mordae's recent activity
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Comment on AGI and Fermi's Paradox in ~science
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Comment on An AI-generated country song is topping a Billboard chart, and that should infuriate us all in ~music
mordae (edited )Link ParentOften the artist is not creating music with the intent of just pleasing your ears and rake the money in. They tend to use it to communicate something. Go and listen to Voltaire - Industrial...Often the artist is not creating music with the intent of just pleasing your ears and rake the money in. They tend to use it to communicate something.
Go and listen to Voltaire - Industrial Revolution.
Now the machines are working tirelessly
Through all night and day
Making garbage of our image
For a world that's "Made our way"
They won't stop! Until every inch
From Peru to Bombay
Looks like a mall in the U.S. of AI don't think giving more space to generated sounds that game human psychology to get an easy win is a good idea. I would very much prefer to give space to interesting people with a story to tell.
And I don't really care for starving artists. The professionalization of music and the way it has turned into an industry is also bad.
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Comment on Advice on poor Linux performance vs Windows in ~tech
mordae LinkUse hdparm -tT /dev/your-drive to check read speeds without FS. Use lshw to check bus situation.Use
hdparm -tT /dev/your-driveto check read speeds without FS.Use
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Comment on Is anyone here in or familiar with Tokyo? Going on a trip and have zero idea what to do as a non-tourist... in ~travel
mordae LinkI was always interested in visiting one of the disaster preparation centers or maybe the firefighter's one. I would also check out the flood discharge tunnel. Wife would definitely want to check...I was always interested in visiting one of the disaster preparation centers or maybe the firefighter's one.
I would also check out the flood discharge tunnel.
Wife would definitely want to check out waterworks museum and try to look up a tour of one of contemporary plants.
Yeah, we are weird. :-)
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Comment on How Bill Gates is reframing the climate change debate in ~enviro
mordae Link ParentWith high population density and being forced inland and farm came the issue of not being able to walk away from bullies (aka kings, dictators, CEOs...). We are pretty new to this. Its an...With high population density and being forced inland and farm came the issue of not being able to walk away from bullies (aka kings, dictators, CEOs...).
We are pretty new to this. Its an exponential after all. Every major region has its own philosophy school dedicated to dealing with this issue and it's still ongoing area of research and experimentation.
With decline of globalist capitalism we will see more experimentation. I have hopes that in couple more centuries we will devise some cool arrangements that will limit the power of bullies more effectively.
It's important to remember that the goal for most of us is not to bully others, but to learn and grow. Better work on infrastructure that will facilitate that rather than slaving for random overlord.
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Comment on How Bill Gates is reframing the climate change debate in ~enviro
mordae Link ParentIn a functioning multipolar world EU would first climb out of the US ass and get serious. Repeating neoliberal mantras, offloading high profile research to US and then buying it back with extreme...In a functioning multipolar world EU would first climb out of the US ass and get serious. Repeating neoliberal mantras, offloading high profile research to US and then buying it back with extreme markup, dismantling socialist systems that kept people cultured and educated in the name of financial profit, that has to stop.
The last straw was being literally forced to subsidize US weapons R&D to keep being the weaker partner in perpetuity. Are we idiots? Well we obviously are, if we insist on purchasing defense as a service from US while it's turning full Nazi at an alarming rate.
Stop parroting the usual "China bad => must climb deeper to US ass" mantra. Stop being afraid of Russia! Eastern EU alone has enough productive capacity to defeat Russia. Make the union tighter! Build EU army with nukes and chill for fu*cks sake!
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Comment on How Bill Gates is reframing the climate change debate in ~enviro
mordae Link ParentUS only looked like it didn't want to be superpower because everyone fell in and US raked in free work from everyone else by selling the reserve currency. US spent decades killing its high profile...US only looked like it didn't want to be superpower because everyone fell in and US raked in free work from everyone else by selling the reserve currency.
US spent decades killing its high profile political rivals in other countries and using trade embargos on millions of people to eliminate any competition to its capitalist power structure. It didn't need to go to large scale wars to get what it wanted. Meanwhile the world learned to cope.
I don't want any one country to "lead the world". I want multipolar world where we talk stuff out and keep our promises.
Not one where "leader country" backs out of climate, healthcare and other commitments.
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Comment on How Bill Gates is reframing the climate change debate in ~enviro
mordae Link ParentIt's always curious people can imagine world ending easier than just saying no to capitalism.It's always curious people can imagine world ending easier than just saying no to capitalism.
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Comment on How Bill Gates is reframing the climate change debate in ~enviro
mordae Link ParentYeah, if only the large countries were able to talk to each other, devise a plan to decarbonize and then adhere to it. I hate fascists. I hate liberals for always opening the door for them. Most...global competitiveness
Yeah, if only the large countries were able to talk to each other, devise a plan to decarbonize and then adhere to it.
I hate fascists. I hate liberals for always opening the door for them. Most of all I hate centrists who convince people that working together means communism means fascism. We need global socialism.
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Comment on How Bill Gates is reframing the climate change debate in ~enviro
mordae Link ParentYes. Trade was always a positive influence. Kings chopping off heads willy-nilly were not.Yes. Trade was always a positive influence. Kings chopping off heads willy-nilly were not.
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Comment on How Bill Gates is reframing the climate change debate in ~enviro
mordae Link ParentEven better, if we didn't have billionaires competing with democracy for power.Even better, if we didn't have billionaires competing with democracy for power.
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Comment on Millennials: How do you feel about nostalgia pandering? in ~talk
mordae LinkMaybe they'll finally release another season of Haruhi. :-)Maybe they'll finally release another season of Haruhi. :-)
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Comment on The majority AI view in ~comp
mordae Link ParentYounger and older brother fight over a home computer. Older: "I am older, the computer was originally bought for me and I was in front of it first!" Younger: "Parents said I can use it too. And...Younger and older brother fight over a home computer.
Older: "I am older, the computer was originally bought for me and I was in front of it first!"
Younger: "Parents said I can use it too. And also that not doing chores means no computer time and you did not clean the table today, I did while you ran to the computer! Not fair!"
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They proceed to engage in tug of war with the mouse cable and snap it.
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Mother: "I don't care who started it, but your sister was supposed to write a report using that computer today. No allowance for you this week, I have to go buy a new mouse."Older brother is conservative, younger brother liberal and mother a socialist.
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Comment on In the early 1990s, Sweden faced one of the worst economic crises in its modern history – the lessons for other countries, especially France, deep in its own budget crisis, are simple, if not easy in ~finance
mordae Link ParentYes and no, now the policy cannot be changed as easily as if you just have 2/3 parliamentary majority at the national level. ECB did print money for governments during COVID crisis, but it was...Yes and no, now the policy cannot be changed as easily as if you just have 2/3 parliamentary majority at the national level.
ECB did print money for governments during COVID crisis, but it was still framed as emergency and we are going to have to go through more and more severe crises before people finally call it out and MMT starts to get traction as people demand their governments steer economies towards commons.
I mean, at some points people will surely notice schools and hospitals look shoddy compared to private sector offices. Especially with banks and insurance companies building huge ass glass & marble fortresses with indoor green walls and water elements and gigantic underground parking full of SUVs. Right? Right?
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Comment on In the early 1990s, Sweden faced one of the worst economic crises in its modern history – the lessons for other countries, especially France, deep in its own budget crisis, are simple, if not easy in ~finance
mordae LinkJust a friendly reminder that there is no reason for nations to borrow money. They can just mint and thus lower the spending power of private sector if they feel the need to fund public projects....Just a friendly reminder that there is no reason for nations to borrow money. They can just mint and thus lower the spending power of private sector if they feel the need to fund public projects. They have to tax, though, to drive demand for their legal tender.
Oh wait, France? Oh yeah, one of the Eurozone countries that agreed to hand their economic power to the private banking sector and now have to borrow with waterworks and railroads as a collateral. Well I guess they got what they wanted.
Sigh.
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Comment on The majority AI view in ~comp
mordae (edited )Link ParentLiberals are not pro-anything. They are anti-unearned-privilege. They like UBI because it allows them to claim the playing field is more level and thus that the outcomes are more based on merit...Liberals are not pro-anything. They are anti-unearned-privilege. They like UBI because it allows them to claim the playing field is more level and thus that the outcomes are more based on merit and thus more earned.
We are never getting UBI so high that it would allow crowdfunding competition without violent revolution. Simply because most liberals with actual power are liberal conservatives, not liberal socialists.
They believe they are vastly better than an average person at deciding future investment, so they go and spend other peoples lives on their bets and get angry when the people (they are supposedly working for the benefit of) tell them about their actual needs. And they keep sliding towards conservatism.
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Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk
mordae LinkI would employ smartest people on Earth to figure out how to make a perfect simulation of Earth and its close vicinity, except we would turn the Nyquist sampling rule off, which will make...I would employ smartest people on Earth to figure out how to make a perfect simulation of Earth and its close vicinity, except we would turn the Nyquist sampling rule off, which will make antialiasing and thus both TAA and DLSS unnecessary.
Then I will read the simulated gaming subreddits to see if people start actually discussing the games themselves or find another pet peeve to complain about.
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Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk
mordae LinkI would gift Donald Trump a mile high statue of a phallus with blonde pubic hair as an award for being the greatest ... of all times. In such an opulent ceremony he would actually believe it's a...I would gift Donald Trump a mile high statue of a phallus with blonde pubic hair as an award for being the greatest ... of all times. In such an opulent ceremony he would actually believe it's a testament to his greatness.
Except it would wake up in the dead of the night, grow legs, laser beam eyes and start rampaging across the US. The only way to make it not go into your city would be for all able adults to come out and sing together Sing Together.
After it has visited all major cities at least thrice, it would leave and swim for South Korea, get a huge tattoo saying "Confucius" and provide free unlimited ferry rides until its batteries run out.
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Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk
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Comment on I dream with a new mainstream handheld console that is neither an extension of a regular console experience, a smartphone, or a wine-powered Linux machine in ~games
mordae Link ParentOh I didn't meat to compete with fast, modern, mass-produced devices. Build something like PlayDate! As for the parts, just work with Chinese vendors. JLCPCB and Aliexpress has got you covered....Oh I didn't meat to compete with fast, modern, mass-produced devices. Build something like PlayDate!
As for the parts, just work with Chinese vendors. JLCPCB and Aliexpress has got you covered.
Games are meant to be made, not played! Portable consoles too! :-)
No worries. It's still limited by speed of light and there are practical limits to semiconductors.