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[–] ebu@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

i went and bought it, and yup, the revisited version is the one i was thinking of. time to walk around inside a picture of Sam Altman so i can absorb his raw intellect and business acumen

[–] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

goddammit! you have no idea how many variations of "first person walking simulator projected image texture trippy visuals" i slapped into every search engine!

but yes, that was the one i was thinking of

[–] ebu@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah, that "most of the internet will be Al-generated" nonsense is tanking my ability to take them as domain experts seriously.

still, something gets me about completely generated, transient-when-you're-not-looking, constantly shifting worlds. might have to collect more examples

[–] ebu@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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 24 points 1 month ago

because it encodes semantics.

if it really did so, performance wouldn't swing up or down when you change syntactic or symbolic elements of problems. the only information encoded is language-statistical

[–] ebu@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

oh gods they're multiplying

[–] ebu@awful.systems 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

"blame the person, not the tools" doesn't work when the tools' marketing team is explicitly touting said tool as a panacea for all problems. on the micro scale, sure, the wedding planner is at fault, but if you zoom out even a tiny bit it's pretty obvious what enabled them to fuck up for as long and as hard as they did

[–] ebu@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't read the post at all

rather refreshing to have someone come out and just say it. thank you for the chuckle

[–] ebu@awful.systems 0 points 4 months ago

data scientists can have little an AI doomerism, as a treat

[–] ebu@awful.systems 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

syncthing is an extremely valuable piece of software in my eyes, yeah. i've been using a single synced folder as my google drive replacement and it works nearly flawlessly. i have a separate system for off-site backups, but as a first line of defense it's quite good.

[–] ebu@awful.systems 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"i reflexively identify with the openly-fascist right-wing base that has found its home on elon's twitter, and since i'm a reasonable person, the evidence that they're flagrantly conspiracy-minded and/or are CSAM posters simply must be fabricated"

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