mindbleach
@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Gonna be here a while 1 day ago:
This is probably generated.
- Comment on Newegg stock falls 17.7% after owner is detained by anti-corruption authorities in China 1 day ago:
Well, that was nice while it lasted.
- Comment on Gehheie88f3nj3-i-odk3j4y8-fff-jej 1 day ago:
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- Comment on Gehheie88f3nj3-i-odk3j4y8-fff-jej 1 day ago:
P4X-639.
- Comment on A matter of patience 2 days ago:
We’re trying, okay? It’s not our fault they have all their preferences set to DNI.
- Comment on Slop is Everywhere For Those With Eyes to See 1 week ago:
Christ, could you miss the point any harder?
- Comment on Controversial US-Backed Vaccination Study Begins In Guinea-Bissau - Health Policy Watch 1 week ago:
When did “controversial” come to mean “obviously just awful?” There was a point it required moral ambiguity.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop" 2 weeks ago:
Yet you would not say ‘my mom sent me spam of Christmas photos.’
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop" 2 weeks ago:
Diffusion almost lives up to its hype. It is CGI for dummies, and will produce photorealistic video with less effort than hand-drawing a stick figure. LLMs might disappear entirely, with every aspect of their design replaced, but ‘remove all the pixels that don’t look like Hatsune Miku impregnating Goku’ actually works. God help us all.
The practical future is in “diffusion forcing,” where a human artist can draw however many frames they like, and the robot can only fill in the gaps. If the robot does something wrong… draw more frames between stuff. One frame per second and a say-what-you-see description will probably suffice.
We can presumably also expect variations that finish sketchy animatics, but that’s always going to be less art-driven than artists would like. Absolute maniacs like James Baxter can feed in a pencil version of a camera orbiting a ballroom dance, but the robot will emit a broadly similar motion in finished quality. It’s better-off being used to turn on-fours into on-ones.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop" 2 weeks ago:
Some people are unambiguously calling all AI slop.
Advertising shits in your brain, but we can’t let the obvious lies of obvious liars obscure how neural networks are a whole new kind of software. Even these stupid chatbots let anyone write the old kinds of software. There’s a guy on Youtube who built a camera to visualize the speed of a laser in flight. Halfway through the video about integrating a hilariously sensitive photodiode and a high-precision motor system, he completely hand-waves the code for everything you actually see.
None of this is going to disappear when the bubble bursts. The dotcom bubble didn’t kill the web. We’ve demonstrated that a DVD’s worth of linear algebra can turn plain English into amateur Python, and suggesting that will soon be lost to history is absurd. Your IDE’s gonna have an autocomplete where Clippy does what you fucking tell him. It’s just not going to be the as-a-service remote computing bullshit these vultures are betting on, because remote computing has been a stupid idea for at least half a century. Spicy autocomplete will be another tool in the menu… like normal autocomplete. We can sneer at people for using either one, but rough standards and working code move the world.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop" 2 weeks ago:
Calling all AI use slop is like calling all e-mail spam.
- Comment on No contest 4 weeks ago:
This basically happened. It’s TNG 2x01, “The Outrageous Okona.” Some schmuck in a jumped-up cargo shuttle harasses the Enterprise, and Riker asks, ‘can lasers even hit us?’
The pilot is a chauvanistic brigand, on the run, having dumped his cargo… wearing a white shirt and dark vest. It is genuinely surprising Memory Alpha does not explicitly call this a Han Solo expy.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 4 weeks ago:
‘It’s only a problem for economics.’
‘But what about the economics?’
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 4 weeks ago:
Less power, less traffic, less consumption… what part of infrastructure isn’t suddenly overengineered? For a value of “suddenly” that means in fifty years.
And as others note, this isn’t because the Japanese are suddenly averse to fucking. They’re overworked to the point of self-parody. This trend is eminently reversible, if the people addicted to the wiggly line can look further into the future than next quarter.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 4 weeks ago:
Anyone obsessed with birthrates is an asshole until proven otherwise.
We went straight from ‘there’s too many people!’ to ‘there’s not enough people!’ on a dime. Even rates drastically below replacement aren’t Children Of Men. There’s just fewer kids and more old farts. So… Florida?
Oh god, maybe we should be worried.
- Comment on New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas 5 weeks ago:
Carbon nanotubes as a pollution side effect sounds quietly horrifying.
- Comment on She's dead serious 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s worse than expert humans at everything. It still does a half-ass job, basically for free, in short order.
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 5 weeks ago:
“Management pushing contradictory narratives as it suits them, while doing nothing to monitor actual work, which they know very little about. Just a priesthood of MBAs chanting catechisms invented out of thin air to justify their laziness.”
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 5 weeks ago:
It’s not meant to be understood. They are not arguing - they’re just saying it. That’s the sequence of words which signals loyalty and promotes the ingroup over the outgroup.
That’s the only thing conservatives ever do.
- Comment on Meta is pausing its dream of sharing Quest's Horizon OS with third-party headset makers 1 month ago:
Read: “Facebook lied to string people along.”
- Comment on One slur to rule them all 1 month ago:
Derrick’s “Spelling Bee” suggests cell D3 should be dominant.
- Comment on Return of 4GB RAM in smartphones by 2026 amidst DRAM crisis, microSD slots make a comeback 1 month ago:
Pressure toward taking swap seriously, now that it can be random-access.
The only thing that needs to be in memory is state.
- Comment on NVIDIA have discontinued Quake II RTX 1 month ago:
… how? It runs locally.
Ohhh, you mean they stopped tweaking it, but used the wrong word for some reason.
- Comment on Microsoft is pushing Copilot onto LG TVs with a recent software update 1 month ago:
Never give your TV the wifi password.
- Comment on Original ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ Studio Gainax Officially Shutters After 42 Years 1 month ago:
Aria Winningson (@aria.labeledrude.online)
rip gainax, you ended in a weird convoluted way that pissed a lot of people off
- Comment on iPhone case with e-ink display lets users read books and comics without screen glare 1 month ago:
On the knife-edge of being really clever and deeply stupid.
the embedded gadget is powered by AI
Tipping away from clever.
- Comment on Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business 1 month ago:
Which crucial consumer business?
… oh.
- Comment on Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad 1 month ago:
Yeah, maybe with some kind of filter so a few people can sound like a whole cast of distinct characters, without necessarily mimicking any particular human being.
… wait.