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- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 1 day ago:
AKA all of your personal data, you know, just in case we need it
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 day ago:
I agree that they’re athletic, but they simply aren’t competing in an athletic competition while pretending that they are.
I think your comparison to the Globetrotters is on point. In the ballet and other examples, the difference to me is that they’re not pretending to be in a ballet competition while dancing the ballet.
There’s no doubt that what wrestlers do requires skill, and talent (and in most cases athleticism) but it’s “fake” in that what you’re watching isn’t an athletic competition despite its self-constructed thin veneer that it is.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 day ago:
The outcome of the match is predetermined while the participants pretend that it isn’t. That is why there are constant arguments about whether or not it’s “fake”.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 1 day ago:
They didn’t “design a directory tree” either. They were designing screens for a thing that sits on top of a directory tree, and they didn’t understand the underlying concept.
It was likely because they’re used to the abstraction that iPhones and iPads provide, where the underlying directory structures are largely hidden from users.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 1 day ago:
They were designing functionality that contained directory trees and didn’t understand directory trees. How is it my problem that this person is not qualified to do their own job?
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 1 day ago:
If I knew I was teaching remedial computers that day, I would’ve come with a lesson plan.
I’m going to stick with my initial conclusion that you love to blame the “teacher” even when they aren’t in any way a teacher.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 1 day ago:
Yeah, but you were still in a teaching position.
No, I was in a meeting with a supposedly technical person.
I’ve been in the industry for a while, and I’ve even mentored people. These gaps in basic computer knowledge are new and they’re also not my problem. I was not this person’s mentor or supposed to be teaching them anything.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 1 day ago:
I’m not a teacher.
- Comment on Find a circle that is going places 1 day ago:
I’m 40+ and I wanna go get drunk in a parking lot with you guys.
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 1 day ago:
I tried to explain a directory tree to one of them (a supposedly technical resource) for twenty minutes and failed. They’re idiots.
- Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky 5 days ago:
I’ve been on it for a few years now.
It’s different from Twitter and that’s fine. I have no real drive to join bluesky to see if it’s similar because Twitter felt deeply unhealthy anyway. Crack cocaine isn’t good for you.
- Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky 6 days ago:
As a user of both Mastodon and Lemmy, I think there are inherit differences between the format that make lemmy easily a capable replacement for Reddit, but mastodon not at all a replacement for Twitter.
To get into specifics, Lemmy is more meme and news based, and as long as there are a few thousand users using it and some percentage of those posting content…it largely scratches the same itch.
Twitter was very much an active global conversation forum. It was nicknamed the hell site for a reason because if someone took issue with or was very amused by something you posted and you became “the main character” of Twitter for even an instant (something I experienced only very slightly) it was electrifying and even sort of scary at times.
In addition, the people that were active on there were very active, and it felt at times like you could talk to anyone who had been twitterized…which was a lot of people including prominent politicians, celebrities, and even experts of certain fields.
It was just an entirely different thing altogether. Mastodon is like many of the Twitter alternatives that have popped up from time to time. It’s largely kinda the same with regards to functionality (though not having quote tweets is completely ridiculous IMO) but the engagement of it is very low, and the place largely feels very inactive. It feels like you’re talking to dead feeds posted in syndication and there’s nobody on the other end.
It’s not the same as Twitter, and I doubt that Bluesky will even be the same as Twitter. Honestly, maybe all of that’s a good thing. But the virality and the engagement and the discovery and everything on Mastodon is way turned down versus Twitter. Twitter was like the crack cocaine of social media…fast, cheap, addictive, and terrible for you. Mastodon is like a cup of tea by comparison.
- Comment on Dolores Umbridge was a JK Rowling Self Insert all this time. 6 days ago:
She is last seen surrounded by dementors
Hey, just like in real life.
- Comment on Dolores Umbridge was a JK Rowling Self Insert all this time. 6 days ago:
I feel like I was in the minority that saw those for the first time in the movies and was like…dude how fucking outright antisemitic can you be in a children’s movie?
- Comment on Do you really have to let everyone know 1 week ago:
I feel like most social media is the online version of this.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 1 week ago:
Eh, they’re perceived as more “lefty” than most of the stereotypically “patriotic” corporations of the US.
There are a couple of reasons for this: (1) Steve Jobs has/had a “crunchy granola” reputation (despite likely being a crypto fascist) due to likening himself to civil rights leaders and other “woke” people, and (2) they have a large amount of usage by people in the creative arts such as music producers, visual artists, and other people who the right would call “woke” without blinking an eye.
I think it’s all perception, and they are easily just as fascistic as the rest of the corporations. But they try to stay on the good side of a lot of people that care deeply about eroding democratic norms, and the removal of people’s rights – or at least claim to – that produce a lot of the cultural artifacts the right largely hates, but are broadly-speaking massively popular.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 1 week ago:
Probably market cap
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 1 week ago:
My family is so full of wankery about being Irish and I fucking hate it. If you can’t move back to Ireland and regain citizenship based upon ancestry you aren’t fucking Irish.
I think it’s a way for people to separate themselves from any last shred of responsibility for the country they reside in. You really are simply a piece of American shit just like me and many others. Maybe we could form a coalition and try to fix anything so maybe it wasn’t as embarrassing to be one? Nah? Great.
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 1 week ago:
Yes, I use it to generate my glue sandwich recipes daily.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 weeks ago:
Yes they are that lazy. The average office worker also has the attention span of a gnat.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 weeks ago:
Agreed!
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 weeks ago:
You a fan of Trump too? Do you just pick things to like based on how much they suck?
- Comment on An unreleased version of a Waymo privacy policy found by Jane Manchun Wong says it may use interior camera data to train AI models and sell ads. 2 weeks ago:
I remember when ads were considered a bad way to create a business model for a website. Now everyone just tries to stuff more ads into everything like they were doing with cheese in pizzas in the 90s.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 weeks ago:
You were doing this bullshit all over the thread too. But I’m sure it’s “just a joke” now.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 weeks ago:
How ironic you accuse “them” of dehumanizing people.
Dude, you’re up two posts from here saying how people are LLMs.
- Comment on Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake 2 weeks ago:
“You could imagine a world where…”
Sure, I can imagine a lot of things, and a lot of them will never materialize.
- Comment on I used to really like that one 2 weeks ago:
Japan’s sending PlayStations
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 weeks ago:
This anecdote has the makings of a “men will literally x instead of going to therapy” joke.
On a more serious note though, I really wish people would stop anthropomorphisizing these things, especially when they do it while dehumanizing and devaluing humanity as a whole.
But that’s unlikely to happen. It’s the same type of people that thought the mind was a machine in the first industrial revolution, and then a CPU in the third…now they think it’s an LLM.
LLMs could have some better (if narrower) applications if we could stop being so stupid as to inject them into things where they are obviously counterproductive.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 weeks ago:
This dumbass is convinced that humans are chatbots likely because chatbots are his only friends.
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 2 weeks ago:
Can an LLM do something similar despite having never seen anything that isn’t a word or number?
No.
