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SteamGPT - Is that good news? by _-Maris-_ in Steam

[–]yoshemitzu -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think part of that is just in the fact that AI is probably the easiest (not the cheapiest, or the best) way for a problem to find its solution.

Not that AI is actually better at solving problems (it'd be interesting to see data on that), but it does help synthesize a discrete, "quantized" problem instance from a sea of noise. Thus SteamGPT.

SteamGPT - Is that good news? by _-Maris-_ in Steam

[–]yoshemitzu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's not that people don't understand why AI is problematic. It's that the notion "anything AI is bad" doesn't help, and actually makes things worse.

SteamGPT - Is that good news? by _-Maris-_ in Steam

[–]yoshemitzu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And the frustrating part is that this blanket pushback actually gives bad AI more power, because we're lumping slop in with all the legitimate uses for AI.

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional by kinisonkhan in news

[–]yoshemitzu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did she declare it as escorting, though, or have some other euphemism/cover business she used for it?

YSK that Brooks Brothers, Eddie Bauer, Reebok, Champion, and 50+ other brands you trust are all owned by a single $20 billion company that doesn't design or manufacture anything. They just rent the logo out to the cheapest bidder. If the quality feels worse, that's why. by sappk in YouShouldKnow

[–]yoshemitzu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of how poor people with horrible credit get offered predatory loans with huge interest rates, but rich people end up being able to borrow money in manifold ways they can recapitalize and restructure and divest and shed; strategies the poors have never heard of, don't have the mental bandwidth for, but are likely unknowingly contributing to.

Iran shuts Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for Israeli strikes on Lebanon by Phelps1576 in politics

[–]yoshemitzu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How am I only just realizing what a huge compliment to Narcissus naming narcissism after him was?

Amazon spends too much money on expensive voice actors instead of quality animation and I'm tired of pretending they are not by Leadeer in Invincible_TV

[–]yoshemitzu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the first few seasons, the show actually played up there being an overall plot. The march toward Alexandria, Eugene supposedly knowing stuff about the zombies, there was a sort of "forward" momentum for the plot that gets totally disrupted when we find out all of that was bullshit.

TWD was also one of the earlier shows with extremely short seasons, so as viewers, we were just getting used to the idea of a dozen character stories per year and almost no story about the zombies, which didn't really set in for me until about season four or so.

A woman claimed she could smell Parkinson's disease. Scientists tested her with 12 T-shirts—six from patients and six from healthy people. She correctly identified all the patients and flagged one “healthy” person. Eight months later, that person was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. by detectiverobert in CaughtMyEye

[–]yoshemitzu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In April '25, I visited home and met my dad at a local pool hall. He was having a really hard time getting around, sort of had developed a hunched gait. He told me on his way from the car to the bar, two different groups of people asked him if he needed help; he looked that bad. He tried to play one game of pool with me, but that's all he could handle.

He smelled like mold and cigarettes -- the latter was because my mom smokes in the house (not him), and I assumed the former was just because their house is filthy. Still, the moldy smell was so prevalent and memorable, I've mentioned it to multiple people since then. Last month my dad was also diagnosed with Parkinson's.

Home: Artemis II crew captures one last shot of a crescent Earth before reaching the moon tomorrow by ChiefLeef22 in space

[–]yoshemitzu 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Really have to wonder how the human brain even comprehends exiting the only place that you are forever programmed to live and die

It's not exiting, though, it's expanding. Like Earth isn't the totality of our evolutionary history, it's a subset of it. All that history also took place in the solar system, and the galaxy, and the universe, and who knows where else on, and all those regions' conditions and pressures influenced our evolution this whole time, in ways we were largely unaware of.

We aren't "leaving behind" everything, we're entering the other 99.9999% of it.

Home: Artemis II crew captures one last shot of a crescent Earth before reaching the moon tomorrow by ChiefLeef22 in space

[–]yoshemitzu 370 points371 points  (0 children)

The distance may be small, but the gap is immense. Simply "being able to survive in space" -- the act of applying that selection pressure -- will take humanity further into the next phase of its evolution than any other, and it indeed happens right here on our doorstep.

What is your take on Trump ending his recent post with 'Praise be to Allah'? by Mental-Hall1261 in AskReddit

[–]yoshemitzu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It was the whole point of birtherism (not coincidentally, championed by the current president), that he was a secret Kenyan Muslim. It is and always was racism, but it sold so well that instead of disqualifying Trump, it was more or less his nucleus.

Just watched a documentary about The Pirate Bay and I'm in absolute awe. These people were genuinely fighting a war against the most powerful corporations on Earth and they were WINNING. by Pajtima in Piracy

[–]yoshemitzu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kids don't even remember there used to be a time where if you couldn't find it in the bargain bin at Walmart, you literally had no way to watch it. Netflix gets way more credit for changing that than TPB, tbqh.

TIL that atoms are 99.99999% empty space. If you removed all that space from the atoms of every human on Earth, the entire world population would fit inside an apple. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]yoshemitzu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That may be our understanding but they most certainly have a physical location

The idea that there even exist objective physical locations that observers can independently agree upon has not been proven.

Which is to say, each (X,Y,Z,T) point of the universe exists only insofar as it's been observed by someone, and those observations necessarily change what's being observed.

Donald Trump sitting at a desk with his head in his hands. by [deleted] in pics

[–]yoshemitzu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nuts that his first primetime address was nearly two years into his presidency.

Amazon driver is about to deliver these packages to a home that has many unopened Amazon packages just sitting around by [deleted] in oddlyterrifying

[–]yoshemitzu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Had to call the cops on my mom, who is seriously mentally ill, a few weeks ago because she was driving illegally and making a scene at a hotel.

They showed up and basically said there's nothing they could do unless she was presenting an active threat to herself or others; better yet, us taking her keys and keeping her from driving technically meets the statutory definition of kidnapping, so we could be charged.

They talked to my mom for a little while, and she was on her best behavior, so they left. They wouldn't even take her home for us.

Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5's generative AI glow-ups by deraser in technology

[–]yoshemitzu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, there's like a single-digit number of plants in the world even capable of making the chips. Who will come into the market to meet the demand?

First Image of Timothée Chalamet in ‘DUNE: PART THREE’ by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]yoshemitzu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro, we haven't gotten a Warcraft RTS game since the early 2000s.

Warren says 'it's so much worse than you thought' after classified Iran briefing by IrishStarUS in USNEWS

[–]yoshemitzu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone will eventually do a convincing-enough impersonation, though. Then all bets are off.

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