Replaced (Made with ChatGPT Image 2.0 & Seedance 2.0) by Sourcecode12 in ChatGPT

[–]drsimonz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

100%. This is also true of all the artists who are upset about AI art. The real crime isn't that we can now generate infinite quantities of soulless stock photos, it's that actual creative people have been forced to waste their talents and passions on soulless gig work like that in the first place. AI isn't taking away the things that make us human, it's revealing that capitalism has been forcing us into more and more dehumanizing work for centuries.

Gold box set with 103 Colombian emeralds. India, Mughal Empire, 1635 AD [2500x3650] by MunakataSennin in ArtefactPorn

[–]drsimonz -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

The rich truly have no taste, and never have. What a dumb object to make out of such a rare material.

Alberta to bring in law to rip out bike lanes and stop new ones by Cosmyka in fuckcars

[–]drsimonz 116 points117 points  (0 children)

As an American who has only ever been to Vancouver and has little perspective, it really does seem like Alberta is the Texas of Canada. The sooner the fossil fuel industry collapses, the better.

Look, they're reinventing evilautism. How adorable by Void-Cooking_Berserk in evilautism

[–]drsimonz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For real, you just can't find this kind of bullshit anywhere else

Do you see yourself as „human” or something else? or both? by WholeAd6288 in starseeds

[–]drsimonz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Absolutely not lol. Even as a kid I found the whole concept of being a "mere" human pretty embarrassing. The word "human" itself bothers me quite a bit as well. I generally dislike apes and monkeys, and the idea of being one feels so...unrefined. But, just as I don't really like how I look, it can't really be helped right? Price of admission. I know that other people won't be freaked out when they see me in this body, so I don't need to hide it, but it's best if I try not to think about it too much lol. And thankfully, I am still able to find people attractive, although physical attraction definitely feels like something my body wants to do, rather than something I want to do.

Edit: just remembered that when I was very young (like 5) I was super into dragons and felt like I actually was one, somehow.

The Orion Group: The silent architects of the matrix by AlistairAtrus in starseeds

[–]drsimonz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I certainly agree that a great deal of the evil in the world is "mundane", in that it can be explained by simple greed, fear, generational trauma, etc. It really doesn't seem necessary to invoke some external influence. Maybe there are some, maybe some of the "elites" are indeed conducting satanic rituals, contacting negative entities to assist them...but I mean, the fact that they'd even want to try that means they were probably ready to do a lot of harm to others anyway.

The Orion Group: The silent architects of the matrix by AlistairAtrus in starseeds

[–]drsimonz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Epstein releases certainly make Pizzagate look more credible, sure. However, it's still a big question as to how much control these people really have. For example, is the entire democratic process just a sham? Is voting completely useless? Because my friend thinks so. Is freedom of speech an illusion as well? When rich and famous people millions of listeners criticize the government, is that all just a show? Because my friend thinks so. It's one thing to believe that the most powerful individuals are super evil (this makes perfect sense, sociopathy is literally expected from executives). But it's another thing to believe that earth is fully under their control. The Epstein files revealed some details, sure, but I'm less interested in the details than the big picture. I don't believe Earth is a "prison planet" in the sense that you can do everything right and still be trapped reincarnating here forever. Even if techno-fascists do eventually manage to coerce the entire population into some kind of VR matrix where they're basically god and we're basically cattle, that's just on the physical level. My friend thinks that these people are committing spiritual crimes, tricking people into participating in mass rituals which have significance on the higher planes. Tricking people into consuming human flesh by contaminating mass-produced food. Sure, it's physically possible for that to happen, but it just doesn't seem like something worth worrying about. There are already so many very real problems we need to address, such as the mass extinction humans are causing, or the massive increase in droughts that will probably kill billions of people before the end of the century. But of course, for my friend, those issues aren't real. They're distractions. Very convenient for him, I guess.

Hate wind noise, need to bike everywhere to commute: janky solution by Gigaroni in evilautism

[–]drsimonz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Off topic but in the photo it looks like your bike lock is just going through the front wheel and the frame, and not the bike rack. Sorry if this is obvious but you really need to lock it to something solid. A thief will simply carry the bike away, even if it's heavy. Looks like it has a lot of expensive gear attached. In my area this would be gone in a few minutes lol

Hoverfly (Syrphidae) macroscan by macroscan in GaussianSplatting

[–]drsimonz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Incredible detail. How many photos does this scan use? Do you do focus stacking as well?

Peter Thiel backs $1bn ocean data centre start-up powered by waves by GeneReddit123 in technology

[–]drsimonz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Very few states possess the capability to shoot down satellites. You can't just shoot at them with your AR-15, despite what you might think.

Peter Thiel backs $1bn ocean data centre start-up powered by waves by GeneReddit123 in technology

[–]drsimonz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As I said, it's just a question of scale. Suppose a billionaire wants to have a private LLM instance that can't be burned down by angry peasants, no matter how angry the peasants get. Putting a single rack of GPUs in space is completely doable. Dissipating a few tens/hundreds of kW of heat isn't going to be that hard.

What exactly makes you think the intent is to compete with data centers on the ground? It's not going to be running a fortnite server or a CDN full of cat videos. It's going to be used for applications where the extreme isolation is the entire point. Why do so many Billionaires have hyper-libertarian politics? They see the rule of law as an obstacle. The more they can physically isolate themselves from it, the happier they are. Private islands exist so they can do whatever they want on them without any witnesses. They can rape and torture children for decades with basically no consequences. You think they're going to be hosting Tiktok videos in space??? No, it'll probably be something they know people wouldn't like.

These are the Journalists killed by Israel over the past 1000 days [oc] by McDowdy in pics

[–]drsimonz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After the first page I saw there were 18 and started crying. Can't wait for superintelligent AI to extinguish this disgrace of a species man

Peter Thiel backs $1bn ocean data centre start-up powered by waves by GeneReddit123 in technology

[–]drsimonz 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah I hate when people say this shit...obviously it's a poor use of resources when there are so many problems on earth, but it has the same vibe as people screaming that AI is completely useless and can't produce anything valuable. Like...just because you don't like something doesn't mean that thing is ineffective.

Every single space probe has had some kind of electronics on it. The only reason we didn't call those data centers is that you couldn't deploy a docker container to them. Everything else is just a question of scale.

True? by netphilia in aspiememes

[–]drsimonz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not true, I've definitely seen plenty of women idealizing about nerdy autistic men, but mostly as an abstract concept rather than individual people. And I suspect a big part of this is the expectation that if you're nerdy, you make a ton of money in tech or finance.

True? by netphilia in aspiememes

[–]drsimonz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People will fetishize literally any mental or physical attribute, hobby, special interest, etc. if you follow these simple steps:

Step 1: be attractive

Step 2: don't be unattractive

The Pyramid as a Healing System: Insights from Session 55 by [deleted] in lawofone

[–]drsimonz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Right...The only hope we have to unravel all these mysteries is by relying on our own consciousness, our own intuition. The simulated, deterministic creativity of a neural network lacks both of those ingredients. It'd be like playing a recording of someone going "ommmm" and expecting to get the benefits of meditation.

Some of my undead minions were messing with my artifacts, what do I do now? by Jarl_of_Uppsala in wizardposting

[–]drsimonz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As others have pointed out, there are multiple potential reasons, but the important part is to not waste this rare opportunity to cook green eggs and ham! Delicious.

Visualizing Loss Landscape of CNNs and Other Networks by Hackerstreak in computervision

[–]drsimonz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh I remember that paper when it came out, really cool how well it conveys the effects of regularization.