5too

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, the only thing I have Windows around for is VR. Everything else runs swimmingly (often better!) on the Linux partition, but VR still struggles to keep up…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MEGA FLAG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, I have a very vague memory of them teleporting a baby out of the mother during birth when there were complications, at the start of a TNG episode I think. Or did I make that up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP realizes that mandatory 15-minute support call wait times isn’t good support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But doctor… I am the parent.

  Seriously, half the stuff that we print is coloring pages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, in this case the amateur happens to be able to absorb a whole lotta hits too - they can fail over and over while waiting for you to slip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe… More complicated limbs struck me as more prone to failure than rotors, and more expensive to maintain and replace

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m remembering the old duelist’s adage, that the worst opponent to have is an amateur - because you have no idea what kind of idiocy they’ll try

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’m not as caught up in the current state of robotics as I’d like… The article talks about these being used to patrol, do safety inspections, and the like.

  Wouldn’t it be cheaper to replace each of these with a dozen quadrocopter drones?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To my knowledge, there is very little research at all - the programs that would look into whether this might protect children struggle to get funded, because it’s icky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Used to Promote Non-Existent Evacuation Flights From the Middle East⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, that seems to suggest it’s entertainment for or about misers, rather than misery

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait… It just verifies the age of whoever initially activated the device?

  Do they define “activation”? And do the authors actually live with any children?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Fruit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, that makes more sense. Thanks for the clarification!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, yours doesn’t say that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Fruit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc, there’s speculation that neanderthals needed something like 3000 calories per day just to sustain themselves.

  We may have just survived because we can go leaner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Fruit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From a very cursory Wikipedia check, hominini includes chimpanzees?

  I might have missed something - you’re saying anthropologists consider all hominins human? Including chimpanzees?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Red menace, yellow peril… Who’ve we got coming up for the Green Threat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, I almost posted that it specifically says on the back “Not to be used for ID”, because I remember that on mine. Looked online to be sure I was right, and couldn’t find it.

  I had no idea that they removed that. It’s not kike they changed function!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLM's poisoned with sleeper agent backdoors is the latest fun security threat to worry about⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And people rich enough to stupidly link those AI agents to their bank accounts.

  I need to pay more attention to how rich people are using AI personally…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, I question whether they’re even experts in that kind of finance, or if they’re just connected to each other well enough, and have a few willing experts in hand, to maintain their position.

  I honestly think the only thing most of them have going for them is that it’s their name on the accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I was just poking at what I assumed was a day off the cuff response. Didn’t occur to me they might have tried formatting it, and failed.

  Thanks for breaking them out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …what kind of game is that?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What I’m saying is that it suggests uncomfortable things about the ethical framework in which whoever is making the valuations is operating. Not because of any specific valuation schemas, but because reducing people to numbers (values) is inherently dehumanizing.

  Any ethical framework or decision that dehumanizes people I would consider inherently unethical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So it lets us work out certain laws inherent in our universe? Wow, I did miss that implication…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they do different dialogue styles well? I could see using it for NPC chatter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right now, it’s just a fun toy, prone to hallucinations.

  That’s the thing though - with an LLM, it’s all “hallucinations”. They’re just usually close to reality, and are presented with an authoritative, friendly voice.

  (Or, in your case, they’re usually close to the established game reality!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hadn’t heard of her before! The theorem sounds interesting, but the Wikipedia article is a bit dense - I got that “any system with symmetry will have conserved values”, but I got lost on the implications. Would you mind expanding on her theorem?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Declaring people to have a certain value relative to each other strikes me as uncomfortably close to treating people as things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … let’s maybe stay away from genocide, hm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, he’s set the precedent - apparently it’s now allowed for another country to just snatch the leader of a sovereign nation and run off with them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for this, I hadn’t seen this one!