“I disagree with what you say, but will contend to the death your right to say it.” / Voltaire
tomiant
So, here you are. Aren’t ya. AREN’T YA? Ya, ya are.
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“I am convinced by this argument, so if I present the argument to you, I have made a convincing argument. QED.”
So basically, morality is very tricky, so it kind of depends on the situation, so in general try to behave in accordance with X and avoid Y, but there will always be grey areas which must be judged on a case by case basis.
Kind of like how our laws work.
tomiant@programming.devto Technology@lemmy.world•When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s dataEnglish11·1 month agoHe isn’t at the head of it. He’s the figurehead, at best. But dark fucking times are upon us.
I hate being so doomy about it, but damn, just look around. Is there anything that seems stable and moving in the right direction at all, ANYWHERE?
tomiant@programming.devto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting31·1 month agoCapitalism encourages it because it dictates profit over everything, it is a completely amoral system only weakly held in check by laws and regulations.
tomiant@programming.devto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Brainrot Tiktoker at the Kirk shooting4·1 month agoWith a big enough market there will always be buyers. There’s like a hundred million of these psychos in the USA, how many shirts and caps was this, a couple dozen? Yeah they’ll sell. Just look at that bath water girl or she sold her farts or whatever the fuck it was
Fresh from the AI oven
Ham? What kind of message is that?
tomiant@programming.devto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•No I'm really not sorry. George Floyd was a father too, and before old Charlie had his personal turning point he called him a scumbag.114·1 month agoOk this is just fucked up. What the fuck man.
tomiant@programming.devto World News@lemmy.world•Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thoughtEnglish5·1 month ago“We thought it was 10. Turns out it was 1.”
Ten times less: x * 0.1
tomiant@programming.devto World News@lemmy.world•Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thoughtEnglish16·1 month agoBreaking News! The thing we told you was going to happen for the past 50 years is definitely still happening!
tomiant@programming.devto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•is cernunnos a good name for a baby?5·1 month agoYes, your child will not be bullied and everyone will think extra highly of them. It also reflects positively on you as a parent and highlights to everyone how your particular kid is more special than others.
I’ve been saying this for yeeears. People shouldn’t be near as afraid of AI as they should be of the people in charge of it.
How out of the loop are you people? That has been a thing for a while, we’ve got more than a handful high profile AI religions and cults out there already…
The vast majority of conversations I have with people on a daily basis are on an order of magnitude more moronic than the ones I have with AI. So that also plays a part.
Not really. A mirror shows an actual reflection of yourself. An AI response is a highly curated version of a particular subset of ideas, in fact, the more I think about it the more this analogy straight up implodes.
tomiant@programming.devto Technology@lemmy.world•Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for goodEnglish1·1 month agoYou make it sound as if every system is perfectly equal, and that all humans are the same, and that nothing we choose or decide matters at all and that the only form of existence is the one we are seeing right now.
Jesus christ if this was a film you’d happily be hooked up to a bunch of tubes in a goo pod pretending you’re free.
tomiant@programming.devto Technology@lemmy.world•‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequencesEnglish9·1 month agoHe threatened to sue that guy.
Here’s one of the Elon jet trackers on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ElonJetTracker/
tomiant@programming.devto Games@lemmy.world•Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times RevealedEnglish383·1 month agoThe most overhyped game I’ve seen over the past year, they’re pushing the PR so damn hard.
I may be the only person alive to find that scene top cringe writing. It’s such a “shower retort” moment and then everybody clapped.