L0rdMathias

@L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WotC+D&D is like ~30-40% of Hasbro. The only other brand they have that’s worth a similar amount is (ironically enough lmao) Monopoly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google used to show ads I didn't mind. Now Google is THE reason I use adblockers.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google lost the high ground when AI generated Joe Rogan was blatantly selling crypto scams on YouTube. Advertisers don’t even care about the quality of the advertisements, every single industry that has used advertisement as its primary foundation always becomes a group of crooks living in a cataclysmic house of cards.

  Pay only for products or for services. If no payment option exists to receive that product or service - and that product or service alone with no extra baggage/strings attached - then you must assume you’re being scammed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I agree. It’s relieving to see a scientific result be the similar to what one would intuit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting training strategy. Makes a lot of sense intuitively. Worried this makes the model even more susceptible to prompt injections. Feels like this method adds more attack vectors? It’s unfortunate they didn’t attempt to test the long term hardness and stability, though it’s probably beyond their scope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently realized it’s a non-issue. The people doing this have already been looking for decades to find new ways to rot their minds. LLMs are just the latest in a long line of tools that help them tune out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’all really going to freak out over the new paralegal being told to update the EULAs and lazily hitting the update all button?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🇪🇺the🇪🇺land🇪🇺of🇪🇺the🇪🇺free🇪🇺

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're but a series of tubes.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like the internet!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No matter how many games as service flop, how many studios fail and close, executives will still insist on creating the next Fortnite, Overwatch, LOL, etc.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the misunderstanding here is that because there will always be an Overwatch/LoL/WoW/StarCraft/StreetFighter/SuperMarioWorld/PacMan/Pong that exists, and because this event appears in the statistics to be random, the financiers have a confirmation/perception bias that this is something you can force by shotgunning the market with product. A failure to realize that massive blowout successes are not because of random statistics and hidden secret variables in the market, they’re from a mix of unpredictable behaviors that may or may not even occur.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the public school funding comes from public taxpayer money. This means the school does not get to choose how to spend it since the money belongs to the people. The people have voted and greenlit several pre-approved items for schools to spend money on, but anything outside of that needs to be approved by a vote.

  Getting people to vote on this item is a Heraclean effort to say the least. Education budget often is the least immediately impactful thing on the ballot, if it makes it that far. Especially in states with strong traditional religious areas. For example, Puritans don’t believe that sports are something that kids should take seriously cuz it’s a game (literally something along the lines of: Games can be pleasurable, seeking pleasure is sin you should only seek God, therefore games are sinful). They don’t want their taxes going towards such sinful programs so they will always vote against it. This perspective is rooted in zealous obedience and is not something other people are willing to fight against.

  TL;Dr It’s easier for schools to just get private funding themselves and sidestep the public budget restrictions, than it is to get a majority in the voting pool to approve the vote and implement new school budget item.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Real fans would find a way to wait for the game to go on sale for $2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speak American⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use American English for the superior compression algorithms and the more extensive import features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “As the leading experts on this topic we feel that the best course of action is to hide. We feel that anyone else would be better suited to help address something that is so bad we believe it will eventually lead to global turmoil.”

  And people have the audacity to think that most of these modern academics are nepotistic charlatans and spineless cowards. Pssshhhaawww.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OS-busting bug so bad that Microsoft blocks Windows Insider release⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Inb4 this mystery bug is just about how it was too easy for users to disable some brand new data harvesting feature that scans anything plugged/connected and logs its data in hidden file on your one drive safely and securly in the hands of the Microsoft corporation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Your honor, although the prosecution has indeed depicted may have depicted my client as the pathetic soy virgin in exhibit A, meme 4, please watch this 7 episode TV drama mini series that the prosecution wrote and produced for this very case before making your judgement.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Piece Animator Demands Toei To Fire Sound Team, Says Their Work Isn’t Professional⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People hated him because he told the truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AdSense Won't Let You Block Video Games Ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the same article it says that there are two other categories for games, so this is actually just cleaning up things and is a rare debloating effort by Google.

  Once again, tabloid journalists continue to prove exactly how much their work is worth and what type of value they bring to society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This documentation is visually disorganized and difficult to parse. Please use actual mathematical symbols when attempting a proof instead of using ASCII art equivalents. The codebase is much easier to read, which might be problematic if you’re trying to get non-coders to look into this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So the thing that doesn’t actually teach languages will now not teach even worse languages?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t run away unless it makes you stronger because of it. Once something has been gained, never yield it without a purpose or a strategy - even if that ends up being a bad decision it was at least yours to make.

  It is a difficult endeavor to gain new ground; it is nigh impossible to fully recover that which has been lost.

  After you have ceded all your land and yielded every advantage, where will you seek shelter and from what will you find strength?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IRS is an acronym which stands for Internal Revenue Service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We did it! Fandom rebels defeated the looming threat of DEI.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “We did it!” The people exclaim, as it is revealed that their Tyrant died of old age having lived a long and satisfying life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do i see so many americans obsessed with the concept of "this is a thing that [Ethnicity] does"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since you believe this stems from your personal perceptions and observations, the answer likely involves a paradigm shift that random people on the internet can’t realistically assist with beyond basic advice. Whenever I’m stuck on a problem and I don’t know where to go, a good place to start is collect more data and widen your research. Good luck o7.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  eye got chu fam

  My favorite part, is that ALL of the current AI companion products use subscriptions to LLM services instead of having built in models.

  Which means ifwhen the company stops paying their bill, or if the AI company goes under, your waifus goes kaput. Or more likely just restructuring because of a buyout. It’s already happened with a few companies -> big tech buys out the company then stops supporting the product line, that then customers get mad. IIRC, coincidentally HP is being sue for doing just that with some recent buyout right now lmao.

  The ante seems to get upped each time, and there exists at least one unstable lonely maniac that will not consider legal consequences to their actions when they are suddenly rugpulled out of their unhealthy addictive relationship, so there’s still room for the bubble to burst in an even more epic crash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your account is not your posts. Why would one assume that deleting the account would remove the posts? When a person stops speaking the things they said do not become unsaid. When they die their actions don’t retroactively undo themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Reality" is often thought as a paragon of neutrality, being neither good nor bad. So why is a "reality check" ALWAYS felt negatively?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any fantasy by nature must be greater than reality, therefore any reality check must involve some kind of reduction from more fantastic to less fantastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man I’ll try, but I can’t make any promises …

  Modern particle physics breaks particles down into two groups: Dice that are weighted (bosons) and Dice that aren’t weighted but also aren’t fair (fermions).

  Bosons always roll the same number, because they’re weighted.

  Fermions always roll numbers, but we have no clue how many sides they have, or what numbers they can even roll because they change each time we roll them.

  Classical Computers ignore this problem. They just count the number of dice they have, and are really really good at rolling precise amounts of dice and putting them into specific labelled jars. Their math works by carefully keeping these jars organized, and are limited by how quickly and accurately the CPU can organize amounts of dice.

  It turns out if you roll a set of dice enough times, no matter what set of dice you use as long as they are random, you eventually wind up with a similar looking “standard distribution” of probabilities. Quantum computers let us zero out the dice to a fixed starting position, kind of like zeroing out a scale, and then we can use that to make calculations. This process is very sensitive and difficult and has a lot of scaling issues.

  Enter Anti-Dice. Anti-Dice are the polar opposites of existing Dice. They are just like all the other particles but they have their numbers printed upside down, and their shapes are inverted.

  A Majorana particle is a particle that takes this metaphor even Further BEYOND!!! It is a type of Fermion (dice that we can roll and will give us random numbers instead of the same number each time), but whenever we roll a Majorana particle it turns into its own Anti-Dice. This is a really cool concept that Microsoft is using here as a proof of concept to make a quantum computer that is easier to scale up, because now if we roll say a bunch of 6s and a bunch of -6s, we know it’s actually supposed to be the same number because of how Majorana particles are defined, and we can theoretically use this cheaper and easier method to scale up a quantum chip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, they could remain private but they are attempting to go public. This action is a legal speedbump that they must now work really hard to maneuver around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is corporate trolling. Open AI is trying to go public soon, and Elon did this to fuck with that.

  Massive oversimplification but basically: In the United States, you are required to take the best offer when selling a company, unless you can argue in court that you had reasons not to sell to whomever placed the highest bid. Because of this offer, as open AI attempts to go public, they will have to either to be close to Elon’s bid, forced to sell to him, go to court and fight him ther, or be forced to remain private.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yawn been there, done that. Let’s set our sights to the future of America, not on assimilating the losers.