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- DaveO4
Artificial Intelligence
At this point they can just kill me first and make it quick.
The idea that everyone's excited about outsourcing human cognition, draining all the water from the planet and rendering humanity dependent on machines in this way is really depressing. We all know there will be few winners and many MANY losers.
The fact that the president of the united states is sharing bullshit slop just shows how much civilization deserves to be wiped out.
- We were doing so well before AI came along and ruined everything.palimpsest
- ++renderedred
- compared how it will look after AI ruined everything we are doing not only well but excellentneverscared
- We are not part of the plan.ApeRobot
- Depopulation imminent.zardoz
- I'm hoping it won't be quick. I'm hoping it will be a slow decay into oblivion. I want us to know it was us.palimpsest
- Nairn3
Artificial Intelligence
^
I watched a thing earlier which compared the tokenisation of thought in terms of human cognition and current AI models against some chip that ran an order of magnitude or more above both and.. I was like 'where the fuck are we going with this?'.In response, my kid's school has some event on soon and it was advertised with the crappiest of homemade, DIY flyers - possibly made in MS Paint - and I felt relieved and reassured by it. I almost commmented positively as such on the parental Whatsapp group, but as it is not QBN, I didn't as I didn't want to come across like an absolute twat (you here get that luxury).
Comments above and generally around seem to point to there being a general backlash against that sort of thing.
Humans are contrarian cunts.
This alone give me hope.
But then so, the flipside (reference to [old] UK folk follows..)
- Tripods FTWContinuity
- Laterally, I think this is one of the reasons I liked HL2, with its (terrifying and possibly unintentional) nod to these.Continuity
- Who woulda thunk that we would end up in a timeline where using MS Paint is a sign of virtue and Microsoft is a tool of the resistance.palimpsest
- Nairn2
blog
Two things i've noticed today:
• Emergency calls (999 here in the UK) don't appear in your call history. I understand why, I just didn't realise. Annoying here, as I wanted the timestamp for when I did so last night, but I get it.
• I somehow fucked up and had my secondary SIM off - the one that has my unlimited data rate, so my data stopped on my main work SIM which isn't unlimited and I was like wtf?. Oh. D'oh. Changing the SIM to that which I typically use has entirely changed the contents of my Facebook feed. The last week or so has had ... a lot of stuff I'd rather not have had in my feed.
That's it. As you were.
- Facebook? "Signs your...";)OBBTKN
- I just use it to keep tabs on my hometown, but yeah. I've only used it for the last couple of year after thinking I'd closed my account back in 2012 or so :/Nairn
- facebook is like the hotel california, you can never leave. i quit fb decades ago and yet effing meta still spams me with updates about my "friends".hans_glib
- elahon3
- https://i.haasie.com…_niko
- The worst part about him was his physical appearance.
But at least he wasn't a hypocrite!palimpsest
- autoflavour3
Artificial Intelligence
Kills all humans
- peak 2026autoflavour
- can't wait!GuyFawkes
- https://www.wearethe…ApeRobot
- soon.gifutopian
- empty promisesneverscared
- Hurry up already!Akagiyama
- I didn't know there was that many of us!palimpsest
- Don't make promises you can't keep.Continuity
- Let's start a cult.palimpsest
- I'm here for it.Continuity
- Just evolution innit.mort_
- Well yes, once these things are connected to AGI we're all fucked. Isn't it obvious...? https://www.youtube.…newcunt
- I don't care any more at this point, just end it.elahon
- @newcunt
No, and that's the beauty of it. It doesn't have to be a Hollywood death. It's going to be glorious.palimpsest - The floor will be swept under us and we will be faced with ourselves. In the end killing ourselves in every way possible.palimpsest
- Sorry folk, I meant "the rug will be pulled under us".
That was my OCD for cleanliness taking over.palimpsest - I have some duvet slipcovers that need ironing, pali.Continuity
- flol, you know me too well.
<3palimpsest - Everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten."neverscared
- I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe...
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.palimpsest - I watched C-Beams glitter in the dark
Near the Tannhäuser Gates.palimpsest - All those... moments... will be lost in time,
Like tears... in... rain.
Time... to die...palimpsest - anyway .. iam going to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint,neverscared
- nd wait for all of this to blow over.neverscared
- finally!Krassy
- Wait! There’s more, this book was just dusty, it says Kills all evil humans!
Phew._niko - Wait! There’s still more dust!
It says Kills for all evil humans!_niko
- Peter3
Apple
Wife recently got the 12 mini.
I want one too.
But demand for small is low.
Apple won't be making any new ones.
This folded chunk almost cement the idea that
People don't mind an evergrowing bulge in their pocket.Who here is on team small bulge?
- yep i have the 13 minihans_glib
- I have the 13 mini and don't want to change to anything bigger ever.Longcopylover
- I have the 15 pro max, the perfect size for my big handsrobthelad
- I've got the 14 Pro, and I really don't want anything bigger.Continuity
- My wife’s had the 7 mini ever since we’ve been married!_niko
- flol, _niko.palimpsest
- 13 mini here! However, I've had to purchase an external power brick to make it through the day. Holding out for the day when they bring small back!!!brandonp
- whatthefunk2
- That would do a lot of damage to whatever confidence I have in my manhood.Peter
- iOS Pan’s Labyrinthprophetone
- 9inch wangautoflavour
- Gardener2
Sexual Harassment of the DAY
Jim Thornton, announcer known best for the American version of Wheel of Fortune from 2011, also played Johnny Gomez in the revival of Celebrity Deathmatch 2006-7, and was in Monsters Inc. has been caught on a plane in a chatroom for paedophiles, and thus suspended from all his plum roles.
The thing is, the worst comments cited, about the Golden Corral buffet are sent by NicholasB77
Which if you look at the other photos, is clearly him, as you can see stuff in the send field that ends up under the name.
- "walpaper"garbage
- Jesus. yup, looks the part: https://thumb.wikime…_niko
- What do you think they're chatting about? A UI update?robthelad
- Privacy, eh?!ideaist
- That's the lamest way to get caughtbainbridge
- He should partner up with Trump & Co.utopian
- where are all the crazy liberals comparing post partum psychosis with pedophelia?hotroddy
- i fucking hate how they get put in protective custody for their own safety.. bury them UNDER the jail.. cuntsautoflavour
- MAGA loves protecting their PedoGodutopian
- i fucking hate peoplemilfhunter
- GuyFawkes18
- We all new it since octobre 8th.ApeRobot
- it is known that oct. 7 was an inside job. that morning @5:30 all patrols got a command NOT to go out and check the perimeter.renderedred
- and bibi claims he wasn't woken up in time :)renderedred
- ^ yupGuyFawkes
- But he funded Hamas so it's obvious he'd know.Ianbolton
- just follow the money.renderedred
- Just a small sacrifice for the greater Israel projectGuyFawkes
- https://en.wikipedia…renderedred
- palimpsest2
Trailer Of The Day
I was only familiar with the Holmes and Musk trailers, and I think they are very different. I showed the 'Holmes' trailer to my teenage son because he's interested in cinema. Even though he knows nothing about the people involved, he was interested in watching it. He wants to watch Primetime because it stars Robert Pattinson and is produced by A24. So, there's the film aspect to consider.
I didn't know about the Altman one, but it doesn't seem to be a documentary, rather a biopic starring Garfield, which seems to be more in line with The Social Network, which I thought was a decent film and an interesting cultural artefact. However, I would put The Big Short above The Social Network.
I don't mind or care if it fuels those people's egos. I think it's a worthwhile exercise in filmmaking, and while there will be some failures, at least they serve as a record.
- Re: https://www.qbn.com/…palimpsest
- https://media.tenor.…Nairn
- lolpalimpsest
- new avengers movie gonna be great too...just in case u havent realized.., its not a biopicneverscared
- To be clear, my main point is regardless of the intent of any of these, it is such a lazy choice of topic. They are already omniprescent, no need to glass up.garbage
- also pali be wary of A24, they're now consumed. Part of the reason Neon got the Altman doc rights.garbage
- i doubt its a gloss up.... wolf of wall street, social network,vice big s... more of a show how puny and deranged the protaganists r..neverscared
- and the musk thing is hardly a melania style thing on the screen i guess.neverscared
- I'll watch owt me like.robthelad
- prophetone3
- I always thought it was a sample of the female voxcanoe
- Me too actually until I saw this a while backprophetone
- Where did this magical time goprophetone
- It is a sample, from this https://www.youtube.…MrT
- lots of singers miming to samples on TOTP around this time, eg https://www.youtube.…MrT
- well, that makes senseprophetone
- it was an odd period where solo/knob-twiddler music needed to fit the band/performance template. Ergo lots of dancers and dodgy miming. Happy days.MrT
- We didn't have TOTP here in Canada in 90s but we did have this single in our Alpine decks smashing our VW GTI rear hatch glass on late Friday nightsprophetone
- Such an amazing tune... takes me back!sab
- https://www.instagra…prophetone
- garbage4
Trailer Of The Day
Am I the only person nonplussed wall of these tech ghoul biopics and documentaries?
Within a span of two days we have Nathan Fielder wasting his valuable time on Holmes, a Musk doc, Neon's acquisition of the Altman doc.. and Julie Garner playing the FTX goblin dork girl (ok, that shit is lowkey hilarious).
I could give two shits about these born to rule malignant narcisissts, and I think giving them a platform post/current crime does nothing but fuel their egos.
- *withgarbage
- probably a sign how urgent the topic is....or just a coincidence.neverscared
- I agree on the urgency, but in the end these are just cash grabs to tell us all what we already know. Sam Altman might have had somebody killed..garbage
- ..and allegedly raped his sister and then paid her off? Yeah, we know. We know that Musk is horrific, we know that Holmes is a nutjob.garbage
- Give us a Luigi biopici_monk
- Any of these vehicles that don't have a surprise ending where the subject is loaded into a catapult and launched into a cold sea or nearby rockface? Eh, pass.garbage
- probably not the ending... but maybe the whole thing plays like your ending.neverscared
- Not everyone thinks the same as you, but some may. Or was that rhetorical and you just wanted to spout your two cents about the subjects?robthelad
- Is this the latest thing on Netflix? I had the same feeling about murder documentary series.mort_
- But more like who watches this shit?mort_
- @rob My two cents and 50 more. I'm not denying that these people wield overwhelming power. They're just boring as hell and live off our attention.garbage
- Anthony Fremont is at the wheel. Stab the tires and leave him in the driver's seat.garbage
- @monky Yes please.garbage
- Cynical drive-by comment but to me they're just using anti-tech sentiment as subscriber bait, and presenting it as documentary to add legitimacy.MrT
- _niko10
Trailer Of The Day
Nothing weird here, just a normal conversation with a normal person
- Ah, this documentary was recorded before she went to prison.NBQ00
- wow. spot onAQUTE
- Her eyes are like a cartoonyuekit
- 100% they fucked laterGnash
- she doesn't blink once_niko
- "Fielder revealed that even though the production team consisted of highly intelligent crew members...prophetone
- ...no one on set could ever reach a consensus on what was genuinely happening inside the house."prophetone
- She's like a real life sea sirenprophetone
- wackadooutopian
- Nathan Fielder making documentaries is a dream come true.Ianbolton
- This makes me moist.palimpsest
- lol paliutopian
- I bet her face doesn't change during...mort_
- I'm counting on it!palimpsest
- _niko6
blog
Don’t know what the fuck’s going on here, I was driving yesterday and this guy on a bike weaving in and out of traffic cuts in front of my car at the last second as I’m about to make a right. He puts up his hand and says sorry.
Didn’t punch my hood, didn’t kick my headlights in, didn’t spit on my car.
Dublin is a bizarro world where people are polite, well mannered and courteous.
Crazy.
- Gardener4
blog
Now this is a VERY old plate, I know this for a few reasons. It used to hang in my house when I was growing up, I think that once again, it came into my dad's shop in the early 70's and mum liked it so put it on the kitchen wall. Mum used to go on about how it was an early Willow pattern plate as it had just ONE man on the bridge - most you see now will have 3 men, and although it has a couple of cracks it has always been like this, but is braced on the back and sides.
I did a bit of research and it turns out to be a pre-Willow pattern dating from the mid 1700's! and it was exported to UK from China where a story was built around the idea of the willow plate, the people on the bridge and other additives were given a twist by manufacturers like Spode and Wedgwood to create a story that became a phenomenon as it went on to become the worlds most famous and recognisable ceramic design. If anyone knows more about this story I'd be interested, for now it's now hanging in my kitchen.
- utopian4
- Trump? The American way? Cunts in power?_niko
- Tramp def have many of those traitsHAL9001
- Grafician?mort_
- ^ lolContinuity
- Lacking on the Machiavellianism though.palimpsest
- autoflavour3
Creative use of AI
man so this is interesting, my 15 year old son is fervently against ai.. he was studying yesterday and i was like you should get notebook LM to make a podcast on the topic so when your done reading the paper, you can relisten to it and see if you missed anything. I have rarely seen him so annoyed by anything..
its not like he is anti tech tho, he spends all his time gaming and modding minecraft.
i think he is just pissed that growing up all he wanted to be was a game developer and AI has cannibalised his dream.
he now wants to be a marine biologist.
dont really have the heart to tell him ..
- TikTok generations hates Ai. My son is also 15 and they see anything Ai as worthless.slappy
- i find this so interesting.. its almost like we are all too dumb to see the threat properly but the kids totally see the adversarial nature of itautoflavour
- we are all still amazed by the magic talking box.. where they see the no future digital cage and overlordautoflavour
- My teenage son feels the same about AI... as for your son and his dream, I have the same dream of being a one man indie game studio...prophetone
- I am finally starting to do this lol, learning Blender, figuring out how I can leverage AI to remove game dev learning curve, pains, act as another team memberprophetone
- With game dev, especially the biggest struggle is maintaining a manageable project scope, start small, use AI, post up to Itch.ioprophetone
- Massive game dev inspiration for me is the Sludge Life dev who shared his Unity work, it’s just kind of thrown together, doesn’t have to be perfectprophetone
- Here’s one of his vids: https://youtu.be/GOW…prophetone
- He posted rough, experimental games like Goblin Uzi to Itch as early works: https://goblinuzi.tu…prophetone
- Point is his example has kind of shown me just get stuff out there, mess around, experiment, it’s inspiring and shows that you can just start small, funprophetone
- Just “be” a game developer! Make it happen!prophetone
- My 20 year old son has embraced Claude Code fully for automating his stock trading. I'm so ashamed. (not really, very proud but where the fuck did he come from?mort_
- My 17 year old is more on the AI will end humanity tipmort_
- 20 year would switch it off for everyone though if he could so he's just making hay while the sun shines.mort_
- *20 year oldmort_
- https://m.media-amaz…Krassy
- thanks for all your comments.. some good tips there. tbh i would rather he do Marine Biology if only as its an actual degree and uni etc..autoflavour
- as opposed to every man and his dog being a vibe developer now. look he started his dream was to be a famous youtuber, then game coder...autoflavour
- so something tangible like Science, feels like an actual goal.. my 11 year old wants to be waitress at a cafe or an artist.autoflavour
- The irony is that your son could now create almost any game he could conceive of, with the help of AI. If only I could have done that at 15...newcunt
- yeah, I sense the appeal was understanding the insides and mechanics of it, less then outcome itself.autoflavour
- AI or not, building out in Unity/Unreal, learning how those work, planning the project out, conceiving of a cool game idea that you can be passionate aboutprophetone
- That all still on the table, that experience is still there for potential game devs, I think the passion part for "YOUR" idea is the biggest thing hereprophetone
- Let AI assist for the backend code and mechanics of it, tailor code yourself when you understand what's going on etcprophetone
- Show user son the Sludge Life vids above from that dev... AI is not making that, look at the fun that can be had building that outprophetone
- I guess it depends what type of a person you are. If you like designing the building, then AI opens up a world of building opportunities...newcunt
- but if it's the building of the building you like, it takes them away.newcunt
- honestly sounds like the kids are alright to me :)Nutter
- robotinc3
Video Games...
Whomever recommend astrobot to game with the kids, thank you very much.
I upgraded to a ps5 and have been gaming with the boys. Its been wonderful.
- That reminds me to play it. Seems like it could scratch the Ratchet and Clank itch..! Too few of these games on Playstationspl33nidoru
- @robotinc, glorious isn't it?!
: )ideaist - https://www.youtube.…
Looks so good! I don't game anymore but this makes me want to.newcunt
- prophetone5
Creative use of AI
I’m building a WordPress site, I’m long experienced with WordPress and coding HTML/CSS from scratch, coding out for front and design all that good stuff... a few weeks ago I needed a way to pull YouTube links plus descriptions for videos from specific channels, have them brought in to WordPress as draft posts, tag and categorize them accordingly, and have the descriptions rewritten by AI into punchy max 12 word versions...
Dead-ending for plugins out there, my spec was too specific... I said screw it hold my beer, I’m gonna see how fast I can crank this out with ChatGPT, or Claude, whatever... bounce back back-and-forth between ChatGPT, my code file on my desktop, uploading it to the site for testing/QA on the fly, within about 30 minutes it fully worked with no bugs, I spent the next 30 minutes fine-tuning it’s plug-in dashboard UI to my liking, works like a charm.
I still had to take charge of what I was doing and with my experience that probably sped it all up, I also would take the code and edit it locally myself for fine-tuning, then rep paste it into my chat, but honestly shaved hours, if not days of mucking around to get a working result.
- That was the first time I used AI to build out a plug-in, TBH I was kind of in a bit of shock at how fast I took it from concept to dialed, doneprophetone
- Not sure how ‘creative’ this example is, more a comment on how it might help to get to the final product faster, esp if we’re talking about codingprophetone
- The future is yours, my son.Nairn
- yeah I've replaced all the unnecessary nonsense plugins that always need updating and are bulky as hell with scripts that GPT writes._niko
- ^ hehe, those plugins that litter the admin with nag banners and suchSquiddy
- Yeah, I plan to create nice and tight, efficient versions of WP plug-ins that I use for every new project, like a site lockout, social feed stuff, etc.prophetone
- Every time I login to one of my WordPress sites, I’m hit with the nag banners, or check out our other plug-ins! banners, it’s a total drag my dudeprophetone
- I also wanna explore creating a basic starting point package, with AI’s help I guess, for ‘headless’ WP site set upsprophetone
- Dead easy to do an API. One project is an Angular SPA which now connects to the wp install.Squiddy
- WP w/ACF creates the most cumbersome forms ever, so I started building admin pages outside of WP. It's pretty fun acutallySquiddy
- Yeah, I’m gonna look into it and test things out for fun at first, I’ve had a look at things like Faust, other headless frameworksprophetone
