Peruvian_Skies
@Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 1 day ago:
You’re thinking about “documentaries”. There’s this whole other uniberse of films commonly referred to as “fiction”. Or are you upset that Hobbits are overrepresented in The Lord of the Rings, blue aliens in Avatar and people who can fly in Superman, too?
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 3 days ago:
The reason is simple: all the main symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder involve behavior which is harmful to others.
In this, it is different from most forms of neurodivergence. Like psychopathy, it is a kind of antisocial personality disorder, in the sense that people who have it are harmful to society. Autism, ADHD, bipolar, BPD and even schizophrenia do not necessarily cause the sufferer to become harmful to others - in fact, the person afflicted with these conditions often harms themselves on an attempt not to inconvenience others, and only harms others unintentionally, while the narcissist does so intentionally and deliberately. People don’t demonize narcissists. Narcissism demonizes narcissists, and people recognize that.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 3 days ago:
Let me repeat myself: there is jo such thing as “overrepresentarion”. There isn’t, and shouldn’t be, a law that states that TV and movie producers have to follow census data strictly in their casting. That would be stupid.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 4 days ago:
No such thing.
- Comment on Have you know???. 4 days ago:
Very recently. And even if I never had, that’s an old argument. The human brain is capable of doing so, even if some given human never does. AI is incapable of doing so by design.
Let me explain this in a way you Americans can understand: The human brain is a gun. Even if most people just use it to pistol-whip others, it can shoot bullets. AI is a greasy cheeseburger. It will never shoot a bullet, and it’s also bad at pistol-whipping.
- Comment on Have you know???. 5 days ago:
Remixing isn’t innovation.
- Comment on A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. 5 days ago:
What a surprise, the empathy-free text generator makes things worse when people expect it to output empathy. My condolences to the kid’s family and I hope he’s in a better place, but this sort of thing is going to happen more and more until people realize that AI chatbots only seem human-like because the human brain is so good at empathy that it projects emotions and agency onto anything, even a literal cowpile with googly eyes on top.
AI isn’t “good enough to fool us” . We’re just stupid enough to be fooled even by something as moronic as AI. What we emphadize in such a statement makes all the difference in how we handle this tech.
- Comment on US revokes visa of Brazil justice minister in Bolsonaro row 5 days ago:
Any Latino who goes to the USA right now (I understand calling Brasileiros Latinos is controversial for some people but in this case it applies) risks to go to Alligator Auschwitz for no good reason, so Lewandowski wasn’t going to use that visa anyway.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 5 days ago:
Yeah, there’s nothing wrong with people being gay as long as they do it in secret and “normal” people don’t have to acknowledge it. /s
- Comment on Have you know???. 5 days ago:
Actually imagining. The fact that we have created previously unheard of tools such as the hammer, the wrench, the automobile and the profylactic condom is ample evidence that we can actually innovate, somethibg that artificial “intelligence” is ibcapable 9f doing by its very design.
- Comment on Andrew Tate sues Meta, TikTok for over $50 million for ‘deplatforming’ him 1 week ago:
You should though. Not for the same reasons as Tate but you definitely should be afraid of being locked in the same room as a deranged and highly aggressive baby eater who is basically always going through violent withdrawal.
- Comment on The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era 1 week ago:
You are completely correct. And these are all reasons why the more heavily a company relies on AI for critical applications, the more likely it will be to go bankrupt. This is inherently a self-fixing problem.
- Comment on The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era 1 week ago:
I firmly disagree. Once this bubble bursts, AI “features” will swiftly be removed from any software suite with a plan of remaining relevant. Everyone in the know has been painfully aware from the start that AI is a worthless technology. It’s only a matter of either the common man catching on or the industry pushing it so hard that it breaks the existing infrastructure. We’re moving firmly towards the second scenario.
- Comment on Andrew Tate sues Meta, TikTok for over $50 million for ‘deplatforming’ him 1 week ago:
You misspelled “rapist and sex trafficker who looks like Gollum”
- Comment on Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. 2 weeks ago:
Ad blockers violate copyright law like breathing violates patent law.
- Comment on Some heroes don’t wear capes 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 3 weeks ago:
Either way, Trump is a pedophile who is close froends with several pedophiles. That’s the important part.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 month ago:
Plus, if you had two-day battery life, when the battery inevitably degrades, you’ll still have solid battery life.
But the companies want you to buy a new phone when the battery degrades.
- Comment on Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order 2 months ago:
Censorship is bad, but Facebook and X’s entire business models revolve around spreading content that is at once false and inflammatory, either just to create engagement or for more malicious purposes, and they reach a huge portion of the population directly, including children, teenagers, the mentally ill and other vulnerable populations. This requires a new understanding of accountability for spreading information.
I wouldn’t agree that it makes sense to hold a Mastodon instance responsible for what its users post, because they don’t have a financial incentive or the ability to promote misinformation at a massive scale. Twitter does. As Aristotle said, we must treat equals equally, and treat the unequal unequally according to the form and extent of their inequality.
- Comment on With all the animals that die in the sea, is it possible they get pickled in there? 2 months ago:
The sea is not “a salt brine in itself”. You need a much higher salt concentration to pickle anything than what you find at any point in the ocean. Enough to prevent microbial life forms from surviving and consuming whatever it is you’re trying to pickle, which is why it doesn’t rot while pickling.
- Comment on How do I use Firefox and block YouTube ads? 2 months ago:
uBlock Origin works 9n Firefox for me. No ads on YT.
- Comment on Trump has skipped almost all of his intelligence briefings 3 months ago:
Does the USA have enough on budget for all the paper it would take to print out a list of what he’s doing wrong? Do we even have the budget for enough hard drives to store the text file?
- Comment on Trump has skipped almost all of his intelligence briefings 3 months ago:
Oh look, something else this idiot is doing wrong.
- Comment on Trump admin walks back tariff exemption on electronics 4 months ago:
This idiot has no idea what he’s doing.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 months ago:
The current CEO of Microsoft.
- Comment on Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were posted 5 months ago:
They can’t unless the parties agree that they can. The sneaky part is the “by continuing to use our services, you agree to the new terms” part, which is standard practice. You’d have to terminate your account before the new terms come into effect, then take them to court to make sure they didn’t keep your data around and use it to train their AI anyway because they “didn’t notice” that that particular content belonged to someone who didn’t accept the new terms.
- Comment on Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were posted 5 months ago:
Nothing suspicious at all about being contacted by the subject of a news story just to say it’s not newsworthy. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
- Comment on How likely do you think there will be a run on the banks? 6 months ago:
Correct. When there isn’t enough bread to go around, it doesn’t really matter if everyone has money.
- Comment on New MAGA acronym interpretation 6 months ago:
Maim America, Grift Americans
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 6 months ago:
These are all valid points but they don’t preclude the existence of an open-source alternative to MBFC, which is what the commenter you replied to was asking.
