[-] SkyeStarfall 96 points 2 months ago

You know what sucks?

In that AR glasses, in theory, are such an interesting technology with lots of potential, and certainly a piece of tech I would love to have and work with and on. Not to secretly record people, but to, well.. augment my field of view with whatever digital tools or displays I would like. It would be so useful

It's honestly kinda saddening to me that it most likely will get completely ruined by our current toxic relationship to technology. A step towards our ever increasing cyberdystopia, and not towards enchanting our limited lives

Obviously either way I don't trust Meta, but an open-hardware device running a FOSS AR system? It would be nice..

I still hold out hope that this somehow could be resolved, and I would love to contribute to open software for these devices. Maybe one day soon-ish I will. My expertise should be well applicable, after all

[-] SkyeStarfall 89 points 10 months ago

Why would anyone want to watch AI generated content? What's the point? I get using AI generation as a tool but if there's no human intention behind it, just a pure algorithm, why even bother?

[-] SkyeStarfall 83 points 1 year ago

That's because, for some reason, people don't treat anger like an emotion

[-] SkyeStarfall 118 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's a criticism? It's more about highlighting the slight absurdity of super-high tech power generation still using the same method that has been used since the very start of electricity generation. A turbine spun by evaporated water.

[-] SkyeStarfall 108 points 2 years ago

Except she still gets royalties and uses those to donate to political organizations, so you know

[-] SkyeStarfall 116 points 2 years ago

"why should disabled people have a life outside of work?"

[-] SkyeStarfall 93 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

personal finance book:

"be born rich and with good parents, lol"

[-] SkyeStarfall 95 points 2 years ago

Neither do they have a right to a platform, hence, deleted off of the platform.

[-] SkyeStarfall 83 points 2 years ago

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

[-] SkyeStarfall 204 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I do listen to "both" sides! That's exactly why I'm a leftist!

I don't get why centrists think that you have to be "centrist" to listen to both sides, or why doing so makes you a centrist.

[-] SkyeStarfall 120 points 2 years ago

The thing with AI, is that it mostly only produces trash now.

But look back to 5 years ago, what were people saying about AI? Hell, many thought that the kind of art that AI can make today would be impossible for it to create! ..And then it suddenly did. We'll, it wasn't actually suddenly, and the people in the space probably saw it coming, but still.

The point is, we keep getting better at creating AIs that do stuff we thought were impossible a few years ago, stuff that we said would show true intelligence if an AI can do them. And yet, every time some new impressive AI gets developed, people say it sucks, is boring, is far from good enough, etc. While it slowly, every time, creeps on closer to us, replacing a few jobs here and there in the fringes. Sure, it's not true intelligence, and it still doesn't beat humans, but, it beats most, at demand, and what happens when inevitably better AIs get created?

Maybe we're in for another decades long AI winter.. or maybe we're not, and plenty more AI revolutions are just around the corner. I think AIs current capabilities are frighteningly good, and not something I expected to happen this soon. And the last decade or so has seen massive progress in this area, who's to say where the current path stops?

[-] SkyeStarfall 134 points 2 years ago

Furries are like one of the main customers of artists

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