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- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 week ago:
Jarvis, explain to this man the concepts of “scale” and “size.”
Jarvis, rotate this man’s eyes ninety degrees clockwise. - Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 week ago:
That’s great. We can schedule it like heroin for professional use only, then.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 week ago:
Yes. Fuck the owners and fuck their machine guns.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
I would draw a distinct line between the critical thinking of engineering and the critical thinking of the humanities, but yes. Just in the sense that engineering alone is good, but definitely not sufficient.
There is a common archetype of person in stem who thinks that because they’re very good at programming that they’re also very good at everything, and so spends half of their college tenure in a fratboy flophouse reinventing basic philosophy ideas Isaac Asimov thought of 70 years ago as part of their mission to solve society’s problems with bitcoin.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
That is fantastic. I’m glad you like them.
The difference here, presumably, is that you’ve thought about what you eat and continue to do so knowing full well what that means, whatever it means. But~ not everybody thinks about it. Some people are carried forward through life just by the sheer momentum of their childhood.
And I say some people, but really, everybody is in some way or another. It takes active effort to change your course in life.
For example, no idea what your diet is like: if you eat a lot of junk food, do you know how much sugar you’re consuming? Have you ever thought about whether that’s a good thing?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI.
Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft’s code is AI generated today.
I highlighted part of the article for you.
- Comment on Yep 2 weeks ago:
There is if you know where to look, but yeah, I feel you. I want to wear long flowy coats and such, but they’re all cut at the goddamn hip.
- Comment on Yep 2 weeks ago:
and I’ve finally figured out style
Heeelllll yeah \m/
- Comment on The Oscars officially don’t care if films use AI 3 weeks ago:
I’m 100% positive that this comment will get downvoted heavily
Don’t worry, buddy, I’ll get you started. 🫡
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 5 weeks ago:
Here is a nice little inflation chart I’ve assembled:
You people are upset about (analogy) gas being 12.98 a gallon when you should be upset that you don’t make enough to afford gas at 12.98 a gallon. You should male enough to afford a $450 switch 2, and the fact that you don’t is because your masters have been stealing from you for 30+ years. Or since forever, if you’re as woke as me.
NES 1985 $179 -> 2025 $528 Games $49.99 -> $147
SNES 1991 $199 -> 2025 $464 Games $49.99 -> $116 SM All-Stars $59.99 -> $140
N64 1996 $199 -> 2025 $403 Games $59.99 -> 121
GameCube 2001 $199 -> 2025 $355 Games $49.99 -> $89
Gameboy 1989 $89.99 -> 2025 $230 Games $29.99 -> $76
Gameboy Advance 2001 $99.99 -> 2025 $178 Games $34.99 -> $62
Nintendo DS 2004 $149.99 -> 2025 $251 Games $29.99 -> $50
Playstation 1 1995 $299 -> 2025 $622 Games $49.99 -> $104
Playstation 2 2000 $299 -> 2025 $552 Games $49.99 -> $92
X-Box 2001 $299 -> 2025 $535 Games $49.99 -> $89
Sega Genesis 1989 $189 -> 2025 $483 Games $59.99 -> $153
Sega Dreamcast 1999 $199 -> 2025 $380 Games $49.99 -> $95
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 5 weeks ago:
Game consoles are sold at a loss. You are supposed to buy more games than the console costs.
- Comment on ghibli posting 1 month ago:
You know that thing our colelctive parents do when they want to win an argument so they just start attacking you for random things you did 6 years ago? That’s exactly what this person is doing.
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 1 month ago:
Uh. I’m gonna guess no. Is there an anime lady with robots?
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 1 month ago:
God, this image is cool. Very NaissancE, if you’ve ever played that.
- Comment on Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery 2 months ago:
Human beings have a soul you can appeal to?
Not every single one, but enough. - Comment on Do tell!!! 2 months ago:
Ha ha! We got this one for free!
- Comment on This speaks for itself 2 months ago:
I do think they have an obligation to be pretty. Pretty things make people happy. It’s a contribution to the social project we’re all working on.
A walkable city, not that a McDonalds drive-thru is specifically part of that, should have greenery, places to hang out, and pretty buildings to look at. People should like being wherever they happen to be.
The main reason this McDonalds looks like this is austerity. At least I think so. Big gray cubes are cheap to build and easily templateable.
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 2 months ago:
I don’t think I run on AMD or Intel, so uh, yes.
- Comment on Got sum Zucc? 2 months ago:
Holy shit that’s scary
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 months ago:
> calls people media illiterate
> says other people are being too hostileMy god, that was a good laugh.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 months ago:
Elon actually hands these out to people who don’t want them because they were unpopular and an easy means of telling chuds apart from… uh, chads? There’s a good chance hers is a forced advertisement and not something she’s actually paying for.
- Comment on Funny this never made it into a James Taylor song 2 months ago:
I don’t want any. :(
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
but I justify it by pointing to things like splatter or fluid acrylic painting.
The counter I would give here is that those are just techniques. The challenge, then, is whether the generation machine can be made to do things that are interesting and meaningful. I know it can produce spectacle, but spectacle and meaning are different concepts.
I don’t know much Pollock, but isn’t he valued largely for his process and expressionism? I’m not making this accusation of you, you do seem to actually care, but a lot of people who bring him up seem to think that his work actually is random and unintelligible—I don’t think that it is.
I will concede that the process of interacting with the generation machine to produce something is a creative one, I just don’t think it’s anywhere near what a lot of proponents claim it be.
I’ve used Suno, and my lasting impression of it is that it was fun, sometimes really funny, and overall kind of soul sucking. As a musician, there were essentially no times that I felt anything produced there was mine. It was just novelty. Some of it sounded really cool, but none of it was an expression of me or what I was really looking for.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think that ultimately my push back is on the folks that argue that it can’t be art.
I’m not really jumping in on this discussion, but I did want to add one thing:
I can believe two things at once.
AI generated media can’t be art … because the whole purpose of a generative AI machine is to alleviate the burden of decision making. The fewer places you let something decide for you, the more “art” you can imbue into your project. Art is a communicative effort.
Artists can use AI generated media … but the points of interest, the meaning, would not (necessarily) be the decisions the machine made.
An example above, I forget if it was you or someone else, shows a pen sketch of a scene then filled in by the generator, and I think the artist there can be given credit for the perspective, the framing of the subject, the mech-suit, the sci-fi aesthetic; but I wouldn’t credit them with the tally marks on her left shoulder, or the shape details of her eyes, or the various light-up displays that dot the walls.
There’s also something to be said for choosing as opposed to creating outright, but I think we’re losing ourselves in myopic details at this point.
The bottom line is that, aside of any ethics issues, I’m not that upset about AI media that’s honest about what it is. I watch youtube channels that depend on AI for their performance art. But, AI proponents love selling this technology as a replacement for people, which is a sentiment I find… disgusting. Inhuman.
And, I find it really sad the way a person who spent the better part of their life perfecting a style and technique can be essentially shoved out of their own niche by the 10,000 style-copy images a generator can make in an afternoon. This isn’t like photography, where painters and camera-snappers can coexist in separate styles of image production: AI generators can replace both.
Sorry, I thought all that was going to be just two paragraphs.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It doesn’t even make sense. Conservatives love, love, love AI.
Hey, does anyone remember that 500 billion dollar infrastructure package Trump wants to give AI companies? You should, it was two weeks ago.
- Comment on Double Date 3 months ago:
The new game is Miside.
The older one is Doki Doki Literature Club. - Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 4 months ago:
I’m sure your stocks will be fine.
- Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 4 months ago:
Yeeeeess. I need to install something that auto-removes google’s AI answer at the top of every page.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 6 months ago:
I don’t know the specifics, but there is such a thing as keyboard rollover. MOST KEYBOARDS—whoa, sorry. Most keyboards support up to 6 keys at once, but it might be that they’re still divided into sections with lower rollover numbers, such as the arrow keys and space. Some “gaming” keyboards support up to 25 though, so your best bet if this bothers you is just upgrading to a spiffier typer.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 6 months ago:
I do try.
Not very hard, but still.