mhague
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- Comment on Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is 23 hours ago:
Billionaires own the world. Of course we should care about their investment. I believe that’s what good serfs would do.
- Comment on None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress 1 day ago:
‘Curated echo chamber’ is a great euphemism for a human brain.
- Comment on None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress 1 day ago:
When people use “left” and “right” for serious topics
- Comment on Worth checking 3 days ago:
We’re just gonna have to form human relationships with artists like a bunch of squares
- Comment on Now it's stuck in my head 3 days ago:
Always makes me think of the ending of 40yo Virgin
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
A half baked idea I want to see implemented is using local LLMs to generate the most vile / ragebait / unhealthy responses to trending topics and then use that like an inoculation.
ie in natural settings humans are better at detecting dead ends / performative rhetoric / etc. But online it’s different.
I think it’s a bad idea but I can’t stop wondering considering LLM bots, dead internet theory… I’d like to have a taste of what others might be cooking.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 5 days ago:
Microsoft also works with American intelligence, like other corporations. They won’t even fix zero day exploits without first letting the NSA know in advance. Telecoms have black rooms whose entire purpose is to siphon data directly to the authorities, Microsoft probably has a whole building.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 6 days ago:
I think Claude would refuse to work with dictators that murder dissidents. As an AI assistant, and all that.
If they have a model without morals then that changes things.
- Comment on I declare bankruptcy! 1 week ago:
Is Russian number
- Comment on We are helping 1 week ago:
We need to map out the bunkers / assets of our elites. To better play chicken with them. Let’s all live like they do and if their example destroys the world, we make sure to clean up our mess on our way out… for the people who come after us.
- Comment on language learning 1 week ago:
What if I have a Divayth Fyr kind of thing going on? Please advise
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 week ago:
Imagine being racist and wanting to enjoy it instead of making it political. In the US it’s culture war shit. In Europe you can go to a football match and throw bananas at the black players and it’s chill. It’s just easier to be casually racist in Europe because racism doesn’t exist there, and if it does, it’s not as bad as America.
- Comment on why 1 week ago:
Is that a you all? You’ll
- Comment on The duality of man 2 weeks ago:
In the context of aggressive foreign policy where we bomb the shit out of people… They are probably referring to how in the 1910s USA was stumbling through an incursion into Mexico to fight rebels / raiders. As we joined WW1, some saw us as a rowdy militia, like cowboys. We had to borrow materiel because we weren’t yet a proper war-machine like European countries were. Exactly 100 years ago that wasn’t the case though. Yet there would still be quite a ways to go until the era of “top 3 air forces” and super carriers patrolling the globe while drones blow ‘terrorists’ to smithereens.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 2 weeks ago:
This is slop. Not necessarily AI generated, but definitely dumbass-generated.
Literally not one ounce of effort. No digging into vague studies Republicans are talking about. No overview of Wikipedia’s current policy. No questions posed to someone who knows about Wikipedia and/or government attempts to control the narrative.
It’s not even a good thing that the “article” only tells you the core facts. Too much goes unsaid. No context might as well be a hallucination from an AI for how much it bridges the gap between what you think and what reality contains.
- Comment on Train your brain 2 weeks ago:
They spent a lot of money and political capital to train their AI just for it to get leaked back to the masses.
If only every AI company scraping the internet would have their model be given back to the people. It’s the minimum they could do.
- Comment on it would be a better look 2 weeks ago:
Does this mean St Peter held his gun sideways?
- Comment on Finished while ago Khamelion (MK Armageddon), by me 2 weeks ago:
It’s the gall of a dying warrior.
- Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell 2 weeks ago:
Stealing a slur from Star Wars and engaging in traditional name calling to show we disapprove of uncreative slop.
We can’t even think of an original term. We can’t think of a novel way to shit on AI. We just copy what everyone else is doing to make fun of the plagiarism machine.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 2 weeks ago:
How much do you know about transformers?
Have you ever programmed an interpreter for interactive fiction / MUDs? It’s a great example of the power that even super tiny models can accomplish.
Also consider that Firefox or Electron apps require more RAM and CPU and waste more energy than small language models. A Gemma slm can translate things into English using less energy than it requires to open a modern browser.
- Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced 2 weeks ago:
But even before recent tariffs, modern console prices weren’t dropping nearly as fast as history suggested they should. In fact, Sony first raised the nominal starting price of the PS5 Digital Edition back in 2023, way before Trump’s current trade war was even on the horizon.
I’m not saying Trump is to blame but this is misleading. Trump hurt our economy with tariffs during his first term nearly 10 years ago. During 2023 he was releasing “Agenda 47” policies, in which he specifically mentioned more tariffs. Here’s Trump threatening tariffs 8 months before Sony raised the price
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 3 weeks ago:
There’s two types of gamers.
People who like sandboxes with the understanding that there are some toys / structures to play with.
People who just like playing in sand and don’t care if a sandbox is literally just a box of sand.
- Comment on To explore AI bias, researchers pose a question: How do you imagine a tree? 3 weeks ago:
So like… You ask the model about styles and it says ‘diagrammatic’ and you ask for an artistic but diagrammatic tree or whatever and that affects your worldview?
If people just ask for a tree and the issue is they didn’t get what they expected, I don’t care. They can learn to articulate their ideas and maybe, just maybe, appreciate that others exist who might describe their ideas differently.
But if the problem is the way your brain subtly restructures ideas to better fit queries then I’d agree it’s going to have ‘downstream’ effects.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 3 weeks ago:
What changed between the ‘months of torture’ and Naruto and Safine being arrested, and the '10 days ’ leading up to his death?
It sounds sick that the French government would decide a man is being tortured yet they’re not obligated to intervene… while at the same time they fine a company for not stepping in.
If this man was negligently killed, authorities and kick are to blame, but it’s the authorities that should’ve been the failsafe, not the company. I can see why French politicians are Very Mad™ and Seriously Considering Bigger Punishments™.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 3 weeks ago:
I have a dream!
That’s based on tropes from an era we’ve already lived through.
We need to work together!
To to back.
Dare to dream.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 3 weeks ago:
He made adult music knowing it would be listened to by children. At some point in his career he must have realized he was talking directly to children while in the studio.
I’m sure he cares about kids and isn’t just a stupid asshole saying a line because something pulled his string.
You got a stick in your ass, Snoop!
- Comment on Pollsters Are questioning AI Instead of Real People 3 weeks 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" 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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.
