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- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 weeks ago:
relevant article theringer.com/…/ai-bubble-burst-popping-explained…
AI storytelling is an amalgam of several different narratives, including:
Inevitability: AI is the future; its eventual supremacy is both imminent and certain, and therefore anyone who doesn’t want to be left behind had better embrace the technology. See Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, insisting earlier this year that every job in the world will be impacted by AI “immediately.”
Functionality: AI performs miracles, and the AI products that have been released to the public wildly outperform the products they aim to replace. To believe this requires us to ignore the evidence obtained with our own eyes and ears, which tells us in many cases that the products barely work at all, but it’s the premise of every TV ad you watch out of the corner of your eye during a sports telecast.
Grandiosity: The world will never be the same; AI will change everything. This is the biggest and most important story AI companies tell, and as with the other two narratives, big tech seems determined to repeat it so insistently that we come to believe it without looking for any evidence that it’s true.
As far as I can make out, the scheme is essentially: Keep the ship floating for as long as possible, keep inhaling as much capital as possible, and maybe the tech will get somewhere that justifies the absurd valuations, or maybe we’ll worm our way so far into the government that it’ll have to bail us out, or maybe some other paradigm-altering development will fall from the sky. And the way to keep the ship floating is to keep peddling the vision and to seem more confident that the dream is inevitable the less it appears to be coming true.
speaking for myself, MS can thank AI for being the thing that made me finally completely ditch windows after using it 30+ years
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 2 weeks ago:
who do i email to tell epic that they suck so fucking hard that i’m over here buying games on steam that i had already gotten for free on epic
- Comment on Around 500 million PCs are holding off upgrading to Windows 11, says Dell 2 weeks ago:
i went from ms-dos to windows 3.1 or something, then win95, 98. from xp i had to be dragged kicking and screaming to upgrade to 7, and then the same thing from 7 to 10. always just putting up with all the un-asked-for bullshit microsoft forced on the users with each new version
using linux only for the last 8 months or so, and honestly don’t know what MS would have to do to get me to ever put another windows on my pc–but it would be a lot
fuck microsoft
-sincerely,
never again - Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 weeks ago:
yea, i do a lot of dumb shit with money. gonna blame my parents for passing financial dumbness onto me
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 weeks ago:
sometimes i think that. but i can just look at the news on any given day and feel like i’m further to the right on the sanity bell curve
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 weeks ago:
yep. i took out a loan early in the year to build my new pc, knowing this ai shit along with the tariffs was going to make prices bonkers af, and i needed an upgrade anyway. 8% interest on a couple grand personal loan is better than paying 4x the price in cash
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 1 month ago:
genuine question: when someone says “i eat healthy,” do you also inject your own meaning of “i don’t use drugs or smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol or do anything else ‘unhealthy’” ?
in other words, to you “i eat healthy” = “i don’t do anything unhealthy”?
because that’s what you just did
- Comment on One photograph. Two daughters. Three Nobel Prizes. 1 month ago:
also if you want to be sciencey and technically correct, there are 3 daughters in the photo
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 1 month ago:
Being totally wrecked in your 40s or even earlier is not good.
i concur: in my 40s, totally wrecked. i still consider myself extremely lucky. no ragrets
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 month ago:
i tried monjaro and garuda, seem to have had the best luck so far with pop_os out of the box. running an AMD ryzen 7 9800x3d and RTX 5070-- other distros apparently hated these things
- Comment on Public service announcement 1 month ago:
you will never quantify an inherently subjective (qualitative) experience
- Comment on Public service announcement 1 month ago:
you goober.
you will never quantify an inherently subjective (qualitative) experience. the fact that you’re trying to, and then calling me “goober” is quite enough for me to say: best of luck, tiger
- Comment on Public service announcement 1 month ago:
lol i love how the abstract cites a paper from 1942
look: if you’re disgusted by genitals, i’m sorry to hear that, and i’m not judging you.
but don’t sit there and try to tell me everyone, or even “most people” feels that way.
i can’t speak for goofy looking dicks, but vulvas are extremely attractive; i dunno wtf you, or your 1942 paper referencing “study” are talking about.
again–i’m not judging. but i suggest you post to asklemmy (or literally any other forum), and ask: “are female genitalia no fun to look at/unattractive/weird/whatever tf else” and consider that maybe whatever problem you have with vaginas might not be a baked in instinctual thing that everyone has
- Comment on Public service announcement 1 month ago:
develop completely separate processing systems to account for the fact that genitals look weird. Their appearances are so strange that you’d rather avoid them
wat
- Comment on negativity 1 month ago:
if you’re going to flood your veins with 500 grams of pure glucose, might as well do both. eat the waffle regularly, and wrap the pancakes around sausages and dunk them in that salad bowl of syrup you’re also eating all of
- Comment on negativity 1 month ago:
that downward spiralled quickly
- Comment on TRUMP 1 month ago:
just locker room talk
for me that was maybe the most infuriating response to this whole thing. from women no less.
i’ve been in many locker rooms, with other dudes, and have never once talked about sexually assaulting women, joking or otherwise
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 1 month ago:
you do you. enjoy your convenience. for my part, i will continue to spend $0.00 for the privilege of being the product.
all of these brands can take their smart devices and go fuck themselves with it. “convenient” GTFO
- Comment on TRUMP 2 months ago:
“libtard” = someone with the capacity to feel empathy = enemy of fascism
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 months ago:
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 months ago:
ok. tell me your account and routing numbers
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 months ago:
“ok. tell me your account and routing numbers then”
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 2 months ago:
it doesn’t take much critical thinking to conclude that smart tvs are bullshit, but apparently too much for most people
- Comment on TRUMP 2 months ago:
in america, “conservatives” will tell you that they want a return to “traditional values” even though that’s just barely the case in reality.
what maga really wants:
be racist/bigoted with complete impunity
mandatory jesus
own slaves again
failing that, resegregation
tradwifei’m definitely leaving things out, but you get the idea–pretty much the fantasy is to return to the 1950s
- Comment on TRUMP 2 months ago:
“i’m… offended by him saying that too…”
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- Comment on This is real 2 months ago:
the “adulting is hard” bit makes it look like a complex that’s nearby a university. having had friends in similar living situations, i can tell you: over-privileged college kids in their first not-mommy&daddys-house residence can be absolutely out of fucking control
