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synxiec, 16 days ago

@drcaberry 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

synxiec, 4 months ago

@karabaic @majorlinux Hi there. So in this article and the linked WSJ article, the only thieves mentioned are... actually thieves... who steal things from people. In this case, their phone. No subtlety required here. It's just "hey, this new feature is a theft-deterrent"

Also, if you're new to Major as a writer, he is often quite direct in his writing. No guessing required!

synxiec, 5 months ago

@majorlinux @jonobie I am happy to report that I do own this onesie! This is an art commission of me at a desk in said onesie.

Behold the author in said onesie.

You can find it on Amazon. Here's the one I have in this photo → https://www.amazon.com/SAZAC-Dragon-Kigurumi-Blue-Costume/dp/B073ZR25YH/ref=asc_df_B073ZR25YH

synxiec, 6 months ago

@thisismissem I meant 2014 here because I thought that would be a time people had better access to, but like most things, it definitely goes back a ways.

In this case, there was DEFINITELY murmurs and other nonsense like this happening back in 2004, too!

synxiec, 6 months ago

@thisismissem honestly same. I actually had to look things up for the specific reference. In this case 2014 was where they focused on those countries.

I'm an 80s kid and your comments makes me think about how much some war or another has been a part of my life from 5th grade and onward.

I'm 41 now. That's three decades. Why?

synxiec, 7 months ago

@majorlinux It's so frustrating. Like I get servers can't be forever, but surely there's a means of preserving the ability to play these games and they stay trying not to do that because... I don't even know.

synxiec, 7 months ago

@majorlinux I feel like these are two separate things.

(1) We don't have to be ableist to state something about disliking AI in general.

(2) AI, in a better society, might be a viable solution, but given the society we're in, that's not a solution we can or should arrive at for now.

synxiec, 7 months ago

@majorlinux If generative AI were the only tool available to do that, then sure.

But it isn't.

That's kind of the point here. It would be different if people said assistive tech in general shouldn't exist, but this is not that. Other tech along these lines could exist (and might once we get out of this mess).

I can agree that there should be far more weight on people doing terrible things with the tech than the tech itself, tho.

synxiec, 7 months ago

@majorlinux and while I am here, to your first point: this tech is currently being weaponized to hurt people, so like... what about them?

synxiec, 7 months ago

@majorlinux As I said before → "I can agree that there should be far more weight on people doing terrible things with the tech than the tech itself, tho."

I feel like we are clear on this?

synxiec, 7 months ago

@majorlinux Good luck on the search!

synxiec, 7 months ago

@majorlinux I'm assuming this wasn't said in sarcasm or dismissal → "I'd love to learn what other tools are out there that can do it at this scale."

And as such, I'm wishing you well on this search.

synxiec, 7 months ago

@majorlinux Fair enough. I don't disagree with this idea as a concept. Where I differ is in how I feel about this idea with things [as they currently are].

Especially because we have gone through a year of people going, "Y'all are overreacting and being oversensitive about bad actors doing things with this tool" only to have headline after headline after headline with all of that and then some happening.

I think you understand me here.

synxiec, 7 months ago

@majorlinux I don't disagree about things being well-regulated and then being made usable and useful to those of us that could benefit from it most!

But also: in that order of being regulated first.

And given our experience of trying to get reasonable regulations for this, people asking for it to all go away makes sense to me. Even if it is a particularly strong reaction, it's reasonable.

synxiec, 7 months ago

@majorlinux The difference here would be this tech being nascent and the many iterations of the Sonata in this example existing for nearly 100 years.

I'll also note here there is a difference between this thing we are talking about and the divide between "this benefits me greatly!" and "I cannot function without this" in the same way you might if you didn't own a car in an area of the country with minimal public transport options.

synxiec, 7 months ago

@majorlinux What of what I said sounded like that?

Also, we can note that something doesn't sit right with us without having an exact blueprint for exactly which other thing might.

Additionally, the alternative for feeding information against people's consent to an algorithm that then mimics their writing voice and art would be not doing that.

It seems this notion was a non-starter, so we're here.

synxiec, 8 months ago

@BlackAzizAnansi I might need the good word on where to start with this, because yeah.

synxiec, 8 months ago

@majorlinux How did the karting go?

synxiec, 9 months ago

As a recent example: If you come into a place to share an opinion, this escalates into an argument you insist on maintaining, and then you pull up to adjacent spaces a day later to continue the argument when people are doing nothing related to the subject, I will absolutely hit you with a command-line ban and go on with my day.

If your response is to make a public, snide remark behind that rather than reflect on why that happened, I'm going to chuckle on the way to my teapot.

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synxiec, 10 months ago

@majorlinux 👀