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Comment Servicing a need (Score 1, Insightful) 36

If anything the fact that it's still so popular just goes to show how much of a need this serviced. I wouldn't trust Tea at all but it does indicate that women feel very strongly that they need a way to share information about men. For women this is such an extreme need that ever after two leaks the desire hasn't even leveled off.

For my money the most surprising thing is that Tea somehow didn't anticipate this and really focus on their security. Because obviously they were going to get the entire might of the manosphere banging on their security. The fact that they were EVER taking driver's licenses and saving that data is just so mind-bogglingly dumb.

Comment Guilt has it's own problems (Score 2) 35

As any good Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or heck any religious person can tell you, guilt can be exploited. If people can be exploited through their guilt. Why wouldn't a machine that's programmed to respond to guilt? This is like trying to bring two north poles together. They slip and slide around each other and eventually you just have to realize it's not going to touch.

You're not going to solve this AI issue because you're AI is never going to be "everything" unless it's a person. You'd have to design guilt and then design a system of assessment to determine if the guilt is fair or not. Then your AI is just gonna need a therapist and AI Therapist is going to be a human job for a bit until they decided to AI the AI. Then they'll realize they can just grow the AI and at that point you're simulating raising a good person and we've burned down 3000 forest just to create a shoddy imitation of a human because a human is the only thing that can slow into the overly wide scope you have for an AI. You want something to create copy and make sure that copy isn't racist or facist or overly sexual or asexual that is attractive to people but specifically your target audience.. stop trying to AI something that needs a person.

Comment Re:"users are purchasing licenses -- not books" (Score 1) 175

I wonder how a law suit would pan out.

Against a man so rich he rented Venice? Probably not well. I'd say a good 60-70% of the problems with have with any specific corporation is due to monopoly, regulatory capture and inconceivably vast wealth disparity. We have laws and systems that prevent and can attack things like this but laws don't matter when you're the only game in town, you heavily influence the regulators and you have more money than your anyone who would say differently. The only way to fix it to attack one of those and the only feasible one is regulation. Give teeth to the regulators let them break up these obese companies. Into if not lean at least merely fat only marginally advantaged companies.

Comment Re:"users are purchasing licenses -- not books" (Score 1) 175

Then I'll keep going into book stores where I can purchase books.

i mean that's a nice thought but I tried to buy an MP3 not from apple and it's kinda hard. If you google an artist they have a linktree with their latest single but all the links are various streamers and Apple. Sometimes they link to Amazon but in my country Amazon doesn't sell MP3s. I can't confirm that but I spent 3 hours looking for where to buy MP3s and not stream them and I gave up. I've done it before when I lived in the US I bought like 50-70 MP3s from Amazon but where I am now there's literally nothing i can find. Used to be bands would sell the MP3s on their sites but no more. Best I can find is paying premium for master quality DJ tracks which .. works but is more than I really want.

Comment Re:screen based devices (Score 1) 82

I don't see a world where AI replaces or diminishes display based devices, what kind of dumbass question is that?

it's basically all the tech bros saw those "rabbit" and similar devices and they just assumed the public would buy in. To a streaming AI wearable widget with no screen and assuming those are all blowing up about now they have to reconsider the value of a cell phone.

The problem is no one bought into those POS trashboxes. So they sound dumber than usual.

Comment oh that's adorable. (Score 1) 163

>Historians

lol. why bother reading past documents when you can just trust the AI to tell you what it says. I still remember when a sponsor was flooding YouTube with a service that would summarize a book in a 5 minutes any classic book and I was just constantly baffled at who this is for? The idea of a five minute summary of The Count of Monte Cristo just made me cringe. They say it gives you enough to be able to talk about the books but it can't. That's just silly.

That's a tiny list of 40 jobs and all it tells me is that someone is planning on using AI for things you should NOT use AI for. AI had it's place within limited targeted scopes like spellcheck. But even things like translation can't be replaced with robots as anyone who is bilingual will tell you. It can make you passable and you can order food but you can't just replace translators entirely with robots. That's silly and anyone reading fan translated manga can confirm this.

Comment Re:The Asian market has been milking Western gamer (Score 1) 68

yeah our Play Asia prices were cheaper in my area but I do have a few harder to find games from Asian carts. I thought I'd be more annoyed with them than I am the only issues i have are some of them don't recognize other people playing the same game because it has the Japanese title instead of the NA one.

Comment Re:Might seem like a lot, but... (Score 1) 68

In the days of physical media, the retail price didn't reflect most people's actual cost. You'd buy a game for $50, play it, then sell it back to GameStop for $20.

I mean maybe YOU did. I never have. I remember when video games went on sale. Heck I remember when video games prices used to drop. Sure it was $50 but if you waited till it became a player's choice it was $20. For a while I used to try to get black label games for red label prices then I saw Burnout Paradise on sale and stopped caring. Great use for $20.

Comment Re:Are VideoGames more costly? (Score 1) 68

Video Games nowadays are harder and costlier to develop as ever before. But the tools to do them have gotten cheaper and cheaper.

Besides, who asked for biger worlds, or more photorealism? I was perfectly happy with Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. I left Arkham Knight and Robocop Rogue City 75% through because of the endless grind. Guess many of you will be happier with a smaller world and a tighter story.

Another thing, Game Studios nowadays do not have to manufacture (very expensive) cartridges, or (cheaper) CDs/DVDs, or boxes, or manuals, or pay to ship and distribute all that stuff. Just bits in the ether for marginal cost per extra unit sold.

What do you folk think? Do games today (adjusted for inflation) bring more value per U$D, or less Valuer per U$D compared to games of yore?

May this be a good question for an "Ask Slashdot"?

I'm still trying to convince the developers with my buying habits that maybe "open world" isn't the game design for EVERY game. There has to still be some meat on the bones between railroad and open world. Because I haven't been impressed by an open world in two generations.

Comment Not the first time (Score 0) 69

I mean they act like these cars haven't done anything to anybody until this time when someone died and heck it wasn't even their fault.I'm pretty sure there was an AI car that saw a person in the road, collided with them and then stopped seeing the person in the road and then kept driving because it didn't detect the person under the car

So many of the articles are paywalled but I did find Cruise Didn't Tell Anyone That A Woman Was Dragged 20 Feet After Being Pushed Into Robotaxi and [Woman dragged by Cruise robotaxi gets over $8M settlement: Report].

Now it seems like initially it was reported that Cruise's car hit the pedestrian and that was incorrect.

What Cruise did not say, and what the DMV revealed Tuesday, is that after sitting still for an unspecified period of time, the robotaxi began moving forward at about 7 mph, dragging the woman with it for 20 feet.

But hey she lived and got between 8-12 million dollars. So I guess it's not a problem. Wonder if they've taught the cars to detect human screaming yet.

Comment No one even called for you. Why are you barking? (Score 1) 153

No. The false assumption is that the choice is only between fascism and socialism - which both, historically and repeatedly, have only brought about increased poverty, totalitarianism, and violence. It's using the Antifa, socialist, and Critical Theory framing that libertarianism itself is inherently fascist. It's also laughable to assume that the right is the one suppressing free speech and against blind justice - while Hillary Clinton and the NYT, for example, are now advocating revision of the first amendment to ease the government's ability to restrict speech (an implicit admission that the "Twitter Files" exposed questionable government practices that are now hard to repeat now that they've been exposed), and Britain has hundreds of folks in jail for what's considered free speech here (and mostly for speech that upsets leftists).

I choose the third way - that of the US, Sweden, and MLK: libertarianism tempered by guardrails and charity for the needy. If blind justice isn't blind enough, the solution isn't to eliminate blind justice.

oooooh. A libertarian. That explains the lack of reading comprehension and excessive autofill. Never mind then. I thought you mattered.

Comment Re:I'll see your Tik Tok ban... (Score 1) 153

I don't know how on earth I missed that. I was literally alive and an adult and I remember someone telling me about freedom fries and suddenly all the jokes I'd seen made sense.

I still have someone the list someone made where they listed all the companies people thought were french but weren't. Like French's mustard had to put out a statement.

Comment Re:Idiocracy is now fully realized (Score 1) 153

People are so desperate for mediocrity that they join social media sites in a language they can't even read.

The mind boggles.

I mean with the money they're making I can't say I haven't been tempted. I recently discovered JJJacksFilms and his videos are about how stupid reaction channels are. But looking at it I'm seeing channels that require 2% effort that are pulling down 40-60k USD if not more. Young channels too. Some of them not even showing faces. I consider myself generally ethical.. but I'm poor. I can be bought. Heck if I could get an extra 60k for like two years and then stop. I kinda might throw all the artists and actual creatives under the bus for that payola.

Comment Re:ban tiktok (Score 1) 153

No. iirc. it's banning the social media app owned by the Bytedance owned by the Chinese. Which is why it's also gonna hit Lemon8 (whatever that is) and like two other apps the company does. So literally changing the name would be pointless.

That said yes the ban should be on the actions and it should hit across the board with Facebook, instagram, twitter and all the others. I think TikTok is a dumb app and I'm still baffled at the idea that so many articles keep coming out saying kids use TikTok instead of Google. Because that's like saying new chefs use a Ford F150 instead of a Chef's Knife.

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