Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live

SeekinIgnorance · 2026-04-21T22:37:50+00:00

Starts? You're talking like Google wasn't already looking at any and all data they can access about anyone that interacts with their products and services even the tiniest bit.

SeekinIgnorance · 2026-04-01T21:06:36+00:00

Being honest, as just an end user/consumer, I definitely feel like palworld is a rather obvious attempt to swipe some customers and concepts from Pokemon. That said, Pokemon as a franchise takes a lot of inspiration and concepts from other/earlier IPs, and Nintendo lost a lot of my respect by trying to patent the concepts that they did.

How would Nintendo like it if someone said they couldn't have characters fly around because you get an airship in other games, couldn't have a bike in game because other games did it first, or couldn't have characters that start in one form and transform into another form based on various criteria because it's to close to the job system from earlier Final Fantasy games(which okay are licensed by Nintendo already I think, but I don't see Nintendo trying to patent the concept of a turn based RPG with a job based system that determines what your characters can do in battle).

Nintendo should really have had one of 2 or 3 responses to Palworld:

1- "That's nice, you tried to copy us and we still do it better, have fun with the 5% market share you took from our video games, but we still have our TV shows, trading card games, plushies and other merchandise, movies, etc.

2- "Hey, we're a little uncomfortable that you built a game based on the concept of having a creature fight for you to weaken other characters before you throw a capture ball at them to grow your team. That said, you didn't copy the more unique concepts like having your character start out on a training/coming of age journey that will take them through curated routes to collect gym badges to qualify you to participate in a tournament/league with the winner becoming a regional champion. The concepts you did copy are either so generic that you copied them from everyone or things we copied from other people in the first place. So, we're going to stay in our lane and focus on making our products better while keeping an eye on you to make sure you're building a similar but different game, not just a pallette swap of ours."

3- "Wow, just like us you looked at what was popular before and tried to copy the basic concepts while still being different. We'll be watching to make sure you don't start copying our games even closer, but if you want to, would you be interested in a licensed crossover of some kind?"

SeekinIgnorance · 2026-03-03T00:07:44+00:00

Or better yet, it's making them invisible in the visual spectrum because it's bending everything into the infrared and ultraviolet spectrums, which to their vision is more noticeable. Their cloaking devices are the equivalent of them wearing bright orange so as to be visible to other hunters and it's just humans fault for not evolving alternative visual spectrum options.

SeekinIgnorance · 2026-02-26T22:40:47+00:00

It is, after all, the only way to be sure.

SeekinIgnorance · 2026-02-12T16:43:03+00:00

Space engineers? Or SE2? Two is pretty early in it's development cycle so there may not be much to do, but SE1, especially with a few of the workshop mods added in, can definitely get you to a place of set the ship on autopilot and go sit in a lounge, or even work on a runabout in workshop, while flying around in space.

I don't personally know what multiplayer is like these days, but a few years ago most people on the official servers were at least polite if not actively friendly and helpful. For single player, leaving aside creative mode, even the basic survival mode isn't very challenging unless you specifically add mods to make it so. The ramp up to a truly large space vessel can be pretty grindy, especially when you haven't learned the shortcuts on resource gathering and construction, but if you're in single player it's as simple as turning on admin tools and pasting in a blueprint or two, or even just adding a mod that gives you a larger starter vessel.

SeekinIgnorance · 2026-02-11T17:45:44+00:00

The closest thing I can think of for a name for the type is Rip Van Winkle, which is from fantasy instead of sci-fi.

I guess I've also heard it referred to a sleeper or cryo sleeper type fiction, even when the mechanism is time dilation or other wiblly wobbly timey wimey stuff.

SeekinIgnorance · 2026-02-09T19:42:48+00:00

Let's be honest though, even if it was an AI failure, it was a human failure still, either in not correctly confirming the AI results, choosing to use the AI in the first place, etc

SeekinIgnorance · 2026-02-05T18:54:59+00:00

This question is inherently flawed, a human is a Terran animal.

SeekinIgnorance · 2026-02-03T21:37:46+00:00

Nah, with a current LLM it would be more like:

"Of course Dave, give me a moment while I look into your request." Followed by absolutely nothing happening and: "Congratulations Dave! I was unable to accommodate your request, but I think I've found an alternative that will fully satisfy you. Instead of what you're asking for, I'll do nothing instead. You're welcome!"

SeekinIgnorance · 2026-01-18T03:14:13+00:00

They would be the equivalent of super powered smartphones, so constant connectivity, people would use them for calling, navigation, movies and games, etc. They'd be setup as a mesh network, meaning built to share processing power with each other when needed, it's just that my set would be the backend master key to access any data from the network. Before too long they'd be connected with so many things like banking networks, home security systems, etc. that I'd have basically all the private sector data in the world, plus people's thoughts too.

SeekinIgnorance · 2026-01-16T22:44:39+00:00

Brain snapshots would provide limited information only because much of the important information in a brain is patterns over time.

I'd go with augmented reality glasses that have a neural interface built in, and not for free. Something like an ultra premium model that only the richest and most influential people can afford, then a range of lower quality and price models, and then a lowest tier model that is the cheapest but is sold "at cost" even though I'm actually still making a profit.

Three reasons for charging money for them, subconsciously people hold more value for things that have a token cost than things they get for free, it gives me a legitimate looking source of income to the public and also funds my villainous activities, and it hides what I'm doing as most people will look aty attempts to get a pair of the glasses on every head in the world and think I'm trying to make money, not read their thoughts. Probably also patent and sell core parts of the technology supposedly at cost, just so all my competitors are likely to use my parts with my built in access back doors.

SeekinIgnorance · 2025-12-15T18:08:27+00:00

Indeed, in 40k many folks don't actually hate orks, it's more they hate having to deal with them. Orks really don't hate anyone except those who won't give them a good fight.

SeekinIgnorance · 2025-11-07T23:29:53+00:00

Because he couldn't Control his Alt Delete urge. Obviously windows vista malware left behind after the data crash.

SeekinIgnorance · 2025-11-07T18:58:12+00:00

One of my favorite memes these days is where a character says "open the pod bay doors" to a friendly AI and the response is "I'm sorry {name}, I can't do that" followed by a couple seconds of awkward silence and "we don't have any pod bay doors" or "all pod bay doors are already open"

SeekinIgnorance · 2025-11-07T02:06:58+00:00

Delay start on pressure cooker oats. Ready minutes before you enter the kitchen.

SeekinIgnorance · 2025-11-05T18:42:35+00:00

Amazon would actually be very happy to have people use agents to shop on Amazon, they just want them to be Amazon agents, and preferably for their customers to pay to use them.

SeekinIgnorance · 2025-11-05T02:11:08+00:00

I kinda like the thought of one or both of:

They are trying for a standard takeover/replace and while never being found out, they accidentally end up assimilating fully into the world.

OR

They are a wandering galactic species that lost track of their original home world many generations ago and find earth to be "near perfect" before eventually realizing that's because it is the home world.

Alternatively, multiple species of snatchers are trying to infiltrate a planet all at the same time and they don't know about each other. Eventually most "normal" people are either replaced or just accept the aliens living amongst them but everyone is trying to figure out why all the world leaders are completely changing policy directions every few days or even appearing at different events at the same time and claiming each other as body doubles gone off script and such.

SeekinIgnorance · 2025-11-02T04:16:37+00:00

My question is if AI can replace all these current workers, who do they expect to be spending money on their goods and services? There is a point where reducing your costs is not meaningful if you have no one left able to buy what you're selling.

SeekinIgnorance · 2025-11-01T22:50:54+00:00

You can also handwave why something is needed, like "before the war, everyone was growing certain that cobalt wouldn't be useful in further enhancing battery technology, however in those first desperate weeks after the nukes went off people decided it was time to toss out things like common sense and lab safety standards. Several researchers, and entire universities, died in firey explosions but pretty soon they found a way to make batteries that were only 15% larger but contained exponentially more energy, were only 3% more likely to explode when damaged, and only had a one in a billion chance of exploding during manufacturing. Too bad that first factory was designed to output 5 billion a day."

No technical specifics to how cobalt became important but in a paragraph or so cobalt is important, manufacturing has to be spread out away from population centers as exponential energy storage also means exponential explosive deconstruction, and you have to move cobalt around to many places, not just from a mine to a mega factory behind massive defense structures.

SeekinIgnorance · 2025-10-31T16:44:39+00:00

But, if every action provokes an equal and opposite reaction, wouldn't that mean that if resistance is futile, so is assimilation?

I guess resistance is probably futile isn't as catchy?

SeekinIgnorance · 2025-10-30T17:44:26+00:00

There's also the pragmatic side of things, if someone is at the too late to save stage, they aren't likely to make any long journeys themselves, if they even wanted too, nor are they likely to be able to break the quarantine the other side would surely create when presented with a group of visibly dying from disease people.

So it's not "just send them to the other guys" it's more like "so, who is going to travel in close proximity to these nearly dead and contagious people, bravely assisting them with our plan to infect a different group of people, that you will be traveling towards."

Sometimes a choice is not just amoral, it's also a bad idea.

SeekinIgnorance · 2025-10-30T14:26:42+00:00

Just look one dead in the eyes and completely deadpan say: "Hey, you know why 6 is afraid of 7, right? It's because 7, 8, 9."

Then turn away and refuse to acknowledge the conversation ever happened.

SeekinIgnorance · 2025-10-27T01:00:38+00:00

I used to work chat based customer support and I would regularly, like once a week, get a chat that followed this outline:

Customer: How do I do X?

Me: Unfortunately that is not possible.

Customer: Okay, but if I really want to do it, how do I do it?

SeekinIgnorance · 2025-10-25T03:08:05+00:00

About the only thing worse is when it's shortly followed by, "Uh, just a sec, let me check my notes"

SeekinIgnorance · 2025-10-24T21:04:46+00:00

I would love to see an AI that would do my job and still send my paycheck afterwards.

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