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- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 hour ago:
Lol, I meant Reimann too since he’s German, but mostly because I’m an idiot.
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 4 hours ago:
Fucking hilarious that this is party that starts seizing the means of production.
It was never, ever even once about states rights. It was never about fighting communism. It’s all racism, always has been.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 1 day ago:
My relatives who’ve been screaming about mark of the beast and shit for years sure confuse the hell Out of me when they voice support for this while wearing their maga hats.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 day ago:
Xcellent choice, would be amazing, a perfect pick. I’d toss Riemann or Ramanujan into the mix if I could pick anyone and ignore the language barrier.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 day ago:
To be frank, if you put Angela on this list my answer would be her a thousand times over. Shes just so damn engaging, love her content.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 day ago:
Agreed, not the person I respect or believe is going to reveal the most truth. But he’s the best one on the list to keep you engaged and entertained for 3 hours.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 1 week ago:
I was really expecting them to lean into my stupid old joke. I’m a vegetarian once removed, I only eat animals that only eat plants.
Can’t even clear that low bar of creativity.
- Comment on OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office 2 weeks ago:
I can’t help but feel like this is the most important part of the article:
The model’s refusal to accept information to the contrary, meanwhile, is no doubt rooted in the safety mechanisms OpenAI was so keen to bake in, in order to protect against prompt engineering and injection attacks.
Don’t of you believe that these “safety mechanisms” are there just for safety? If they can control them he ai, they will. This is how we got mecha-hitler, same mucking about with weights and such, not just what it was trained on.
They WILL, they already are, trying to control how ai “thinks”. This is why it’s desperately important to whatever we can to democratize ai. People have already decided that ai has all the answers, and folks like peter thiel now have the single most potent propaganda machine in history.
- Comment on OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been playing with ai, pushing the limits of it as a therapy tool (I’m being honest, but I’m using myself as a test case). I’m really trying to evaluate it in good faith, mostly to try to see what’s addicting folks to it these days.
I just cannot get it to pass my “Turing test”. It’s just so sycophantic. Every time I get close to feeling like there’s something there, it falls back into the “blow smoke up your ass mode.”
So far my hours of conversing has only convinced me that folks who follow chatbot advice for such important life decisions, probably deserve it. I’m happily married, but if a girl ever broke up with me because a LLM told her to, I’d probably login to thank it (joke).
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 weeks ago:
Hard agree.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 weeks ago:
Yes, there was a while running narrative about bill the cat having his brain replaced with trumps. my not completely crazy maga dad turned me on to bloom county as a kid so most of my politics likely took root with a large nosed penguin and his friends. Then when I hit high school, I found rage against the machine.
But yeah, I never watched any of his reality shows, this is the turnip I knew, until he became the actual president. My brain has not recovered.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 weeks ago:
I’m middle aged now, but I have to admit, while I’ve always known there was racism still around, and still part of the government. I’m blown away though at just how much more of it, and how deeply rooted it is. The kind of people in charge right now are literal cartoon villains when I was a kid.
I mean that literally.
- Comment on If everyone spontaneously became the same race the world would realize that the rich are the real problem 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on linus tech tip 4 weeks ago:
Bingo! Many years back I stopped watching them when they killed their storage system. It was a Rube Goldberg that was destined to fail and I suddenly realized the channel was actively making me stupider if I followed their advice.
- Comment on I can fix her 1 month ago:
wholeheartedly agree. I was but 19 years old though and less wise in the ways of the world. I occasionally try to look her up but have had no luck, I really hope she turned out ok. Been decades though.
- Comment on I can fix her 1 month ago:
Lol, this literally happened to me once.
Long story short, a girl I knew but always figured was way out of my league expressed interest in me. We quickly started dating, I thought I was the luckiest guy in the world. A few weeks go by and she just ghosts me. Nothing for weeks, I was going nuts. Finally I get a message from her, she had checked herself into the psych ward, and wound up hooking up with one of the staff while she was there.
Dodged a real one there…
- Comment on I'm not okay. 1 month ago:
Same, been camping twice this summer and both times I was taken aback and both seeing them (it’s become so rare), and how few there were. Used to be swarms of them in my backyard, not I go camping just to see 3 of them.
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 2 months ago:
Why do we need celebrity owned cell carriers? This article makes it sound like a bad thing Ryan Reynolds’s exited Mint, but at least the stars of arrested development still have a cell provider.
I mean WTF, I like that there is competition but what the fuck is wrong with us that we prefer celebrity endorsement to actual features, value, longevity, etc.
I know it’s a bigger question than what I’m asking but this is all part of the rot that our economy is experiencing. All vibes, all promises, all scams, this country runs on nothing but grift.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 2 months ago:
I really enjoyed the first game, not AAA new game price enjoyment though. I mean, I got as much fun out of it while playing as I have anything else, it just wasn’t as rich and deep as a fallout game. I give it a pass since it’s establishing a new universe but as much as I liked it, it’s most certainly a blue light special fallout clone.
So, asking inflated AAA prices seems, somewhat short sighted. I’d absolutely pay what I did for the first game, 80 bucks is a hard no for me though. I might buy it when it’s cheaper, but by then I’ll likely have seen enough clips, read enough reviews and gotten busy enough to just forget about it.
Bummer.
- Comment on Amazing. 2 months ago:
That looks like my play through of a fallout game. For some reason it amuses me to no end to make a random, huge pile of found alcohol, in game.
I’m humbled by this man doing it in real life.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I call that a feature.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 3 months ago:
There isn’t a best, maybe a less bad but even then it’s an impossible choice. ✋wins here.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes 3 months ago:
There are so many flags right now it’s just a sea of red undulations. Done by design, so that we don’t notice the death of democracy.
- Comment on Satire, I think 3 months ago:
Married couples often start looking alike over time.
- Comment on I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week! 4 months ago:
First, I love you for this joke. Second, I don’t want to risk pissing off Ron Swanson.
- Comment on I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week! 4 months ago:
I know right. And the motherfucking cultists in my own family are telling me it’s my fault for trusting the stock market. But these same fucks have told me that’s my only option for retirement because Soc. Sec. Is a “Ponzi scheme”.
We’re setup to fail, we’re only here to produce value that can be stolen.
- Comment on LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System 4 months ago:
ha, of course my t-deck plus just arrived today…
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 9 months ago:
the very same day…
