kibiz0r

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Climate change might kill you in a couple decades.

Wealth inequality might kill you in a couple years.

Fascists might kill you in a couple months.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Art of Rally

Need For Speed: Heat

Does bike racing count? If so: Descenders is amazing

And if that counts, how about Crumble?

Ooh: Turbo Golf Racing, and Kart Rider

Race the Sun?

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I threatened to impregnate someone and called for stochastic terrorism against a vice president, I’d be in a cell real quick.

But when you’re a slavery mine heir and tech tagalong, it’s just “bad takes” I guess.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ice cubes. From a cup. That they are shaking periodically between sips/bites.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The topic does not matter.

The assertion at hand does not matter.

Whether anyone believes the assertion does not matter.

The only thing that matters is: Are you playing offense or defense?

Cuz attacking looks like winning. And explaining looks like losing.

https://youtu.be/wmVkJvieaOA

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 158 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I choose option 3

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

Seems like we're going to be stuck in the uncanny valley of telepresence. The more fidelity we add, the more we're able to pick up on microexpressions, subtle eye movements, and breathing, which helps trigger oxytocin and promote trust. But also, the more fidelity we add, the more attack surface we open up for malicious actors to exploit.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago

Questioned religion from a very young age. Went hard into the "New Atheism" movement as a teen. Figured physicalism was a necessary consequence of atheism.

In March, I binged several episodes of Walden Pod.

Now I'm open to the idea of a soul and an afterlife. (Not convinced, but open.)

I'm still an atheist, just not a physicalist. It seems childish to me now, in the same way that religion seemed childish all along.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Risk compensation

Risk compensation is a theory which suggests that people typically adjust their behavior in response to perceived levels of risk, becoming more careful where they sense greater risk and less careful if they feel more protected.[2] Although usually small in comparison to the fundamental benefits of safety interventions, it may result in a lower net benefit than expected or even higher risks.[3][n 1]

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

I was a little older, like 3rd grade, but same. Nightmares about being overrun by bug hordes for months and months.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m sympathetic to the reflexive impulse to defend OpenAI out of a fear that this whole thing results in even worse copyright law.

I, too, think copyright law is already smothering the cultural conversation and we’re potentially only a couple of legislative acts away from having “property of Disney” emblazoned on our eyeballs.

But don’t fall into their trap of seeing everything through the lens of copyright!

We have other laws!

We can attack OpenAI on antitrust, likeness rights, libel, privacy, and labor laws.

Being critical of OpenAI doesn’t have to mean siding with the big IP bosses. Don’t accept that framing.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 38 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Not even stealing cheese to run a sandwich shop.

Stealing cheese to melt it all together and run a cheese shop that undercuts the original cheese shops they stole from.

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