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AI war is a kinds cool game but I always find the reality of playing it drier and slower than I’d like (I’m also bad so I play on lower difficulties, maybe at the top end it’s different)
schnoopy@awful.systemsto
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9·4 days agoOf course Ezra Klein is hanging out with the worst people in the world. He’s always on the hunt for a new gutter to pick up some fetid idea and tart it up for liberals.
schnoopy@awful.systemsto
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2·4 days agooptions, summary, off
schnoopy@awful.systemsto
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6·5 days agoBwahaha I didn’t believe you but it’s there. Gotta find the option in about:config to kill it.
Who is that for? “Ahh I’m so angry, why are you showing me big words and multiple paragraphs phone? where are the emoji bullet points? Ahhh — oh hey it got replaced with something vaguely related and unchallenging. Thanks firefox”
schnoopy@awful.systemsto
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10·18 days agoDunno if it’s been posted yet but apparently microsoft is starting to get sick of losing money and changed billing for copilot. The subreddit is melting down https://old.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot/
Very funny to watch
schnoopy@awful.systemsto
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11·20 days ago“Thought experiment” is how I’m going to start referring to my “wouldn’t it be cool/awful if…” thoughts. Why just in the bath now I’ve conducted several thought experiments
schnoopy@awful.systemsto
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7·26 days ago1 cve, 100 things that might have mattered.
2 orders of magnitude false positives doesn’t sound like an efficient use of labour for finding vulnerabilities but that’s just me.
schnoopy@awful.systemsto
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13·2 months ago“In fiction, the main character is often the centre of events,” he says. “The problem is that, sometimes, AI can actually get mixed up about which idea is a fiction and which a reality. So the user might think that they’re having a serious conversation about real life while the AI starts to treat that person’s life as if it’s the plot of a novel.”
This is such a bad way of explaining it. Yikes. The issue is that it’s all improv roleplay, all text is bullshit in the frankfertian sense. It might be accurate — lots of fantasy contains true facts like chairs and tables being made of wood and used for sitting at — but it might be completely divorced from reality and the model cannot know!
schnoopy@awful.systemsto
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5·2 months agoEmpiricism is when someone became a bookie after talking to you.
schnoopy@awful.systemsto
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10·2 months agoRichard “Computers aren’t binary but humans are” Dawkins
schnoopy@awful.systemsto
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9·2 months agoOh wow! This one is actually provably real. Hilarious.
“Noo dude the machine that wants to rant about goblins is definitely a useful and reliable piece of software dude. You have to trust me dude, let have your personal information! put it into the goblin bot”.

You… irradiate the shit out of your body every 24 months? Are you nuts? At that frequency you’re doubling or trippling your typical radiation dose.
Have you read at all about the risks of overdiagnosis and exploratory surgery on benign tumours?