FredFig

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[–] FredFig@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago

It's the imbalance of power. No one wants to be the gatekeeper at the local game store telling the 12 year old kid "Sorry, you can't play your Spongebob deck here tonight", whereas as the ones printing the cards, they can be gatekeepers of "Sorry, you can't play your deck without the One Ring here tonight" off of the basis of "normal" power creep.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Skimming the reddit thread in search of general public sentiment about this, but unfortunately mostly just found a greatest hits compilation of very gross comments.

According to these very smart people, parents should expect your teenager to die as an outcome of not being perfect people 24/7, technology can never be at fault even when it literally tells you to commit suicide in coded language, and it's actually impossible to understand which parts of society are causing kids to be depressed, so we must take it as a given that we can't do anything about it. I regret having done this to myself.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Now I wonder if Musk calling the diver "pedo guy" was him thinking "yeah, this is exactly what Tony Stark would say to the bad guy" because he doesn't understand media literacy even a little bit. (More likely, it's just him being the regular type of weird we've come to expect from him)

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago

Meta's happy to give away models for free, so models are evidently worth $0.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (24 children)

You're correct that I can't stop them from making pants on head stupid decisions, but I'm not going to stop making fun of them.

very likely making it economically viable…

They're going to fund currently economically nonviable nuclear plants to power their currently economically nonviable genAI schemes? Over the time horizon of ~~25 years~~ a decade (edit: misread the article) before they scale up energy capacity at all past the rnd stage? Maybe pants on head is too generous.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 18 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

"ChatGPT is good, but only if no one in a position of authority uses it"

Cool.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The Network School offers Johnson’s healthy food and a fitness program called the Blueprint Protocol. He claims that after three years of following his blueprint the duration of his night-time erections totals 179 minutes, “better than the average 18-year-old”

Yeah, this is a very normal diet that's advertising itself in very normal ways.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The logical conclusion of normalizing "Social Media Manager" as a role in companies is that as they get better at their jobs and become more believable, the average corporate communication will trend towards 13-year old edgy shitposter. God I feel old.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm thoroughly convinced Musk is an AI generated person and his life's goal is simply to find the AI that generated him.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago

I know generally speaking, people want to use very exacting language when talking about technicals, so it's not that strange when people hedge edge cases - it's just what they're taught to do in their careers.

But, when we're talking about financials, instead of being detailed and careful, it's just sounds desperate when you have to tack on a hundred dollar value add to your supposedly million dollar company.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

That same tired script of "You can't say AI is useless, I use it as a $productivityApp, so it's clearly not worth nothing, which invalidates all your claims." shows up in Zitron's comment box, it's like clockwork.

I dunno man, maybe it's because the ability to generate templates and spellcheck is a free feature in most IDEs and would be a rounding error of a rounding error when we're talking about billion dollar investments?

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Wasn't the first time he shut down 8chan (or was it Kiwifarms? Something along the lines), he immediately came out to say "It's really bad that I have the power to take down a website of shitheads." Just seemed like everything about his ideology is confused.

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