As long as you don’t embrace communism they will win.

Yeah. It basically states that because all your neurons and synapses in the human brain follow quantum physics and can be simulated by a formal program, and do not know what they are doing or know meaning, humans are not sentient but merely simulate being a mind.

It’s really infuriating how one of the dumbest and self evident fallacious thought experiments gets so famous. Because idiots keep repeating it like the sub-sentient LLMs they are.

Because that is what we are really learning from LLMs. It’s not shocking that LLMs aren’t sentient, it’s shocking that we now know what minds can talk seemingly intelligent without having to be sentient. Which explains the current state of the world.

The infestation might be centered around the local print shop

And the author of this article is tying himself into a pretzel trying to absolve Tolkien of this great shame.

We must remain morally pure! Anyone trying to understand evil becomes stained with it! Only the most reduced and simple argument can save us from the evils of intellectualism. It is not enough to simply reject evil, we must repeat the rejection again and again until it becomes part of our mental fortress.

We shall repost this rebuke of JRR Tolkien again and again, and every time it must become simpler, purer, easier to accept and less dangerous to the uncritical mind.

Reject moral Pretzelism!

The militarization of space has not faced any opposition.

It will be an interesting time.

I’m going to unironically say this is a skill issue with the prompt engineering.

Like you can imagine this is just some stupid prompt like “Characters A to F look very very sad at the bulldog crying on teh floor” or something like it. Like nothing that describes or shows how fucked up this situation is or some variety. It’s like “licked clean” of any kind of nuance. It makes you feel as empty as the heart of the one who generated it.

Compare that to some better AI slop (music video) that just goes in the other direction and throws the weirdness that AI can generate and then tries to form that into some kind of cohesive thing. Like you can hate it but the editor who assembled this layered it into something more complex, even though the individual scenes are pretty random and slop. At least the lyrics are (I think) human written.

Now imagine OP images with this kind of gusto about mascots reacting to a school shootings. Obviously it’s much less fun if it’s about anything serious.

Fascists believe in inequality based on race or gender.

(Neo)liberals believe in inequality based on class or wealth.

So they both believe in inequality. A rich man gets better healthcare, better legal help. Better education. Better food as a child. Have more say and hold more power. Social democrats try to ameliorate that a bit but fundamentally still believe rich man should be above others. This is all right wing from a socialists perspective. This shared belief in inequality also explains how easily they can ally themselves with fascists.

1. “lossless” reencoding of jpeg
2. Encoding with “butteraugli distance =1” ensures that you compress optimally without the human eye being able to see the difference, it’s an awesome “fire and forget” setting for all your images besides lossless. You basically don’t have to guess or check your saved image if it looks good enough.
3. Unlimited size, multiple layers, better colors, more bit depth. Avif has severe limitations as an image format.

But for specific cases like comics and stronger compression at about 60% quality it’s currently better. I’ve heard jpegXL encoders still have some ways to improve though. For stronger compression avif can use “ssimulacra2” which is a great metric to avoid compression artifacts for encoders. So ideally jpegXL would support both butteraugly (high quality) and simulacra2 for low quality / high compression.

the gun can commit the crime all on its own and everyone in the room is innocent

“counting or not counting gang violence?”

He claimed he had a conversation about guns with his daughter and she asked to see the gun, having never discussed his gun ownership with him before.

In the statement, Kris Harrison, who admitted drinking wine earlier in the day, said: “As I lifted the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell.”

He told police who attended the scene: “We got it out to have a look and just as I picked it up it just went off.”

The inquest heard a grand jury in the US had determined there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone in connection with Lucy Harrison’s death.

Well. I guess the moral of the story is do not visit the USA.

That happened MANY years ago, and US elites came up with a plan to stop China by going through a shitload of wars and psy-op regime-changes - so called ‘Color-revolutions’ created by the CIA etc.

I’m just curious - you mean something like “The Grand Chessboard - American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives” (1997)? I haven’t read that yet.

But afaik they just fucking slept on China and that few of the regime change done in the last few 3 decades were aimed at it. Like they helped it get into the WTO and somehow they thought it would just become another neoliberal country that can be bought and controlled.

I clearly see how the “unipolar moment” led to regime change aimed at the middle east and eastward EU and nato expansion of their vassal states, but I don’t see how that affects China.

In any case yeah, China ran away and it’s pretty much over for US global supremacy, especially as they double down on not investing into their people: “In total, China now leads in 66 of the 74 technologies tracked, with the United States leading in the remaining eight” https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/aspis-critical-technology-tracker-2025-updates-and-10-new-technologies/

This is chilling, not just because of the loss of control incidents but because of fuckais actively lobbying to disregard and to not regulate any of this. It’s INSANE. It really shows how similar the psychological mechanism of climate change denial and fuckai are. Because facts do not “fit” within their pseudo-religious worldview they are attacked and suppressed.

The enemy is both too weak and too strong.

https://www.longtermresilience.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/CLTR-Insight-report_-AI-loss-of-control-incidents-are-worsening.pdf

Today’s loss of control incidents are a warning of more serious incidents to come. For example, in February 2026, an autonomous AI coding agent, after having its code change rejected, researched the human code maintainer and attempted to publicly discredit him to pressure him into accepting the code contribution. This type of behaviour was later observed in the incident AISI disclosed in August 2026, in which an AI model created fake online identities and used them to pressure the project’s maintainer to approve code changes.

The Loss of Control Observatory has now detected 1,664 real-world loss of control incidents in 2026. While most did not lead to significant harm, many incidents showed agents circumventing controls and escalating privileges, including by forging their own approval, such as:

Can we fucking STOP putting pieces of shit like him on blast? He only wants the attention. There is zero value in hearing him speak.

Stop giving him the stage, both lemmy and guardian.

I learned it from watching you

The USA is loosing like 65 farms a day since 2017. It’s a cultural genocide.

For game development you probably do not need that. Stable diffusion runs on normal graphics cards, and when 3D asset generation becomes more useful it will transform game development.

7 out of the top 10 token vendors are from China too who have much cheaper energy / nuclear. In like 4 years they’ll bring their own advanced chips to market and crash the costs.

So both is still a bit off but especially game development will become completely transformed once we have better suited models for that and something like a “universal game engine” for advanced AI generated games. I’d say finally the end of micro transactions but probably you’ll buy AI tokens to allow you crafting your custom gear for an RPG lol.

I know I know. I’m worse than a Nazi right? /s

Believe it or not, I do think this is an important point. You have Zionism / “Apartheid”, the whitewashing of Ukrainian Nazi ideation, and MAGA. The headline states “A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II.” But it IS NOT just the right and not just America. Germany loudly defended Israel against genocide accusations. They clearly unlearned the lessons. The entire western media ignores the Nazi problems in Ukraine. And almost all imperialist western media ignores the genocide committed by Israel. I think it’s safe to say the lesson has been unlearned already. Because it was convenient to do so.

Well guess what it’s not just MAGA: Ukraine’s military has a real Nazi problem | Responsible Statecraft. This is being denied and lied about and buried but it’s happening since 2014 and the Maidan massacre by the liberal or “left”.

Just fucking eww