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- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 14 hours ago:
Icarus flew too close to the sun, you know.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 14 hours ago:
Gen AI is not a hammer, it is an auto-construction machine that removes you from the process of building. It doesn’t empower people, it sidesteps them.
- Comment on Enough 1 day ago:
Oh, it’s one of those toilets in silent hill.
- Comment on Deserved? Poll inside 1 day ago:
Yeah, I met a girl who was 40 once who stuck her fingers in my soup and that was not hot at all because she didn’t say anything about that being in kelvin which really ruined my too-hot-and-spicy ramen but it ended up working out because I actually wanted just-warm-and-spicy ramen anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I mean. Okay.
Can’t force a horse to drink, I guess. - Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
You should leave and reflect on your behavior. That would be nice.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
Okay, not sure how much this matters considering where the world is heading, but:
If they can’t get better working conditions because you’ll complain (it’s not fair, yadda yadda), how will you get better working conditions when they complain (it’s not fair, yadda yadda)?
I’m just saying, if you’re not willing to play ball, why should I care about your sick pay?
Medicaid is gonna burn up soon. Should I be concerned that you’ll be losing coverage, or are we just fully on board with this petty individualism?
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
That entertainment is labor. What are you talking about?
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 3 weeks ago:
And if the credit card issuers have already won this battle?
I mean, I agree, I don’t like it either. I don’t even have a credit card. But I don’t see anything changing without a movement.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 4 weeks ago:
Haha! Ahh…
“You are a senior games engine developer, punished by the system. You’ve been to several board meetings where no decisions were made. Fix the issue now… or you go to jail. Please.”
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 4 weeks ago:
Aw, don’t be a sore loser.
I can’t engage with your point on its merits because it’s not relevant to the argument that I’m making—it’s a complete non-sequitur.
You want me to prove that the periodic table doesn’t predict undiscovered elements? What does that have to do with where people direct their effort and attention?
This is why the tomato fruit/vegetable example is so useful: it’s about what facts are useful to whom. It actually has nothing to do with the periodic table at all, that just happens to be a particularly prickly thorn for stem majors.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 4 weeks ago:
Neither of the two constructions you listed would result in a periodic table.
I… didn’t say that they would? If you change the map, it’s obviously a different map. You’d call it “Metallica’s table of metals,” or something.
So your telling me that I need to be cautious of you derailing the conversation away from it’s original premise?
No… I just don’t think you realize how anti-intellectual you’re being.
i’ll be keeping you to the premise and the periodic table for this discussion. It need not go further.
Okay, dad. But, you were the one who brought up fascists.
Very rude, by the way.
Uh, to anyone reading, I guess: Look up Jordan Peterson’s wikipedia. He is not a fan of whatever his meat-addled brain thinks Post Modernism is.
If the ordering of the periodic table were arbitrary, it couldn’t be a periodic table.
It is arbitrarily a periodic table because the periodic table has utility. That utility is why we don’t arrange them a different way. This isn’t complicated.
If you want an example of different motivations: Do these periods tell you how beautiful each element is? Does beauty rise in each column and row? You might need a different map for that.
In fact, the ordering even predicted languages that were not yet known to the person who developed the order.
That would be very insightful. I would say we should arbitrarily prefer that ordering because of how useful it would be to us.
Or we could arbitrarily choose not to because just the one language is good enough, innit?
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 4 weeks ago:
It can be constructed in other ways. I gave you two of them. Those other presentations are not “less correct,” they’re just less useful. It just so happens that the most useful, scientific depiction of the table to us is also the one that contains the most facts.
You are also wrong in the basic philosophy of it.
Keep in mind, this argument I had was several proxy-arguments downstream of whether or not transwomen are women. So, be aware of what waters you’re treading into.
Isn’t the rejection of post-modernism like a very Jordan-Peterson–like thing to do? I’m pretty sure I heard him whining about it when he was also whining about
jewscultural marxists. - Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 4 weeks ago:
Wow, there he is. Like, for real.
It’s okay, man. You majored in some science field, you don’t care much for philosophy; we don’t have to be at each other’s throats here. I’m not questioning the validity of the periodic table, it’s simply a way of thinking about it.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 4 weeks ago:
Ah, there he is!
Just kidding.
The extreme usefulness of the one periodic table as we know it is why this is so hard to talk about. Philosophically, it isn’t any different: it is arranged by human values for human consumption. I think there is likely a strong reason that alien values would converge here, but that doesn’t really affect its arbitreity. The elements don’t have value unto themselves, they just are.
And there are plenty of different ways to arrange it. For one, if all you care about are the metals for some reason, you can arrange the nonmetals out of it completely. You could keep a linear, alphabetical list because whatever work you’re doing is derived from chemistry but does not actually care about atomic values.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 4 weeks ago:
Oh, this is actually a perfect example of the arbitreity of mapping systems!
A looong time ago on reddit, I got into an argument with someone who was doing that thing where you confuse the map for the object itself. We were mostly talking about the chemistry table. But anyway, he just could not see how a change in motivation, that is what the map designer finds useful, could change how the map is arranged.
I mean, I don’t think this would convince him: he would just say the culinary version isn’t real. But still, I really like it.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 4 weeks ago:
How do you think alek found the article?
Why for fun?
Hell yeah, dude~ \m/
Mate, if you don’t want to be caught in the middle of a bunch of anti-seagull-fetishism, then you shouldn’t be sealioning in the middle of the anti-seagull-fetishism thread.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 4 weeks ago:
Oh look, it’s a link to the same article as pictured in the meme itself. That’s absolutely crazy. Cheers to alekwithak for knowing how to google words that they’ve seen.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 4 weeks ago:
Meaningful discussion? About revenge killing a bird? You are the psychopath in the picture.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 4 weeks ago:
No, no.
“All videos are AI made by glowies, like the moon landing.” That’s what you should say.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 4 weeks ago:
*The important thing is that we’re killing seagulls, you mean.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 4 weeks ago:
Yeah! Like that!
He accidentally grabbed the bird’s legs, accidentally hulk-smashed it into a wall, accidentally got its blood on his chips, which he accidentally ate while smirking.
You’re winning, keep talking!
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 4 weeks ago:
Look, man. I just talked to Chris Brown. He told me you will be sanctioned and put into the bonk-pit for 21 days for being a bird lover. That is, unless you can post a video of you bonking a bird right now to prove you aren’t a traitor to our cause.
You can email it to wife.keeps.stealing.my.chips@birdwatchers.com
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 4 weeks ago:
The only consideration a seagull deserves is death by mein fuhrer. You… wouldn’t happen to be harboring any seagulls, would you?
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 4 weeks ago:
This is a really useful line of argumentation.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 4 weeks ago:
Hey! You’re supposed to be on our side!
The wife-beater bird-beater consortium will hear about this. - Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 4 weeks ago:
I’ve given light bonks to my wife before. It’s a shame the judge won’t see reason.
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, “democratize art” means “I’m jealous of the cash sloshing around out there.”
People say things like “I’m not as good as this guy on TikTok.” Why do you need to be? Literally, who asked?
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 5 weeks ago:
This is creepy.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 5 weeks ago:
Anyone who puts a chatbot anywhere is definitely a failure, yeah.