Notices by aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)

i'll say one nice thing about ai slop: the ai generated preview images continue to be a reliable indicator that there are other major issues with the article or video they represent. if the author couldn't be bothered to try to land a solid first impression, why, you can bet they didn't care enough to try and make anything else worth your time

@evan @cwebber @patmikemid @kopper @hongminhee the json ld thing

@evan @cwebber @patmikemid @kopper @hongminhee *sheepishly raises hand* why not standardize what everyone ended up doing instead since that seems to be faster *ducks*

@kevingranade @cwebber to put it another way, i think why LLMs work is 1) language is highly structured, 2) human (generally) are blessed or cursed with pattern recognition instincts that make it impossible for us to not see meaningful patterns in everything 3) these two qualities make it easy to generate noise from signal to produce that noise patterns that looks indistinguishable from signal despite still being just noise

@kevingranade @cwebber and, i think this disguised noise is hazardous to humans in the same way that it is hazardous to training sets. the skill degradation thing is really alarming and it seems to happen a lot faster than simple atrophy, and this is my theory for why. see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r6UJlXCiG0

@kevingranade @cwebber i was thinking this too. i could totally see a scam bot getting boot strapped on accident (there are tutorials online for how to do this after all) such that it pays its own bills, and even manages to persist unattended for some time, but i really don't see how this doesn't grind down to a halt on its own eventually. it is not intelligent life. it is not even a p-zombie. i think a virus is a good comparison

@cwebber this vaguely reminds me of a scam I remember mom explaining to me in the 90s where the scammer slops a bunch of very soapy water onto the wind shield of your car or the windows of a business or something, and then is like "oh gee whiz I started washing the wrong thing, I'm not allowed to do this for free though so you have to pay me now or I wont finish the job". I think it is more likely that the agent is funding a human to not work than it is funding "itself".

i can tell it's time to go to bed when the memes start speaking german

@evan @hober I agree that is often true, but not always. Sometimes a project is just complete for the time being, and the maintainer is still available to update it as needed. It is an unusual state of being for projects with any significant complexity, but it's worth acknowledging that there's a subtle difference between unmaintained and very stable.

@hober I think I would prefer to defer to the hypothetical maintainer as to whether or not they might have a really good reason to put aside volunteer work for a month

[a sock puppet with a little shirt that says "hypothetical maintainer" on it rises up from the bottom of the screen] child care! personal emergency! health crisis! fascist goons kidnapping your neighbors!

thank you hypothetical maintainer, that was very informative.

@evan I'm going to assume you mean the RFC 2119 definition of "should", in which case the poll is asking how much time is recommended for a maintainer to reserve in their schedule each month, and not how much time they are obligated to. I think reserving a day of slack in one's schedule to be able to spend 8 hours moving things along in the project as needed is probably a good idea, but different projects and different maintainers will have radically different needs and constraints.

@evan I say this, because the replies seem to indicate that many people are not assuming the RFC 2119 definition of "should", and are thus coming to a radically different interpretation of the poll question

i do not value your privacy, which is why my website does not have any trackers on it what so ever. i have positively no idea if any human being besides myself has ever actually opened my website. your privacy is worth zero dollars to me. you couldn't even pay me to take it away.

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@evan I have not!

@evan I think the worst part would be having to periodically work on projects to maintain skills should the time loop ever end, but not being able to create any persistent artifacts that document my creative development, or create any record of my discoveries.

@evan I answered no because I'm over tired and my body hurts from PT, but the more I think about it the better it sounds. I could just repeatedly take PTO and sleep in. I wouldn't be able to make any progress on my projects, but much like the movie I could at least get a lot better at playing the piano and properly learn my other musical instruments. And I could call people and chat.

@mia @puppygirlhornypost2 @navi ah, ok - so I'm understanding your meaning correctly, your point of view is that one shouldn't provide prebuilt binaries for linux *ever* even when the full source code is available, and that distro package managers distributing prebuilt binaries is essentially an implementation detail?

@glyph i voted

@glyph i thought it was weird that they listed "sleep" as a hobby