Probius

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, position and velocity are relative, so that’s a nonsensical statement without defining a reference object for the Earth’s position. If we’re not assuming you end up safely on dry land, you could just as easily end up light-years away as wherever you were relative to the sun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even nerf bullets can hurt you if they’re shot at you in sufficient quantities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord plans to roll out third-party ads on its mobile apps, starting with a mobile pilot for Video Quests, video ads that let users earn rewards, in June 2025.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mind them adding ads.

  I’m gonna stop you right there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It literally costs them money to make YouTube worse so that you can pay them to make it better again. NewPipe go brrrrrr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “But I don’t want to eat the moldy cabbage on the ground outside!”

  “Okay, do you have an alternative, or are you just gonna whine? Eat up!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably did this specifically because people were upvoting our favorite plumber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a problem with games creating their own models trained only on things they created. I believe charging money for anything using assets generated by a model trained on data they didn’t have the rights to should be illegal. If a model is trained on data that they do own the the rights to, but didn’t create, that’s a weird gray area where I think it shouldn’t be illegal to sell its results, but you should have to disclose that you used it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to use AI autocomplete when programming not because it solves problems for me (it fucking sucks at that if you’re not a beginner), but because it’s good at literally just guessing what I want to do next so I don’t have to type it out. If I do something to the X coordinate, I probably want to do the same/similar thing to the Y and Z coordinates and AI’s really good at picking up that sort of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, what makes the difference is whether or not it’s trained on other people’s shit. The distinction between AI and an algorithm is pretty arbitrary, but I wouldn’t consider, for example, procedural generation via the wave function collapse algorithm to have the same moral implications as selling something using what most people would call AI-generated content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a US state prevent its citizens from paying federal taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could a state order all businesses operating in that state to stop paying taxes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a US state prevent its citizens from paying federal taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That would mean that the corporations basically paid people’s taxes for them, right? Wouldn’t that just get factored into salaries?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a US state prevent its citizens from paying federal taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it would, at most, only work with people who get paid from the same state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a US state prevent its citizens from paying federal taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the answer I was looking for. Thanks! A simple “no” wasn’t very informative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a US state prevent its citizens from paying federal taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t mean legally, I mean “just doing it” regardless of the law.

• Could a US state prevent its citizens from paying federal taxes?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the sad truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we need laws against platforms censoring discussion of their rivals, particularly with shadow bans and shadow delistings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which continent is America? I only know of Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The name may be really stupid, but America is the name used to reference the United States and is recognized by hundreds of millions if not billions of people. North America: continent. South America: continent. The Americas: 2 continents. America: 1 country. Just because it’s dumb doesn’t make it not true.