Tobasco da Gama @tobascodagama@witches.town

↪​ The AI "experts" warn us of is some kind of far-off hypothetical god-AI while the already existing narrow AI already has the power to screw us royally, but I guess that wouldn't be a cool futuristic science fiction scenario, would it

↪​ I wrote this as kind of a joke but I do believe that people can learn a lot more about AI from Wargames than the other two films, because the AI it portrays isn't incomprehensibly intelligent, but very realistic. Also it isn't perfect because the people who built it weren't, and they know it. The conclusion of the film is obviously simplified, because we don't know what we would actually do in a situation like that

uni English course, today we had presentations about AI. People quoted the Hitchhiker's Guide and 2001: A Space Odyssey but no one in the room had seen Wargames, a film actually relevant to the topic

yoooo grim fandando is free on GOG right now
https://www.gog.com/game/grim_fandango_remastered

play this game! it's good! https://slime.global/media/gJ90hXABVRxb51tElNU

I just looked it up. Bitcoins are now the third most expensive beanie baby.

IDEA: cryptocurrency but instead of computers solving cryptographic problems it's humans doing sudoku or something

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world was that paying work defines your value.

https://twitter.com/StoryHospital/status/939225196208246784

man, even if the fee system wasn't a mess currently, this would be enough for me to leave. assigning a monetary value to someone's worth like this is absolutely vile.

idk I'm just mad that Patreon became a lifeline that they are now using to fuck the early adopters who really needed it, i.e., the broke artists

This is ENTIRELY for the benefit of creators who are using Patreon as a paywall, who want to have a payment happen before the patron gets any access to patron-only content.

https://blog.patreon.com/updating-patreons-fee-structure/

Which, okay, sure, that's great, how about letting those of us who are using Patreon on a per-thing model, or on a monthly-and-I-don't-care-if-you-see-patron-only-posts model, keep enjoying the lower fees that come from being able to have our transactions batched, and let Patreon-as-paywall people be the only ones to eat the fees? Or give paywall people a switch to flip that will hide their patron-only posts from new patrons until after the end of the month? Nope, instead they gotta break it for everyone.