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#that's right #dwarf fortress

mu-nine

My Aqua Teen Hunger Force gijinkas because I finally downloaded the whole show in Español de España.

Translations of their dialogues in Alt text.

#athf

pooppics

dogpuppy

#elder scrolls online item

glavilio

plasticbeau

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#bjd

lady-of-vitreous-sight

no i dont have heart pupils because of something so ethereal as "love". "love" isnt real, i have heart pupils because of material conditions.

redstonedust

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

sinnegantheworm

here's my super-quick, easy-to-digest summary that i use when i can't spend more than like 15 seconds on it but need someone to know the basic distinctions:

generative AI - bad evil AI. chatbots, LLMs, image generators, etc. this the one that steals shit.

analytical AI - helpful medical AI. this the one that helps detect cancer early.

game "AI" - fake AI. 100% human created and dictated. this the one that determines game mob behavior n stuff.

resemblingthegrave

losing the battle with my own self-control so will briefly comment and say that categorizing certain types of ai as straightforwardly good and other types as "bad evil," even for the sake of summary, doesn't really hold water. just to give two counterexamples to the distinctions drawn above, large language models ("evil") are being used by human rights groups to parse huge datasets about police abuse while analytical ai ("helpful") is also the kind of ai that animates facial recognition software and the increasingly ubiquitous searchable license plate databases that police are using to stalk people. the goodness or badness of a given ai tool has less to do with its type and more to do with things like scale and scope, transparency, ownership, and contextual application.

deepseasmetro

notice as well a refusal to mention any kind of "bad" ai other than the kind that "steals shit". putting aside even what was said here about ai ethics being much more about context than the actual literal computing a particular ai does, the "bad ai" isnt the facial recognition software currently helping drive an attempted genocide in the US, it's the ai that doesn't respect copyright law. it's kind of hilariously grim how much bourgeoisie class interests have suddenly become the uniting "progressive" opinion.

bardskull

#beasts of the realm

uesp

"You ever look at a guar? I mean, really look at a guar? They've got those clawed little hands tucked up there ... You think I'd get bit if I just grabbed one of those little clawed hands? Probably what I'd do if someone grabbed my hand."

--Sharp-as-Night wondering if you can hold the hand of a guar without it getting upset

#beasts of the realm