees with them, even though that makes zero sense as a strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to dredge up the reddit threads providing evidence of it, but afaik there really are popular discord groups with the express purpose of brigading AI users, and I think the people here overtly defending the practice probably know it’s a real thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t learn to program using AI, so I don’t know all the details of how it would go for an amateur in the process of learning, but I have incorporated it into my work, so I know it can be very useful and save a lot of time, and that isn’t just about generating code. If you want to plan out how to debug something, you can get solid guidance. If you want clarification on what an unclear part of a tutorial means, you can get that. The more introductory the topic, the better and more reliable the explanation. I remember when learning spending a lot of hours just staring at a screen being completely lost on what to do next to debug something. I’m assuming you haven’t used it for coding very much? How can you be so confident it would be useless for them, isn’t this just speculation?

  Anyway, this is all kind of beside the point. If it’s not useful, people won’t use it, and there’s no need to be angry about its use. If it is useful, it can be used to assist making games that are worth playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “illegal = unethical” is a fascist take

  That is not why I’m mentioning it, I agree that legality and ethics are separate. The point is that regardless of who is right about the ethics of this, applying vigilante enforcement to this kind of situation is unhinged, and signals about whether something is ok to do like legality do matter for that. If such popular enforcement is ever justified, it’s in situations where people are getting hurt where there is little ambiguity and clear malice, that’s absolutely not the case here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I promise you, none of what I write here is AI, I’m against doing that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re kind of right, in that it’s not a total solution right now and you probably won’t be able to vibe code a whole game (except a really simple one maybe) with no knowledge. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t lower the skill floor for someone. I’m assuming the person in my scenario would be also using an engine like Unity or Godot, maybe asking the AI to walk them through how to do what they want, write simple scripts and explain/suggest syntax. That shouldn’t have too much risk of generating inadvertent backdoors, and I think LLMs are pretty good at explaining basic code. Game engines already enforce the basic design structure, which will make it easier to avoid big unfixable mistakes and do everything in small pieces a LLM is less likely to fuck up.

  The same is true with using it for art; you’re right that a lot of AI art on Steam is obvious and looks the same, but really good AI assisted art isn’t. The amount of skill and effort required for that is not zero, but is less than it might be otherwise. I’m assuming there are a lot of games out there where you just can’t tell, and because there’s so much fear of backlash it just isn’t disclosed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Games bring together a lot of different mediums and require a diverse set of skills. So for instance someone might be great at drawing, and have a great idea for a game that uses their art, but they have a hard time with coding, and use AI to handle that part of it for them in a way that’s more flexible than some other more restrictive solution like RPG Maker, which might make it closer to their vision for the kind of game they wanted to make. I think such a game could be worth playing, assuming the person making it cares about what they are making and puts their own work into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m talking about the ethics

  You’re talking about your supposed right to enforce your idea of ethics on people who don’t agree with you, in a situation where there is no universal consensus, there is no law backing you up, and all supposed harms are abstract, indirect, and essentially a dispute about market competition.

  Just because they may have no ill intent is irrelevant, it only speaks to their ignorance on the matter.

  “I’m sorry officer I didn’t mean to speed, I had no ill intent”. Ok, you’re still getting a ticket. Ignorance is no excuse.

  It matters because it’s one clear reason why the people harassing them are assholes. Pretty different from a situation where someone has violated an established law very closely linked to putting people at risk of direct physical harm and that law is being enforced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the models are absolutely trained on stolen art

  Downloading isn’t stealing, and in this case the law doesn’t agree with you either, nor does Steam; games developed with AI are legal. You’re entitled to your opinion about the ethics of it, and I think it’s fine if people want to only buy games without AI, but this is an incredibly petty way to rationalize organized harassment against people with no ill intent trying to realize their dreams. The only reason anyone goes after them is because they are softer targets than any of the billionaires and corporations doing actually questionable things with the technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think using AI to help make a videogame is in any way nefarious or misuse, especially for smaller developers who wouldn’t have the resources to make the game they had in mind otherwise. They don’t deserve to get review bombed or have nasty messages left on all their social media by organized discord groups just because of that, and it’s understandable they’d be worried about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think maybe they wouldn’t if they are trying to scale their operations to scanning through millions of sites and your site is just one of them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe because of all the brigading/harassment campaigns? If it weren’t for that I’d think this is totally fine, since it’s good for people to be able to know more about what they’re buying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If there’s one person who knows their applied zk proofs, it’s that guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some pretty strong arguments that even zk proof is a flawed way of preserving privacy though, in a variety of ways. It prevents pseudonymity by enabling one-user-one-account, and it leaves users vulnerable to being coerced to reveal their full online activities by handing over cryptographic keys.