latenightnoir
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- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch 1 hour ago:
“Because it really gets you, y’know?”
- Comment on Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water 13 hours ago:
“But we’l do it anyway!”
- Comment on EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe’s digital rules 1 day ago:
I say double them digits, babe!
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 2 days ago:
Good point, I guess it would be back to considering the permanence of The Cave allegory. I still have that gut feeling that humanity has a sort of in-built desire for freedom and self-determination which exists somewhere beyond the conceptual, something innate. Maybe its materialisation just takes a long enough timeline and that the species is offered relative stability in terms of genetics/psychological development (i.e. they don’t just outright lobotomise us and turn us into Servitors, or smth…)
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 3 days ago:
My morbid tendencies are fascinated by the idea, but I, myself, can’t help but feel like staring at an incoming tsunami crest.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 3 days ago:
They’d need to come back and plant something else, because the side-effect of shortening attention spans has also increased the frequency at which we require new flavours of brainrot. I think this method of doing things is somewhat ineffectual.
Honestly, if I were to guess how someone would stunt us, is to “help” us improve our industry before we even grasp its implications. It essentially created Baron-Gods (and we sure do like triangles and shit!) while ensuring that we’ll choke ourselves out.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 3 days ago:
Surely, if something/someone intentionally caused our existence, they must be pulling out clumps of hair at this point (or equivalent gestures).
Although… well, this is purely speculative and quite a bit philosophical, but I guess it all comes down to how they’d manage fear and greed. I initially wanted to say that viciousness seems to be a facile trait for sentience, but I only have us as a sample, so…
I genuinely don’t even know what to think anymore. My sense of scale and value has been completely shattered by our contemporary debasement with Fascism and burning the planet and everything in between and around, not in a million years could I have believed humanity in general could be so stupid as to do the same horrid shit all over again, and especially not after our forerunners’ fervency of purging the very concept of Fascism. I mean, how can anyone consider a governing system so unabashedly inimical to life as a feasible way of doing things?! I… I just don’t understand it. I don’t know if I’m too stupid, or too naïve, or cloistered, or whatever the fuck else, but I just cannot process the idea of anything which looks like me behaving in such a horrid manner. I can grasp that capacity for violence, because I have it, too, but to use it in such a manner? No. That’s where my system hangs.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 3 days ago:
Honestly, I don’t think anyone in their right mind would risk it! We’re certifiably insane when in large masses, we’d ruin their civilisation if they’d get us all.
We’d deffo see Bezos/Musk/Zuck/etc. becoming the Breens of our timeline, and we already hate’em!
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 3 days ago:
Now, now, let’s give ourselves fair share of credit, we’re dimb enough to come up with Flat Earth on our own, tyvm!:)))
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 3 days ago:
These are notwworthy and relevant breakthroughs, yes, but I don’t see us doing anything dramatic with this technology in less than a decade, maybe two. And that’s just for something like regrowing teeth, way longer timeline for anything fancier. We’re still just basically optimising old tech right now. New battery designs incoming, solar panel tech is getting better (slowly), we are moving, yes.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 3 days ago:
If I were The Aliens, I would’ve stopped coming here somewhere around 2013-2014. And I don’t say this with any kind of undertone, I just feel we haven’t developed in significant ways over the past decade. They most certainly haven’t presented any social interest, so it’s a study. They’d only need vertical slices every half century to a century or so.
- Comment on China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport. 4 days ago:
Man, Rotten’ll have a renaissance if they plan on keeping the propellers that way…
- Comment on Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform 5 days ago:
Oh, sod off, Liz…
- Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback 6 days ago:
It’s a Boomer joke, yes =))
- Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback 1 week ago:
It was a joke, an old running one, making light of people (frequently resurrected among Millenials) who have books on display. The jest is that people like to display booms they’ll never read in order to look smarter. Like the old trope of wearing glasses achieving the same goal.
- Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback 1 week ago:
I manually remove the auto upvote:D
- Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback 1 week ago:
I wonder how people will show off all of the books they haven’t read, what with analogs going out of stye and all.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
Honestly, I don’t think the action’s the problem, I enjoyed creating interlinked databases with tens of thousands of entries in Spreadsheets. I think it’s strictly to do with the complexity itself, I need more. I like the concept of every piece having a specific move set, I’d just need more of them. And add more complexity to them, but at that point may as well just play grand scale combat games, like 40k.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
Disclaimer: not calling myself smart or anything.
I always found chess boring, for some reason. Like, not because it is too complex, but because it isn’t complex enough, in a way. As an example, the first time I tried my had at Medieval II: Total War, I fell in love with all things strategy.
I still can’t do chess, though… It’s like my mind goes to its happy place halfway through a match and I start making moves just to progress the game. Gimme a 4X game, and I’d need reminders to pee every 12 hours.
- Comment on AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say 1 week ago:
Well, now they’re just subverting expectations left ant right, aren’t they!
- Comment on It always seems like its time to move to linux 1 week ago:
Oh, wow, I can’t believe I forgot about that… Feels weird, like remembering the better times of past relationships, Jesus=))
- Comment on It always seems like its time to move to linux 1 week ago:
At this point, something tells me you could find a compatibility layer with winRAR support on some dingy forum which has heavy peepshow vibes.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X/Twitter to clamp down on parody accounts. 2 weeks ago:
Well, to be fair, the whole thing turned into one sick joke, although nobody’s laughing anymore…
- Comment on Elon Musk's X/Twitter to clamp down on parody accounts. 2 weeks ago:
The freest speech of all!
- Comment on I wonder how many male, middle aged US filmmakers regularly call it a "director's cut" when carving up the thanksgiving turkey for their family. 2 weeks ago:
If this joke emitted radiation, it would be measured in kiloDads per second.
- Comment on Tinder unveils “The Game Game”, a free in-app voice-based game that invites users to flirt with AI chatbots powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini models. 3 weeks ago:
Well, found the one downside to not knowing what day it is, thank you!
- Comment on Tinder unveils “The Game Game”, a free in-app voice-based game that invites users to flirt with AI chatbots powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini models. 3 weeks ago:
What the actual fuck… Really? Fucking really, MatchGroup?!
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 4 weeks ago:
Yyyep, that sounds pretty standard fare (no pun intended), I’ve lived mostly in abstract neighborhoods in terms of infrastructure and had to chase rides in a grand majority of cases.
Plus, honestly, even the way it handled the construction jam sounds acceptable, reminds me of my first days of learning to drive. As long as they stop and stay stopped, that’s way better than deciding to ignore the sensor data and just go for it, like… some other models…
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 4 weeks ago:
Genuinely a relief to hear, thank you!
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 4 weeks ago:
As snarky as my initial comment may sound (even to me, I have by-proxy distrust of contemporary models due to their knobhead owners), I’m genuinely glad to hear they figured that one out! At least there’s less danger for everyone around, at the VERY least.