Excrubulent

joined 1 year ago
[–] Excrubulent 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks so much! It's been a lot getting this much praise after putting in so much effort for years and getting only the occasional response. I have always worked to keep my videos tight because I get frustrated when videos waste time, so that feedback means a lot.

And thanks for the comment about the factory! It just kind of grew organically and I was shocked at how intricate it became.

[–] Excrubulent 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no... I implemented my AccessoryCount as an unsigned BigInt for some reason. That's more than the particles in the known universe.

I'll just step outside on a clear night and claim that the stars themselves are my accessories. Is that too pretentious?

[–] Excrubulent 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thanks so much! Ultimately I want to have a backup on peertube as well, but there have been a few barriers there. I'm not giving up on it though.

[–] Excrubulent 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's not that I hate the memes, I just don't trust them.

Also thank you :)

[–] Excrubulent -2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Why do they have to "WANT" that? Ignoring the fact that they literally said they were happy it was changed back, why does that matter to the criticism? If it's true, it's true, and the fact that corporations are the ones in a position to habitually make terrible decisions about FOSS is a big problem. It's valid to point out that it would be good to find a better way.

If anything it sounds like you "WANT" to ignore it.

[–] Excrubulent 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The phrase "synthesised expert knowledge" is the problem here, because apparently you don't understand that this machine has no meaningful ability to synthesise anything. It has zero fidelity.

You're not exposing people to expert knowledge, you're exposing them to expert-sounding words that cannot be made accurate. Sometimes they're right by accident, but that is not the same thing as accuracy.

You confused what the LLM is doing for synthesis, which is something loads of people will do, and this will just lend more undue credibility to its bullshit.

[–] Excrubulent 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Fellow Aussie, I knew instinctively this was Aussie, just not which part.

[–] Excrubulent 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I just want to point out that the "noble savage myth" trope is only false in that it has always been a racist canard to attack anyone who suggests that we should treat indigenous people with respect. The mere suggestion that they have a functioning society and would actually be better off if we didn't ~~genocide~~ civilise them is met with this retort that you have fallen for the "noble savage myth". It is a deliberate mischaracterisation that people somehow still accept as truth.

It rests on the listener accepting that "savages have no nobility, therefore the notion of a noble savage is absurd". As soon as you question that basic tenet, it falls apart. What is "nobility", why is it good, and why is it the sole province of so-called civilised society? Why are they called "savage" in the first place?

I think the basic refutation of "noble savage" is that both words are lies. Nobility is a false pretence to cover the fact that nobles are nothing more than human beings, and savage is the opposite, a dehumanisation to cover the fact that so-called nobles ordered the slaughter of nothing less than human beings.

The noble savage trope works because even if you somehow catch one of these lies, it's hard to catch them both.

[–] Excrubulent 2 points 4 weeks ago

It's okay, I've meant to watch them for decades now and I only have myself to blame really.

[–] Excrubulent 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I know, I'm just pointing out it's the same logic. My joke was that I was taking your joke too seriously, but I guess it didn't come across.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

EDIT: Idk how to do my little shruggy guy on lemmy markdown. Does it read okay for everyone else? Three backslashes has worked on other markdown based forums I've used. Please people, lemmy needs lenny.

Edit 2: On further inspection this appears to be a Proton frontend issue. I'll pursue it there.

[–] Excrubulent 2 points 4 weeks ago

You could also say that his lackey-force-choking binge hadn't started yet, because in A New Hope he wasn't searching for Luke, and in the intro crawl for Empire it describes him as obsessed. Maybe he hadn't choked anybody till this one guy needled him and he realised he had to get the word out that he was a serious guy.

view more: ‹ prev next ›