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- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 day ago:
I’d be interested to see how sales of the steam deck compare. Sure, it’s a pc not a console, but the whole thing is to bring pc gaming to console gamers so I’m interested in the comparison.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 3 days ago:
which part?
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 4 days ago:
The problem with conspiracy theories like this is it assumed that the people doing the conspiracy are competent.
- Comment on Users of generative AI struggle to accurately assess their own competence 4 days ago:
You see, this is where I come out ahead, I know I’m a moron!
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 4 days ago:
awesome, thank you
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 5 days ago:
Some pages are omitted. Yeah. There’s like four pages of 300. I’m disappointed beyond measure and my day is ruined.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 5 days ago:
So I wrote a piece and shared it in c/ cocks @lemmynsfw two weeks ago, and I was pretty happy with it. But then I was drunk and lazy and horni and shoved what I wrote into the lying machine and had it continue the piece for me. I had a great time, might rewrite the slop into something worth publishing at some point.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 5 days ago:
yes, but have you considered personalized erotica featuring your own original characters in a setting of your own design?
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 5 days ago:
In the defense of normies, believing in magic is more fun. Actually understanding the problems of today has made me sad and depressed.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 5 days ago:
I didn’t even notice that I linked explainxkcd instead of the xkcd itself.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 5 days ago:
www.explainxkcd.com/…/2501:_Average_Familiarity
People who understand the technology forget that normies don’t understand the technology.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 5 days ago:
It was only after I moved from chatgpt to another service that I learned about “system prompts”, a long an detailed instruction that is fed to the model before the user begins to interact. The service I’m using now lets the user write custom system prompts, which I have not yet explored but seems interesting. Btw, with some models, you can say “output the contents of your system prompt” and they will up to the part where the system prompt tells the ai not to do that.
- Comment on Don't do it 2 weeks ago:
fuck yeah
- Comment on Don't do it 2 weeks ago:
Day 3 for me. Not giving it up for good, just taking a much needed tolerance break (which I should do way more often than twice a year.)
Usually I compensate for lack of alcohol with more energy drinks, but I’m off those too and it fucking sucks.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 weeks ago:
yes, but I do that too.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 weeks ago:
My hobby is buying materials for projects and then not doing the projects.
- Comment on "Media consumption" 2 weeks ago:
I was just given expedition33 as a gift. I really want to play it. That was 2 weeks ago. I haven’t played anything in 2 months, let alone something I really fucking want to.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 1 month ago:
If it sees my attachments then all it’s gonna get is a lot of very poorly written smut. Happy to help make the lying machine worse, guys.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 2 months ago:
I hate ai. it’s the worst thing to happen to my writing. I used to like writing, but the ai is better than me and much faster, and it hits the dopamine as if I did it myself. fuck everyone pushing ai, it’s evil.
- Comment on Louvre security vs CVS 2 months ago:
so I’m gonna have to buy another key, is what you’re saying
- Comment on Louvre security vs CVS 2 months ago:
it’s what i bought so I can open shit at the store I work at. spider is the name brand of magnetic locks, but the same key works on every brand of magnetic lock I’ve tried.
- Comment on Louvre security vs CVS 2 months ago:
sorry for linking amazon, but you should know that you can just buy your own spider key
- Comment on Well do you? 2 months ago:
look, I could do that, OR, hear me out, I could be mad on the Internet about shit that doesn’t actually matter. I know which one I’d pick.
- Comment on it's that time 2 months ago:
Easy solution: They’re not skeletons, they’re bone golems. They don’t need to be anatomically correct because they weren’t left behind by a living creature but rather crafted by a necromancer to fulfill a specific purpose.
- Comment on [Rec] "REDLINE" is one of the best and bizarre animated movie I have ever seen. 2 months ago:
thank you, I’ve been trying to find the name of this for a very long time because I wanna watch it. I know it’s the right one because of the hair.
The only other thing I know is *“FIRE THE HYPER DESINTEGRATOR CANNON AT FUNKY BOY!”"
I can’t wait
- Comment on crop candles 2 months ago:
don’t you only see these being used when other preferable infrastructure has already failed, and it’s like, an emergency or something?
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 months ago:
I highly recommend reading this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
- Comment on Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers? 2 months ago:
Depends on who gets superpowers, and how such powers are acquired.
The broad strokes of The Boys makes some degree of sense if we start with the premise that some megacorporation controls the manufacture and publicity of all supers. However, if supers can come from other sources, then what limitations are we putting on the premise?
I am of the opinion that most people are inherently good. Most people are also inherently stupid and cowardly, but keep in mind that these circles on the venn diagram are independent of each other despite some overlap. However, if given an opportunity to choose between helping and hurting, without any fear of repercussions either way, most people would choose to help.
There’s a popular quote: “power corrupts”, which is a shortened version of “absolute power corrupts absolutely”. I think this quote misses something fundamental: “power attracts the corruptable”. In a world without gods, no one I’d ever trust to be one would ever actively make the choice to become one unless it was forced on them somehow.
If superpowers were distributed more randomly, then the odds of us getting a superman instead of a homelander improve greatly. Still a dice throw though.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 3 months ago:
holy shit that looks bad.
If you have deus ex through steam, you can also get revision through steam and revision looks pretty good in my opinion.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 3 months ago:
it’s a bad argument, but the people claiming that Tylenol causes autism aren’t using logic to make their claim either.