Same, that was about when I started emotionally preparing for 4 more years of Trump.

When I was a kid they told me they skipped E on report cards, because it was too easy to change into a B. I was like. Wouldn’t it be just as easy to turn an F into an A?

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Oh nice, never heard of that one, thanks. I just revisit Ogre Battle 64 on the emulator every few years haha.

With a billion dollars, they could have made some actual space rockets.

B&H Photo will not process your order on the Jewish day of rest, it’s amazing. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/httwww.bhphotovideo.com/find/SHcalendar.jsp

Well of course you gotta think, Reddit and Twitter were also probably getting a lot more hits than Low Tech Mag 😅

And while I dislike AI in everything, I don’t believe that AI was introduced to hurt me or most other people.

Then why are they losing money on it while it pollutes inordinately and denies people access to information? AI is basically signal jamming the entire internet, at great expense, with no actual path to profitability. They’re certainly not doing it to make money, because as it stands they’re all losing money right now. Oppression, in the form of information denial, and regulation of communication, appears to be the primary goal.

I mean, what do you call Grok attempting to rewrite Wikipedia to make it more conservative?

– They posted from their smartphone/laptop that has a camera pointed directly at their face

They’ve been known to let trans people freeze to death on the steps of their shelters. The Starvation Army is beyond fucked, and has been for a looong time.

All FPS controller-based controls are inferior to keyboard+mouse.

Yes. This is why I never really liked Goldeneye that much. Just never got the big deal.

Halo is the first one that I thought was decent. I didn’t say it had good controls, I said decent 😂

Man, too bad Asimov apparently didn’t read the Appendix to 1984, because Orwell agreed with him. Canonically, the society in 1984 falls to a revolution a few decades after the book, because it’s impossible for the security state to continue spying on everyone.

Lots of people missed this crucially important part of the book because the Appendix was edited out of many editions, which is ironic as hell considering the context.

There is no need to prove that LLM’s don’t have consciousness, just like there is need to prove all the other software doesn’t have consciousness. I would say that here the burden of proof is very much on the person making outlandish statements not founded in computer science.

If only some German economist in the 19th century had written a bunch of dry ass texts about how automation would heighten market contradictions and ultimately lead to the downfall of capitalism. Cos those books sure would seem to be relevant right now.

Really never played another game quite like Ogre Battle 64, that one was great.

Halo was the first console FPS with decent controls. I said it. They’re all borderline unplayable before that.

I believe that quote is actually from Julius Nyerere, who, unlike Chompsky, was never a known Epstein associate.

I think people with mental disorders are more likely to be victimized by Republicans. Republicans aren’t mentally ill, don’t let them off the hook, they’re motivated towards self-interest, and know exactly what they’re doing: being greedy assholes.