[-] ebu@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

maybe i'm a weirdo but i actually really like this a lot. if there weren't armies of sycophants chanting outside of all our collective windows about how AI is the future of gaming... if you look at this "game" as an art object unto itself i think it is actually really engaging

it reminds me of other "games" like Marian Kleineberg's Wave Function Collapse and Bananaft's Yedoma Globula. there's one other on the tip of my tongue where you uploaded an image and it constantly reprojected the image onto the walls of a first-person walking simulator, but i don't recall the name

[-] ebu@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago

with how much of a revolving door of covert white supremacists lemmy is, i can imagine it's hard to boot them out faster than they come in. just federation things

[-] ebu@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago

what if we simply took the output of the easily manipulated word salad generator and parsed it into instructions for the computers that are in charge of all our communication to follow

[-] ebu@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago

Well over a year ago it was actually useful. [...] And it just doesn't come up with interesting stuff any more.

i have to admit i'm deeply curious what outputs you considering interesting enough for twenty bucks a month

[-] ebu@awful.systems 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

it's funny how you say "it provides correct answers", dump six paragraphs of half-baked, malformatted instructions (that, if followed, spawn an endless stream of non-terminating powershell processes), then ten minutes later admit in a different comment that "sometimes the information it provides is incorrect"

wait no funny isn't the correct word is it

[-] ebu@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago

finally, i can see Sam Altman's face immediately upon clicking the link

... put it back

[-] ebu@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You're implicitly accepting that eventually AI will be better than you once it gets "good enough". [...] Only no, that's not how it's likely to go.

wait hold on. hold on for just a moment, and this is important:

Only no, that's not how it's likely to go.

i regret to inform you that thinking there's even a possibility of an LLM being better than people is actively buying into the sci-fi narrative

well, except maybe generating bullshit at breakneck speeds. so as long as we aren't living in a society based on bullshit we should be goo--... oh fuck

[-] ebu@awful.systems 11 points 5 months ago

Maybe I'm missing something.

translation: thinking about this too much, or at all really, would be disastrous for my political ideology and ego, so someone else please waste their time and energy typing up a reply i won't read, so i can continue having the image of an intellectual engaged in vigorous debate without actually having to do anything

[-] ebu@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

Wait a year and see how kids get on blockchain to sell and buy GPU resources for rendering ‘trans furries’

excuse you, i render my fursona with my own GPU

[-] ebu@awful.systems 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[-] ebu@awful.systems 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

finally... MOASS... this time for real... if January 2021 buyers sell now, they'll only be down about 70%, instead of the 85-90% it normally hovers around. i think the only hodlers that could come out positive are ones that bought in late 2022 or later, and even then, you're not up by much.

i think this, more than watching the Folding Ideas video (a must-watch for anyone out of the loop), is really kind of selling the sadness of watching people suckered into hype pour even more money down the drain. an account belonging to a guy we once liked made a tweet; this is it, liquidate your retirement and gamble it away. ugh

[-] ebu@awful.systems 14 points 7 months ago

i was impressed enough with kagi's by-default deranking/filtering of seo garbage that i got a year's subscription a while back. good to know that this is what that money went to. suppose i'll ride out the subscription (assuming they don't start injecting ai garbage into search before then) and then find some other alternative

switching topics, but i do find it weird how the Brave integration stuff (which i also only found out about after i got the subscription) hadn't... bothered me as much? to be exceptionally clear, fuck Brandon Eich and Brave -- the planet deserves fewer bigots, crypto grifters, and covid conspiracists -- but i can't put my finger on why Kagi paying to consume Brave's search API's just doesn't cause as much friction with me. honestly it could be the fact that when i pay for Kagi it doesn't feel like i'm bankrolling Eich and his ads-as-a-service grift, whereas the money for my subscription is definitely paying for Vlad to ~~reply-guy into bloggers' inboxes who are critical of the way Kagi operates~~ correct misunderstandings about Kagi.

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