badgermurphy
@badgermurphy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dying Light 1 week ago:
“What do you get for the guy that has everything?” 😂
Mr. “Platinum Yendorian Express” over here!
- Comment on Dying Light 1 week ago:
I’m pulling for you over here! I never made it past the fortress fight after Medusa.
Imagine my great sorrow when I discovered that turning Perseus back to a man didn’t make him friendly! 🥺
- Comment on Can machines suffer? 1 week ago:
I don’t see how it is impossible to know. Every component of a machine is a fully known quantity lacking any means of detecting damage or discomfort. Every line of code was put in place for a specific, known purpose, none of which include feeling or processing anything beyond what it IS specifically designed for.
Creatures and machines bear some similarities, but even simple creatures are dramatically more complex objects than even the most advanced computers. None of their many interacting components were put there for a specific purpose and intention, and many are only partially understood, if at all. With a machine, we know what every bit and piece is for, and it has no purpose beyond the intended ones because that would be a waste and cost more.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 1 week ago:
For the most part, the answer seems to be yes. Some products did also ship with missing or reduced feature sets for a time, too.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 2 weeks ago:
I just saw an ad for Alexa+ at a family member’s house and was a bit surprised initially. The last I had known about the personal home assistant market was that both Google and Amazon were growing bored with its lack of annually doubling revenue and were slow-walking their whole participation in it to the grave, slashing those departments and walking back forecasted products.
To the home automators like you and others, am I mistaken or has it seen a resurgence now that they realize they can take another crack at it with LLMs this time?
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 2 weeks ago:
Regardless of why anyone involved did the the things they did, the rules were clearly stated. The violation of the rules may have been an honest mistake, but that doesn’t change the facts at hand.
Furthermore, even if they removed every bit and pixel produced by or with the help of AI didn’t make it to the production release, the fact remains that it was used in the production process. It is hard to give them the benefit of the doubt on this part; how could it have slipped their mind that they did this?
The awards are a contest with rules just like any other contest, and the rules are what makes it a contest in the first place. If football ignored some of their rules, it would just be a big field with 22 guys beating the shit out of each other for a ball.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 weeks ago:
I think its way more likely that the people taking issue with the addition of an AI agent into their browser has nothing to do with whether or not they have to use it or can turn it off; at least for me that is true.
Firefox has limited resources, and can only work on so much at a time. They’ve got a list of open issues a mile long, some of them probably older than some of the people reading this. I would rather they focus their efforts on keeping their tools as sharp as possible rather than making additional dull tools.
Also consider that the Firefox user base is almost entirely people who chose to use it over other bundled browsers. When they see the things they fled from in the other browsers coming to consume the one they fled to, it is obnoxious to say the least. Their users like Firefox because of its many differences from others, so the more like them it gets, the less they like it.
Open yourself to the possibility that some of AI’s detractors dislike it for reasons you mat not understand, even though you may think you do.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
This massive new economic sector that is eclipsing the GDP of most nations combined in under 10 years, which is almost entirely subsidized by a combination of venture capital, which is being forced in to any product that involves electricity regardless of suitability, this industry and that loses money every time a user interacts with it (even the paying customers) is not a bubble?
Please, enlighten us on what you think an economic bubble is. A lot of us were around for the dotcom bubble; to say it was not one, when we were standing there watching the market rise into the stratosphere and come crashing down, is a bit much.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 weeks ago:
You may be able to have more involved conversations with an LLM-powered NPC, and it won’t be pre-scripted at repeated, but it is still likely to be both nonsense and not necessarily relevant to the game loop and may be setting-inappropriate dialogue. The pre-scripted and repeated dialogue would almost surely not have those problems the LLM would.
Its important to remember that these LLMs are grievously power-hungry for what they do, so if they only trade one problem for another, you must also consider the loss of efficiency as yet another problem, even if its not always that big of one.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if this is common knowledge around here or not, but you can fix them to keep them in your cold, dead hands longer, too!
The panels rarely fail without getting struck; its almost always the power supply or the lights. Replacing the lights can be time and space consuming, though, because you have to peel it completely open.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 2 weeks ago:
That hot take ignores human psychology’s known weaknesses.
Blaming the public for falling victim to psychological manipulation that has being perfected for generations is like blaming a stabbing victim for bleeding so much.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, it was just that: good luck. All appliances from Samsung and LG are notorious in the market space for premature failure. If we had a functioning consumer protection agency, they wouldn’t be able even sell something of such poor reliability.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 3 weeks ago:
Hard disagree. Please, everyone, research impartial product reviews before you buy any appliance. Your appliance lifespans should be measurable in decades.
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 2 months ago:
That wasn’t anyone’s cat, though. It was a denizen of the neighborhood with no owner. The point you’re trying to make has no target.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 months ago:
I think that Microsoft will continue in some form regardless of what happens with this bubble because they have huge amounts of physical assets and cash on hand.
That said, their market position in any given sector they’re in might not be as invincible as it seems. There are corporations that were titans of their industries, including technology, that either don’t exist or are ghosts of their former selves all in far less than a lifetime.
Kodak, Xerox, Bell Labs, IBM, and Yahoo all looked like unstoppable juggernauts when I was a kid, and my own kids haven’t even heard of some of them.
- Comment on ‘Godfather of Silicon Valley’ Quits Board Over Benioff’s (Salesforce CEO) Backing of Trump 2 months ago:
I can’t speak for a company of 30,000, but I know tons of companies with a couple thousand employees or less that could, without a doubt, write their own tools in house to do the bits and pieces of SalesForce they actually are using for far less than they are spending on SalesForce. As they grow, their SalesForce costs grow linearly or worse, while an in-house tool’s grow at a decreasing rate.
Any company that size or larger already has some kind of technology division that can be grown to accommodate the development.
For those really big companies, I imagine their SalesForce bill is so high they might have potential alternative options I can’t even imagine at those prices.
- Comment on The fact that users are encouraged to include text descriptions with media content makes it perfect training data for AI. 2 months ago:
At first I was concerned about these huge tech companies stealing all of human knowledge and using it to make a fortune and drive everyone that created the knowledge into poverty.
Now I see that they are stealing all of human knowledge to make LLMs, giant digital babbling talkers. It can’t work how they want the way they’re doing it, so it doesn’t matter what data they consume. They seem to lose money on every LLM query, even if you’re paying for the highest tier.
When they stop subsidizing the cost to cash in, the already lukewarm interest in LLMs will cool further as costs rise.
Shower response: I don’t like that they’re gobbling my data, but at least they’re choking on it.
- Comment on Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free 2 months ago:
Nothing more.
- Comment on Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free 2 months ago:
You are buying it with your personal data and granting them access to your computer. Even if you don’t think that’s not worth much, it is still not free. You’re just paying with something other than money.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 2 months ago:
There are billions of us. We can do many things at once.
This may not matter as much as nuclear disarmament, but it matters to everyone that owns one of these cars.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 3 months ago:
The upshot of this and a lot of the other replies I see here and elsewhere seem to suggest that one big difference between this bubble and other past ones is that with this most recent one, there is so much of the global economy now tied to the fate of this bubble that the entire financial world is colluding to delay the inevitable due to the expected severity of the consequences.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 3 months ago:
I work adjacent to software developers, and I have been hearing a lot of the same sentiments. What I don’t understand, though, is the magnitude of this bubble then.
Typically, bubbles seem to form around some new market phenomenon or technology that threatens to upset the old paradigm and usher in a new boom. Those market phenomena then eventually take their place in the world based on their real value, which is nowhere near the level of the hype, but still substantial.
In this case, I am struggling to find examples of the real benefits of a lot of these AI assistant technologies. I know that there are a lot of successes in the AI realm, but not a single one I know of involves an LLM.
So, I guess my question is, “What specific LLM tools are generating profits or productivity at a substantial level well exceeding their operating costs?” If there really are none, or if the gains are only incremental, then my question becomes an incredulous, “Is this biggest in history tech bubble really composed entirely of unfounded hype?”
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 3 months ago:
While that is true, it does not invalidate the poster’s point. All of the effects of drugs are just “effects”. They could just as easily market cough syrup as a sleep aid with the “side effect” that it suppresses coughing.
The difference in definition in this context is simply that “drug uses” is the list of its effects that they were going for, and “side effects” are a list of effects that they were not. Its entirely a man made distinction. Extend that reasoning to the “installing” vs. “side loading” discussion to see the poster’s point.
I believe him to be suggesting that “side loading” is a very different word for “installing” that can be loaded by PR people to shift public opinion against the practice. Whether or not they are doing that I can’t say myself, but that appears to be the point being made.
They could just as easily have coined it “direct installing” or “USB installing”, but they didn’t even though those terms are more descriptive. Draw from that whatever you will.
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 4 months ago:
I’m sure some of them are pieholes.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 4 months ago:
I believe that the bad behavior of corporate interests is often one of the key contributors to these financial bubbles in every sector where they appear.
To say that some of the bad things about this particular financial bubble are because of a bunch of companies being irresponsible and/or unethical seems not to acknowledge that one is primarily caused by the other.
- Comment on Vibe coding takes the "science" out of computer science 5 months ago:
It will take at least until they take a wholly different approach to “AI”. Until they make something that has some concept of what it is saying, you’ll continue to get things much like you get today–a probability-based response that amounts to a series of symbols it thinks are a good reply to the series of symbols you entered. It has no way to validate itself nor even a concept of validation of output, so its validity will always be in question and the complexity of what it can do limited.
- Comment on Reporters Without Borders sues X 1 year ago:
There’s “malapropism” that is sort of close, but even that is more like accidentally combining parts of two idioms.
It was named after a character in a play that always did it.