exocrinous @ exocrinous @startrek.website Posts 12Comments 810Joined 12 mo. ago
Hey, so is abuse of the modlog by admins and mods on remote instances going to lead to defederation?
I wouldn't have made a public comment about the issue if the db0 admin had done a good enough job at it that you'd be able to look it up. Then I'd be the one doing the doxxing, what with the Streisand effect. I told you the db0 admin did a bad job. But jumping straight to accusations of lying just because you didn't pay attention? What's your grudge against me?
"I don't have to worry about my financials or working a job, and all I have to do is marry a horrible man and accept the possibility of spousal rape", said the woman who doesn't yet understand how bad rape is.
Yeah, it really is. Because modlog actions are federated and irreversible, mod logs are a form of speech that cannot be suppressed in any way. If you search up a user, you see what every mod on the whole fediverse has to say about them, and there's no way to argue back. It's the perfect tool for harassment and doxxing. One of the db0 admins even tried (and did a bad job) to dox me using the modlog.
Mass Effect is one of those sci-fi series with only one fictional technology, and a whole lot of development on that, and on the stories that enables them to tell. And that fictional technology is the mass effect. In Mass Effect there's a fictional element called element 0, or eezo, that humans found out in space. Eezo can alter the mass of other objects when electrically stimulated. Eezo can give a spaceship negative mass and enable faster than light travel. It can reduce the mass of a bullet to almost zero as it's fired from the chamber of a gun, and return it to normal going at an extreme speed. It enables artificial gravity. Humans who are exposed to eezo can gain telekinetic powers. There's a community of aliens out there, and they also use eezo in their technology. There's a ton of politics, philosophical commentary, and secrets out in the galactic community and its history.
The pun works equally well in English. "Aw, man!" has the same meaning as Ach mensch.
There's a Snopes article. This is real. Also they sell PissCoin
Taxonomy is a conspiracy invented by neckbeards so they could "um ackshually" us when we call a bug a bug.
Coffee is woke because it keeps you awake and chamomile is non-woke because it makes you go to sleep. Toast is also woke because it's a great breakfast food. But bacon isn't woke, because meat is murder.
And whose fault is that? It's the fault of people who still use Twitter in 2024. Twitter is a platform for reaching out to people who don't think a platform being owned by a Nazi is so bad that they won't use it. That SHOULD be a tiny minority of people. But instead, it's the largest plurality of people apparently, because people suck and a lot of them are Nazi apologists. Including Grummz.
I have excellent colour vision but I still struggle with this because it's hard to remember which shade of green is which when flipping between the map and the legend
"Wow," says a puddle in a ditch. "This ditch is shaped exactly like me. If it weren't for the ditch's precise shape, I couldn't have formed here. I'm really lucky." The puddle, of course, has never seen a puddle in a different ditch and never realised that puddles come in many shapes.
Watch Don't Look Up. It's about an asteroid heading for earth in our current political climate
If I built a robot pigeon that can fly, scavenge for crumbs, sing matings calls, and approximate sex with other pigeons, is that an AGI? It can't read or write or talk or compose music or draw or paint or do math or use the scientific method or debate philosophy. But it can do everything a pigeon can. Is it general or not? And if it's not, what makes human intelligence general in a way that pigeon intelligence isn't?
I still think AI has its place as a useful term in video games development
Humans are easier to indoctrinate than sapient robots, because human biases are predictable.
Fascist politician: the Jews are stealing your money to cause the downfall of your race! They're even breeding your children with black people to destroy you!
Human reaction: yeah, that makes sense
Robot reaction: ...why tho?
Robots may still have biases, but they probably won't be exactly the same as a human's. I doubt a robot would care for a "think of the children" argument
And who decides what a true bug is, huh? Bullshit pseudoscientific taxonomists?