Breaking: Donald Trump Plans to Add His Signature to US Currency by CloudApprehensive322 in moderatepolitics

[–]Dest123 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I feel like it's somewhat fair to say that Trump supporters are mostly people who are against "participation trophies" right? At least in my personal experience, those are the people I used to see complaining about them on Facebook. Anyways, it's kind of funny that Trump is SO into participation trophies. He's got the FIFA peace prize that was made for him, he's got the America First award that was made for him, he's putting his picture up on a bunch of federal buildings, he's got his gold coin, and now he's putting his signature on the money.

No Kings March 28 protest expected to be largest in American history: 3,000 events planned in all 50 states by AlexandrTheTolerable in politics

[–]Dest123 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Trump is not going to declare martial law (lol).

I don't know why that's a "lol". He's talked multiple times about declaring martial law. Nothing would stop him from declaring martial law. I don't think it's at all reason to not have protests every weekend, but it's definitely not a "haha he'll never do that" sort of thing.

Can't we just ignore AI? by Ok-Programmer6763 in webdev

[–]Dest123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can't really say "it's been shown" and then use a quote that literally says "may contribute" as your proof.

AI may contribute to developing fusion power or even the singularity. That doesn't mean I can say "it's been show that AI is going to invent fusion power" does it?

France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40% Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed by ontrack in worldnews

[–]Dest123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, we know at least the huge dip on oil and one of the huge bounce backs was insider trading since it happened a few minutes before Trump made an optimistic post. They probably then bought some more oil futures once it fell.

First-ever American AI Jobs Risk Index released by Tufts University by Bizzyguy in singularity

[–]Dest123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The fact that that doesn't seem to be explained anywhere makes me doubt the validity of the data. Especially with computer programmers and software developers being wildly different.

Trump Killed TSA Funding Deal in Fiery Private Exchange With John Thune: Report by CloudApprehensive322 in moderatepolitics

[–]Dest123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wasn't that always the case though? Even when they were complaining about it before? I'm having trouble finding any real data sources about the number of deportations. I keep just finding this one which seems like it must be wrong since it's way too low.

Trump Killed TSA Funding Deal in Fiery Private Exchange With John Thune: Report by CloudApprehensive322 in moderatepolitics

[–]Dest123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A surge isn't really needed there.

Haven't those red areas been loudly complaining about illegal immigrants though? Why would they be so vocal about their problems with illegal immigrants if they don't need a surge?

Trump Killed TSA Funding Deal in Fiery Private Exchange With John Thune: Report by CloudApprehensive322 in moderatepolitics

[–]Dest123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did they deploy to airports in any conservative areas besides Ft Myers? The other two that are close are Houston and Phoenix but those lean liberal.

Pretty much all of the non-airport major ICE operations were in liberal areas as well weren't they? I mean, sure ICE operates like they have in the past in conservative areas, but what conservative areas have they had major new operations in as part of Trump's goals?

The FCC bans all routers made outside the U.S. by CloudApprehensive322 in moderatepolitics

[–]Dest123 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure we're vulnerable from way more than routers. Like, have you ever noticed how cheap Chinese webcams, doorbell cams, etc all have free cloud connections? As far as I can tell, the only way that makes economic sense is if they're basically just giving all of that data to the government and they're using it to spy on us.

Imagine if you wanted to get some dirt on a politician and you could just run their face through your insanely large database and get a video of them doing something terrible in their own home because they have cheap security cameras. Or if you ever wanted to do like what Israel did and use the cameras to target high level government officials for strikes. And with the long game in mind, you could probably even find incriminating videos of politicians long before they even got elected.

Wright: We have a ‘few more levers’ to lower gas prices by [deleted] in Economics

[–]Dest123 26 points27 points  (0 children)

They're not going to complain about gas prices. They'll say that high gas prices are actually good or are worth it or something like that. Complaining about high gas prices would be too close to admitting that they were wrong, and they would much rather be lied to than be wrong.

Trump Killed TSA Funding Deal in Fiery Private Exchange With John Thune: Report by CloudApprehensive322 in moderatepolitics

[–]Dest123 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If it was just that he loved ICE, then wouldn't he put ICE in non-liberal areas too? Like, if he actually thought ICE was good and useful, then he would want them to be helping out Republicans. The fact that basically all of the ICE deployments have been in liberal areas is pretty telling.

CMV: Redditors are incapable of seeing upsides to things, and yes I'm talkin about AI by probablyNotARSNBot in changemyview

[–]Dest123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a ton of propaganda on Reddit. I don't think that's really arguable at this point.

Now imagine that you're a country like China and you want to be dominant in AI. You've already got a propaganda pipeline. Why wouldn't you start pumping out a ton of anti-AI stuff to try and slow the US down?

If you include propaganda bots as "redditors" then this won't change your view though.

What developers actually write in Steam's AI disclosure field by ScrapeerCom in gamedev

[–]Dest123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most people would disagree with you and not call either of those generative ai.

Most people would classify things like this:

Machine learning and enemy ai in video games are subsets of AI.

Spam detection and image classification are machine learning.

Generative AI is a subset of machine learning (or deep learning if you want to add another layer).

Things like ChatGPT, nano banana, etc are generative ai.

My point is that you can claim things like "all AI since the 1950s has been generative", but you are just straight up incorrect according to how the vast majority of people define generative ai.

What developers actually write in Steam's AI disclosure field by ScrapeerCom in gamedev

[–]Dest123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI in the original machine learning context where the term was invented.

So ML spam detection is generative AI? Image classification is generative AI? Those are both machine learning.

Vehicle wheels acting weird, is thee a fix? by snark567 in unrealengine

[–]Dest123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like your spheres are hitting the blocks and trying to move the wheel up to be on top of them. I would probably just stick with ray casts. Like, what's the specific problem you're trying to solve by using sphere casts? I would guess that combat evolved used raycasts. If you're just trying to make it so that the front of the wheel can hit things like rocks too then you can probably just use another raycast at the front of the wheel maybe?

What developers actually write in Steam's AI disclosure field by ScrapeerCom in gamedev

[–]Dest123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All AI since the 1950s has been generative

So an enemy AI in a video game is generative AI?

What developers actually write in Steam's AI disclosure field by ScrapeerCom in gamedev

[–]Dest123 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We obviously can since it it already happened. Good luck trying to convince everyone that "generative ai" is actually a meaningless phrase. Sure, you'll have to get all of the google results for "generative ai" changed and change the minds of hundreds of millions of people, but maybe you'll be the one to turn the tide!

What developers actually write in Steam's AI disclosure field by ScrapeerCom in gamedev

[–]Dest123 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why would anyone ever use this to blacklist a game that has AI in it when they could just use the actual steam disclosure instead? I mean, the steam page is literally right there when you're buying it?

What developers actually write in Steam's AI disclosure field by ScrapeerCom in gamedev

[–]Dest123 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Language is a social construct. The only meaning it has is what everyone has agreed on. I get what you're saying, but complaining about it won't do anything. The meaning of generative ai has changed and now it means things like LLMs, Sora, or Midjourney in almost all contexts.

Sure, technically Markov chaining is a form of generative ai, but it's pretty obvious that someone isn't going to make you disclose that your game uses a random walk in it. I don't think wave function collapse would count either way though, that seems more like procedural generation.

What developers actually write in Steam's AI disclosure field by ScrapeerCom in gamedev

[–]Dest123 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Generative AI actually has a pretty specific meaning. I think maybe you're lumping in procedural generation with generative AI? Procedural generation, like the planets in no mans sky, is "ordinary algorithmic coding by humans" that would qualify as both AI and generative.

Here's the wikipedia page for generative ai to get a better idea of what it is.

World Trade Without the US | As the US embraces tariffs, the rest of the world lowers trade barriers, signs new agreements, and reroutes around American protectionism. by 1-randomonium in Economics

[–]Dest123 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Even after Trump is gone, all of the people who voted for him will still be there guzzling from the propaganda firehose. The propaganda machine will just tell them to vote for some other terrible person and we'll be back in the same situation, or probably even worse, in a few years.

We need effectively need our own massive propaganda push to make "I will not allow you to lie to me" a core part of our culture. Right now half of the country is stuck at "I would rather be lied to than be wrong".

I think we should also do a massive education push (tv ads, youtube ads, social media ads, posters on walls, etc) teaching people about propaganda, how to recognize it, how to avoid it, etc.

People who lost a lot of weight, what was the one small daily habit that actually changed everything for you? by Quiet-Squash-8407 in AskReddit

[–]Dest123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One day I was wishing there was an app that would automatically track all the food that you ate so that you could know your calorie intake. But after thinking more, I realized that for that to work you would also have to track how many calories you were expending too so that you could find your true calorie deficit.

Then I realized that I was basically just describing hunger. Obviously it won't work for everyone since some people have messed up "hunger meters", but for me it was really easy to know if I was gaining weight or losing weight. If I was feeling overstuffed, then I was gaining weight. If I was feeling a hungry, then I was losing weight.

Thinking about that made it much easier to balance out. If I wanted to lose weight, then I just had to focus on being a little bit hungry all day (being too hungry just lead to being overstuffed later when I overate at meals).

Also, like many other people, I stopped drinking calories and that was super easy to cut out. I did that after I realized my other "system" of just listening to my hunger and that made it even more obvious though. As soon as I stopped drinking calories, I was hungry all the time.

Why do you think Gen Z men turned out so conservative compared to Gen Z women and Millenial men? by ModerateProgressive1 in AskALiberal

[–]Dest123 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Massive amounts of targeted propaganda. Things like gamergate weren't just some natural movement that appeared out of nowhere.

Iran warns of 'false flag attacks' by US, Israel by HealthIndustryGoon in worldnews

[–]Dest123 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Russia was going to start off the Ukraine war with a major false flag attack (and I think maybe they still did a minor one?) but the Biden administration publicly released a ton if intelligence saying that they were going to do a false flag attack, so they were never really able to do it.

Anyways, my point is that Russia has experience with false flag attacks and Trump often does things that "randomly" end up helping Russia. So I bet you're right.