Literally about 90% of the commits I’ve pushed on my DayZ server’s configs and mod files are just marked ‘a’. The actual mod updates I almost never have made porch notes for. Trying to be a little more informative for my new D&D based Conan Exiles server.

It still looks better than how I used to name things in flash.

Personally, as an artist who spends the vast majority of their time on private projects that aren’t paid, I feel like it’s put power in my hands. It’s best at sprucing up existing work and saving huge amounts of time detailing. Because of stable diffusion I’ll be able to add those nice little touches and flashy bits to my work that a large corporation with no real vision has at their disposal.

To me it makes it much easier for smaller artists to compete, leveling the playing field a bit between those with massive resources and those with modest resources. That can only be a good thing in the long run.

But I also feel like copyright more often than not rewards the greedy and stifles the creative.

I spent way more time than was warranted digging into this completely petty drama.

Eris seems to have been widely blocked and defederated for using the word ‘based’ and for thinking ubuntu.buzz was about linux. I’m not sure what kind of perspective makes that a priority, but it certainly doesn’t seem to be one based in compassion or world experience. Half the people I’ve met who use the word ‘based’ have nothing to do with 4chan, they’re just young. The first time I heard it was in reference to Mark Bunker during the Scientology protests in 08. Which, while certainly connected to 4chan, I don’t think can really be cast in the same light as all the Gamergate crap and everything that came after.

Defederation is an important feature, and people should be able to defederate from whoever they want. What isn’t okay, though, is people going out of their way to propagate pettiness as much as humanly possible. Eris seems a little rough around the edges, but I also get the impression that the folks interacting with her in all the overly dramatic nonsense I just read are not acting in remotely good faith. They resemble a twitter mob looking for somebody to hate on, taking zero interest in understanding or nuance. No thanks.

It’s just that with your current participation in the thread, you’re indistinguishable from a bad actor planted by Google to try to distract from the topic and make those who don’t understand what’s actually being said here think everyone else is being unreasonable. The people here are explaining what they don’t like about this, which you’re actively obfuscating.

Curious.

You know who the least trusted party is here? Not privacy-focused users, not even malicious users and bots. You are the least trusted party here. The greatest point of security vulnerability is giving greater control of what does and doesn’t get seen to a company that’s proven itself to be a bad actor.

Megacorps that feed on our data are the danger. Not just to network security, but to humanity. We don’t want or need you limiting our access to information and to one another so that you can further lock down your pilfering of our personal data and your force-feeding of ads and toxic cultural forces.

The abuse of this responsibility has already caused untold damage to our individual lives, the functioning of our societies, and our actual planet itself. It’s led to the mass promotion of some of the worst ideas in human history, and the diminishment of good will, social cohesion, and personal autonomy. The last thing we need is more overreach.

Leave the internet alone. Go make a game or something.

Haha, Edge case.

That’s making a lot of assumptions, any of which could be wrong.

For one, consciousness as an emergent property doesn’t necessitate a continuity of consciousness. Fire is an emergent property of the proper fuel and sufficient heat, but that doesn’t mean that every fire is the same fire.

Consciousness could be an emergent property while also being unable to be transferred from vessel to vessel by destroying the body.

Sleep isn’t death, it’s sleep. If someone destroys your body while you’re sleeping, that’s a distinctly different state. Just having a break in the narrative you’re currently paying attention to isn’t equivalent to death unless we make a bunch of further assumptions.

As far as believing people who ‘came through’ a teleporter, that’s a pretty terrible decision, as we’d expect that they have no idea that their predecessor is dead. That’s the whole point. We’re hand-waving an ambiguity that’s literally a matter of living or dying.

So if you had a biologically identical twin would you be ambivalent about losing one of the two of you?

If there’s an actual stream of the same matter, where did Riker 2 come from?

There’s a book called the Crystal Phoenix that explores this kind of stuff. People will get addicted to heroin for the weekend, then upload themselves to their crystal and let someone pay to murder them horribly while their memories go into a new clone. It’s really dark.

Tell that to the second Riker.

It’s a literal suicide booth.

Sure, you can go on all day about changing out broom handles and whatever other metaphor you like, but I don’t need my body to be a point of interaction with any consciousness and the world, i need it to be a point of interaction between my consciousness and the world.

I have a lot of feelings about the emptiness of identity and the ultimate unity of the universe, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to off myself for the sake of convenience.

If I make a copy of myself, I’m still myself. I don’t become the copy. I have no reason to believe that a genetically identical clone that’s somehow got a copy of my memories will spontaneously cause my consciousness to jump to the other clone. No evidence of any such thing happening.

If I, then, make a copy of myself on Mars, why would I expect to spontaneously inhabit it?

The only reason being ripped apart and having an identical copy made looks like teleportation is the timing. There’s a short story about this, where a teleporter malfunction leaves the original version of the traveler alive. Protocol is to ‘balance the equation’ by incinerating the survivor, which as it turned out was the fate of anyone who stepped into the teleporter under normal circumstances.

Think about a file in a computer system. Copying the file and making changes doesn’t change the original file. When you download something and alter it, that’s a different copy of the file that’s been changed, not the original. Even when you move something rather than copy it, what’s actually happening is it’s being copied and then the original is destroyed.

Seamless for everyone else, sure. But a tragic, needless, and utterly stupid death for the one who enters the machine.

There’s a lot to legitimately criticize Zuckerberg about, but not ‘being cool’ for learning jujitsu isn’t one of them.

This article is so crass and petty that it completely undercuts the point of the immense social damage his forays into social media have caused. It comes off as exactly the kind of toxic bullshit that’s perpetuated on his platforms. We don’t need it.

The solution isn’t picking a new side and being childish, it’s being honest and thoughtful as we exercise our autonomy far away from tech bros with too much money and let them be as irrelevant as they ought to.

I’d start with 6 (sometimes referred to as 3 in the US). The writing is solid, there are plenty of choices to make and characters to play with, and it moves along nicely. You can put a bunch of time into maxing everyone out and grinding out the highest difficulty areas, but you don’t have to.

Great story, great characters, and one hell of a female lead especially considering the era it was released in.

Shadowrun for SNES had a pretty fantastic soundtrack. It did a lot with very little and really paints a picture of the setting very quickly. Another candidate from the same era is Planescape: Torment. It had this great haunting ambient sound that made Sigil feel so strange and ancient.

At the time though, if you’d asked me which game had the best soundtrack, I’ve had pointed to Tony Hawk, though I’m not sure if it was 1 or 2. The one with Party at Ground Zero. Found some great music of the era that way!

Shadowrun for SNES had a pretty fantastic soundtrack. It did a lot with very little and really paints a picture of the setting very quickly. Another candidate from the same era is Planescape: Torment. It had this great haunting ambient sound that made Sigil feel so strange and ancient.

At the time though, if you’d asked me which game had the best soundtrack, I’ve had pointed to Tony Hawk, though I’m not sure if it was 1 or 2. The one with Party at Ground Zero. Found some great music of the era that way!

It’s honestly really nice to have that second OS if something goes wrong with the first drive.

I feel like it’s worth keeping in mind that you’ll likely be able to continue using some iteration of locally stored Windows for quite a while. The point at which Windows 10 becomes unusable is likely well past the point at which it makes sense for most people to use Windows 11 or whatever comes next.

I’ve definitely straight up skipped Windows releases before and kept moving along just fine. Of course that depends on what you’re working on and how much control you have over your own PC in the context of whatever class or company you’re dealing with.

But even then, there’s nothing to say you can’t dual-boot or run a second machine over a network and synergy the things together.

Personally, I’ve been using Windows 10 exclusively on my own machine for quite a while now, but I don’t like much of anything that I’ve heard about 11 so far. If it came down to letting Microsoft control most of my usage of my PC or to using Linux as my primary OS, I feel like it would be worth the hassle.

You literally have no idea what my favorite game is.

Sure, but plagiarism isn’t unique to LLMs. I could get an AI to produce something preexisting word for word, but that’s on my use of the model, not on the LLM.

I get the concerns about extrapolating how to create works similar to those made by humans from actual human works, but that’s how people learn to make stuff too. We experience art and learn from it in order to enrich our lives, and to progress as artists ourselves.

To me, the power put into the hands of creators to work without the need for corporate interference is well worth the consideration of LLMs learning from the things we’re all putting out there in public.