bitofhope

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[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Good on him. All that drama can't be healthy in the long run.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

I think I've seen that username on something posted on TechTakes before.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago

I don't wish ill upon my fellow tech sector workers, but frankly a backlash on the tech industry is long overdue. People have been mad at big tech before and so far it (thankfully) hasn't led to cataclysmic shifts in free software.

I feel like the original Free Software ethos of software freedom as moral obligation first and economic convenience second (if at all) might be more resilient to these kinds of field-shaping challenges than the more business model oriented Open Source ideology. That said, I don't expect the ongoing AI crisis to re-separate F and OS by name in popular or even tech industry consciousness.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago

Appeal to thanatority!

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Imagine being so bad Drew Devault of all people rightly calls you out on your toxic behavior.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 42 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Same guy earlier upthread

Public transit fares are generally malformed. I personally never pay the LA Metro fare. Why? Because I pay the Metrolink fare, which by their own admission covers same-day Metro transit. But police will actively seek me out as a person who looks like they have money and give me a hard time for not “tapping”, all while folks who very clearly have no money waltz on into the metro, stopping only to smoke crack on the elevator up. There’s a general problem in this country of what to do with law breakers who do not have money. It seems like the answer is to make them work and garnish their wages, but for whatever reason we are against that.

Yea the police are always giving such a hard time to people who don't look poor. It's so unfair that someone who can and does apparently pay for public transit has to prove they did.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

A perfect memory which is infinitely copyable and scaleable is possible. And it’s called, all the things in nature in sum.

A map is not the territory, but every territory is, in a sense, a map of itself.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

I can allow one (1) implementation of Doom on GenAI, in the spirit of the "port Doom on everything" stunt. Now that it's been done, I hope I don't have to condone any more.

I can't remember seeing an AI take on Bad Apple, but I assume the quota's already filled on that one ages ago as well.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

Fuck, you beat me to the P(doom) joke. Well done.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago

Oh it's definitely comparable. See, I'll compare:

The visual quality of GameNGen is worse than that of the original game.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Half of the Finnish Defence Forces aptitude test is just RPM. The other half is a bizarre and inscrutable questionnaire, which includes questions like "is your father a good man" and infamously "would you like to be a florist".

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (21 children)

I don't want to have to make legal threats to an LLM in all data not intended for LLM consumption, especially since the LLM might just end up ignoring it anyway, since there is no defined behavior with them.

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