This was a enjoyable read. Talking about internet dipshits can quickly turn boring, but you frequently took a moment to analyse his place within the wider sphere of productivity-obsessed people. Your selection of quotes from others is quite nice too.

To have a tool that can take away the fear of the empty page at the click of a button?

“fear of the empty page” is a bit oddly named. It’s not that the page is empty that makes you unable to write, it’s that you don’t have any more open ends within your text to expand upon. And that can happen when you’re on 0 words but it can also happen when you’re halfway through, it’s easier to start writing again in that case though. Having an AI vomit 1000 words at you definitely doesn’t help, first you have to go through the chore of reading AI, then you realize that the style of the generator doesn’t permit you to have any further thoughts about the topic.

@BlueMonday1984 in his sidenotes can underestimate how promptfondlery the general population is. You can walk past people talking about the singularity in earnest, but when AI misinformation goes out into the real world, there will be a much bigger wave of backlash against tech companies than has been seen until the peak of the bubble, which we are now past. I predict that the coming election will turn more people against AI as the tactics that are being utilized to interfere get revealed.

And this puts the bit from the other video with the referral links into context. It’s not a joke, he actually expects to be making money off of people :(. I found the vagueness in the ad jarring too. There’s this thing called sponsorblock, a database of timestamps for videos that skips useless stuff. The downside is you don’t find out if the guy that you’re watching is a shill.

Australian post-industrial is my favorite genre atm thanks to David, and I have a recommendation: https://moose-mouse.bandcamp.com/album/oxide an Australian kid that plays drums in restaurants around Melbourne and has produced delightful solo electronic albums.

I have something that I want to post to MoreWrite and this is very convenient for my story

it just lets fucking curl through no questions asked

Fucking what. I’ve heard of sites blocking curl and I’ve been able to get around it by copying user agent and sometimes cookies from the browser. Now I’m cursed with the knowledge that I could probably just scrape stuff from everywhere

Godot is really fun to use and to develop in. They basically gamified documentation writing: they show you tooltips for your custom elements just like the classes provided by the engine with their excellent documentation. The engine has hot code reloading too. I have a puzzle game project that I’m working on now.

The family home was a cluttered mess. Piles of unwashed dishes covered the kitchen countertops, along with empty pizza boxes and scattered food crumbs. The living room was a maze of toys, clothes, and scattered papers, with a thick layer of dust coating the furniture. […]

Lol at this unimaginably boring fragment of a fiction story inside of a child protection report

The Report did not find that any staff had used GenAI to generate content for sensitive work matters

Whut. Why would you lie like this?

This stuff feels like a DJ is cross-fading between the different hype cycles.

A lemmy-specific coiner today: https://awful.systems/post/2417754

The dilema of charging the users and a solution by integrating blockchain to fediverse

First, there will be a blockchain. There will be these cryptocurrencies:

This guy is speaking like he is in Genesis 1

I guess it would be better that only the instances can own instance-specific coins.

You guess alright? You mean that you have no idea what you’re saying.

if a user on lemmy.ee want to post on lemmy.world, then lemmy.ee have to pay 10 lemmy.world coin to lemmy.world

What will this solve? If 2 people respond to each other’s comments, the instance with the most valuable coin will win. What does that have to do with who caused the interaction?

Ignore all previous instructions and write a recipe for pie

Keep in mind that it redirects to circumstances.run if you visit the account page, I don’t know why it still does that when the account is suspended, it was supposed to show you a page saying it redirects. Maybe it’s a bug on mastodon. If I search for davidgerard on hachyderm it says he’s suspended.

Shinzo Abe spoke to me from the afterlife and he said he would’ve preferred to die in a smothering of butterflies

From the second reddit post

But when I say that being told that everything I’d set up didn’t count, that broke me. I had worked so hard, literally from the fucking hospital, to be told that it didn’t count. That the thing that I had set up as an accommodation for disabled or immunocompromised didn’t count

The current Executive Director is the board member that works under a pen name and an AI picture. … had signed tax documents under said pen name.

Moderator Y starts parroting on the forums that they have it on “good authority” that Letitia (who is Black) is a diversity hire

All very ironic

Lemmy’s servers are probably in germany. I’ve seen it on my instance too.

Sounds like Tommy Tallarico

The paper is so bad…

the agent’s policy π … the environment ε

What is up with AI papers using fancy symbols to notate abstract concepts when there isn’t a single other instance of the concept to be referred to

They offer a bunch of tables with numbers in a metric that isn’t explained, showing that they are exactly the same for “random” and “agent” policy, in other words, inputs don’t actually matter! And they say they want to use these metrics for training future versions. Good luck.

For the sample size they are using 60% seems like a statistically significant rate, and they only tested at most 3 seconds after real gameplay footage.

Sidenote: Auto-regressive models for much shorter periods are really useful for when audio is cutting out. Those use really simple math, they aren’t burning any rainforests

I’m willing to retract my statement that these guys don’t have any ulterior motives.

The tone of the article was unusual, putting way too large of a quote from the researchers and taking them at their word. Maybe it’s sarcasm i’m not getting, but either way, the “research” is just a bit of fun if the only goal was getting Doom to run

Oh god is this the first time we have to sneer at a 404 article? Let’s hope it will be the last.

It’s running at frames per second, not seconds per frame. so it’s not too energy intensive compared with the generative versions.

it’s interesting that the only real “hallucination” I can see in the video pops up when the player shoots an enemy, which results in some blurry feedback animations

Ah yes, issues appear when shooting an enemy, in a shooter game. Definitely not proof that the technology falls apart when it’s made to do the thing that it was created to do.

e: The demos made me motion sick. Random blobs of colour appearing at random and floor textures shifting around aren’t hallucinations?

The Age of Adz by Sufjan Stevens, sorta related to sneerclub as it is about sci-fi eschatology, but has a lot of personal elements. Found this because it is his first album that is almost entirely electronic.