Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
@hesgen Check out the server I'm on (qoto.org). They have sensible moderation practices, no character limit, quote toots, and a STEM-oriented user base.
@interfluidity Are you sure about that?
I don't think the EEOC would take "it was my computers that refused to hire black people and women" as an excuse.
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@interfluidity That a computer cannot be held accountable does not mean it negates accountability... it just shifts it.
Those consultants relieve management of accountability by laying the blame on someone else (usually line workers).
If the computers screw up, then the one that needs to be held accountable is whoever made the decision to install them.
So, in the end, computerization would *increase* the liability of those on top, not decrease it.
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The ban-TikTok movement in America was torpedoed last night by a federal judge in Montana who said the law that had become a model for Republican-led states "violates the Constitution in more ways than one" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/30/tiktok-ban-montana-blocked/
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"[Musk] thinks he can Thanos Snap wars and recessions into being merely by posting a recycled Pepe the Frog meme from 2016 on there. There is no reasoning with someone who is so megalomaniacal and so, SO stupid."
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/elon-musk-nyt-interview-18524602.php
@piddlesworth I would argue that tedium is an inhibitor to learning, not an enhancer.
@piddlesworth The issue is less difficulty and more tedium. "How many ways can you think of to say 'I saw something suspicious'?" It's foisted off to junior writers because it's the shitty job on the totem pole for game writers, just like how user saveload and console compliance are foisted off to junior programmers.
Certain game genres definitely suffer from this far more than others, of course.
@lizzard Because main dialogue is a selling point. Quality matters there. Poor-quality writing can tank a game.
But in background dialog, quantity matters much more that quality.
You know one thing that #ChatGPT is going to be *huge* for?
Background dialog in video games.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to write dialog for guards and civilians in open world games? If you've ever taken an arrow to the knee, then you might have some sense of it.
But #AI can blow that out of the water, generating dozens of dialogue variations that say the same thing (or nothing at all) just a little bit differently for each voice actor, adding easy variety to a notoriously tedious and shitty writing job in #GameDev.
Of course, eventually it'll probably replace the voice actors too, which is far less ideal.
@rabbitt @RonaldTooTall Of course they will. That's been set as precedent for years now. It's how the law is written. And it's consistent with 1A jurisprudence overall.
@rabbitt @RonaldTooTall Well, no, they have the right to do whatever they want with posts because users agreed to that before choosing to put their speech on the company's private property in the first place.
But 1A absolutely protects messages on social media platforms. The government can't suddenly punish people for their speech just because they wrote it on social media.
Is there some kind of IBS lobby that worked to get every sitcom in the 2000s to mention it, or did they all just simultaneously think poop jokes were funny and copy each other?
Elon Musk is the cure for imposter syndrome.
@FedicaHQ Social media posts already have first amendment protections.
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@bigheadtales @tristansnell Everybody knew. That's why a humdrum ceremonial process had 24 hour news coverage to begin with.
@NPR Great, so the stores cut their staff and don't spend any money on theft protection, so now we have to divert limited taxpayer funded resources to subsidize them?
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Musk's right-wing extremism accelerates, and so does his active amplification of other extremists. Remember, these are people who want to end democracy and, by extension, freedom of expression (for anyone who isn't one of them).
Journalists, meanwhile, continue to directly support him by pouring their work into his malignant platform.
Will they ever stop helping their enemies?
(Needless to say, that's a rhetorical question...)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-boosted-pizzagate-conspiracy-theory-rcna127087
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
