Mr. GM
@mrgm
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Hello there! I'm some guy from Kansas. I'm mostly here for cats, pro wrestling, technology, and video games.
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Xauri'EL ZwaanI am getting sick of this conflating of every case of "computer use algorithm" into the single gelid blob of "AI" making it impossible to have a productive conversation on the subject
When people say they're "against AI", they usually mean certain specific things. "Image generators displacing human-made art" and "LLM summarizers and chatbots being shoved into every software and website we use regardless of our preferences", maybe with a side of "black box deep learning algorithms being used for predictive policing and determining court sentences" and the like if they're particularly woke.
We don't like AI books being sold alongside real ones. We don't like ChatGPT being used to write scientific papers or legal briefs. We don't want AI slop code used in the programs we depend on every day. We especially don't like the next generation of children and youth being taught that this is the normal and accepted way of doing things.
We do not mean spellcheck, or machine translation, or optical character recognition. We do not mean procedural generation or enemy pathfinding in video games. And whatever genuinely beneficial use case you are bundling into "AI" when you tell us that we shouldn't be blanket against it, if it doesn't fall under the above rubric, we don't mean that either.
We are against the de-skilling of the human species and the wholesale replacement of the output of our brains with low-quality machine-generated trash. If we can keep whatever your brilliant "AI" hack is while eliminating all the rest of this crap, I'm all for it. But using those edge cases and overdefinitions to delegitimaze criticism of AI in the broad strokes is at best repeating bad-faith propaganda. Stop it.
Hello internet did you know that Nobuo Uematsu's "Dancing Mad" from Final Famtasy VI is a masterpiece?
You already knew that? Well, here's an excuse to go listen to it again!
My favorite little bit is when one movement sounds almost heroic, then you hear Kefka's theme in the bass and the song switches from Major to Minor, complete with replaying the last phrase in Minor for full effect. It's like Kefka's true self slips through the god-like act
__ct__4LunaFvanyway if you're hiring for a C++/Rust developer in the UK (ideally remote, or hybrid near Manchester), hit me up
"Meanwhile, RB has wreaked havoc. At 5:15 this morning he decided he didn't like the record Bob Hamme was airing so he climbed on the turntable and knocked the tone arm off"
Kitten wreaks havoc at Fairbanks radio station, circa 1975
jonny (nonvenomous)every time someone says "you just don't like LLMs because you don't use them and haven't seen how awesome they are" i want to shake them and be like "dog i have tried them so much and every time they send me straight into the nether of unreality"
Admiral Wonderboatgames, websites, apps, even appliances - is there anywhere ads don't smack us?
OwenPSA, prompted by a recent conversation: if you're building web-based software with the intention that end users host it themselves, _please_ do not treat containers as the primary distribution medium. Container engines generally, and Docker specifically, are incredibly profligate with disk space, memory, and network throughput (edit: and operator attention), and drive the cost of hosting up substantially.
Fedi.Tips 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️Mastodon has an account verification system, but it works differently to most social networks. There is no central authority confirming people's identity, instead there is a self-service system based on ownership of websites or web pages. You can find out more at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-verify-my-account
For example, the official account for LibreOffice is @libreoffice and we know it is official because their profile page's link to https://www.libreoffice.org is green.
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