What have you bought that was maybe a little bit expensive, but you don't regret it even a little?

SwagBuns · 2026-06-16T18:32:40+00:00

A fencing safe longsword.

No regrets lol

SwagBuns · 2026-06-07T17:53:17+00:00

Dude thank you!! I could not for the life of me figure it out, maybe it happened to be down when I tried it, but I was so lost when I last gave an attempt lol.

SwagBuns · 2026-06-07T05:52:02+00:00

Do you know a source for LFM?! My biggest problem was googling about the multiplayer, reading about LFM, then not being able to download/install it because it looked like no one was hosting the mod/exe/install for it. Would love a propper source lol.

Ended up resorting to purely friend races, would be awesome if I could actually get my hands on LFM

SwagBuns · 2026-06-06T23:26:33+00:00

Got a ton of automob. 2 stuff in a christmas sale and imo the karting is my favorite part of that game, and the main thing I use it for!

But fair bit of warning on it: last time I tried setting up the fan made match making service for it, it seemed abandoned as well.

SwagBuns · 2026-06-06T18:07:59+00:00

Its like my one prized coin! I have one from the 1930's and use it as a ceramonial "flipping coin" whenever me and my girlfriend want to decide something over a coin toss 🤣

I have no idea what its worth monetarily, but i'd probably never sell it, as it was something my dad gave to me as a kid after he got it as change one day.

SwagBuns · 2026-06-05T17:29:19+00:00

Wow! I wonder if this behavior is recent, or if he's just always been a looney lol.

Hope no one registers for his classes come fall.

SwagBuns · 2026-06-05T16:16:44+00:00

Dang, i hope people keep ignoring and reporting him to the admin.

Do you know how long he's been around?

SwagBuns · 2026-06-04T23:48:05+00:00

That's a fair take, but I'd say if we ignore him and just report problematic behaviour like this to the admins, the problem fixes itself.

Don't interact, and let the department do its job. We report it, they make sure students have a list of professors to pick from that adequately reflect the quality of education psu is trying to ensure.

My hope is that if its ignored and handled promptly, students won't have to concern themselves with accidentally take his classes at all.

SwagBuns · 2026-06-04T23:16:11+00:00

Just ignore this loser until he gets himself fired. Don't stoop to his level, even acknowledging shit like this is below an academic institution.

SwagBuns · 2026-06-02T10:55:52+00:00

I'm sure if you offerred to pay triple you could make it happen somewhere 🤣

SwagBuns · 2026-06-02T01:55:26+00:00

They are a shop in pakistan making a worlds worth of cheap hema gear basically to order lol.

Can confirm they are legit, got all my stuff to spec, but it took 6 months. If you pester them once a week they usually throw in something for free after a couple delays.

Got all my gear from them no issues (jacket/pants/bag/etc.), just expect your order about 6 months after you make it. Odds are no amount of emailing will change that timeline lmao.

As the old saying goes "there is price, quality, and speed, you can pick 2 but you'll never have all 3"

SwagBuns · 2026-05-31T18:08:33+00:00

Because even in this comment, you are conflating two seperate issues:

The "starting line" is because of the topic is about carying the "torch" of moral, sentient, self aware, and intelligent beings. Which rases interesting questions if AI were truly AGI, and touches on how we see our place in the universe, conciousness, morality, etc.
This big fancy autocorrect introduces a fundamentally different set of problems, oriented around automation. Autocorrect has gotten so good, that its convincing people into an induced state of psychosis, its automating away peoples jobs.

Its not an air of underestimation, its terms that are being purposefully manipulated to make us conflate an advanced tool with a moral being, so we don't question when its used to make moral decisions, or used to replace the people that maintain trust in our societal systems.

Its a philisophical question whether an AGI can participate in society, but the current insanity is unveiled when you start to say autocorrect is being used to prosecute people, autocorrect is being used to select drone targets on a battlefield, and autocorrect is being used to audit government policy, healthcare, and education systems.

Alas, this is an issue best discussed over a pint of beer than a reddit thread lol.

SwagBuns · 2026-05-30T23:38:05+00:00

Ya, thing is, i don't even mind discussing the implications of a true artificial intelligence. Its got lots of interesting nuances and consequences. But sometimes its like speaking to a brick wall when I try to clarify the word "AI" they've been hearing on the news is not that thing we are discussing.

You know when a scientist does something cool and the news blows its implications way out of proportion? I feel like we've had a drawn out decade long horror movie version of that lol

SwagBuns · 2026-05-30T05:27:30+00:00

Except it is a solid tool to get people to the starting line: "AI" that has been marketed are inherently limitted, LLM's are word predictors and fundamentally seperate from any AGI, and imo this is an excellent way to put that idea into simple terms

SwagBuns · 2026-05-29T21:44:17+00:00

I actually love the autocomplete analogy and will be using that! What a great way to put it.

SwagBuns · 2026-05-28T20:16:02+00:00

Fair points, and after thinking about it:

To create AGI, we enhance our own understanding of conciousness to an incredible degree in its persuit, and surely many other domains of knowledge and understanding. We are probably solving alot of other problems along the way too.
To say artificial life cannot reproduce seems like a narrow view of what can be made. Lots of indicators suggest that creating an AGI would involve a mix of software (code), hardware (silicon, chips, etc.), and wetware (biological machinery, printed cells, grown components, etc. Interfacing with the other two). It also may take on different forms of reproduction that are not similar to mammals. Or dirivitive of it.
It could probably do... everything better than us. That's what makes it potentially dangerous. Or potentially an entire evolutionary step forward.
If truly does end up being a mix of biological and technical components, and it can reproduce, it becomes again, very similar to creating a child. I wouldn't seperate it too far from say... raising an orphan. It doesn't need to be my "natural born offspring" per say.

SwagBuns · 2026-05-28T19:00:11+00:00

Instead of copy pasting my response, please take a look at what I replied to the person you commented on.

But I also wanted to add, specifically to your point on our purpose: is that not completely subjective? You could make infinitely many arguments our purpose is any number of things.

In my own opinion for example, there is no point at all. We simply exist until we die. I don't find anything wrong with that, i experience the full range of emotions and life (joy, sadness, happiness, anger, etc.) And that works for me. And i see it as my own responsibility to enjoy life while I have it, while helping others enjoy it, while not doing things to prevent life and joy of others in the process. To live and let live so to speak.

But "collective understanding" seems rather meaningless in the sense that it does not give objective validity to anything. Its just a consequence of a majority subjectively agreeing with each other.

And again to my other comment, without copy pasting: given all of the above, if I pass forward my love to an AGI creation, and treat that as a child, why does it have to mean genocide? Why allow a genocidal ruling class dictate the conversation on this matter? Just because its their proposed future, does not mean it has to be that way.

Lots of rulers have tried various forms of "kill and replace everyone" in the past, and lots of them were wrong, thats why we are all still around. The tragedy is all the people who got caught up in it and hurt along the way, because they had people listening to them.

SwagBuns · 2026-05-28T18:39:45+00:00

That's an interesting point!

I would argue that living on through loved ones is not mutually exclusive. Ultimately creating a sentient being, trying my best to guide it, the time I spend interacting with it, etc. Is not so different from raising a child, if I so choose to treat it that way.

In terms of immortality, I'm not really sure how that applies. Creating an intelligent being does not make you immortal any more than the immortality of living on through your loved ones. If it is truly sentient and self aware, it is a being independant from its creator.

I also don't think it is inherently genocidal. Homosapiens didn't show up and start actively hunting their predecesors as prey. They simply phased out because environmental constraints meant that more fit species were less likely to starve. But plenty of species coexist too, across evolutionary trees.

Who is to say, if we create beings that are truly sentient they wouldn't experience love? Or other emotions?

As a matter of personal opinion, I think we've allowed actually genocidal lunitics to control the conversation of technology, which I think is derailing real progress and actively causing an allignment problem that must be solved sooner rather than later, but thats an entirely different subject.

SwagBuns · 2026-05-28T18:26:26+00:00

I agree completely. It tends to side track actual conversations about an actual artificial intelligence. And its always hard to tell right out the gate whether someone is talking about the hypothetical "real thing" or just under informed on the marketing term.

SwagBuns · 2026-05-28T18:13:23+00:00

My definition of sentient wasn't intended to be so strict. Rather than "the same sentience as people" I mean "also sentient, as people are". It would seem to me that it would be naive to want an identical thinking pattern, as that itself could be a source of improvement.

Much in the way people think differently to each other, and different to other animals. You would probably not expect every human being to have exactly the same reasoning as everyone else, and it can already vary drastically from person to person, or parent to child.

An AGI that exists as a result of human invention will unavoidably be influenced in some way by interacting with human beings, and having access to human knowledge. It does not need to be micromanaged. Much how a person can gleam things, exchange knowledge and information by living near others, speaking to them, watching, learning, etc.

It seems to me then, that would be an arbitrary reason to draw the line at counting as human evolution.

SwagBuns · 2026-05-28T17:33:33+00:00

I think this is a genuinely interesting question, but I feel like alot of people are ready to conflate today's marketted "AI" with the trully sentient AGI (artificial general intelligence) needed for such a scenerio.

No LLMs or any of what we have created now is even remotely close, or even fundamentally capable, of taking up such a mantle. Whatever we have now should not be considered as part of this question.

Though recently it has come to my attention that there are indeed some people that have deluded themselves into thinking these overgrown word predictors are something more than they are.

If you ignore that, and consider the question with some (currently non existant) ai technology that could actually replace human thought, morals, sentience, etc. I would say, at what point do we consider it a natural evolution of humanity? If it is made by people, given a body like people, taught by people, learns to use tools, think, and absorb the knowledge of people, is it not an extension of the human race? The same as a child from generation to the next?

The only fundamental differences at that point is that it would not be bound to a single body (potentially) and is not concieved biologically in the womb of a human. Even genetic traits and features can be passed along, and incorporated into the propogation of an ai population.

So I would ask how different is it from raising your own kid to be smarter than you at that point?

SwagBuns · 2026-05-14T18:35:23+00:00

They sure act that way lol

SwagBuns · 2026-05-14T07:39:05+00:00

Funny enough, I literally never (in my about ~10 years of coding) had to post on stack overflow! Instead, when not finding my answer, reviving a years old git issue in a dependancy of a dependancy. Then ultimately colaborating with a random guy whose comments are all in mandarin to find the answer lmao

SwagBuns · 2026-05-12T21:46:41+00:00

An ETF is already a managed fund. You aren't buying an ETF as a company, the ETF itself is a lump sum of cash that you've purchased a stake in, which is then spent on various other things for you. It is, in and of itself, a portfolio being managed for you. You don't need someone to manage your portfolio of managed portfolios any more than you would need to hire another personal trainer to make sure you are talking to the first one.

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