Artisian
@Artisian@lemmy.world
- Comment on Society needs to keep score on positive impacts 2 days ago:
Seems hard to track cats pet without a lot of surveillance.
I do think that doing this personally is part of why gratitude journals and similar things work so well though.
- Comment on The 2025 version of "Please consider this environment before printing this email" should be "Please consider this environment before using A.I. to respond to this email" 3 days ago:
I mean, depends on the email. If you spend more time answering yourself than the AI would, you almost certainly emit more green house gasses, used more fresh water and electricity, and burned more calories. Depending on the email, you might have also decreased net happiness generally.
Do we care about the environment or not? Please, oppose datacenters in desserts and stop farming alphalpha where water supplies are low. But your friend using AI to answer an email that could have been a google search is not the problem.
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 6 days ago:
This is a good point
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 6 days ago:
That level of sales sounds really realistic to me, most employees are not doing well and experiments in employee ownership generally see people selling that ownership fast without training (at least I’m told). I don’t follow your bit about sales -> stock go up, my best guess is you’re saying that this will crash the price artificially causing people to think now is a good time to buy?
But if you buy too much you’ll be in a position like bezos, likely to get redistributed? I think we’d need a lot of different people with the liquidity?
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 6 days ago:
though they would drop in value very fast thereafter, no? My naive understanding is that a good share of people would sell them immediately, causing a price crash.
- Comment on I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust 1 week ago:
All will be rust!
- Comment on Inflation outpaces wage growth for over 40% of Americans 2 weeks ago:
From the article, the 40% with falling wages are not the ones I expected. Custodians, grocers, and service sector are in the top 50% it seems, their wages are doing well vs inflation. It’s surgeons and programmers who are seeing wages drop.
So it’s kinda a weird headline. From the article, this sounds like the labor gains I would want to see.
- Comment on Why do some companies like a utility put out ads? 2 weeks ago:
A bunch more of this advertising started on my area after the local city council started considering making their own public option for power.
- Comment on What should I get my online friend for their birthday? 3 weeks ago:
If you have a venmo or other money-transfer method, consider cash.
While a thoughtful gift is nice, cash is flexible. Enough small gifts, and one can flee home…
- Comment on The sole purpose of language models is to lower the market value of human skills. 4 weeks ago:
I do those too! That’s where the ideas for new architectures, datasets, and training tweaks come from! Math is fun, and it’s fascinating that math can talk sometimes.
- Comment on The sole purpose of language models is to lower the market value of human skills. 4 weeks ago:
I think in a non market economy I would still work on language models. It’s cool that a machine can hold a conversation.
- Comment on Uniciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release! 5 weeks ago:
I’m going to make a mildly stronger claim. I think this game really is quite moddable by a non-coder. What you need is to implement a different ruleset with new win conditions; everything else can be done with copying existing files into the correct file structure. New win conditions are specified by a pretty boring JSON file, docs here:
github.com/…/5-Miscellaneous-JSON-files.md#victor…
See here for an MVP for a mod of this type (probably replaces/strips away too much, but you should be able to find the vanilla files in the github linked in the OP):
Which is all to say, this is much easier than doing address lookup imo.
- Comment on Uniciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release! 5 weeks ago:
By testing it out in the app?
I’ve also tried getting AI to program really simple things, like using js to find particular elements in a webpage (which I don’t control and involves far too many lines). It did fine.
It’s not ready for commercial use, but it makes hacking around unfamiliar code more accessible. But hey, I’m too lazy to test this use case, so let’s keep arguing about it instead =) (though, thinking about it, automating the argument would be something the AI could do just as well, eh?)
- Comment on Uniciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release! 5 weeks ago:
Kozy asked for a different rule set; essentially changing a few numbers related to non-combat victory (shorter research times, lower policy points required, etc). Identifying these numbers in a complicated code base, especially for a non-programmer, could be very difficult. For the non-programmer, understanding how the code works isn’t very important. You just need to know what to change, and perhaps make sure you don’t change more.
I think this is exactly a case where getting a novice programming friend to make a mod would make sense. Equivalently, to vibe code.
- Comment on Uniciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release! 5 weeks ago:
That sounds like something easily modded; like a couple of integers somewhere. It would be cool to do (and seems vibe-code accessible if a model can hold the full script in context?)
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 5 weeks ago:
You can be selective with this power; works well for a lot of folks. Have a smallish in group where you’re always upstanding, enjoy all the benefits that our tribal brain craves, and also enjoy the material benefits.
- Comment on Its likely a very large percentage of people would choose to have been born earlier than they were if given the choice. 5 weeks ago:
Some folks would have easier access to their drugs though. Pre war on drugs might have some benefits
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 5 weeks ago:
Needing to go through and disable all the stuff sounds like managing bloat to me, no?
I’m personally angry that we have ads on the default minesweeper and solitaire. Gross
- Comment on Uniciv (open-source android/desktop 4x game) 4.17 release! 5 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation 5 weeks ago:
downvoters: is it wrong?
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- Comment on Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books 5 weeks ago:
The students read Tolkien, then ‘invent’ Orgreorcs and Dwarvves (with ‘2’ vs, cause they are also vampires). The judge thinks this is similar to how claude works. I, nor I suspect the judge, meant that the students were reusing settings whole cloth.
- Comment on The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition 1 month ago:
I would love to see the source on this one. It sounds fascinating.
- Comment on The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition 1 month ago:
I agree. It really doesn’t look like AI is the thing that broke. More like the education system, or something about social media.
- Comment on Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books 1 month ago:
As a civil matter, the publishing houses are more likely to get the full money if anthropic stays in business (and does well). So it might be bad, but I’m really skeptical about bankruptcy (and I’m not hearing anyone seriously floating it?)
- Comment on Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books 1 month ago:
Plantifs made that argument and the judge shoots it down pretty hard. That competition isn’t what copyright protects from. Would love to hear your thoughts on the ruling (it’s linked by reuters).
- Comment on Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books 1 month ago:
I also read through the judgement, and I think it’s better for anthropic than you describe. He distinguishes three issues: A) Use any written material they get their hands on to train the model (and the resulting model doesn’t just reproduce the works).
B) Buy a single copy of a print book, scan it, and retain the digital copy for a company library (for all sorts of future purposes).
C) Pirate a book and retain that copy for a company library (for all sorts of future purposes).
A and B were fair use by summary judgement. Manning this judge thinks it’s clear cut in anthropics favor. C will go to trial.
- Comment on The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition 1 month ago:
I’m still looking for a good reason to believe critical thinking and intelligence are taking a dive. It’s so very easy to claim the kids aren’t all right. But I wish someone would check. An interview with the gpt cheaters? A survey checking that those brilliant essays aren’t from people using better prompts? Let’s hear from the kids! Everyone knows nobody asked us when we were being turned into ungrammatical zombies by spell check/grammar check/texting/video content/ipads/the calculator.
- Comment on In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data 2 months ago:
Idk how much this is dystopian. Once your data is explicitly your property, we have a much better dialog about data brokers. Imagine the class action lawsuits against data breaches.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 2 months ago:
If you wanna go the extra mile, skimming an ally guide for 10 minutes, looking up some terminology and concepts, would reduce awkwardness by a fair bit. I certainly would have avoided a half dozen missteps if I did some reading.