TheAlbatross
@TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 1 day ago:
Good luck, buddy. You’re gonna need it.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 1 day ago:
I’ve watched people get stupider in the past few years using LLMs to replace thinking for themselves, so, yeah I guess so.
You can say it’s just a problem with capitalism, and, yes, capitalism is a problem, but AI is the current tool de jure that capitalists are using to crush workers, so, yes, I oppose it.
It’s pointless to argue about how it could be used in a post capitalist world, we don’t live in that world, we live in a world where LLMs are actively being used to harm the working class.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Ah no, buddy, you misunderstand me. I’m gonna play this game, my experience on the previous ones parallels yours closely. I’m deciding if I’m gonna pay for it or not.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 2 days ago:
I think it’s genuinely too early to say definitively one way or another, but anecdotally, the people I see educated with LLMs are a lot less capable than people who aren’t.
Only time will tell how badly we’ve allowed ourselves to get fucked over to benefit a few ultra rich companies.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 2 days ago:
That’s the thing.
Your specific opinions on how LLMs should be used or not use don’t affect how they are being used.
A system is what it does, plain and simple, and LLMs look like they’re doing serious damage to our societies to really just benefit the wealthy.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Dude this publisher is totally dogshit. I’m torn between paying for it to support the dev or not.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 2 days ago:
Here’s another fun piece you can read.
The incoming AI apocalypse isn’t about Skynet drones or malicious AGI, it’s about creating generations of vastly less educated and cognitively deficient lower classes and restricting traditional education to the wealthier echelons of society, gatekeeping the poor out by cost alone.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 2 days ago:
It’s important to remember that it doesn’t really matter how you, personally, use their product or think it should be used, it matters how it is used by large swaths of society. Don’t get fooled into promoting some billionaire’s tool to shift wealth further upward and further denigrate the working class in your quest to get out of spending 15 minutes searching for the right D&D character picture.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 2 days ago:
In my experience, people who use LLMs as educational tools… don’t actually learn very well. They think they are, but they don’t retain the knowledge nor do they seem able to infer from or apply the knowledge very well. There are even some early studies that are showing that using LLMs decreases cognitive ability, and considering how many kids and young people are using it to get their way though school and even higher education… I think we’re using AI to raise a generation of stunted minds. That’s going to be a bigger issue as time goes on and with the state of the world and who owns the LLMs… it looks like a grime, sad future thanks to this tech.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 2 days ago:
I mean he’s gotta say people are wrong for not liking it, it’s his job to sell it
- Comment on Is Flappy Bird a good game? 2 days ago:
I never thought it was a good game, but I knew it was oddly popular
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 2 days ago:
I think it’s more cultural as it’s not uniform globally. I don’t care much for dessert as a concept, but I love a piece of cold fruit, like an orange, strawberry or melon after dinner. I find it helps reset the mouth after a flavorful meal. And I’ll usually have a cup of tea with it.
- Comment on They Don’t Make CGI Quite like They Used To 1 week ago:
Is that… Neelix? I’m struggling to remember this episode but it sorta looks like Neelix mildly dry humping the air to avoid being sucked
offout of the elevator. - Comment on Behold Subnautica 2's fancy fresh windows that come as part of its new procedural base building system 1 week ago:
Well that window system does look really cool.
Looks like a nice mix of prefab pieces and voxel building
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On Starting Discussions With Paramount Skydance Over The Future Of Star Trek TV 1 week ago:
For what it’s worth, I also found those opening court room scenes in SFA absolutely maddening. The whole scene made so little sense. Why was Caleb even in that room? Why did the Federation rip a child away from his mother like that anyway? Even if his mother was arrested, why did they go about it in the most trauma inducing way possible? If Nus is so dangerous, why was he just allowed to stand next to the person accusing him of abuse?
I feel like we already have solutions to so many of the issues in that opening scene alone in the backwards 21st century, why were we again struggling to solve them in the 32nd?
- Comment on Alex Kurtzman On Starting Discussions With Paramount Skydance Over The Future Of Star Trek TV 1 week ago:
I’ll take more workplace comedy with Tawny Newsome.
Lower Decks was the best of the newer Trek series and her podcast had been a real hoot. It was fun seeing her in the Lower Decks x Strange New Worlds crossover, so I bet she’ll do well in a series.
- Comment on Which faction you expect to be antagonist in some next Star Trek story? 1 week ago:
What them Breen do, huh?
- Comment on Is there anything like a strategy version of KSP? 1 week ago:
Personally, I found the card game element interesting for a bit and then tedious and ultimately I went back to KSP. But I also wanted more direct control and other KSP elements that Mars Horizon didn’t quite scratch.
- Comment on Is there anything like a strategy version of KSP? 1 week ago:
Aurora 4X seems closest to what you want, that I know of, at least.
Mars Horizon might get a bit close, but I think it’s a little more simple than you’re looking for. There’s a demo for it on Steam so it’s easy to try, at least.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There’s your problem!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you understand addiction and it’s causes if you think it can be mitigated by education alone.
The issue with substance abuse isn’t that people don’t know that nicotine, alcohol or methamphetamine is wildly addictive.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 weeks ago:
Then the other things seem more useful for you in particular.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 weeks ago:
That’s a great suggestion! They also tend to host specific exhibits and events that give good opportunities to meet people with similar interests.
Plus they’re just fun. One in a small city by me has an exhibit on local glass manufacturing techniques from the previous turn of the century and how some were invented locally, comparing them to ceramic techniques from across the globe and time. Absolutely fascinating stuff.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation reportedly moving away from PC ports 2 weeks ago:
I ain’t buying a PlayStation. It won’t happen.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 weeks ago:
Hey, I’ve also made long term friends from underground raves/sex dungeons. It’s a totally valid way to make friends. Like so many other methods, you already have a shared interest, that’s a springboard to explore if you’re otherwise compatible as buddies.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 weeks ago:
True! Making friends out of strangers isn’t really all that difficult, but it does take some practice in being a normal human being and talking to people you just run into.
The sense of community in America is really dying out hard as people isolate themselves further in their little islands of homes and apartments and only socially exist online. But it is possible to just chat with some person you meet in the park while going for a walk without being a weirdo, just many people have forgotten how.
There’s a group of guys I meet up with in the warmer months to fish for bass under a bridge. How’d I meet them? I was fishing for trout in a lake and one of em asked if I had any bites. We had a normal chat between fishers, asking about what we’re targeting, what kinda bait and lures we’re using, comparing successes and failures. I peppered in some info about myself, e.g. mentioned a local noodle bar I liked, mentioned my partner, he did the same, we felt we were similar enough, he invited me to join him and his friends and now we meet up every couple of weeks between April and October.
You just gotta talk to people and not make it weird.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 weeks ago:
Lmao don’t join the military
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 weeks ago:
Hobby groups. For board games, hiking, sports, etc.
You already have a shared interest, makes things easier.
- Comment on Michelle Obama once said when they go low we go high. Meaning the republicans go low. What would be the equivalent of the Democrats going low instead of high ground? 3 weeks ago:
I think Michelle Obama just wanted to say some words that made DNC voters feel a feeling of superiority as the party they voted for did very little to address the material conditions the voters live in while the RNC repeatedly enacted their policies of racism and oppression, hoping the voter would think “things are just slower when you do them ‘the right way’.”
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 3 weeks ago:
I humbly invite you to come experience my driveway, sidewalk and walk way as well as the part of the street the plows won’t touch for some fucking reason.