Red_October
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- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 day ago:
Okay but are any AI chatbots really open source? Isn’t half the headache with LLMs the fact that there comes a point where it’s basically impossible for even the authors to decode the tangled madness of their machine learning?
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 4 days ago:
Okay but also giving a kid a sex toy before their 18th birthday is how you end up on a list and have to tell your neighbors about it.
- Comment on Where will nsfw game creators go now that itch.io has "changed"? 4 days ago:
Itch delisted ALL Nsfw games, rather than sorting and qualifying content.
- Comment on Helion Secures Land and Begins Building on the Site of World’s First Fusion Power Plant 5 days ago:
Well that’s certainly optimistic.
- Comment on change_org 5 days ago:
Well signatures and phone calls only go so far. When it comes to big, serious, literal life or death issues, petitions just aren’t going to get the job done and it becomes pretty pointless to waste your energy on that particular course of action.
Similarly, it’s pretty shitty to act like action on smaller issues means we’re just ignoring bigger issues. Your concern for Idaho’s treatment of disabled kids isn’t instead of wanting Israel’s genocide to stop or the Ukraine war to end.
- Comment on UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition. 1 week ago:
So peaceful words aren’t working? Well alright, sounds like it’s time for plan B.
- Comment on Last Epoch developer Eleventh Hour Games gets acquired by KRAFTON 1 week ago:
That doesn’t really read to me like a good sign. If Krafton is willing to do what they did to Subnautica’s team, then basically no contract they sign is worth the paper it’s written on. Seeing them effectively murder their own project and dismantle a proven successful developer like this doesn’t inspire confidence that they’ll be more graceful in handling others.
- Comment on Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this 1 week ago:
Probably not really. Their reasons are likely to be exactly what they stated, a weak attempt to keep costs down. They’re not cackling villains twirling their mustaches in glee at the power they hold over their peons, they’re just greedy. They want the red number on the spreadsheet to be smaller, they don’t care how much misery it causes. When it comes down to it, the behaviors of the owner-class can just about ALWAYS be explained, and predicted, by the simple measure of “What makes more profit.”
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 2 weeks ago:
I think suspicious is the wrong word. Suspicious seems to suggest doubt or a lack of certainty, but the criticism is pretty predictable. Industry forces could afford to ignore it when it looked impossible to get the signatures, but now that the signatures are in the bag they’re having to take a different tactic.
SOME of the criticism is certainly genuine and exactly what it appears to be at face value, but it was inevitable that those doubts would be artificially boosted now.
- Comment on If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people? 5 weeks ago:
If I went to all the trouble of hacking you and I emptier your bank account and savings, I’d get $12.
If I emptied Sony’s accounts, not only would I have potentially millions or more, but I could also get industrial secrets that could be worth even more, or possibly could be used to further my own electronics industry.
One of these isn’t worth the effort.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 month ago:
You seem to have missed the point. Whether or not you think that would be an easy job, the whole reason you’d be there is to be the one that takes all the blame when the autopilot kills someone. It will be your name, your face, every single record of your past mistakes getting blasted on the news and in court because Elon’s shitty vanity project finally killed a real child instead of a test dummy. You’ll be the one having to explain to a grieving family just how hard it is to actually pay complete attention every moment of every day, when all you’ve had to do before is just sit there.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 month ago:
This technology purely exists to make human drivers redundant and put the money in the hands of big tech and eventually the ruling class composed off of politicians risk averse capitalists and beurocracy. There is no other explanation for robo taxis to exist.
There is another reason, though, and it’s much simpler. Basic greed.
There are people who see the opportunity to make more money for themselves, so they’ll do it. When it comes to robo taxis, they’re not interested in class struggles, it’s not about politics, their interest in making human drivers redundant extends only so far as increasing their customer base. These aren’t Machiavellian schemers rubbing their hands together and cackling at their dark designs coming to fruition, it’s just assholes in suits who’s one and only concern is “number go up.”
Even when it comes to their politics and to the class dynamics, their end goal is always the same. Number go up. They don’t care about what harm it could do. They’re not intent on deliberately doing more harm, they give no thought to doing less harm, they do not care. All that drives them, ever, is Number Go Up.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 1 month ago:
Remember guys, Tesla wants to have a living person sitting behind the wheel for “safety.” Don’t YOU want to get paid minimum wage to sit in a car all day, paying attention but doing nothing unless it’s about to crash, at which point you’ll be made the scapegoat for not preventing the crash?
Welcome to the future, you’re gonna hate it here.
- Comment on What the fuck 1 month ago:
I think a big part of why it’s funny is because the original was so very NOT funny. It was such an intensely dark shift in tone, a deliberately serious dramatic beat, in a comic that was all silly fun, completely unexpected and out of place.
If it was just a miscarriage joke then yeah it’d just be purely fucked up, and pretty quickly forgotten. It’s the meta context that turns the whole thing into more of a joke than any single comic could tell.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It 1 month ago:
OK boomer.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It 1 month ago:
Clearly they should just make their own coffee and cut the avocado toast right?
- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 1 month ago:
So they added one thing, but you’re complaining they haven’t added literally every other improvement you can imagine?
- Comment on Oh noes! 1 month ago:
Maybe if we’re lucky they’ll all fall in the pit and disappear together!
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
Well the thing that made it blindingly obvious was that it was a 30 second video of a tall truck driving full tilt toward a low bridge, so obviously something was about to happen!
- Comment on A Sealed Copy Of Fallout 3 DLC Is Selling For Over $2,000, And Fans Have No Idea Why 2 months ago:
Is it SELLING for that price? Or is it LISTED for that price? I could put my beat up left shoe up for sale for $10,000 if I wanted to, but until someone actually buys it at that price, which nobody will, it’s meaningless.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 2 months ago:
Well the kid definitely can’t enjoy life now that his mom caught him and put him on blast in front of the entire nation.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 2 months ago:
The Engineer was also told they would get a bonus if they could make maintenance more common and more expensive under the guise of improved technology.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 2 months ago:
Investors and venture capitalists fronting money and riding the Hype-Go-Round, but when the music stops and the lights go out someone’s going to be out a shitload of money.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 2 months ago:
The problem isn’t one of motivated learners being forced to drag their heels amidst their unmotivated peers.
The problem is that the core function of LLMs, the whole basis for their existence, is completely and entirely truth-agnostic. Not only do they not know what is the truth and what is not, they don’t even know what the difference is. LLMs are very good at guessing what word looks like it should come next, they can make very convincing statements, they can be very persuasive, but those words don’t MEAN anything to the machine and they are made without any consideration for accuracy.
They are literally making everything up on the basis of whether or not it sounds good, and every crackpot bullshit conspiracy theory from flat earth dumbshittery to very sincere-sounding arguments that birds aren’t real have been included in the training data. That all linguistically SOUNDS fine, so to an LLM it’s fair game!
And even curating your training data to ONLY contain things like textbooks wouldn’t cure the problem, because LLMs just aren’t capable of knowing what those words mean. It’s why they can’t do even basic Math, the one thing Computers have been incredible at!
Using an LLM as an actual teacher is genuinely worse than no education at all, because it will just create a generation that, instead of knowing nothing, will very confidently be wrong all the time.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 2 months ago:
The vehicle, certified for airworthiness and flight-tested over 170 hours with more than 500 takeoffs and landings, is now headed for mass production.
Jesus fuck please tell me that’s a typo and they left some zeros off. Your average commercial pilot has more than that before any airline is even willing to consider hiring them, that is absolutely not sufficient testing.
Still, early adopters may face bureaucratic turbulence. Potential buyers must be both licensed drivers and certified pilots.
No shit. And that is never going to change, becoming a certified pilot is a lot fuckin harder than getting a driver’s license, and for very good reasons. If some BMW-driving cunt can’t even be arsed to use his turn signal do you really want to ease the “bureaucratic turbulence” just so he can fuck up and crash into a packed airliner? These things still have to use runways, the people flying them still need to know how to behave themselves at airports, how to identify and avoid restricted airspace, how to communicate with ATC and how to behave if (let’s be honest, when) they get Intercepted.
And all of this so you can have a car that’s worse at being a car, and an airplane that’s worse at being an airplane, but hey at least you won’t have to book a rental car at your destination airport, which I remind you they still have to use.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 months ago:
If the house you’ve been living in for ages goes up in value, that doesn’t turn into money you can spend.
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 2 months ago:
To start, it’s a large scale demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect. They obviously understand very little about the law, if anything, but they think they understand one loophole and the sense of understanding breeds confidence. When you understand nothing, the feeling that you now understand something can be a powerful one.
Follow that up with a conspiracy-theorist’s mindset and it starts to make more sense. The SovCit thinks they understand this loophole, but that They don’t want to allow it. Who are They? Pick one. The Deep State, Corporate Elites, Rogue Judges, whoever it is that the SovCit feels has the power and will to ignore the rules just to personally thwart that SovCit’s stunningly clever application of the law. Now, their case isn’t failing because literally everything they thought they understood about the law is wrong, it’s because that Judge is willfully ignoring the law in an abuse of power specifically intended to put a stop to this. It’s not that the SovCit was wrong to think their signature on legal documents was meaningless because they wrote “Rights Reserved” beside it, the Deep State just doesn’t want people to know that’s how you avoid consequences!
Finally, wrap it all up with mythical “experts” and a self propagating network. One person trying all that shit alone might realize they don’t actually know what they’re doing, but they’ll select their contacts to surround themselves with people who will reassure them that if the first letter of the name on that legal document is capitalized it actually means a shadow-account created at birth and not the biological person. They’ll get support to help them overcome their doubts, fed by rumors of a friend of a friend who totally got it to work, or someone who got away with a warning on a traffic stop because they didn’t recognize the cop’s jurisdiction, or a friend’s cousin who has been using a fake “Private” license plate for months and has never been puled over. None of these experts materialize and provide solid, actionable information in a crisis, but the rumors and support are enough to keep any doubts at bay.
- Comment on What is this for? (Wrong answers only) 2 months ago:
Soup bowl.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 2 months ago:
Heating water is a matter of physics, not technology. The amount of energy used to increase the temperature of water is literally how the units are defined. Do feel free to make a breakthrough on Fusion power though, I hear it’s still only 20 years away.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 2 months ago:
An idea that requires 11.5 times more energy production on a daily basis than the entire country’s output is a lot more than “Not perfect.” So maybe you pipe down before you go calling everyone who disagrees with you autistic, m’kay?