sacredbirdman
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- Comment on The Cult of AI. How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future 9 months ago:
Depends on how you define meaning. I find meaning in experiencing the life. It may be predetermined or have random elements in it but the experience is unique to me.
Anyway, given all we know about us and the universe I haven't heard a coherent proposal of how free will could work. So, until there's good evidence to convince me otherwise .. I can't help but believe it doesn't exist.
- Comment on The Cult of AI. How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future 9 months ago:
I'm not saying that humans are just AI, I'm just saying that there's no fundamental difference in the sense that we also respond to stimuli.. we don't have free will.
- Comment on The Cult of AI. How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future 9 months ago:
"What we call AI lacks agency, the ability to make dynamic decisions of its own accord, choices that are “not purely reactive, not entirely determined by environmental conditions.” "
That's from the article and I referred to that.
- Comment on The Cult of AI. How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future 9 months ago:
It's one of the terrible hype trains again... However, I wonder what makes him think that humans are something clearly more than a model that gathers data through the senses and reacts to external stimuli based on the current model. I think that's special pleading.
- Comment on What is wage theft exactly? 10 months ago:
Huh? The things people do with that wage will certainly rise in price due to inflation. Interest on bank accounts usually correlates with inflation, house prices go up with inflation (if you own one, it's value usually does too)... It's usually only stuff that wears out quickly and/or electronics (stuff that has steep inherent value deprecation) that do not grow in value due to inflation.
- Comment on Targeted ads be Wilding 1 year ago:
Yup, they never figured me out either.. Ads are annoying and stupid and thinking about how much resources are poured into them and how much everyone's time is wasted makes me angry.
- Comment on Low Sodium Starfield 1 year ago:
Yup, I've started avoiding gaming forums, mostly stopped following news/rumors and hype trains and I've become "patient gamer". As a result, I pay much less for games and enjoy more the ones I get.
- Comment on “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator 1 year ago:
this plus:
- For many companies the majority of operating expenses are related to employees, so they will try to resist raising wages, preferably cutting them and/or firing people (also, union busting)
- Product quality will suffer
- They'll try to skirt regulations and lobby to overturn them
- In capitalism there's no such thing as enough when it comes to ROI so we go back to 6.
- Comment on Do people just not use the YouTube subscription feed? 1 year ago:
After getting used to Invidious I think their UI is better than Youtube's. Views are deterministic, I don't get random videos. Subscriptions work like I think they should.
- Comment on leaving google 1 year ago:
On the other hand OpenStreetMap seems to provide things that Google Maps doesn't like a lot of paths and trails, including inclination & difficulty info.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls Online & Murder by Numbers now free on Epic Games Store 1 year ago:
There's a lot of content to play as a free player. For me the most important thing the subscription offers is the unlimited crafting material bag. You don't need it but if you want to be a crafter it will be painful without it. Three classes and bunch of content is behind expansion packs.. all of which you can unlock by buying the current "collection" version which includes all the previous expansions also and goes for like 60 bucks..