latenightnoir
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- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 1 day ago:
No, but seriously. I see this said everywhere and I think most people take it as a sort of superstition, but, like… your entire thought patterns change once you give it up, it’s like an engine being allowed to slow down after over-revving it incessantly. All these things do is waste our cognitive bandwidth. And, yes, I’m including any social network where “me” is the main focus.
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 1 day ago:
Lol? Lmao, even?
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 1 day ago:
The post-modern version of “three kids in a trenchcoat.”
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 1 day ago:
Nietzche would’ve lost his marbles. Oh, wait…
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 day ago:
I’m morbidly eager to see how they’ll handle the Win 10 EoL (yeah, yeah, it ain’t dyin’, just not getting updated, same thing to me tbh) in October. I bet it’ll be a shitshow.
- Comment on Pee pee is never poo time. But poo time is always poo time. 3 days ago:
“… so it was ‘if you poo in the shower, then you never have to flush?’ Or was it pee? And what’s flushing? Oh, no, Diogenes is staring at me again…”
- Comment on Why is Almalexia called the Mad Wife by the Ashlanders? (cca. 2E) 3 days ago:
Ooooh, this makes so much sense!
I knew that the Ashlanders kept true to the good Daedra and saw the Tribunal as heresy, but for some reason, I’d forgotten that Almalexia was Nerevar’s wife! To be honest, the whole Nerevar/Nerevarine line is in need of some further study in my case…
Yeah, that would totally explain it, thank you so much!
Unrelated P.S.: I was not expecting this level of story quality and depth from ESO, happy to have mine exceeded!
- Comment on Pee pee is never poo time. But poo time is always poo time. 3 days ago:
I’m picturing this conversation as a debate in a public plaza in Ancient Greece, surrounded by wizened old men wearing bedsheets and looking really pensive.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Plussy
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 week ago:
Tribute’s goin’ up, lads! Better shake them coffers empty, the Lord of Great Murika demands more mmmmoneyyyy!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yep, shitty parents are ehat popped the thought in my head! Hahaa, fuuck!😄
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think it’s about not going the “oh, they’ll get over it eventually” route?
Or I’m overthinking a shitpost, could be that, too.
- Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says 2 weeks ago:
Looks like someone’s taking some lessons from Zuck’s methodology. “Whoops! That highly questionable and suspiciously intentional shit we did was totes an accident! Spilt milk now, I guess! Huh-huh-heey honk-honk!”
- Comment on There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic. 2 weeks ago:
He does embody some of the worst aspects of humanity, so yeah! He’s, at the very least, an excellent example of how not to do stuff…
- Comment on There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic. 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunate truth, but entirely inexcusable. I still remember my folks having casual conversations about eugenics at the Christmas table, they only managed to drive me as far away from them as I could possibly go, bot physically and ideologically…
- Comment on There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic. 2 weeks ago:
White genocide… in Africa… Am I having the dumbest nightmare ever, is this real life? What the fuck is happening?
- Comment on Max pivots back to HBO Max as WBD rethinks ability to compete with Netflix 3 weeks ago:
😑
- Comment on Shocked to hear ‘prompt engineer’ is not a real job 3 weeks ago:
Real or not, I still say not calling it “AI Wrangler” is a major miss…
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Yep, we’re totally in those times… You do realise our methods and resources have changed immensely, right? It can be done. Your way remains and shall remain unjustifiable.
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s really easy to kill someone when you’re locked up all day in a double-walled room, or when you’re exiled alone on an island… Good thinking…
This is why our society is going down the gutter, because people are still trying to rationalise and justify the unjustifiable…
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Again, this is not immediate self-defence, this is something else entirely: this type of situation demands systemic change.
As a Romanian, our Revolution ended the instant the people took back control of this nation and Ceaușescu had no more power (it was obvious, because literally nobody was taking orders from him at that point). Then they shot him. Then they shot his wife.
In this case, it is the people’s duty to protect their collective interests, yes, but killing still isn’t justified. You remove them from authority then send them on their merry way to live put their standards alone, far from the rest of us.
Friggin’ children know this already, if someone doesn’t play nice, you stop playing with them. Why the hell are we still debating the virtues of murder?!
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
No. Murder is murder. There is no rationalising one’s way around it. There is no acceptable context for killing someone other than immediate self-defence, which is not the case when discussing things in terms of justice systems.
Killing is never justice.
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
As long as we have the option to separate and isolate, nobody deserves to be killed. The death penalty is nothing more than formalised murder, however one chooses to look at it.
- Comment on The Beetle 4 weeks ago:
And by the time it manages to get ot, it’s too late - the frog left…
- Comment on The more I know about something, the more my claustrophobia starts acting up 5 weeks ago:
For me, the goal is managing to form as accurate a big picture view as possible. It’s a bit weird to me, too, as although my brain is famished for unnecessary details, when it comes down to the Overall (too early, don’t have a better word), it starts focusing on the essentials, trying to link everything it has gathered in a coherent mess. This may be related to how I grew up, I always had to be aware of the situation in our family for my own survival (know the players and how to play them).
Exactly, it’s like painting through engineering! That’s why I love it, the engagement it offers is incredibly nuanced if one goes beyond the instruction booklets and starts doofling with components! And there’s always a work-around, which is what I love even more in a way. I sorta’ go into a fugue state every time I’m building and end up with things which surprise even me!
Well, fancy that! I’ve recently decided to renovate my old place and turn it into my own little bunker on the ground and, same, I’ve started DIY-ing my way to success! It’s like Legos, but with more splinters! And, yes, art can be fickle once one starts focusing on skill, I’ve found. As the best example I can offer as to why skill has less to do with it than passion and openness, I’ve learnt my first ‘complicated’ bass line in a dream, on a 10-hour train ride, two months into studying (a.k.a. owning and playing around with one). I basically didn’t even have skill of which to speak, just started forming it. All I had was a sense of rhythm and a desire to reproduce my favourites.
As for your last point, I must start with an apology, as I may have improperly expressed myself: it’s not stress, exactly, it’s… it feels like remembering pleasant times from earlier in my life, it really is just a benign sense of melancholy. Learning new things has always been a passion for me, the more varied the things, the stronger the kick! It’s just that the facts aren’t always pleasant (Shpoopiro was partly right, I’ll give him that - long live broken clocks, I guess…). And as for a goal, other than my (at this point) in-built instinct to try to form a big picture view, there is only the desire for truth. To me, truth is a sort of moral imperative, it’s strongly rooted in both my set of principles and my spectrum of values. Vast and varied Knowledge is the best path I’ve managed to find which leads to the truth, thus I have no hesitation.
- Comment on The more I know about something, the more my claustrophobia starts acting up 5 weeks ago:
I’ve had some of those, yes, but it usually comes after learning enough about the ‘affected’ subject to be able to do a cost-benefit analysis of what it would mean to risk seeking mastery of it. It doesn’t come as a fear of completion, it comes as a fear of it taking up too much space and leaving me with too little for everything else in which I’m interested. I genuinely don’t think completion in itself is ever possible, either from a practical or philosophical sense.
To answer your question, I also like to write (journaling - which has slowly shifted toward writting essays for my own understanding, poetry), to paint, to draw, to mess around with Legos (which is, so far, the only medium which does an awesome job at accommodating both my artistic/intuitive and my rational components), to ponder (i.e. sitting in silence for a while and just chewing through the info I have, trying to establish new and useful connections between all elements), and reading a lot of fiction (primarily hard sci-fi). Oh, and I like to people-watch - which is somewhat improperly said, because I’m not there solely for the people, I like to observe the system of interactions unfolding
- Comment on The more I know about something, the more my claustrophobia starts acting up 5 weeks ago:
That is the flipside and my main motivation for constantly seeking new information. At worst, this entire thing leaves me with a sort of melancholy centered around the idea that one of my desires is slowly chipping away at one of my pleasures, even though the first will always trump the latter in this case (I’d rather suffer with the truth in my lap).
- Comment on The more I know about something, the more my claustrophobia starts acting up 5 weeks ago:
I can certainy understand your viewpoint, there are layers upon layers of unknowns. I can see how that Vastity can be overwhelming.
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