FaceDeer
@FaceDeer@fedia.io
Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.
- Comment on Get that silicussy 2 weeks ago:
And remember: if you're not running her on your own hardware she's not an AI girlfriend. She's an AI prostitute.
- Comment on We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago 2 weeks ago:
We know a few. "Fire", for example. And "Axe". The inventions named after them are still in use to this day.
- Comment on AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was 2 weeks ago:
It's weird how AI has turned so much of the internet from its generally anti-copyright stance. I've seen threads in piracy and datahoarding communities that were riddled with "won't someone please think of the copyright!" Posts raging about how awful AI was.
I maintain the same view I always have. Copyright is indeed broken, because of how overly restrictive and expansive it has become. Most people long ago lost sight of what it's actually for.
- Comment on AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was 2 weeks ago:
If they do it's not by the actual training of AI.
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 2 weeks ago:
Simple.wikipedia isn't a summary of regular Wikpedia, it's a whole separate thing. It's intended to convey the same data, just in a simpler way.
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 2 weeks ago:
The problem being discussed here is not the availability of Wikipedia's data. It's about the ongoing maintenance and development of that data going forward, in the future. Having a static copy of Wikipedia gathering dust on various peoples' hard drives isn't going to help that.
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 2 weeks ago:
Wikipedia's traditional self-sustaining model works like this: Volunteers (editors) write and improve articles for free, motivated by idealism and the desire to share knowledge. This high-quality content attracts a massive number of readers from search engines and direct visits. Among those millions of readers, a small percentage are inspired to become new volunteers/editors, replenishing the workforce. This cycle is "virtuous" because each part fuels the next: Great content leads to more readers which leads to more editors which leads to even better content. AI tools (like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, etc.) disrupt this cycle by intercepting the user before they reach Wikipedia.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
A week or two back there was a post on Reddit where someone was advertising a project they'd put up on GitHub, and when I went to look at it I didn't find any documentation explaining how it actually worked - just how to install it and run it.
So I gave Gemini the URL of the repository and asked it to generate a "Deep Research" report on how it worked. Got a very extensive and detailed breakdown, including some positives and negatives that weren't mentioned in the existing readme.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
How would that layer distinguish AI from non-AI?
- Comment on SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers 2 weeks ago:
Oh boy, I bet the comments on this one will be useful.
- Comment on A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more 2 weeks ago:
I like that one, very thorough.
- Comment on A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more 2 weeks ago:
LLMs were trained on our social media feeds, after all...
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 3 weeks ago:
Yes. I addressed that. Fasten it to flat pieces of stiff material, not to the floor. The stiff material keeps it from curling but can be moved.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 3 weeks ago:
I addressed that. I'm not proposing fastening it to the floor.
- Comment on How do I keep a brand new one of these mats from wanting to keep curling up on the ends? 3 weeks ago:
Use carpet tape (double-sided tape that's meant for sticking rugs to the floor) to fasten stiff squares of material to the undersides of the corners. The stiff material will keep it from curling, but it won't be stuck down to the floor so you can still move it.
- Comment on It always makes news when the "Doomsday Clock" is moved by a second or minute. What would actually happen if it got to 00:00 3 weeks ago:
Would make a good premise for a Fallout-style post-apocalyptic RPG. The quest is to reach the Doomsday clock and set it to 00:00.
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 4 weeks ago:
Ah, low numbers of seeds. Must've just not wanted to wait.
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 4 weeks ago:
Which, as I said, seems strange. Why don't those businesses just download the torrents?
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 4 weeks ago:
Seems strange. Anna's Archive makes their collection available for bulk download as torrent files, they shouldn't need to "cut a deal" for access to that. Just download the torrent and now you've got the whole collection available locally.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 4 weeks ago:
Only 12 percent reported both lower costs and higher revenue, while 56 percent saw neither benefit. Twenty-six percent saw reduced costs, but nearly as many experienced cost increases.
So 38% saw benefits from AI, whereas "nearly" 26% saw cost increases from it. One could just as easily write the headline "More companies experience increased benefits from AI than experience increased costs" based on this data but that headline wouldn't get so many clicks.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 4 weeks ago:
I'd consider that a "lose" condition.
It's possible for everyone to lose a war.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 4 weeks ago:
Most Fediverse clients (probably including whichever app you're using) have a block feature, you can use that on me if you prefer not to see my comments.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 4 weeks ago:
I'm not "minimizing" nukes. I'm describing them as they are. I provided sources.
You may not be aware, but many people survived Hiroshima and the city is populated to this day.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 4 weeks ago:
This is ridiculously binary thinking. I'm saying it's not as bad as the person I was responding to thinks it would be, and you're interpreting that as "it's fine, there's no downside"?
Being punched in the face is less bad than being shot. Would you interpret that as "it's fine to be punched in the face"?
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 4 weeks ago:
If they're well programmed there's no way to know at this point. AI is able to pass the Turing Test without even needing particularly hefty resources, I've been doing a bunch of fiddling with local LLMs and I could probably write something up that could do it. I don't personally see a point because I comment here for my own enjoyment rather than to push an agenda, but if I was trying to push an agenda it'd be reasonably straightforward to whip up a population of AI characters who agreed with it in various ways.
- Comment on Canada weighs sending soldiers to Greenland as show of NATO solidarity with Denmark 4 weeks ago:
Oh no, the orange toddler would get angry?
How angry do we need to make him before blood vessels start popping? Would be such a shame if that happened.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn't be the first time in history that a major power started a war and then promptly proceeded to decisively lose it.
- Comment on YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos 4 weeks ago:
Youtube isn't the way you think it should be, though.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 4 weeks ago:
Currently there are 12,331. These weapons are divided up among many nations, and only a fraction of them are actually "ready to launch" at any given time. If launched most of them will be targeted at military targets, which are often located in remote places - silos in the middle of nowhere, carrier groups out in the ocean, forward military bases or stockpiles, and so forth. They wouldn't be fired with intent to "wipe out" humanity. There would be entire continents that nobody bothers firing at - why waste precious nukes on countries that are uninvolved in the conflict?
Nuclear winter is no longer thought to be as bad as the most extreme predictions from back in the 1960s. And even with those extreme predictions it still wouldn't lead to human extinction. Humans are an incredibly robust species. We don't need infrastructure to survive in harsh conditions. Inuit survived in the arctic for thousands of years without anything fancy, and you're not going to see conditions that harsh everywhere on Earth regardless.