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- Comment on Proof you don't have to wait for the new year for self improvement 4 days ago:
I’d forgotten that he’s not Ben Shapiro.
- Comment on Elon Musk, doing Elon Musk things. 5 days ago:
He looks like he’s been practising to that Hitler video for a long time. The likeness is impressive in the worst way possible.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 6 days ago:
Thus you get a piece of software that no one really knows shit about the inner workings of. Sure you have a bunch of spec sheets but no one was there doing the grunt work so when something inevitably breaks during production there’s no one on the team saying “oh, that might be related to this system I set up over here.”
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 6 days ago:
I was in charge of an AI pilot project two years back at my company. That was my conclusion, among others.
- Comment on wow, I just found out that Donald Trump has been awarded inaugural FIFA Peace Prize 1 week ago:
Hey there’s normal person baldness, which is sexy. Then there’s evil person baldness. Evil has a tendency to make anyone look bad.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 1 week ago:
Gods I wish for this.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 2 weeks ago:
This is news to me! Thanks for enlightening me!
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 2 weeks ago:
It also doesn’t function without JavaScript. If you’re security or privacy conscious chances are not zero that you have JS disabled, in which case this presents a roadblock.
On the flip side of things, if you are a creator and you’d prefer to not make use of JS (there’s dozens of us) then forcing people to go through a JS “security check” feels kind of shit. The alternative is to just take the hammering, and that feels just as bad.
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
Well… is that so far off?
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I built my PC two years back and Linux was the main idea for it. I’d used Linux on and off since 2007, and it’s honestly been fine this entire time, with WINE and such only improving over time. I remember how baffled I was back in 2007 when I didn’t have to install any drivers myself, everything just worked out of the box, even fucking printers.
This is the time of Windows Vista, where nothing worked.
- Comment on Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal 2 weeks ago:
Honestly I think it was because Microsoft took forever to implement support for it in Windows systems, like the image viewer and Explorer. That is assuming there’s support now. I don’t actually know.
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 2 weeks ago:
Because they stand out so you notice them. He’s an attention seeker after all.
- Comment on TFW you get the old gang back together 3 weeks ago:
Ah so she’s a pedo? Guess it fits.
- Comment on TFW you get the old gang back together 3 weeks ago:
Oh gods. He can have her. 🤮
- Comment on TFW you get the old gang back together 3 weeks ago:
Is that another child he’s raped?
- Comment on Ahead of her time 3 weeks ago:
Given that her crime is essentially scamming rich people, I don’t think so. Rich people get special treatment after all.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 3 weeks ago:
Thank fuck for that.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 3 weeks ago:
Aren’t they though? Take the example from the article:
I phrased it a bit different in another comment, and perhaps that nuance is warranted. In a vacuum most people wouldn’t be against it.
It’s not in a vacuum though. In this case one of the people funding this is a man whose product is manipulating people into killing themselves. I don’t think I personally should have a say in whether or not this kind of tech is pushed, and I definitely don’t think some rogue billionaire elite class should have a say either.
At least on paper, this is specifically what the company that the article is about claims its focus is; the stuff no one disagrees that it’s bad to be born with. Like it isn’t very arguable that it’s good for babies to have ammonia in their blood and need liver transplants.
Yes, and then once that’s out that sets a precedent for fixing further. Why would they stop at these conditions? You could expand to touch up the genome, maybe prevent other conditions, like Down Syndrome.
It’s dehumanising. We have real people alive today that are already marginalised by society and don’t get the support or visibility that they need.
One time a doctor was speaking to my sister and I was awake. He told her that she should contemplate letting me go because of my quality of life. This was so upsetting to hear because I was right there. He didn’t respect me enough to speak to me or involve me. Felt like I was not a person but a thing.
There are absolutely devastating disabilities out there that completely hollow out someone’s quality of life. There are also lots of people out there living with disabilities, where the struggle is less because of the disability, and more because of the society we have around us. Fixing society seems to me the more humane option.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
They are terrible.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Throw respect out the window and enquire directly about the status of their genitals too.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 3 weeks ago:
Bruh. I wish I was sucking Satan’s cock for breakfast. That at least implies some kind of reward coming down the line.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 3 weeks ago:
That’s kind of a bold claim to make about someone you don’t know.
I can believe that there are good motivations for this kind of thing, and possibly even good applications, but you have to ask who gets to make the decisions on what to remove and what to leave, and what impact will it have?
Could we solve lots of problems? Absolutely. But is it the right tool for the problem? That’s a bit more nuanced. Sure, if we could edit out Alzheimers, or hereditary cancers, I’m sure most anyone would be on board with that idea, in a vacuum at least. But what about when the goals shift? Should we edit out autism? What about homosexuality? Hell, if we homogenise humanity and edit out racial differences, we could solve racism as well.
That’s obviously a bit extreme, but take blindness for example. I’m sure most sighted people would prefer to not be blind, and even among people born blind you’ll find supporters, but there’s also entire cultures and languages that have come about because of people being blind. Who gets to decide if that’s worth keeping or not?
That’s just one example, but you could replace blindness with deafness, or dwarfism, or any number of things.
Then there’s the question of what it’d mean for people who can’t access that kind of technology. What kind of future would this sort of thing create?
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been an androgynous (cis gay) man most of my life, and when I was young I was mistaken for a girl a lot. Hell I even had my own doubts for a while.
There’s lots of people out there that think that they can tell if someone is trans or not. Hell I have met LGBTQ+ people that think they can just tell. The truth is, they can’t.
You will have met trans people that you didn’t know are trans, and if you go around making assumptions, you’ll meet cis people you think are trans, but aren’t.
A couple of months ago I found out that this person I’ve been casually following on YouTube for almost a decade is a trans woman.
Like the absolutely easiest, most accurate way to tell if someone is trans is to just ask the person in question.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 3 weeks ago:
Because it’s an extremely nuanced topic.
Like sure, at face value eliminating let’s say HIV from being inherited or transmitted (and ultimately eradicate the disease) would be excellent, I don’t think anyone would ever argue against that, but that’s not so much the case with everything.
Say, eliminating dwarfism, or deafness, or blindness (mind you these are umbrella terms and not a single thing) might look good on paper, but there are entire languages, cultures, and communities out there that people created, which would be lost should the need for them cease to be.
Then who decides what should and shouldn’t be cured? What about neurodivergence? Homosexuality? Personally if someone says that they can “cure” homosexuality or gender dysphoria, I bristle. I don’t want anyone to “fix” my trans friends, because they’re not broken. Take it further, what about race? Should we fix that too? We could eliminate racism altogether.
There are a lot of minorities out there already being marginalised, and it’s not exactly exciting to see the idea of us being literally bred out of existence.
I think the core idea of wanting to “cure all disease” and whatnot is ultimately a good one, but as the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intention.
- Comment on Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis. 4 weeks ago:
the United States as a country that won two World Wars
Contributed to winning two world wars.
The U.S. didn’t carry the allies. Soviet and Chinese casualties far outstripped any American ones, and the amount of Indians thrown into the meat grinder on behalf of England during both of the World Wars is barely even mentioned. Then there’s civilian casualties. Was the wartime rationing bad? Sure, but it’s a piss take compared to Churchill’s Famine.
- Comment on What the democrats just did. 4 weeks ago:
I thought it was a reference to Ama no Iwato. Amaterasu hid away from the world because she was upset at her brother being an arsehole and fucking people over.
It kind of fit.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 5 weeks ago:
Usually Questions and Answers.
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 5 weeks ago:
There is evidence, and there’s been conspiracies around it.
- Comment on The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS 5 weeks ago:
Calm down there, Okarin.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. Don’t buy rockstar. Just get it through alternative means.