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Why are there so many apps that could be websites? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It also has all the UI/UX stuff preloaded making everything feel snappier.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It feels like it's September again

Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This tracks with my previous attempts at reporting that Sinfest guy. Posts hundreds of comics that blatantly break multiple official substack content guidelines and I get the effective equivalent of a promise for "action" combined with a dismissive eye roll. They completely ignored my follow-up email detailing the complete lack of action and the dozen or so new content guideline violations.

‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I'm predicting clothing lines designed to trick the AIs into thinking you're better endowed than you really are

IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Not really, there are quantum-resistant crypto algorithms

Separate entity. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You're the software for the meat mech

Internally vs. externally in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The actual symptom is called "executive dysfunction".

When will post quantum resistant HTTPS protocols be a thing? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Luckily the majority of websites and Internet traffic go to the three cloud companies

If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

He could have literally just wished for the best, most ethical solution to happen without even coming up with one and had the stones figure it out for him (i mean, one of the infinitely powerful magical space crystals is the mind stone after all, could totally just say it's capable of thought)

If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's because they tried to make him some sort of noble villain in the movies when he was just horny for Death in the comics and wanted to impress her

Archaeologists discover previously unknown language from ancient tablet in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Back when they didn't have virtual machines so they had to hand-transpile it into Fortran and encode that onto punch slabs to put in their stone computers

Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer to consider it in terms of "dimensions of awareness". Humans have evolved hundreds, possibly thousands, of interlinked dimensions of awareness for just about everything from colors to body language. Simple automated systems with sensors have their own dimensions of awareness, from vision to heat to pressure. Whatever it is that they track and respond to. AI, however, is finally hitting the point where these dimensions of awareness are being stacked and linked together (GPT5 can see, hear, read, and respond) and it's only a matter of time and agency (aka executive functioning) before we see true AI consciousness.