mindbleach
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- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 14 hours ago:
Okay, so, every game on Steam having some generated asset wouldn’t matter?
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 15 hours ago:
Okay, so, complex projects having a small part you didn’t make doesn’t matter?
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 17 hours ago:
All to stop children from seeing boobs.
Why even care?
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 19 hours ago:
Is there an asset flip disclosure?
- Comment on I dunno 2 days ago:
Careful, you’ll summon Smartman Apps (with emojis) to insist mathematics has exactly one perfect unambiguous syntax, where 2*(1+3) is somehow different from 2(1+3), and also reverse Polish notation does-too have parentheses.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds is surprisingly optimistic about vibe coding - except for this one 'horrible' use 1 week ago:
Downvote all clickbait.
- Comment on Will quantum be bigger than AI? 1 week ago:
No.
It barely exists, and its greatest promises are less than what neural networks can already do. Except to weirdos and monsters who delight in breaking encryption.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Octopodes only live a couple years, and thank god. They would be the menace seen in sailors’ imaginations if they just kept growing and learning.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Octopussen.
- Comment on Fictional 4 weeks ago:
And the location of this “Shire” is most improbable!
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 5 weeks ago:
I mean… I’ve had a lot of genuine interactions with real people which I would not rate highly.
A sort of reddit holodeck would be obviously desirable, sometimes, but any concerns about solipsism or narcissism come far behind the expectation you’d want to run that shit locally. What is the value of disappearing into your own little world if you don’t even control it?
- Comment on Believing misinformation is a “win” for some people, even when proven false 1 month ago:
Reverse cargo cult.
- Comment on Sexy Spooktober 1 month ago:
A shirt marked “1woman,standing,naked” would probably get some laughs, this year.
- Comment on Girls 1 month ago:
Should’ve namedropped Lovelace.
- Comment on [Episode] May I Ask for One Final Thing? • Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai Shite mo Yoroshii Deshou ka - Episode 1 discussion 1 month ago:
They don’t quite go to Namek, but they did a bit. Like on a scale of one to Bleach it’s gonna be a two.
- Comment on No, Deus Ex Remastered, I simply do not believe you need an RTX 2080 to run at recommended settings 1 month ago:
Surely it just means, that’s what they tested with. The minimum specs sound like they oldest machine they bothered to lay hands on.
Listed specs are not what’s worrisome about this project.
- Comment on [Episode] May I Ask for One Final Thing? • Saigo ni Hitotsu dake Onegai Shite mo Yoroshii Deshou ka - Episode 1 discussion 1 month ago:
Absolutely loved this manga. There’s a full-page shot of her gleefully holding a guy’s ankle, and it makes me crack up every time. Guess I’ll have to steam this somewhere.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 1 month ago:
As covered in the documentary Wax, Or The Discovery Of Television Among The Bees.
- Comment on Pax Dei, the medieval EVE Online-esque MMO, gets its 1.0 release next month 1 month ago:
In WHAT FUCKING MANNER does this on-foot low-tech whack-people-with-sticks game resemble a sci-fi starship combat game?
The inability to describe any game except in reference to other games is infuriating enough, without forgetting to make the goddamn comparison!
- Comment on Messenger is an absurdly slick, perfectly lovely free pocket world exploration game you can play in a browser 1 month ago:
That is a terrible name.
- Comment on Protector 1 month ago:
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 1 month ago:
The razor is: did you, the player, receive new content? Or did you get charged for permission?
Horse armor is fine. That’s how low the bar is. That’s how bad this abuse is. All microtransactions are “on-disc DLC,” where you’ve already been given the thing, inside the game you already paid for, but fuck you, pay us again. And again and again and again.
It’s the difference between Warhammer’s little plastic men being obscenely expensive, and Games Workshop expecting five actual dollars after every match to replace their imaginary bullets.
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 1 month ago:
Fuck them kids. This entire business model is an abuse against people with credit cards.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
- Comment on Opinions on Jurassic Park as a Zoo 1 month ago:
- Comment on Ukrainian YouTuber arrested in Japan over Fukushima livestream 2 months ago:
The “Japanese first” Sanseito, which has tapped into growing concerns over over-tourism and immigration, made strong gains in an upper house election this year.
Every country on Earth is turning the same kind of stupid.
- Comment on Console wars death watch: Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS5 in December - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
The war’s been over since blue team and green team started releasing near-identical machines, for nearly the same price, at basically the same time. There are no consoles anymore. It’s all just computers. Some computers have shitty locked-down app stores.
- Comment on Zelenskyy Says Trump 'Supports' Ukraine's Retaliatory Strikes On Russian Energy 2 months ago:
Who cares, do it regardless.
A country declared war on you. Fuck 'em up.
- Comment on oh cool 2 months ago:
Daniel Jackson was lecturing to like five people in a hotel lobby at the start of the movie. He was a known crank. He just happened to be right.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 2 months ago:
Insisting that someone could figure it out does not mean anyone has.
Twenty gigabytes of linear algebra is a whole fucking lot of stuff going on. Creating it by letting the computer train is orders of magnitude easier than picking it apart to say how it works. Sure - you can track individual instructions, all umpteen billion of them. Sure - you can describe broad sections of observed behavior. But if any programmer today tried recreating that functionality, from scratch, they would fail.
Absolutely nobody has looked at an LLM, gone ‘ah-ha, so that’s it,’ and banged out neat little C alternative. Lack of demand cannot be why.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 2 months ago:
Knowing it exists doesn’t mean you’ll ever find it.
Meanwhile: we can come pretty close, immediately, using data alone. Listing all the math a program performs doesn’t mean you know what it’s doing. Decompiling human-authored programs is hard enough. Putting words to the algorithms wrenched out by backpropagation is a research project unto itself.