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- Comment on Want a humanoid, open source robot for just $3,000? Hugging Face is on it. 1 week ago:
I really don’t, but thanks for asking I guess.
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 1 week ago:
Have you seen the potato prices in Russia lately? Good thing I’m more of a dark rum, brandy or peaty malt person myself. Oh. And not Russian - that’s very nice too.
Gotta count my blessings, I guess.
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 1 week ago:
Fuck everything straight to Hell. If somebody need me I’ll be over in the corner, getting riotously drunk.
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 1 week ago:
I’ve never had a horse in this race, and I never will - but I’m sure this will work out well for those who do. /s
- Comment on The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not 1 week ago:
Of course, of course. Wouldn’t want to be caught doing anything illegal - that might incur liabilities. Unethical and amoral are fair play though.
“Your Honor, the defense submits - as exhibit A - a six-hundred page lease agreement written in a language that ostensibly resembles English. If you’ll turn to page 497, you’ll note that the woman in question signed away her right to sue for the subsequent rape pursuant to §164, subsection 5…”
Somehow, I don’t think that would fly, but apparently - just like email isn’t legally protected like the kind nobody uses anymore used to be: if it happens online, it’s completely different.
- Comment on X launches E2E encrypted Chat 1 week ago:
Haha! Yeah, sure it is.
- Comment on The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not 1 week ago:
It used to be that I just assumed Google mined the absolute seven fucks out of my private data.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Let’s not get started on fucking Oracle. We’ll be here all day. Or year, possibly.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 4 weeks ago:
Kudos! I wish you the best of luck and hope for your success.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 4 weeks ago:
That seems unlikely to persuade those people to continue using VMware, but good luck with that business strat Broadcom.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 4 weeks ago:
Agreed. The sentiment was fine, the execution terrible.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 4 weeks ago:
The following:
If companies are indulging in abusive use of cookies (or index DB, local storage, plugins or other things) then ban those abusive use of cookies and fine companies that transgress until they stop. The EU essentially caves to industry pressure and put the burden on the individual visitor, which just allowed the companies to make it very, very annoying to opt out. Have you noticed how ‘allow all’ is always a single click, but allow none isn’t, if the option exists at all? Regardless, those settings? Guess where they’re stored: Cookies. Which means that those of us who were already preventing local storage of data are now having to deal with those lovely “choices” over, and over and over. Every visit to youtube, every newspaper article we try to read.
This was not an improvement in my quality of life. And I doubt the practical efficacy to boot. Can’t track user behavior and Internet usage patterns by way of cookies anymore? Fingerprinting to the rescue.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 4 weeks ago:
Hey EU? Do you remember when you forced every website to ask for permission to store cookies and made the entire web immeasurably worse to use without in any way having a positive impact on people’s right to some fucking privacy?
Yeah.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 4 weeks ago:
If you have to supply your users with AI support to figure out how to configure your OS, you might be doing something wrong.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 5 weeks ago:
Almost certainly not, no. Evolution may work faster than once thought, but not that fast. The problem is that societal, and in particular, technological development is now vastly outstripping our ability to adapt. It’s not that people are getting dumber per se - it’s that they’re having to deal with vastly more stuff. All. The. Time. For example, consider the world as it was a scant century ago - virtually nothing in evolutionary terms. A person did not have to cope with what was going on on the other side of the planet, and probably wouldn’t even know for months if ever. Now? If an earthquake hits Paraguay, you’ll be aware in minutes.
And you’ll be expected to care.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 5 weeks ago:
Thank you. I appreciate you saying so.
The thing about LLMs in particular is that - when used like this - they constitute one such grave positive feedback loop. I have no principal problem with machine learning. It can be a great tool to illuminate otherwise completely opaque relationships in large scientific datasets for example, but a polynomial binary space partitioning of a hyper-dimensional phase space is just a statistical knowledge model. It does not have opinions. All it can do is to codify what appears to be the consensus of the input it’s given. Even assuming - which may well be to generous - that the input is truly unbiased, at best all it’ll tell you is what a bunch of morons think is the truth. At worst, it’ll just tell you what you expect to hear. It’s what everybody else is already saying, after all.
And when what people think is the truth and what they want to hear are both nuts, this kind of LLM-echo chamber suddenly becomes unfathomably dangerous.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 5 weeks ago:
Of course, that has always been true. What concerns me now is the proportion of useful to useless people. Most societies are - while cybernetically complex - rather resilient. Network effects and self-organization can route around and compensate for a lot of damage, but there comes a point where having a few brilliant minds in the midst of a bunch of atavistic confused panicking knuckle-draggers just isn’t going to be enough to avoid cascading failure. I’m seeing a lot of positive feedback loops emerging, and I don’t like it.
As they say about collapsing systems: First slowly, then suddenly very, very quickly.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 5 weeks ago:
Our species really isn’t smart enough to live, is it?
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 5 weeks ago:
Those are some excellent points. The root cause seems to me to be the otherwise generally positive human capability for pack-bonding. There are people who can develop affection for their favorite toaster, let alone something that can trivially pass a Turing-test.
This… Is going to become a serious issue, isn’t it?
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 5 weeks ago:
Look, I realize the frontal lobes of the average fifteen year old aren’t fully developed, I don’t want to be insensitive and I fully support the lawsuit - there must be accountability for what any entity, corporate or otherwise opts to publish, especially for direct user interaction - but if a person reenacts Romeo and Juliet with a goddamn AI chatbot and a 9mm handgun, there’s something else seriously wrong.
- Comment on What were your go-to Games (or programs! We're all nerds here) from your childhood 5 weeks ago:
Norton Commander, edit.com, the Wacom C/C++ compiler, pmode/w and upx. I had a peculiar childhood.
- Comment on Revealed: How Trump could be president until 2037 due to a simple loophole in the Constitution 2 months ago:
I remind you of Gödel’s Loophole.
- Comment on happens every single time 2 months ago:
Anxious, but in a titillating sort of way.
- Comment on happens every single time 2 months ago:
Bonus!
- Comment on happens every single time 2 months ago:
Ah yes. That’d be luck. And sometimes, just seeking refuge in audacity. Just stare the doctor right in the eyes and say: “What? Don’t pretend you haven’t done it too.”
Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. He’ll pretend it is - if he knows what good for him.
- Comment on happens every single time 2 months ago:
Okay, I’m gonna be honest here: That’s one thing that’s never happened to me.
Lots of other… things, yes. But not that one.
- Comment on China unveils processor ‘a million times faster’ than US rival – developers 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’ll wait for some independent confirmation of those numbers.
- Comment on Microsoft Tests 9 Ads & Only One Free Search Results On Same Page. 2 months ago:
While I don’t mind laissez-faire in principle, that not my favorite anarcho-flavor and I don’t wanna :)
- Comment on Microsoft Tests 9 Ads & Only One Free Search Results On Same Page. 2 months ago:
Hell, why even have organic search results at all? Just rank results by how much each site owner is willing to
bribepay. A protection racket for the 21st century.“That’s a nice website you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if it got no visitors.”
- Comment on Microsoft Tests 9 Ads & Only One Free Search Results On Same Page. 2 months ago:
What a waste of bandwidth, energy and time.