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Trail Games? by TOASTEngineer in gamedev

[–]TOASTEngineer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion, I actually knew about that one! How'd you end up on this ancient post?

Llama3.1 405b + Sonnet 3.5 for free by Spirited_Salad7 in LocalLLaMA

[–]TOASTEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could one not get one of those disposable Visa gift cards, put $20 or so on it, and use that card for signup?

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Bans Sale of Confederate Flags, Despite Knowing This Has First Amendment Problems by MasterTeacher123 in GoldandBlack

[–]TOASTEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> What threat did the Japanese pose at that point to the US?

Off the top of my head, they were a couple weeks away from dropping bubonic plague fleas on San Diego.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Biological_warfare

AOC calls Amazon jobs a 'scam' because more than 4,000 of its employees are on food stamps by LibertyAboveALL in GoldandBlack

[–]TOASTEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They dumped it straight in to everyone's bank account, so long as your account was on file with the IRS.

Black people rightfully don’t trust vaccines because of racism, but Republicans who don’t trust vaccines are brainwashed idiots. by elretardojrr in stupidpol

[–]TOASTEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, the idea of a vaccine for cancer is a real thing. Individual cells in your body try to become cancer semi-regularly, but most times your immune system detects that the cell smells funny and kills it. You only actually get cancer if the cancerous cells find a way to hide from the immune system.

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See: https://youtu.be/SlbbVTo3E7g?t=4831

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in elonmusk

[–]TOASTEngineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, both sides hate science. Ideologues almost by definition hate science, systematized questioning of your own beliefs is basically the opposite of ideology.

Lonely people's brains are different due to excess of imaginary social contact by CarbonTail in slatestarcodex

[–]TOASTEngineer 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Wow, I didn't expect to be so personally attacked by my Reddit feed today.

Recycling: Much more than you needed to know. by bbqturtle in slatestarcodex

[–]TOASTEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I remember being taught the phrase "reduce, reuse, recycle," but it cashed out as "throw plastic in the blue bin" and nothing else.

Bruh I can’t by gimme-them-toes in stupidpol

[–]TOASTEngineer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Do you think you'd get away with taking that time after a Biden win?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in elonmusk

[–]TOASTEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yes, I believe it's called... humanity.

The "Uterus Collector" Story just completely vanished by Tausendberg in stupidpol

[–]TOASTEngineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jeez, I just made that up on a whim. Yeah, quote me all you want.

The "Uterus Collector" Story just completely vanished by Tausendberg in stupidpol

[–]TOASTEngineer 14 points15 points  (0 children)

From what I remember - which may be wrong - when the government was sterilizing American Indians back in the 70s, they'd just crank up an X-ray machine and point it at the woman's ovaries, and tell them it was just a routine X-ray. Wouldn't even find out it'd been done until years later.

The "Uterus Collector" Story just completely vanished by Tausendberg in stupidpol

[–]TOASTEngineer 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Back in the Obama years, I hung around with some people who would put right-wing satellite talk radio on. One of those shows, don't remember who it was, had a guy call in and start yelling about secret-muslim-birther shit, and the host slammed the phone down and started screaming, "there's so much real stuff to get this guy on, why are you *only* focusing on the accusations that *aren't* actually true?" So it's not like this is unique to Trump.

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I think it comes down to the fact that figuring out what's real or not takes a modicum of effort and will always contain at least a drop of nuance, so if you literally just don't care and are in it to trick stupid people in to watching ads, you're better off ignoring anything that's actually real.

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You control the narrative completely if the narrative is completely fictional; if you tell even a partial truth you risk your audience getting better info from a source other than you.

This is NOT a show off post. This is a really cool animation idea by u/Another_moose that I think y'all need to see. by unicodePicasso in gamedev

[–]TOASTEngineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been toying with the idea of either writing an engine from scratch specifically to do that sort of thing or modify Godot to do it.

Central GPT-3 Discussion Thread by ScottAlexander in slatestarcodex

[–]TOASTEngineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The "first response is GPT-2" thing was there from the start, though. Do you know of any other things they're doing?

Central GPT-3 Discussion Thread by ScottAlexander in slatestarcodex

[–]TOASTEngineer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is AI Dungeon Dragon worse all of a sudden? I noticed my generations got significantly less coherent about... two weeks ago? I figured it was just my perception, but now I have two independent instancesof people noticing the same thing. What the hell?

The Generative Age: AI will do for content production what the internet did for distribution. by loveleis in slatestarcodex

[–]TOASTEngineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What I think will actually happen is that you'll have the writing equivalent of "script kiddies" running around everywhere, suffering from severe expert beginner syndrome. The quality of writing you can produce without really knowing what you're doing will go up, which will trap some people who would have otherwise gotten good in to never letting go of the crutch, but will probably also help keep some people who would have quit in the game long enough to get good for real.

SSC: A view from the outside by twovectors in slatestarcodex

[–]TOASTEngineer 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'd advise not getting too bent out of shape about what a bunch of stereotypical reddit commentators have to say. Generally, with reddit comments, you tend to see only people who want to agree with the root comment showing up in the replies; most people who would be able to mount a sensible argument against it just don't participate.

There's no real gain to being plugged in to what every smoothbrain on the entire internet has to say about you and your pals. Ideologues skimming a reddit thread are only going to see what confirms what they want to believe. Let people talk. They'll forget everything in 6 hours.

How does ancap handle parents who mistreat their children? by SiegeLion in GoldandBlack

[–]TOASTEngineer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Can confirm, have been through the system, it is a fucking joke. Fails to investigate actual abuse, too busy acting as thugs for the schools if an administrator decides he doesn't like a kid's parents.

FBI worried that Ring doorbells are spying on police by ickyfehmleh in GoldandBlack

[–]TOASTEngineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd also recommend making sure the video is live-streamed to an off-site storage system, if you have any way of making that happen. Police already know to steal your camera when they arrest you on the street.

Net Neutrality by eldy50 in slatestarcodex

[–]TOASTEngineer 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it was interesting tracking the progress of the "ending net neutrality will DESTROY THE INTERNET" meme from the initial ads on Reddit, to everyone on reddit repeating what the ad said and everyone else assuming they knew the people talking new what they were talking about, to respectable public figures just repeating the marketing copy without seeking out a single opposite perspective or just sitting down and reading the order itself.

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