makeshiftreaper
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- Comment on exam cheating 3 hours ago:
I find it weird you’re criticizing Hank Green in your comment but use 2 links that don’t directly reference him at all and in fact the 2nd link uses AI generated art and summaries of the article. Hank Green has had a varied and nuanced take on AI that largely lands on it being a negative for society
Here’s him calling it a bubble: youtu.be/Q0TpWitfxPk
Him saying AI generated videos are bad: youtu.be/Vz0oQ0v0W10
Talking about AI datacenters being a problem: youtu.be/39YO-0HBKtA
All within the past 2 months
- Comment on What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? 4 days ago:
That is indeed what Randal concludes in the video
- Comment on What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light? 4 days ago:
Arguably you don’t, considering your matter will likely undergo a fusion reaction with what could nominally be called the ball, you and the ball will make a form of contact
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
As someone who works in tech I occasionally point out to people that if Jeff Bezos decided to go full supervillain he could hold the internet hostage. If you disabled AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud individually the cascading failures on the various systems would take weeks to fix, which we might not have with a supply chain collapse. Genuinely, I think there’s a real chance it could trigger the collapse of human civilization
- Comment on metamorphosis 2 weeks ago:
Honestly the monkey’s paw wouldn’t have to do anything. Back when we had dinosaurs the earth had significantly more oxygen in the atmosphere which helped them be as large as they were. Most dinosaurs would probably slowly suffocate to death today from oxygen deprivation
- Comment on Batman probably checks for the bat signal the way we check our screens for notifications. 3 weeks ago:
Gotham is so perpetually fucked by so many supernatural phenomena that it’s actually rare for that to happen
- Comment on PayPal's Honey to integrate with ChatGPT and other AIs for shopping assistance 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure people know this but Honey is a surprisingly shitty company for such a simple product: youtu.be/vc4yL3YTwWk
- Comment on A question for the ages 5 weeks ago:
There’s precedent for tall:
- Comment on Hades II | Review Thread (93/100 OpenCritic) 5 weeks ago:
I remember when Hades came out and my buddy was saying it was going to be GOTY over Cyberpunk 2077 and all of us just laughed at him. I think he was on the right side of history
- Comment on Misogyny or something... Idk 1 month ago:
Look, people showing cleavage are aware it’s going to draw attention. In the same way women know if they put words on their tits you’re going to read them. There’s a difference between noticing something and staring right at it
- Comment on High School DxD returns with release of two new volumes in October 1 month ago:
I’ve always loved that there was a controversy because another studio took over the anime and ruined “the artistic vision” of the creator. So much so he basically made a whole season rebooting a previous one just to make his story. His masterpiece including:
Pailingual… The spell is powerful and feared (by women), and used to gain information.[1] It has, since its introduction, become one of Issei’s trademark spells. However, it has been banned during Rating Games When cast, it causes a mysterious space to expand and unfold with Issei at the center, and only Issei and Ddraig can hear the voices that it creates Pailingual is an area-effect spell that causes women’s breasts to speak, revealing their thoughts and plans and allowing Issei and his allies to come up with counters or defenses
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 2 months ago:
Your mom has been posting a lot more on Instagram recently
- Comment on what does it mean being nice to your coworkers to you? 2 months ago:
An important thing to remember is that your job represents about a third of your life and almost half of your waking life. People as a species are sociable and want to know more about the people they spend the most time around. A lot of those interactions are not inherently trying to get something from you but are rather people just being interested in the person ls around them
- Comment on Creative way to boost your business 2 months ago:
Imagine being the woman who drags herself in there, still mostly asleep, orders her coffee, gets it free?, drinks it, goes outside and sees this
That’d be pretty fucking gross
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 months ago:
Software Engineers hate stand-up
- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 2 months ago:
Online dating
- Comment on Fox Host roasted for absurdly hypocrital take on Gavin Newsom’s posts mocking Donald Trump 2 months ago:
Hypocrisy only works on people capable of feeling shame
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 2 months ago:
It’s not pointless, it has a very clear point: centralize the police in the single territory free from the federal/state devide, where the entirety of the government that controls the country functions, and place under the direct control of an autocratic ruler who has previously used control of this territory to avoid consequences for his crimes
The primary difference is he’s doing it in year 1 in preparation for what he’s about to do instead of retroactively in the last 20 days to try to save his ass. If that doesn’t scare the shit of of you then it should
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think the US infrastructure leads to a confirmation bias. There probably aren’t that many people who are actually “bad” drivers out there. The majority of people aren’t getting tickets, damaging their car, or hurting people most of the time when they drive. Our culture being so car centric however means that the actually bad drivers don’t have a choice but to be on the road. Bad driving also calls a lot of attention to itself because it’s dangerous. So when you drive you frequently see bad driving when realistically most people are just fine drivers, leading to you thinking more people are bad, and thus you must be better
That and American exceptionalism probably
- Comment on AI IS BURNING THE PLANNET!! 2 months ago:
I never said useless. Mustard Gas is really useful, State Sponsored propaganda is useful. Usefulness does not equate to goodness as much as capitalist will try to convince you otherwise
- Comment on AI IS BURNING THE PLANNET!! 2 months ago:
“It’s just the corner of the fireworks store that’s on fire, I don’t see what you’re concerned about”
AI power growth is projected to grow exponentially for a service a lot of people view as morally reprehensible and actively harmful
Spencer Weart identified the dangers of global warming in the 50s, we ignored the warnings and now people and entire species are dying. Excuse us for trying to prevent accelerating the problem
- Comment on Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst? 2 months ago:
I’ve always liked this old Cracked video which argues that Zach Morris’ Time Out is low stakes enough to not create a superhero world but just kinda makes everything work for you
In a world without other superheroes? Rogue’s powers from X-Men are probably the worst. You can never have physical contact with other people for the rest of your life and there’s no other powers to steal. Lose/lose
- Comment on "A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing. 2 months ago:
I think it’s typically because you lead with the thing people would know them for, or the thing that person is more known for in general. So because there’s so few astronauts, it’s pretty fucking impressive that you think I’m more likely to know their guitar work than their space career
- Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made 2 months ago:
This year alone:
- Sinners
- The Phoenician Scheme
- Companion
- Bring Her Back
- Black Bag
Which are all original movies that are genuinely good. Expanding to others there’s:
- The Legend of Ochi
- Ugly Stepsister
- Novocaine
- Clown in a Cornfield
- Eddington
- K-Pop Demon Hunters
- Oh, Hi!
- The Ballad of Wallace Island
- Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
You don’t put in the effort to see original movies and then bitch that there aren’t good movies
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 2 months ago:
You’re citing examples from the 6th, 4th, and 18th centuries and arguably the last one isn’t even about intellectual property
Even ignoring the blatant “what aboutism” if your justification for why it’s ok to steal video game ideas is because some Byzantians were mean to you 1400 years ago just know that nobody is going to take you seriously
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 2 months ago:
AI Data centers noticeably fuck with the grid. As a result they are facing internal and external pressure to generate more of their own power. Microsoft is opening a nuclear power plant. I would not be shocked to learn through solar, wind, and coal they provide the majority of their own power
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 2 months ago:
I disagree, that looks like a record player. You can see the plastic cover and what looks like part of the plate on top. There’s also a VCR and I doubt there were many instances of PS3s and VCRs being plugged into the same CRT. I don’t doubt it happened, but this is giving more late 90s/early 2000s than mid/late 2000s
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 3 months ago:
You’re correct, I had mixed up several of them in my memory. I think 6 is what I was thinking of where you can say “fuck your civil war, I’m out”
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 3 months ago:
Technically speaking Far Cry 5 meets this definition. At the beginning of the game the big bad guy arrests you and says to wait while he brings you the person you’re trying to save. If you sit there for 10 minutes doing nothing he returns with the person and lets both of you go. Most people just start murdering instead
- Comment on It is linguistically impossible to behave anyone but yourself 3 months ago:
I’d argue tranqilizing someone is a form of “behaving” another person
