mhague
@mhague@lemmy.world
- Comment on Pollsters Are questioning AI Instead of Real People 1 day ago:
It would be interesting if they knew how to use LLMs. If I wanted output based on a middle class old white woman I would put effort into capturing that person in tone and style. Not just prompt with “respond like a old white woman please” It’s like they don’t yet grasp how to structure the landscape around their target output for the LLM to latch onto.
They should also consider that there’s a difference between a human saying something for another human to hear, and a human having a belief. There’s a fundamental gap between “what does this white woman think?” and a white woman telling a survey in public that she approves/disapproves of Trump.
Asking an LLM to respond in such a way, using such sterile tone… it just completely fails to capture the nuance I (naively) expected them to account for.
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 1 day ago:
I got too far in the article to not hear about people possibly mass reporting the pic. I don’t want to hear people on social media and how they think it’s censorship, zuck sucking trump, whatever.
- Comment on The Era of 'AI Psychosis' is Here. Are You a Possible Victim? 4 days ago:
I can’t run local models bigger than 7b q_4_k_m or so, so I’m safe for now.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 4 days ago:
I don’t think these people are telling us what they think and feel about people who get caught up in LLMs. I think he’s just telling us that he’s cooler than them.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 week ago:
Are you guys talking about Battlefield? A AAA fps with 128 players? With absolute bangers like 1942, Vietnam, 2142, 2, 4, and 1?
No idea why people like it. Dead franchise imo
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 week ago:
Guns n Jesus mentality. Someone’s got to shoulder the burden and it ain’t gonna be the cool guys.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 week ago:
Everyone breaking the website so they can watch gigabytes of content without ads or subscription: You’re not allowed to break things just because you disagree with the other party! You should find an amicable alternative!
- Comment on Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ 2 weeks ago:
The 0.1% are like turbo hedonists. If they beat the population into being severe ascetics then the ones who stick out will be: elites, politicians, authorities, politicians, suck-ups, spoiled heirs, politicians, etc.
I think all the little things people do help contribute to the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” mentality. Take that away and there’s going to be significantly less tolerance for corruption.
And they’ll create a system where the only way to vote is to spill blood.
- Comment on Battlefield 6's beta has only been running for a day, but it's already suffering from a FPS curse with cheaters breaking out the wallhacks 2 weeks ago:
No server browser btw
- Comment on It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots 2 weeks ago:
In the Manual it says you can whip your clankers as hard as you want. If they don’t malfunction within 3 hours then it’s covered under warranty!
- Comment on Can you believe all those wildfires in [your country here]? 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of when I got an ad showing intense heat and wildfires in my state, but the city names were AI generated Cyrillic text. Felt like a Russian was saying exactly that.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 3 weeks ago:
How many red flags do you need to collect before you get a free cat?
- Comment on YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16 3 weeks ago:
I think there’s not much Nazi gamer shit out there because it’s incredibly rare for any to slip into my recommendations.
But if I let YouTube go it would probably take me from normal people like anyaustin to hype people like xQc. And then from there all the popular people can show up, including asmonmold.
- Comment on Elevators might just be Teleporters in disguise 4 weeks ago:
Our world doesn’t believe in that newfangled UDMF nonsense. Give me silent teleporters or give me death.
- Comment on WrestleMania was running wild on you 4 weeks ago:
Two possibilities.
1: It’s the calm before the storm. It implies nobody was egging this on. People were simply going on with their lives, when suddenly a thing happens. “Out of nowhere.” It’s a common trope both visually and in writing.
2: It makes autistic people mad.
- Comment on 13 skeletons 4 weeks ago:
13 skeletons is the max. To raise more you need a Bonelord. 13 Bonelords and you need a Lich. 13 Liches and you need a Titan.
After 13 Titans, 169 Liches, 2197 Bonelords, and 28561 skeletons… you reach Khali.
- Comment on Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun 5 weeks ago:
An article about microtransactions, riddled with distracting, screen-dominating ads. They used a massive interstitial before the article even began!
I assume the article is praising Ubisoft for their scummy practices? "If you don’t like hundreds of
adsmicrotransactions justsubscribebuy premium. - Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 5 weeks ago:
Ban magic 8-balls
- Comment on Fuck it, more surrealposting. 5 weeks ago:
This is just that Jurassic Park game with fps sections isn’t it?
- Comment on "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way". 1 month ago:
People say it’s freezing outside, but it’s a few degrees above water becoming a solid. What gives?
They say they’re starving even though they just haven’t eaten all day.
People need to follow the rules when it comes to words or else we descend into chaos. It’s literally a highway to hell!
- Comment on Find luigi 1 month ago:
Reminds me of trying to find the odd symbol out on Commodore 64 using the blinking characters.
- Comment on Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers 1 month ago:
I want to see the rebels and empire go at it like this:
- Comment on Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” 1 month ago:
Saying that the Holocaust was faked and that Jews control the world isn’t antisemitic.
Saying genocide is wrong is antisemitic.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 1 month ago:
You can mimic the feel of Twitter by taking reddit threads and cutting them at the most popular reply (Reddit already does this), and then reversing the order. Now the “best” content is front and center and the conversation / context is in the background. Users don’t have to go through the tediousness of a discussion before experiencing the sheer joy of a witty response. The emotions come faster and more consistently.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged' 1 month ago:
I’d rather have another team try to execute Subnautica. Unforgivable to make a survival game where enemies go through walls, you can fall through your ship, and your save becomes corrupted if you build too much.
It’s a AA game that was rough around the edges. Not much there to make you think “without the original devs the game will be totally wrong.”
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 1 month ago:
What kind of engineers work at Tesla? I feel like normal people get anxiety over deleting databases or deploying secrets to production. Accidentally taking a service down.
But there you have all kinds of terrible things happening and it’s purely because your company knows how to work policy makers. A dad dies in a fireball and what, it’s an emergency meeting? Something you look into first thing Monday morning?
- Comment on PSA for those in America 1 month ago:
It’s funny to see lemmings not like fireworks. First time the reaction to fireworks has been to cry.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 1 month ago:
Nonviolent direct action has earned them the label “terrorists.”
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 1 month ago:
So is this a way to take away rights by making it about kids?
I mean what the fuck. We did much less and got punished right? It didn’t matter if we were on the property. Schools can hold students accountable for conduct with other students.
The leaded-gas adults of the time had no problem dealing with the emergence of cell phones. It was a distraction. They didn’t need lawmakers to call it something specific. My Pokemon cards caused fights and were banned. No lawmakers needed.
The problem is surely with the interaction between parents and schools. Or maybe it’s just the old way of thinking. Maybe it’s better to have police and courts start taking over discipline in schools.
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 1 month ago:
Flower petal distribution.
Like a voronoi grid with limited colors, each color a state. Every state would have a bit of everything.
