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  • Only watched half of the video (because it's something I'm well aware of), so it might have gone into it, but another angle is that there's often villains that make good points and then suddenly take it in a batshit direction.

    Like Thanos had a point but apparently never understood exponential growth and how reducing all life by any constant factor is just delaying the same result, even if his snap made 99% of people disappear (unless he snaps enough people that the population collapses entirely, which is what he wanted to avoid).

    There's many other examples where reasonable starting points end up in unquestionably evil conclusions. Pretty sure it's just propaganda to make people who don't think much about things link those reasonable beginnings with "evil" in their minds.

    Also there's characters like Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark who are billionaires but their stories always ignore the realities of what must be done in order to become a billionaire (ie underpay staff doing the actual work by billions). In Stark's case, they sidestep that by giving him super advanced AIs and automation robots, though he's still the owner of a large corporation, that he still benefits from despite offloading any of the responsibility of even running it to everyone else.

  • I was thinking in a different direction, that LLMs probably won't be the pinnacle of AI, considering they aren't really intelligent.

  • All I can say for sure is that the cinnamon desktop I'm using has wayland (experimental) as an option. I haven't tried it myself so I don't know how stable it is. Or how well it might work with other desktops.

  • I thought he was a dentist with a hitman friend.

  • CrocodilesDo not swim! Here

  • IP as a concept exists in a superstate where it's bad in the context of piracy but good in the context of generative AI.

  • Personally, I'd just try live boot usbs instead of going to the effort of setting up VMs for different distros.

    For getting images, my approach would be to search for the distro name to find its website and look for their downloads page. If there's multiple flavours, just pick one and see how you like it. You can always switch to a different one once you've got enough experience to decide what is and isn't important for you.

    If you just want to game, Fedora was pretty easy to get going for me. I just installed that and then steam and was able to play games after that. I've got an AMD gpu and it was actually easier than on windows, since you still need to install gpu and chipset drivers on windows. The only time I spent on that in Fedora was the time it took to figure out I didn't need to do that.

    Only parts that took a little digging was mounting my other partitions (I think because I misunderstood some setup during the install, but it ended up being no big deal) and finding the setting that enabled all games to be attempted to run with proton, since by default steam will only show games with official linux support as playable by default.

    Also getting sound working the way I wanted it to was a bit of a hassle, though any of the workarounds I tried worked pretty quickly. I wanted to use the optical digital, but it wouldn't at first, but sound did work from the analog port as well as plugging my soundbar in via USB. And even though I gave up on getting the digital to work at the time because I just wanted to play a game, when I later swung back to it, it just worked, so I'm guessing it was just broken because my motherboard was a new one and the software needed to be updated to properly support it.

  • Check out the behind the bastards episodes on Gates. Even his charity foundation is just another way to exert control.

  • That one is particularly rage inducing if it's the one I'm thinking of (I think ep 1 of the new season?).

    Some of the others in the new season aren't so depressing or rage inducing, though.

  • The selling or transfer of a trademark seems counter to the idea of a trademark to me. I can't see any angle that isn't about misleading people about whether the original people involved with the trademark are involved with whatever the new owners slap it on to.

  • It could also be interpreted as a George Bluth-esque extreme "always leave a note" lesson.

    If you're going to fake your suicide to get your crazy family off your back so you can be with your lover, always leave your lover a note explaining what you're doing or you'll both end up dead.

  • The higher the level of the course I was taking, the less test markers cared about the actual final answer. If you used the correct equations, simplifying the final answer to a faction rather than a decimal or leaving constants like pi and e in there was good enough for full marks.

    Generally more accurate, too, because you're not rounding the number but leaving it as the true value because 1/3 != 0.333333. It's better to do it this way if there's multiple steps, too, since you can gather or cancel out like terms if you leave them as variables instead of converting and rounding to some decimal.

  • Personally, once I realized the gamification wasn't actually helping me learn the language, engaged or not, I started resenting it more than anything. The app cared more about my streak than I did and when I decided to deliberately let mine end, it would use freezes and shit to keep it going despite missed days. And then nag me to buy more freezes which it would just give me as rewards for doing a single lesson that day.

    After that, all the gamification shit was annoying because it meant I had to sit through like 5 screens of "rewards" I didn't give a shit about after each lesson.

    The thing that made me dislike the gamification was the p2w mechanics of the timed challenges. "Oh you ran out of time, but you can buy an extension!" How the fuck is buying an extension going to help learn a language?

    And from there I realized that the multiple choice form of the questions meant my test taking skills were carrying me as much as or more than any language skills I was developing. There's only so many legal sentences you can build from a limited set of words and if they usually have only one verb option, it's not going to help learn the different verbs.

  • Ironically, the more accepting others are of mental health issues, the more power those issues seem to have to disrupt.

  • Iirc when he did make it more explicit, the AI responded with "no, don't do that" kind of responses. He just kept the metaphor up when the AI didn't have such an association in its training data and just responded as a lover would respond to their love saying they'd come home in their training data.

    Though I'd say that if a kid would shoot themself in response to a chatbot saying anything to them, the issue is more about them having any access to a gun than anything about the chatbot itself. Unless maybe if the chatbot is volunteering weaknesses common in gun safes, though even then I'd say more fault lies with the parent choosing a shitty safe and raising a kid that would kill themself on the advice of their chatbot girlfriend.

  • Mostly loadwords from dwarvish.

  • Pelt, melt, Celt, belt, felt (the material), dealt, velt, welt, yelt.

    Some of those are past tense verbs, some are me just making the sound and finding real words, one I'm not sure is a word but doesn't sound wrong, so I hereby declare it to be a word henceforth, if it wasn't already.

  • And then Meowrh wishes to remove the bombs team rocket had implanted into them for loyalty reasons.

  • That reminds me of the way Gordon Ramsey said to cook scrambled eggs, at least for the result. Beat it in a bowl with some milk, then cook it with low heat using a spatula (the scrape luquid from the sides perfectly kind, not the pick up flat thing kind) to mix it constantly. Then, when you think it's almost done, it's done.

    Eggs end up moist and undercooked looking. It's OK, I wouldn't call it better than the usual scrambled eggs but just different.

    Not sure if briefly cooked on very hot pan would give the same result though.