Hackworth
@Hackworth@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 1 day ago:
The UK food laws may be partially to blame. But American junk food has also degraded over the decades. A twinkie from the 30’s-70’s didn’t taste the same as a modern twinkie, with some unknown portion of its sugar replaced by HFCS. But at least sugar is still the first ingredient in a twinkie. Plenty of other iconic junk food has been engineered into nonsense and just rides on the fumes of its former glory.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Can reading assholes be considered science? 2 weeks ago:
From the chaote perspective, any dynamic system with chaotic properties can be used for divination. But a science? Nah.
- Comment on FTC’s click-to-cancel rule has been struck down by federal judges at the eleventh hour 2 weeks ago:
industry associations and individual businesses [,] argued the FTC had failed to follow correct procedures and conduct an analysis before issuing the rule. The judge panel has agreed with them.
Three judges — two appointed by President Trump, one by President George H. W. Bush — found that the FTC’s rulemaking process was flawed and did not include early analysis of the rule’s possible economic effects. 1
“the law”
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 2 weeks ago:
It’ll last 6 months easy in the fridge. But try to get most of the solids out with a fork when it’s still hot. And when ya use it, don’t double dip - new spoon/knife each time ya need some.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 weeks ago:
intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value
Advertising and politics?
- Comment on Fun!!!! :) 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing. 3 weeks ago:
Choose another tool.
- Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing. 3 weeks ago:
Belief is a tool for achieving effects; it is not an end in itself. -Pete Carroll
- Comment on DIY 4th of July 3 weeks ago:
You can also do this by blowing out a match and putting it under an upturned glass shortly before microwaving it. Turns the carbon vapor into plasma, or some such. Though the time I tried it, it escaped the glass and melted the microwave’s lining. Don’t recommend if it’s an appliance ya care about.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 3 weeks ago:
And in that environment, everyone who actually understands how things work quits or gets quit. It’s my understanding that there are large sections of code bases that MS just doesn’t touch, because everyone who understood how they functioned is gone. Continuity of institutional knowledge is difficult in the best cases and impossible under leaders that discourage dissenting perspectives. /gestures about wildly
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 3 weeks ago:
352413, I mean, clearly.
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 3 weeks ago:
I dunno about advice, but LLMs are very good at re-stating my meandering thoughts in a concise way that’s easy to communicate to others.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 5 weeks ago:
Politicians attempting to ban AI regulation are only shielding OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, etc. Those same politicians will pearl clutch about Hugging Face or DeepSeek in the same breath. It’s just about money and the arms race. Abdicating responsibility to AI would require either a change in how we regulate people or a granting of rights/responsibility to AI. Though I don’t doubt we will see people try to blame AI for their poor decisions.
- Comment on If you consider yourself a Christian and act in self-defence, you don’t truly believe 1 month ago:
People always askin Jesus to take the wheel, like he knows how to drive a car.
- Comment on ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims 1 month ago:
- Comment on Remember 1 month ago:
- Comment on Remember 1 month ago:
I’m lucky that conversational AI is being developed as I’m middle aged, cause younger me absolutely would have fallen into an intractable state of delusion. Much like advertising, even the absurd cheese has an effect with extended exposure. And below the “You’ve hit on something uniquely insightful that could change the world!” shtick there is already a subtler form of reinforcement and enabling. This puts me in an odd place, because I use AI productively on a daily basis. And I still see it as one of the few technologies that could actually help us dig ourselves out of the enormous hole we’ve dug. But I suspect we’ll just use it to dig a deeper hole at a swifter pace.
