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- Comment on Yet another community about Mod Abuses and Power Trips 6 minutes ago:
Yeah, he was the reason I dug in my heels against the stupid ‘if you don’t like it then ignore it’ bullshit which is fine for music and sports but down voting misinformation is one of the main purposes of the down vote!
- Comment on New research centre to explore how AI can help humans ‘speak’ with pets 28 minutes ago:
Oh, it will let us do the thing we already do if we take the time to learn common behaviors and actually pay attention?
Oh good, at least they spoke to someone who knows what they are talking about.
“But AI often generates made-up responses that please the user rather than being anchored in objective reality. This could be a disaster if applied to pets’ welfare,” said Birch, whose input to the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act led to it being expanded to include cephalopod mollusks and decapod crustaceans.
Birch points to separation anxiety: dog owners often want reassurance that their pet is not suffering when left alone for long periods. Futuristic “translation” apps based on large language models could promise to provide that reassurance, but end up causing harm by telling owners what they want to hear rather than what the animal actually needs.
- Comment on Great idea 1 hour ago:
We have them scattered around here in the middle of the US too.
- Comment on Yet another community about Mod Abuses and Power Trips 9 hours ago:
it is hilarious that you throw a tantrum about people downvoting your small communities, and the moment a community exists thst you don’t like you spend so much time filling it with shit posts because you don’t like being criticized. What a hypocrite.
- Comment on Yet another community about Mod Abuses and Power Trips 10 hours ago:
Sad little man child
Can’t even hold back their rage
Tries so hard but fails
- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 10 hours ago:
They also had more free time to figure things out.
- Comment on Yet another community about Mod Abuses and Power Trips 10 hours ago:
I have a 20 year marriage, a teenager, and a dog who are all happy to see me.
How you doin’?
- Comment on Yet another community about Mod Abuses and Power Trips 11 hours ago:
You are just mad that nobody loves you.
- Comment on Yet another community about Mod Abuses and Power Trips 11 hours ago:
Yes, your butt certainly hurts.
- Comment on Yet another community about Mod Abuses and Power Trips 11 hours ago:
People can’t see the community rules when browsing All you fucking donkey.
- Comment on Yet another community about Mod Abuses and Power Trips 11 hours ago:
Fuck off.
- Comment on The sole purpose of language models is to lower the market value of human skills. 17 hours ago:
The internet was successful because it was predictable and reliable and filled a previously unserved purpose. LLMs could possibly serve a purpose creating text that doesn’t need to be correct or accurate, but it won’t replace anything that requires any level of accuracy or accountability because the design is inherently flawed due to being a prediction algorithm.
There are uses for pattern matching AI that will continue to be tools used by humans to help focus efforts in massively complex work, but they won’t ever be foundational replacements.
- Comment on I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie. 19 hours ago:
Now this is
pod racinga shower thought! - Comment on Some ICE agents are smarter than others, and are compiling data on their peers, which will be useful for plea deals after the regime falls. 21 hours ago:
Both Russia and China have long histories of centralized authority.
Most western powers have been comparatively short lived, constantly expanding and fragmenting into new power structures. That includes the US, which has always had back and a forth infighting between state level and federal powers. I give the current regime a decade more (they have been building up for decades) due to speed running the few things they could use to placate the populace into the ground.
- Comment on Some ICE agents are smarter than others, and are compiling data on their peers, which will be useful for plea deals after the regime falls. 22 hours ago:
There are always individuals who put themselves first, even in completely horrible groups.
- Comment on Yet another community about Mod Abuses and Power Trips 22 hours ago:
Yes, unruffed is the one YPTB mod who is cahoots with the other three mods (of other communities) that are all doing the mass bannings, and even using each other’s moderation as an excuse for more bans.
- Comment on Yet another community about Mod Abuses and Power Trips 22 hours ago:
Off the top of my head.
unruffled at dbzero hypes up the conspiracy that everyone who gets banned for vote manipulation/whatever deserves it. I think they posted something about the brigade menace and treat a handful of down votes on something as the end of the world.
cryptagion at dbzero does mass bans for one or a few down votes
mystic mushroom at dbzero does mass bans for one or a few down votes
Also jet at hackertalks does mass bans for one or a few down votes
Think there was one other too but can’t remember their name. The complaint is that they don’t understand what lurkers are (vote but don’t comment) or that people might browse all and not care about AI but down vote something because it is awful. Then they make ridiculous accusations and accuse anyone who disagrees with them of being a troll.
If they just banned down votes and banned anyone who down voted with the reason ‘down votes not allowed’ then they would not be getting the widespread negative reaction that they are getting.
- Comment on Great idea 23 hours ago:
It is a take one and leave one setup so they can’t be stolen and the same books aren’t expected to be out there for long periods of time.
Perhaps the most well-known is the extensive beach library at Albena, a restort on Bulgaria’s Black Sea. Designed by German architect Herman Kompernas, it’s built to withstand the sun, water, and wind, and equipped with a vinyl cover to protect the books in rain. It reopened this May with more than 6,000 volumes in 15 languages, all totally free to take — and visitors are encouraged to leave their own tomes for others.
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 1 day ago:
The publisher delaying the game would allow them to keep the $225 million.
See how this works?
- Comment on Yet another community about Mod Abuses and Power Trips 1 day ago:
Also one of the YPTB mods is in a group with like 3 others who all:
Flood user modlogs with unfounded accusations of vote manipulation and trolling.
Think that people browsing All should knoweth size and history of every community before downvoting.
Take downvoting very personally.
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 1 day ago:
Early release was supposed to be in 2024. We have halfway through 2025.
Lead devs have said the game is ready for early release, so they are taking a break from a game they feel is being delayed by the publisher. The publisher is whining about expectations, not obligations or anything along those lines.
I’m with the devs on this one, project burnout is real.
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 1 day ago:
A publisher trashing devs of a beloved game with personal attacks certai ky was a bold move.
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 1 day ago:
They did not have any reason to personally attack the leads except out of spite, and odds are high that doing so will only anger the player base towards the publisher.
Trashing the devs was a terrible idea, and what they wrote was clearly petty and spiteful.
- Comment on Krafton Issue Statement Regarding Subnautica 2 1 day ago:
However, instead of participating in the game development, he chose to focus on a personal film project.
My assumption is that Krafton expected the leads to put in 12 hour days 7 days a week to meet ridiculous expectations and the leads took some vacation time or something along those lines. That would match up with common publisher behavior, especially the ones that trash people publicly.
- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 1 day ago:
The polite ohrasing is pills of color
- Comment on Indeed, Glassdoor to cut 1,300 jobs amid AI integration, memo shows 1 day ago:
Oh boy, they are going to get so many bad Glassdoor reviews.
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 1 day ago:
Or more likely they weren’t actually being lastly, and knew they needed to leave room for swelling and healing. The surgeons that did tight stitches thought theirs was better because it looked better immediately after the surgery.
Surgeons are actually pretty well known for being arrogant, and claiming anyone who doesn’t do their neat and tight stitching is lazy is completely on brand for people like that.
- Comment on Why is so hard for musicians to have a good living and be famous? 1 day ago:
If you have the right connections you don’t even have to be good looking or talented!
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- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 2 days ago:
Brazil shuts BYD factory site over ‘slavery’ conditions
From 2016 and still true today:
Chinese Government Subsidies Play Major Part In Electric Car Maker BYD’s Rise
Yeah, subsidies and other benefits from governments exist but China is going all in.
