YungOnions
@YungOnions@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Smoking ban introduced to protect children and most vulnerable 1 week ago:
Luckily we can do both. Push for better air quality, but don’t dismiss achievements that happen in other areas at the same time.
- Comment on inflated balls 3 weeks ago:
Well, can they?
- Comment on Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage 3 weeks ago:
Give her a medal
- Comment on Maybe all this AI bullshit might finally push people to touch grass and interact face to face some more 3 weeks ago:
The argument being made is: "AI is currently slop but there is a reasonable expectation that it will be pushed until it is indistinguishable from human work, and therefore devaluing of human work.
Again, if the work is ‘indistinguishable’ then I don’t see how AI art ‘devalues’ human work any more than the work done by another human. This just sounds like old fashioned competition, which has existed as long as art itself has.
I don’t like AI because it’s just another way that “corporate gonna corporate” and it never ends up working out for the mere mortals’ benefit
Corporations abusing technology to the disbenefit of people is nothing new, unfortunately, and isn’t unique to AI (see Email, computers, clocking in machines, monitoring software etc). That speaks to a need for better corporate oversight and better worker rights.
misinformation is already so prevalent and it’s going to continue to get worse (we have seen this already–trump abuses it continually).
This is a good point, but again AI is hardly the first time technology has been used to spread lies and misinformation. This highlights a fundamental problem with our media and a need to teach better critical thinking in schools etc.
They’re all valid concerns but in my opinion they suggest AI is being used as an enabler not that the problems in question are the sole product of it. Sadly if we stopped using anything and everything that was misused for nefarious means we’d go back to the stone age.
- Comment on Maybe all this AI bullshit might finally push people to touch grass and interact face to face some more 4 weeks ago:
AI is generally bad because it tends to steal content from human creators…
Again, this is an argument that I see a lot, that’s simply not true. AI is not stealing anything. Theft is a specific legal term. If I steal your TV, I have your TV and you don’t. If AI is trained on some content that content still exists. Whatever training takes place steals nothing.
…because corporations want another excuse to throw more workers on the street in favor of machines…
Your point is a valid one, but this not unique to AI and is the inevitable result of the onward march of technology. The very thing we’re using to communicate right now, the Internet, is responsible for billions of job losses. That’s not a valid reason to get rid of it. Instead of blaming AI for putting people out work, we should be pressuring governments to implement things like UBI to provide people with a basic living wage. That way people need not fear the impact the advance of technology will have on their ability to feed and house themselves.
There are some AI uses that are good though, such as AI voice generation to help those that can’t speak to communicate with the world and not sound like a robot.
These are great examples.
- Comment on Maybe all this AI bullshit might finally push people to touch grass and interact face to face some more 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but there’s never a qualifier in these arguments. It’s just ‘hur dur AI bad’ which is lazy and disingenuous.
- Comment on Maybe all this AI bullshit might finally push people to touch grass and interact face to face some more 4 weeks ago:
Given how harder it’s becoming to tell apart AI slop from something made by a human…
If AI is that good, it’s not ‘slop’, is it? I see this argument all the time. AI is both awful slop, devoid of merit and also indistinguishable from human made content and a threat to us all. Pick a side.
- Comment on Renewables could meet almost half of global electricity demand by 2030 – IEA 5 weeks ago:
This rapid growth means nearly 70 countries – representing 80% of global renewable power capacity – are on track to meet or even exceed their current renewable energy goals for 2030.
Amazing!
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
Oh for sure. How we regulate AI (including how we power it) is really important, definitely.
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 month ago:
Typical lack of nuance on the Internet, sadly. Everything has to be Bad or Good. Black or White. AI is either The best thing ever™ or The worst thing ever™. No room for anything in between. Considering negative news generates more clicks, you can see why the media tend to take the latter approach.
I also think much of the hate is just people jumping on the AI = bad band-wagon. Does it have issues? Absolutely. Is it perfect? Far from it. But the constant negativity has gotten tired. There’s a lot of fascinating discussion to be had around AI, especially in the art world, but God forbid you suggest it’s anything but responsible for the total collapse of civilisation as we know it…
- Comment on Wipeout 30th Anniversary LEGO Ship Is A Kit We All Need In Our Lives | Retro Dodo 1 month ago:
I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of bank accounts suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly emptied.
- Comment on Biodegradable wind turbine blades, a promising improvement for lowering waste with wind energy | Just Have a Think 1 month ago:
Assuming this is a non-issue like you say, I still don’t see why that makes this a problem?
It is actually problematic to spend time, effort, and other people’s attention and understanding making weird defensive claims to non issues.
Why? This makes it seem like we can only concentrate on one issue at a time and that by making biodegradable blades we’re somehow stopping something more ‘worthwhile’ from happening? We can do multiple things at once. Even if this makes only a minor difference, I still don’t see why that’s a bad thing? Surely any attempt to improve things is a good thing, no?
- Comment on Life is Strange: Double Exposure - TGS2024 Trailer 1 month ago:
I thought BtS was excellent, better than LiS 1 in many was, but that’s partly because I liked Chloe more than Max.
- Comment on Life is Strange: Double Exposure - TGS2024 Trailer 1 month ago:
I never played it, so can’t comment. I watched a brief let’s play of the first chapter, but that was it.
- Comment on Life is Strange: Double Exposure - TGS2024 Trailer 1 month ago:
Mixed feeling about this. On one hand Deck Nine have, in my opinion, produced the best LiS content of the series. On the other hand, my opinion of them has soured somewhat since the whole nazi stuff came out: ign.com/…/how-hidden-nazi-symbols-were-the-tip-of…
- Comment on Super Hans knows what's up 1 month ago:
“Frosties are just cornflakes for people that can’t face reality!”
- Comment on What is your favorite Assassin's Creed game? 1 month ago:
It’s good, I enjoyed it; however it would be remiss of me not to point out that Ubisoft is a hateful company, run by a hateful man: gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-has-reportedly-made-min…
- Comment on What is your favorite Assassin's Creed game? 1 month ago:
If you liked Odyssey then I’d recommend Origins. Not played Valhalla but it’s in the same open-world vein. People rate Black Flag highly, and the Ezio trilogy, but these are more the ‘traditional’ AC games so not open world in the same way and less ARPG-like than Odyssey. The multiplayer on Black Flag is great to, but not many people playing it these days.
- Comment on Fears for patient safety as GPs use ChatGPT to diagnose and treat illness 1 month ago:
People have become so reactionary to LLMs and other AI stuff. It seems there’s a “omg it’s so cool everybody should use it to the max. Let’s blindly trust it!” camp and a “it’s awful and shouldn’t exist, burn it all! No algorithms or machine learning anywhere. New tech is bad!”
Both camps are just as stupid. There’s zero nuance in the discussion about this stuff, and it’s tiring.
Well said.
- Comment on Fears for patient safety as GPs use ChatGPT to diagnose and treat illness 1 month ago:
Sure, but the original quote was:
Everyone anywhere using one on the job should be fired
There’s no nuance there it’s just AI = bad. I agree that it’s shouldn’t, in its current form, be used as a substitute for skill in important situations. You’re totally right there.
- Comment on Fears for patient safety as GPs use ChatGPT to diagnose and treat illness 1 month ago:
‘Everyone anywhere’? That’s an amazingly broad statement. What’re you defining as ‘using one’? If I use ChatGPT to rewrite a paragraph, should I be fired? What about if a non native speaker uses it to remove grammatical errors from an email, should they be fired? How about using it for assisting with coding errors? Or generating draft product marketing copy? Or summarising content for third parties to make it easier to understand? Still a fireable offence? How about generating insights from data? Assistance with Roadmap prioritisation? Generating summaries of meeting notes or presentations? Helping users with learning disabilities understand complex information? Or helping them with letters, emails etc? How about if it use it to remind me of tasks? Or managing my routines?
- Comment on Platypuses 1 month ago:
No stomach?!
- Comment on I made a website called Happy Daze that only features positive science news 2 months ago:
Hell yes! We need more positive news! Good stuff!
- Comment on Wildlife boosted by England’s nature-friendly farming schemes, study finds 3 months ago:
Who’ve thunk it? Still good to see more evidence that these types of schemes work.
- Comment on Royal Mint opens factory in south Wales to recover gold from e-waste 3 months ago:
Cool!
- Comment on Kids and their computers these days. 3 months ago:
Probably the computers fault.
- Comment on Rage (Xbox360) 4 months ago:
Man, Brink had so much promise…
- Comment on Two thirds of UK renewables applications fail to get through planning stage 4 months ago:
The low success rate of applications has been put down, in part, to an increasingly number of speculative applications being submitted. Industry reports show a rise in so called “phantom projects” in these cases, developers submit multiple applications for many sites, with the expectation being that very few will connect. These speculative and duplicate applications have seen the connections queue grow, increasing the work needed to progress projects.
Seems like this is an issue that needs to be addressed.
- Comment on Train passengers face price hikes and fewer seats after HS2 cancellation 4 months ago:
£66bn and counting…
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 4 months ago:
Deep Impact is to Armageddon as Volcano is to Dante’s Peak.