EvilBit
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- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn | Official Gameplay Trailer 1 week ago:
Sure, garbage in, garbage out and all that. The autonomously generated stuff tends toward generic as an inherent byproduct of being a closed loop system. But that doesn’t mean a real artist couldn’t look at some boring ass slop and be inspired to explore new directions.
I think one of the common themes I’m circling these days is that “human in the loop” is a common concept around ensuring outputs from AI systems are acceptable, but a better way to look at it is that generative AI should never have a direct connection to final output. As inspiration or iteration, I think there’s potential value, but ultimately, whether it’s code, art, or content, a human should create what goes out. Using AI for intermediate acceleration is a much healthier approach than the “look how many people we can replace!” angle that’s so popular in tech.
This doesn’t solve any of the many other issues with generative AI these days, but it at least feels like a more sensible approach to the creative concerns.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn | Official Gameplay Trailer 1 week ago:
I have a serious question. To preface: I am no fan of generative AI. I hate the environmental impact, the impact on our workforce, and the risk of further widening the wealth disparity across the world.
That said, do you believe that using generative AI in this case (for prototyping and rapid iteration/visualization of intermediate/non-final design concepts) is worse than, say, artists looking at the freely available online portfolios of other artists for inspiration, provided that they generate the final designs entirely by themselves?
I’m not saying it is or isn’t at this point, but I’m curious if you have a perspective on whether/how this isn’t at least one of the less-bad ways to use AI. It seems kind of like “you can’t stop someone from asking AI for help” levels of usage, not “we fired people to replace their output with slop”.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 1 week ago:
Well no, it’s something more akin to a co-op, because profit isn’t built in.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 2 weeks ago:
“At cost” could be a compound value inclusive of overhead and labor.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you can’t fight a rocket, but an autonomous taxi on the other hand…
- Comment on For the love of the game... 2 weeks ago:
15:33 - Itchy. Tasty.
- Comment on I'm home sick today. Stomach bug. Feel like shit. Cheer me up with memes please! 3 weeks ago:
You speak truth.
- Comment on I'm home sick today. Stomach bug. Feel like shit. Cheer me up with memes please! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What should we actually turn our aggression towards? 3 weeks ago:
The presence of a profit opportunity is what gets those politicians elected though. The system is fueled by money, and that money comes from corporations. It’s kind of a chicken and egg problem, but there exist politicians that can and do try to combat these companies. They’re just outnumbered by greedy, soulless husks. The politicians are the symptom in my opinion, because they are not per se greedy and evil, whereas publicly-funded corporations, by the nature of their fiduciary duty to stockholders, are by definition greedy.
- Comment on What should we actually turn our aggression towards? 3 weeks ago:
Politicians aren’t intrinsically evil though. Corporations are. The concept of a publicly-traded corporation is basically an institutionally constructed super-rich psychopath. They’re the reason politicians are usually evil. Aim for the root cause.
- Comment on I'm home sick today. Stomach bug. Feel like shit. Cheer me up with memes please! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on YSK you can fold fitted sheets neatly (guide by ratfactor) 4 weeks ago:
This was way more entertaining than I expected a laundry folding guide to be.
- Comment on Operation Mar-Kwane 4 weeks ago:
Interestingly, it’s pronounced exactly like “limpdick”.
- Comment on TriZetto confirms 3.4M people's health and personal data was stolen during breach | TechCrunch. ( the company failed to detect for almost a year.) 4 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, the resulting class action lawsuit will make them atone for their crimes. Expect your $1.17 Venmo payment in 9-27 months.
- Comment on Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too 5 weeks ago:
Check out Brilliant Labs.
- Comment on Chase St, Minimalist "Suburban Nightmare" Horror, Out Now on Steam - Chase St, an indie from Ibzy Studios, [aims] to deliver the feeling that something is following you home. 5 weeks ago:
Upvote for you, downvote for humanity
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, quantum scale has macro effect, but the macro scale is predictable and rigidly causal, negating any meaningful quantum scale interactional impact. A macro causation effected via quantum interactions is a de facto macro interaction.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t mean that any given magnetic field is unchanging, I mean that the principles are stable and well-understood. We never see magnetic fields just randomly change with no reason or else navigation and all kinds of other technologies would be fucked forever.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 weeks ago:
Explain please?
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 weeks ago:
So you’re hung up on the phrasing “physical forces” not appearing in a textbook?
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 weeks ago:
I’m not making shit up as I go. If you don’t understand something, it isn’t consequently nonsensical.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 weeks ago:
I mean there’s no way to go from immeasurable to measurable except in scale, and anywhere north of quantum scale, physics has been reliably predictable and measurable. Ghosts’ purported impact is on a scale well above that which is unexplained.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 weeks ago:
Magnetism is a physical force, like gravity. Measurable and consistent.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 5 weeks ago:
Science has never in the history of science reliably shown a single interaction between physical entities and any sort of non-physical force. The only way ghosts could be real is if you redefined the term “ghost” to the point of breaking, like saying that the memory of a person is a ghost.
Plus, it fails the smell test in a million ways. What makes a ghost exist? Why aren’t we positively lousy with ghosts? Are there rules? What would they be and what mechanism is there to both quantify and effect them? Why do ghosts follow the rotation and revolution of the earth but otherwise aren’t physically bound? How can one have any sort of cognition? If a ghost does, how can it perceive anything without intercepting photons or other physical phenomena? If there are ghosts and somehow they have cognition and perception, are we obligated to leave Netflix on when we leave for work?
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 1 month ago:
I would leave a flaming wreck too.
- Comment on misleading cover 1 month ago:
Oh god, I’m launching! I’m launching!
- Comment on OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI 1 month ago:
You know I was just thinking that what OpenAI needs to really succeed is someone who knows how to haphazardly throw together a wildly irresponsible, insecure, and unsafe tool that gets really popular really quickly.
- Comment on DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors 1 month ago:
This, along with the story of the driverless car running over a beloved neighborhood cat, highlight the fundamental problem here: they’re training these systems to be autonomous cars - and they’re impressively close - but they’re still miles away from creating a simulation of an autonomous human. Not everything about operating a car is driving it.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 1 month ago:
I have one pulling double duty as a Pi hole and emulation console.
- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 1 month ago:
Predates him but he’s known for his version of it. There’s an entire documentary of it.
