wizardbeard
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- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 5 hours ago:
Then you have to create a framework for evaluating the effect of the addition of each source into “positive” or “negative”. Good luck with that. They can’t even map input objects in the training data to their actual source correctly or consistently.
It’s absolutely possible, but pretty much anything that adds more overhead per each individual input in the training data is going to be too costly for any of them to try and pursue.
O(n) isn’t bad, but when your n is as absurdly big as the training corpuses these things use, that has big effects. And there’s no telling if it would actually only be an O(n) cost.
- Comment on happy fuck cops day to those who celebrate 2 days ago:
How am I supposed to find a cop to fuck on such short notice?
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 3 days ago:
I don’t know what to tell you beyond what I’ve already said.
I’m not denying that it’s a serious goddamn problem. I have acknowledged that in every single comment I’ve made about this. Please stop insisting that I’m saying otherwise.
Once again, I am only saying that despite the high numbers, it is not just some ever present part of life over here to the degree that every American, or even a majority, has experienced gun violence. Everyone from the outside seems to think that’s true, but it’s insanely, laughably not. The quite overwhelming majority of Americans have not experienced gun violence, and won’t within their lifetime.
Our population number is roughly equivalent to 3/4 of the entire European Union’s combined population. Any of our numbers relating to people are going to look high unless you bear that in mind.
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 3 days ago:
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- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 4 days ago:
Yeah, hence why I didn’t say anything to counter anything else, or that it was a good place to visit anytime soon.
Got any other mindblowing facts for us?
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 4 days ago:
Perfectly valid, and thanks for not just jumping on the US bad dogpile and instead citing some stuff.
I’m just speaking up because I’ve seen a lot of people online from outside the US running with this idea that gun violence is like, a daily occurence that every US citizen deals with regularly, when that’s so fucking far from the reality.
Yeah, things are a powder keg over here lately and the accessibility of firearms doesn’t help, but I’ve met only one person in my almost 35 years of life who’s ever been held at gunpoint and they’re the only person I know who has ever been through any form of gun violence.
There’s plenty of reasons to avoid this place for a good long while unfortunately, but I feel like the gun danger has been overblown.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 4 days ago:
I have and do, likely more than you. Thanks for patronizing!
That doesn’t change my point, that the danger of gun violence is a problem, but is considerably made out to be worse than the reality by the media.
Like, we have states larger than some European countries. If you took the reporting on all the bad shit happening over the equivalent space/population amount in Europe it would be pretty fucking harrowing as well.
I’ve known multiple people fall into a life of constant anxiety due to overexposing themselves to the media. Convinced that every city was a fucking gun violence warzone. That horrible things were happening all the time. They didn’t know anyone who knew anyone who had experienced the things they were convinced were regular horrible occurences. And they knew more than one person (mutual friends) that worked and lived in the US city with the highest homicide rate at the time. None of those people had been even in the vicinity of gun violence.
I’ve been around for nearly 35 years, and I enjoy talking with people. I’ve met only one single person who had been a victim of gun violence, in that they were robbed at gunpoint while working nights at a gas station in a rough area.
There are fucking studies about this shit that are over 15 years old that show that exposure to news media back then caused people to ridiculously overestimate the frequency of crime (and especially violent crime). News has only become more emotionally charged since.
I’m not saying America is some amazing place. I’m just saying that the news would have you believe that almost everyone here has had a gun violence experience, or that visitng the US is unsafe because of gun violence, when that’s not the case.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 4 days ago:
How… how much gun violence do you think actually happens here?
There’s a lot by number, and that’s a serious fucking issue, but the US is also massive. It’s not a regular or frequent danger of normal life here.
Even those numbers are pumped up by the fact that suicide by gun is counted in the exact same “gun violence” statistics as gang violence, and the “school shootings” statistics include all from the “gun violence” stats that occur within a certain radius around, regardless of when it happened (summer break, middle of the night, etc) or if it was any danger to students.
News overfocuses on shit like that because it pulls eyes and clicks, and therefore ad revenue.
Again, it is a serious fucking problem, but it’s not the kind of thing you’re going to experience in daily life or as a tourist.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 4 days ago:
Depends on the officer you’re dealing with. There’s multiple stories, from before Trump ever took office, of people being detained for up to a day for saying this or refusing to grant access to their phone. I can only imagine it’s worse now.
- Comment on Every day we draw closer towards god's light 5 days ago:
It’s a shitposty protest against how this sub/community has been getting flooded with news and US politics.
- Comment on Are they the same person? 5 days ago:
Fuck off, we corn now.
- Comment on everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space 5 days ago:
What motherfucker is out here straining their creamed corn? LMAO
- Comment on American exceptionalism 5 days ago:
I mean for dealing with worm parasites in the field, given limited supplies and (I’m assuming) this being a pretty old manual, this isn’t too bad.
Basically instructions for forcing out the entire contents of your stomach or using something that is probably handy to kill them before they do too much damage to you.
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- Comment on my hubris was my own punishment 5 days ago:
Stupid sexy corn.
- Comment on Accidental rapture 5 days ago:
Out of the leather of his shoes, if I remember correctly.
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 5 days ago:
Neat! This one I’ve actually seen before IRL!
- Comment on Hmm 5 days ago:
For fucks sake man, NSFW tag this smut!
- Comment on Xmas stockings stuffers 5 days ago:
I’m more concerned about the words “glass” and “squeeze”. Don’t need more one man one jar in the world.
- Comment on Corn on the Crap 5 days ago:
The stickied post explains it. Shitposty retaliation against all the news and politics that had taken over.
- Comment on Why you think the net was born? 5 days ago:
It started as a shitposty counter-movement to the overwhelming amount of posts here that are just news and politics. At this point I think it’s being perpetuated by the meme of it all.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
This is the exact sort of thing the cornposting was started because of. Fuck off with this.
- Comment on Proof you don't have to wait for the new year for self improvement 6 days ago:
Didn’t you get the memo? We corn now.
- Comment on Let's keep ourselves safe this Christmas 6 days ago:
- Comment on Let's keep ourselves safe this Christmas 6 days ago:
Somewhere in the distance, you hear a Mariah Carey. Check the doors again. Locked. Good. Safe.
Louder. Closer. Maybe the neighbors? Blinds closed already. Won’t see movement through the windows. Wait! Lights. Turn them off? Risky. It could see the change. Sounds like it’s at the end of the street. Risky. Still may be time. Risk it? Don’t?
Crashing noise. The “song” rises to a frenzied pitch. Screams. Not yours. Quick! While it’s busy. Lights off. Safer. Safe enough?
Closer now. “Song”. Disgusting mockery of humanity, cheer. Clawing at the edges of your sanity.
Sudden quiet. Blessed silence. Over? No. Muffled crunch of “footsteps” in snow. Close enough to hear. Safe enough?
A thump. Against a door. Your door? No. Close.
I don’t want a lot for Christmas…
Scratching. Nails against glass. Not your window. Safe enough?
This is all I’m asking for…
Sudden cachophony. What did it do? No. Inside. It’s here. But no. Outside. Continues. More noise. Here! Inside!
A duet. Not safe enough.
- Comment on Skier narrowly avoids a crevasse 1 week ago:
Yeesh! Pretty sure this is why you’re supposed to stay on trails.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 1 week ago:
If you’re into emulation, it’s a legitimately good sidescrolling shmup, and if I remember right, the music was great as well.
It’s just that absymal translation that launched it into meme status.
- 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:
Even today, people value photos differently than paintings, at least in part due to the amount of effort that goes into each.
There’s no reasonable argument to preventing people from having the information up front to make the same sort of value decision about a game.
You’re free to use AI, just declare it. The purchasing public is free to decide if that changes how much they’re willing to pay for your game.
- 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:
Unity doesn’t work by hoovering up the collected works of humanity, mixing it all up, and extruding it as a paste as a response to a sentence or two prompt (yes, image generation is more complicated to prompt but it is still roughly a paragraph of text).
Look, if you personally don’t see the issue with AI, I still have a hard time believing that you haven’t seen plenty of varied arguments against it. Ignoring all the varied reasons to pretend it’s only some needless hand-wringing at this point just feels like bad faith.
And either way, we’re talking about a tag/label. I see no issues with games having a tab/label/etc on their store page indicating the engine they’re built off of. Some people don’t like horror, puzzles, always online, forced PvP, or a particular art style. Some people don’t like generative AI. I don’t think there’s a strong argument to be made that usage of generative AI should be a special case here. If no one’s harassing people, I see no reason to prevent people from making informed decisions on what they purchase.
If your counterargument is that AI is just a tool, and we don’t tag whether the artists used a mouse or a drawing tablet, I’d counter with this: hand drawn art is a selling point due to the increased workload to create it (and implied extra quality). Now “no generative AI” can be the same. An indicator that things were done “the hard way”, with an implication (but no guarantee) of higher quality.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 2 weeks ago:
If I recall right, the only exlusive weapon was the Flamethrower, but they also added the missile Warthog. Might be forgetting some other weapons though, as I never had the Xbox version.
I had some fun when I was younger modding the demo. The only content stripped out of it were the levels, so there were all these custom versions of the Blood Gulch map floating around with Ghosts and Scorpion tanks, etc.
I liked messing with weapon properties. Had my own temu/wish.com “cursed halo at home” long before it was a real thing.
- Sniper rifle fired plasma grenades, and you could do fun stuff like stacking two so the first would throw the second into the air and the trail and explosion made it like a flare.
- Shotgun fired a spread of frag grenades instead of bullets, and pushed you backwards a bit.
- Pistol was more accurate, slightly faster, much less damage, and pushed whoever got hit back a ton. You could easily juggle someone up into the skybox with it. It pushed vehicles too.
- Rocket launcher fired a massive ball of rockets that would lag everything.
- Flamethrower fired rockets instead of flames, with a much higher ammo pool, but no other changes. So rocket sprinkler.
- Fully charged plasma pistol fired a Scorpion Tank shot. I think the non charged ones homed in to a stupid extent.
- Chaingun Warthog fired needler rounds with an increased lifetime.
- Assault rifle worked as area denial, setting an area in an orb shape around you on fire.
- The plasma cannon thing would spawn a Scorpion tank over your head, crushing you.
- I think I turned the needler into a shotgun blast thing, but it still fired needles.
- I think I changed the elites’ plasma smg thing to start firing slowly but “rev up” to stupid fast speeds, and then the cooldown hurt your shields?
- There was something that would call down a larger version of the plasma cannon projectile from the sky, with a larger explosion radius and a stupid big/strong pushback effect.
- Vehicle crashes called the same kind of system as a projectile hitting, so you were effectively “shot” with a vehicle impact “bullet” as a rider if you crashed too hard. Congrats that’s now a frag grenade explosion. That one was shamelessly stolen from a tutorial.
That’s what I remember at least.
