OboTheHobo
@OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network
- Comment on Do you ever feel full and hungry simultaneously? 7 hours ago:
Yeah I’ve felt similarly before. I agree with the other though, drinking more water helps.
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 8 hours ago:
A game made for kids should not allow sexually explicit material on their platform. And, in fact, they don’t, this kind of content is very clearly and explicitly against roblox’s content policy but they fail to enforce it.
- Comment on Anti-Trans Rhetoric is a form of Violence Given High Rates of Trans Suicides 8 hours ago:
Lower self-reported transphobia was associated with a 66 % reduction in ideation, and an additional 76 % reduction in attempts among those with ideation
…biomedcentral.com/…/s12889-015-1867-2.pdf
An increase by one context in which a chosen name could be used predicted a 5.37-unit decrease in depressive symptoms, a 29% decrease in suicidal ideation, and a 56% decrease in suicidal behavior.
www.jahonline.org/article/…/fulltext#intraref0010…
Socially transitioned transgender children who are supported in their gender identity have developmentally normative levels of depression and only minimal elevations in anxiety, suggesting that psychopathology is not inevitable within this group.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26921285/
So yes. Increased depression and suicide among trans people is, according to the research, entirely correlated with social factors like how much they are accepted by friends/family and chose name use.
- Comment on Roblox, Discord sued after 15-year-old boy was allegedly groomed online before he died by suicide 9 hours ago:
This isn’t an age verification problem, its a moderation problem. A massive one. There’s hundreds of games that exist almost entirely for the purpose of grooming ppl (a common one is so called “bathroom simulators” iirc) and roblox frequently doesnt do anything about them until there’s public outcry about ine particular game, no matter how many reports come in or how obvious it is.
- Comment on xkcd #3141: Mantle Model 1 day ago:
So the thing that gets weird is that the heavier the particle is the more likely it is to interact with the slits themselves on the way through, in which case the wavefunction will collapse and it will seem to go through only one slit. Im not totally sure if double slit has been demonstrated with atoms but I do know it’s been done many times with electrons.
- Comment on xkcd #3141: Mantle Model 2 days ago:
Ehh, its a bit more than that.
Its a particle in that we know they are quantized into single photons. As in, it is impossible to observe half of a photon, or any non-intefer number of photons, and one photon can only be observed in one place. This makes it like a particle.
But its a wave in the way it behaves - it can interfere (not just with other photons, with itself), and its movement can only be described through wave functions that can even take seperate paths at the same time, according to how waves propogate.
And, there are ways in which rhey act like particles no matter how they are observed, and same for wavelike behavior
Worth noting: “observation” is just physical measurement. You have tk keep in mind that observating something fundamentally requires interacting with it - in order to look at an apple, photons must bounce off of it, which is a physical interaction. On the quantum scale, these interactions cannot be ignored.
Also also: this isn’t just photons, everything is like this. It may not align with how we observe things on a microscopic scale, but this is fundamentally how the universe works.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
At least its 2 games bundled together?
Inb4 they say “its two games, so this will be $140!”
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 2 days ago:
Yes. People seem to be saying this is not a real video and that the white house generated it with AI. That is what I would say it means to say the video “is AI” - particularly because an AI interpolated video is still a real video.
Whether the interpolation is done with AI or not, I don’t know. AI interpolation is fairly common but there are older methods that produce similar artifacts. Based on some of the interpolated frames I’m leaning slightly towards it being AI interpolation but I don’t know well enough to say.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 3 days ago:
See some of my later replies. I’ve looked at it frame by frame and it looks exactly like the artifacts you’d see from motion interpolation. They can look very similar to AI artifacts.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 3 days ago:
I know. But that can totally happen in interpolated frames. Look at the cat video on the Wikipedia page. There are moments when the toy dissapears, when the kittens head splits into two, when one arm morphs into another… stuff like this is totally possible and even common. for motion interpolation.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 3 days ago:
I’m looking at it more and I’m fairly certain this is just interpolated.
Look at this frame:
Seems to me to be pretty normal. No weird hand stuff, fingers look fine.
Now look at the next two frames, particularly the second one:
Totally jank. Fingers are blotchy, there’s a ghost finger, overall looks super fake. But then look at the next two frames:
Second to last has a little bit of weirdness still, but by the last frame it looks totally legit and real. No blotchy fingers, no ghost fingers, overall looks very normal.
That kind of behavior - where some frames look completely fine and in between ones look blotchy and weird - is exactly what you expect from motion interpolation.
Look at the example on a cat video on wikepedia, for instance: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_interpolation
The framerate is much lower on the original video here, but you can see a lot of the same kinds of artifacts. Blotchy limbs, “ghosts” in movment, things morphing in ways they shouldn’t… its very similar to what’s seen in the trump video. And mind you, to my knowledge this video is done with older interpolation methods that had nothing to do with genAI.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 3 days ago:
I know, im seeing what you mean. I’m saying that could very much be an issue with interpolation. Especially if its AI interpolation. I edited my comment to add a bit more detail but its possible that over half the frames of this video are AI generated while the video itself is still real. Obviously I cant say for sure that that’s what is happening but this very much could be an interpolation artifact. Even in non-genAI interpolation, weird smudginess and morphing of fast moving objects in interpolated frames is a common and well known issue.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 3 days ago:
I think this may be just interpolation weirdness. Apparently the video was recorded in 24fps but encodes in 60.
See this analysis, I posted it in another comment: youtube.com/shorts/hXhDB1fK7ok
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 3 days ago:
I disagree. I recently saw this analysis:
youtube.com/shorts/hXhDB1fK7ok
It seems pretty thorough, and this guy specializes in exactly this. Some of the weirdness seems to be due to a miss match between the 24fps the video was filmed in and the 60fps it was encoded in.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 4 days ago:
Thats why I said “come close” - there are plenty of crimes committed by the ultra wealthy.
However, those aren’t the kind of crimes this kind of mass surveillance is targeting either. They are trying to get rid of petty crime, gang violence, theft… stuff like that. And those kinds of crimes would almost dissapear entirely if you eliminated poverty.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 4 days ago:
The only way you could actually come close to eliminating all crime would be if you eliminated poverty. But that would make the rich less rich, so not gonna happen.
- Comment on We Investigated Tesla’s Autopilot. It’s Scarier Than You Think - More Perfect Union 6 days ago:
There was debate around whether they should use lidar. I thought I remembered that the initial plan was lidar but that musk dropped it before any actually got into the hands of consumers. I could be wrong though
- Comment on We Investigated Tesla’s Autopilot. It’s Scarier Than You Think - More Perfect Union 6 days ago:
This is ancient news, but I still cant believe they ditched lidar. Relying in computer vision alone when you could easily give it more reliable data to work with is just stupid.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 1 week ago:
The middle class still works to make a living. So they are part of the working class.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 week ago:
Yeah this is the thing that makes me really disagree with the whole “landlords are necessarily bad” thing. A lot of them are, to be sure, and there is so much wrong with our housing market, but there should still be a place for those who wish to rent to rent. I mean just speaking for myself right now, I would not want to own a home right now, even if it was affordable. I’d like to some day but where I am at life right now I would rather rent.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
Probably. But that might be under the umbrella of optional usage statistics/reporting that you can opt out of. Since this new tracking would be “necessary” for their “security” feature to work, there’s no chance that it could be avoided.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
Could be, but that could also just be done locally. Like your phone checking the apps you have installed and seeing if the same ones are on the play store. Having an install limit for an app - assuming that means that the app can only be installed some total number of times globally (a local install limit wouldn’t make any sense I think) - necessarily implies that when you install an app through an APK, it has to tell Google that you installed that app so it can track how many people have installed it and not approve installation of the app if its over whatever the limit is.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
Something kind of concerning I just found - there’s an option for “limited distribution” which is “Intended for ‘students, hobbyists, and other personal use.’” One of the differences is the following:
Has “capped number of apps and installs”(specific limits not disclosed)
Doesn’t this imply there’s going to be global tracking of what apps people are installing even through sideloading or APKs? I can’t think of any other way to enforce this. They would have to know how many times people installed an app even when its not through any kind of app store or even from the internet at all.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 2 weeks ago:
This is true, I was referring to english wikipedia.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 2 weeks ago:
Fyi everyone: you can download the entirety of Wikipedia yourself from kiwix and that it’s only about 50gb for the whole thing, 100 with all images.
- Comment on Youtube beef 2 weeks ago:
Ehhhhh… I’ve only seen one group portray a diagonal black swastika in a white circle surrounded by red. Swastikas as portrayed by budism and such aren’t usually presented that way.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 2 weeks ago:
That’s definitely an option. It would be a good idea for him to do that, I think. But my main point is that losing YouTube would be devastating for GN regardless of whether or not they’re on peertube, and moving entirely to peertube isn’t really feasible for them
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 2 weeks ago:
Waaaay less money to be made there. Not saying he’s exclusively doing this for the money like the other reply, but we’re not talking about some solo guy making videos in his free time for fun. The man is running a business, needs money to make this videos happen, and to my knowledge this is his job.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The thing that’s been bothering me is, since when did a local, “ragtag group” of activists have this much influence on the actions of massive corporations? Bigger, more powerful groups have tried and failed to make changes like this over and over again. Why does collective shout have so much pull? It doesn’t make any sense to me.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 3 weeks ago:
I guess in his defense it wasn’t too bad before 2018, as far as I can remember. Most of the enshittification of fandom I can remember has happened since.
