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- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI 1 hour ago:
We should just wall off Florida (all my world improvement plans involve walling off Florida), stick them in there and then have the AI administer their lives, and see how long they last.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI 1 hour ago:
As with everything it’s grey rather than black and white. It can do the things people claim it can do but only up to a point. All of the people claiming it can run a business on its own selling you a lie, but that’s not to say that it can’t do some tasks within a business.
For example it can code pretty effectively, as long as the application is relatively small in total file size, anything large it tends to get lost in.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI 1 hour ago:
Trump was also very pissy at all of the EU but apparently Brussels in particular really hurt his ego
No what happened is that all of his backers want him to go after the EU because the EU is constantly suing American megacorps for breaking of local laws, and they don’t like that.
Trump is just doing their bidding, he isn’t actually angry at the EU, except because he has the vocabulary of a rather dim 8-year-old, everything is “nasty” and “evil” and “bad”.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI 1 hour ago:
Who cares what Peter Thiel thinks about anything. He’s a leading cause of the plutocracy that is now happening in the United States, and that’s one of his better points.
Even if he was knowledgeable on the subject he has a biased take anyway.
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 1 hour ago:
So take it you’re not a PC gamer?
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 hour ago:
The annotated text idea could work but I’m just sceptical of whether or not you would end up doing more work annotating all of the text, listening to it back, redoing certain bits and then editing the final result into a single file then you would if you just had a human do it.
After all you’ve really automated is the reading of the text, which in the grand scheme of things doesn’t take all that long.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 hour ago:
I wish I didn’t have to go with audible, I am acutely aware that I don’t really own the audiobooks and they could be taken off the platform at any time.
I wish there was some other option but I don’t know of any other audiobook providers. They have the industry locked down.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 hour ago:
They are redoing all of the discworld books like this, and personally I can’t stand it.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 hour ago:
What, no way, they did not replace Steven Fry.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 hour ago:
Usually I agree with this with the exception of hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy where the audio drama is much better than the audiobook version.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 hour ago:
They still don’t understand the context of what they’re reading though so they can’t apply tone correctly.
- Comment on How to delete your Twitter (or X) account 4 hours ago:
Couldn’t we just stop using it. I can’t imagine deleting the account will have any measurable impact because I don’t trust them not to just retain the data like Facebook does.
- Comment on How to delete your Twitter (or X) account 4 hours ago:
most people use it for PORN anyways
Damn, there’s erotic tweets?
- Comment on Indie Dev Who Pulled Game From Xbox In Solidarity With Palestinian-Led BDS Hopes Others Will Do The Same 4 hours ago:
Surely the actionable end state for Microsoft is to cease their AI support in Palestine? Of course they won’t so functionally this doesn’t really matter, but I agree that it makes sense to have a stated goal even if it’s just for the purposes of explaining the boycott to other people.
- Comment on USDA Reverses Course, Commits to Restore Purged Climate Webpages in Response to Farmers’ Lawsuit 6 hours ago:
The German language’s ability to communicate meaning simply through word lens is impressive.
Brizlet is probably fine, but Viornzirgizuetunkuszt probably means resource extraction with nuclear bombs or something.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 6 hours ago:
Honestly audible are terribles. They are constantly doing things that annoy me, like they must have a team somewhere that spends its days going, how can we kill this golden goose?
They are going through and replacing audiobooks recorded in the 1980s with new ones which in theory should improve their quality but they’re getting rid of the classic sounds of those books.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 6 hours ago:
My experience is these systems never get the intonation and stresses right. It drives me nuts and I can’t listen to it.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 23 hours ago:
That’s because the founding fathers forgot to put in the Constitution don’t be corporate dicks because they thought it was obvious.
- Comment on Man arrested after fires at homes linked to PM 1 day ago:
Isn’t that the point though it wouldn’t have occurred to a random member of the public because a random member of the public isn’t a politician.
- Comment on Man arrested after fires at homes linked to PM 1 day ago:
I’m completely confused about what you’re mad about. There was public outcry Boris Johnson ended up running away because there was an investigation that would have ended badly for him.
Also you seem to be mad at Starmer despite the fact that I don’t recall him having personally done anything ever. I don’t particularly agree with Labour’s current direction but that’s a whole party issue.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year 1 day ago:
That’s what she said.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year 1 day ago:
It’s not a bug, the swing sits in New York just do that.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year 1 day ago:
I’m taking bets on whether we’ll get GTA 7 before GTA 6
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year 1 day ago:
What universe are you from where it’s coming out next week.
- Comment on Tekken 8 replaces their entire balance team after disastrous Season 2 update 1 day ago:
Even if they got it right the first time if they introduce new characters later on they have to rebalance everything.
- Comment on Tekken 8 replaces their entire balance team after disastrous Season 2 update 1 day ago:
Game seasons are not really the same thing as live service games though.
I’m really not into Tekken but there are games I play that have setup. Of course probably the most famous of all been Foxhole.
Anyway the point is that without “seasons” (simply called that because it harkens back to TV not because there are necessarily four in a year) there isn’t really any natural conclusion to the game, so you have short tournaments and people rank up within those tournaments, but obviously you don’t want the tournaments to go on for too long because otherwise there’s no way in for new players as they’ll start way down the rankings and not be able to compete. The solution for this is to reset everything every season, but then you’ve got the problem that people learn the meta and are able to rank up to high ranks almost immediately, whereas newer players don’t stand a chance so you haven’t really fixed the problem, the solution to that is to change the meta every season. That way everyone has an equal chance of working it out for themselves and ranking up.
I’m pretty sure they even did this with OverWatch back in the day.
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 1 day ago:
What you find the 12 pixels that comprise this image to be suspicious? Given the low resolution I’m not sure how you can come to any real opinion about it at all but it certainly doesn’t scream AI generated.
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 1 day ago:
I’ve heard of nigging but I’ve never heard of this.
That said when these idiots typically start hanging around a bar you know that it’s a good indication that you need to to go to a better bar.
Of course it’s always a good idea to hang around for a little bit to see how long it is until one of them gets a drink thrown in their face. Always entertaining
- Comment on Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years 1 day ago:
I would totally exploit people if I actually got the opportunity to do so, it’s just no one will let me do it.
- Comment on Darfall, a fantasy city-builder with hero-based RPG gameplay and night monster attacks, released on Steam. 2 days ago:
When you make a game trailer steam recommends two trailers (I think you can only have two trailers at any one time). One of them can be edited but the other should probably include some gameplay. Because just from that trailer alone it kind of looks like an RTS, I’m not getting any city builder vibes from it.