GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 day ago:
Not for nothing, but couldn’t this be used to have AI play a game for 80,000 simulated hours and flag all the bugs? Human playtesters are important and have value, but no human should have to do the work of criss-crossing an enormous game map thousands of times just to see if the character model gets stuck on a random vertex sticking out somewhere, and yet it seems to be a distressingly common occurrence in more than a few games I’ve played.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 3 days ago:
I like to see what’s going on in the handheld emulator world!
- Comment on Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history 1 week ago:
Don’t forget killing USAID, and the untold numbers of unnecessary deaths that will result, to say nothing of the harm to US soft power abroad.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 1 week ago:
Should have just refused to send the notices. Make them try to remove her from office. Make them file suit. Make them send State Troopers to physically haul her out from behind the governor’s desk. If Kansas Republicans are going to try to take one more large step on the “genocide the people of whose existence we do not approve,” then there’s no level of resistance that isn’t appropriate, if you want to hang on to your humanity.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 1 week ago:
We apologize for the inconvenience
- Comment on The wildest part about this poll is that it was only shared to Star Wars sites 1 week ago:
What does that make us?
- Comment on Littering 🚯 2 weeks ago:
I’m familiar with all of the technology involved, but I’m not sure about the applications you’re describing.
With a Have-A-Heart, the specific goal is live capture and release. There is no killing involved. The animal might be properly freaked out at the experience of being trapped, but that is specifically so as to permit an animal’s live relocation.
With a bolt gun, it’s meant to be used in a slaughterhouse scenario, which is a whole moral discussion of its own, but at bare minimum one wants the animals to be kept as calm as possible until the bolt gun is applied, because stressed out meat tastes worse than calm and placid up until the moment of death.
With hunting, the goal is to kill the target as cleanly as possible, preferably with a single bullet. That’s the Scenario A I’m describing above.
If one were hunting an animal with the intent of killing it, then a trap, followed by a knife or bolt gun, would maximize the terror felt by the animal to be killed. Sure, one may be putting less lead out in the environment, but at the cost of putting the animal through… almost the most appalling experience of death possible, with the admitted exception of a poorly-aimed bullet or arrow, followed by a wounded flight through the woods and slowly bleeding out.
So… if one’s absolute maximum goal is to reduce environmental lead, yes, that is one way to do it, but the moral implications of that method seem pretty rough.
- Comment on Littering 🚯 2 weeks ago:
Scenario A: You’re minding your own business, when a bullet passes through your heart/lungs and you’re dead in seconds.
Scenario B: You get caught in a trap and wait for hours for an ape with a knife or a bolt gun to come along and finish the job.
Honestly, if I were an animal, I’d prefer Scenario A.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 2 weeks ago:
“Gambling and crypto” reminds me of when I was in DARE and they would refer to “drugs, alcohol, and tobacco,” and I thought “aren’t those all drugs?”
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on time for learn 2 weeks ago:
Aw, fuck.
- Comment on time for learn 2 weeks ago:
Presumably at some point a human being was involved in the decision making process to try and use this image to convey… some kind of message to other human beings, and at least one human being in that process couldn’t be bothered to give the AI slop more than the most cursory glance.
Unless of course one could design a fully-automated system of generating pseudo-scientific clickbait factoid garbage accompanied by AI-generated illustrations, entirely dedicated to producing as much vaguely plausible-seeming garbage as possible, 24 hours a day, just spewing out the opposite of useful knowledge at an unfathomable rate.
But what kind of monster would deploy that weapon on humanity?
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 4 weeks ago:
Not selling me anything,
EAT MORE RADISHES
- Comment on Sending someone LLM output in response to a question they ask is the intellectual equivalent of sending an unsolicited dick pic. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 4 weeks ago:
Gotta lower the power setting and increase the cook time. One minute at 100%? No! One and a half minutes at 80%!
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 4 weeks ago:
Harrumph
- Comment on xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs 4 weeks ago:
The cassowary was the only thing in the zoo that Steve Irwin seemed a little bit scared of. There’s an episode where the cassowary got loose and he immediately stopped joking around and told all the keepers to go get the shields to corral it back into its pen. I wouldn’t dream of fucking around with a cassowary.
- Comment on xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs 4 weeks ago:
Fuck that, I’ve been in close proximity to ostriches and emus and they one hundred percent seem like dinosaurs.
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- Comment on xkcd #3201: Proof Without Content 5 weeks ago:
But that’s not a convincing proof.
- Comment on Universal basic income needed to cushion blow from AI job losses, says UK minister 5 weeks ago:
We can’t have universal healthcare, but we can send billions of dollars in military aid to Israel, which does. 🤡
- Comment on I liek tudles 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Truth hurts! 1 month ago:
I want to see it all fluffed up for winter.
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 1 month ago:
Honest question: Why is open carry forbidden, but concealed carry can be okay in certain contexts? The idea of being coy about whether or not one has a gun seems more alarming than somebody unquestionably having a gun that everyone can see. Not brandishing it, but rather just being honest and open with everyone about the idea that you’re carrying a gun seems less upsetting to me than the open question of who might possibly have a hidden gun on them if they had that special kind of feeling when they woke up this morning.
- Comment on Can someone please ELI5 the legal issue with genericized trademarks? 1 month ago:
You may think you love your family, but you don’t love them nearly as much as you’re going to love Heroin™!
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 1 month ago:
Thanks to the Romans, we also have super messy units for length
But we can still blame the British for the furlong.
- Comment on These glasses solve many central-vision problems. For $5000. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 months ago:
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 2 months ago:
- Comment on Achievements 100% 2 months ago:
At this rate I’m going to slap King Dragon in the face one time and he’s going to go down like a ton of bricks.
