metermatic26 @ metermatic26 @lemmy.world

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I’m confused… Are you hinting at the Iranian regime not being as bad as Iranians living abroad make it out to be?

To be fair, the regime’s response to the civil unrest was so unnecessarily bloody and violent that some sort of international response was almost inevitable.

So yeah, crazy people who don’t give two cents about their people.

And if you really want to muddy the waters, then consider the Iranian diaspora in the US, who are hardcore MAGA-supporters and who literally asked Trump to bomb ‘their’ country.

Or the former prince of Iran asking Trump’s blessing to lead his country again, after spending the majority of his life achieving nothing and living of the fortunes his father stole from Iran.

It really is narcissists all the way down…

I’m not sure if Trump’s brain farts really count as ‘world news’…

Ai, yai, yai…

Is that why the US bombed a school?

No, not at all. I was referring to LLM’s as ‘basic’ applications of AI.

And I’m not talking about having ChatGPT write your dialogue, but more subtle applications like having your player enter their own questions or responses, running the input through a language model and then selecting the most appropriate (pre-defined) response.

In other words, creating the illusion of a more authentic interaction even though you are still railroading the player.

I beg to differ. Not every design choice is a creative one. There’s plenty of technical and/or repetitive work even in game development. And AI models are the sort of blunt tools that can help speed up some of the less glamorous work as well as lower the entry bar for people who’s creativity outweighs their technical prowess.

Something…something…oil prices

For once this is an AI application I’m actually rooting for.

Imagine scripting, or texture design, or lighting, or terrain mapping made easy by advanced models.

Heck, even something as basic as having NPC dialogue being powered by an LLM would be awesome.

I get your point: by engaging in this social, economical and political system we are all complicit in the crimes perpetrated in Gaza. But moralism alone won’t actually get you far. The problem isn’t our collective lack of morals, it’s a lack of power.

Case in point: I live in the Netherlands, and a lot of people I know actually do feel deeply uncomfortable by this. Some actually did take to the streets in mass for several weeks. Btw, I am talking about retirees and young mothers, so not your average leftist student either.

However those that did protest quickly learned a lesson about class struggle in a Western democracy: our right-winged parlement didn’t budge an inch. Instead it turned the PR-machine on them, branding them as ‘troublemakers‘, ‘wokists’ and even ‘Islamic youths’. After building the narrative for several days, it started to deploy the riot police. And once they’d mopped up the demonstrators, they blamed the damages on the heartless, antisocial demonstrators who wreaked havoc on our peaceful society.

When faced with state propaganda and state violence, most protesters eventually give up. Gaza is too distant an issue for them to risk sacrificing their social status, relationships or even personal safety. People nowadays are also deeply apolitical, so these protests typically aren’t part of any rooted and well organized opposition.

Back in the 1960’s or 1970’s you had workers parties that would actually connect different groups and social issues to the wider narrative of class struggle and organize sustained and effective opposition. Workers parties could actually throw in in their weight to somewhat counterbalance the state narrative and even attempts at suppressing protests.

But the fall of communism and the rise of neoliberalism effectively killed the political left. Conservatism and corporatism are now the leading ideologies in Western governments. Therefore solidarity with Gaza is quickly branded as extremism. And if the movement then doesn’t dissipate on its own, it is often actively suppressed.

Do these new social norms include taxing the ultra-rich, to help subsidize the retraining and re-employing of many people who’s jobs will lost due to AI?

To be fair, you’re talking about a country that has an almost exclusively flat terrain, a highly developed and well maintained road infrastructure, fine-meshed traffic rules and a culture that collectively values traffic safety.

Out of all the countries in the world, if you had to pick the most controlled environment possible to safely test self-driving, it would probably be the Netherlands.

You just can’t make this sh*t up…

You could argue that its cultural. The US has always been a country that values opportunism and individualism. Both parties appeal to people’s feelings of national identity or manifest destiny, only to then skillfully curb the narrative back to personal freedom and personal responsibility.

When you teach people to value self-sufficiency and individualism, you get a populace that is mostly apolitical. Good luck trying to mobilize those people for any sort of grand project that requires a lot of personal sacrifice over many years.

Achieving “absolutely nothing” is a criminal understatement…

The US just lost. In a war against Iran.

Votes were cast, faces were eaten.

Let’s all just pauze for a moment and try to take in the utter stupidity of Big Tech and US capitalism.

AI has been a thing for over ten years. Even before LLM’s we were doing great things with self-learning algorithms and there was a great deal of enthousiasm about where this technology would take us.

Fast forward to today and the blatant incompetence of AI agents, LLM’s or VLM’s to perform even the most simple tasks, stands in stark contrast to the billions being thrown at tech companies, to the hundreds of data centers popping up to fuel Big Tech’s hot air balloon, to greedy eagerness of corporate America to replace skilled workers with untested and unproven technology and to the devastating effects this AI bubble is having on the real economy.

Don’t get me wrong, AI is definitely the future (even if LLM’s are not). But this AI bubble is an utter waste of capital, resources and talent that could’ve been used to fuel actual AI development and innovation. What we’re seeing is not the birth of a bright new future, but the death throes of a dysfunctional political and economic system.

Wow, this is really exciting. I guess it’ll take years more research before we’ll know if this can benefit humans, but if they can replicate the results with humans then it could potentially prevent chronic pain and mobility issues in millions of people.