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lovethevoid··on Game Informer shutting down after 33 years
No they aren't more reputable, they're cheaper and unfortunately have greater impact. A streamer playing a game to their 10k audience, despite the game being shit, will still result in guaranteed sales in a way that makes full blown marketing campaigns in traditional media pale in comparison.

It literally doesn't matter how good or bad they are at acting, all that matters is the game gets coverage on their channel, that's exactly what the campaigns are paying them thousands for. Yes, thousands.

lovethevoid··on The U.S. wanted to knock down Huawei. It's only getting stronger
The Big Three US automotive companies
lovethevoid··on A rare disorder makes people see monsters
>Nobody was claiming this is true for infants or small children, too, and I am a mature adult.

I was providing evidence that because this fear does not exist in infants, it is not innate. It is learned. If it was innate, infants would also be scared.

>I absolutely cannot imagine fearing a vampire when looking down a dark alleyway

I find it extremely funny how literal you took this. The fear of the unknown is that feeling we get when we don't know. For example being in the middle of a forest at night, not knowing what those sounds are or if people are around. Alternatively, that terror we feel when we see images of the deep dark ocean. This fear of the unknown is what fuels our other fears. Such as social anxiety, we fear the social interaction because we do not know what is going to happen, only that our mind starts racing to worst potentials.

Hope that explains it in a way you can understand. Avoiding mention of vampires because I don't think the fictional creatures helps grasp the concept of the unknown.

lovethevoid··on What happens in a mind that can't 'see' mental images
I see a 5 point star with a red glow and sharp edges, with two points in the middle of each side of the centre of star illustrating depth. I can "twist" it in my mental space and see the gradients shift.

The imagination spectrum applies to all senses, so we all have varying degrees of it. Some can visualize every sense very well, others only vague faint unclear versions, some a mix!

lovethevoid··on What happens in a mind that can't 'see' mental images
Where you fall on the imagination spectrum depends on how clear the object you are asked to visualize is in your mind.

For example if asked to visualize a green banana, and you can only see vague, unclear, faint outlines of a banana, that's hypophantasia. If you cannot see an image at all, it's aphantasia. Some might see vivid details of the banana, like the matte skin and subtle green gradient, they fall under hyperphantasia. Others who lack the details but are still clear considered phantasia.

This also applies to all other senses, like being able to imagine a sound or smell.

lovethevoid··on Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate
That's very understandable. It can be hard to get people to grasp that it's not a versus competition when these migrations happen, it's all about the compromises (and that's where the fun reading is for me, selfishly!)
lovethevoid··on A rare disorder makes people see monsters
An interesting thing to note is that we don't really have an evolutionary fear of seeing snakes and spiders. Studies on infants have been unable to back up that claim ever since we got the ability to process brain activity and more than just "what we see".

So in the past a study on infants might claim that with seeing spiders they show fear, but modern studies only demonstrate infants show increased alertness. Contrasted with adults/older kids where this fear shows up as we expect in brain scans and behaviors. Basically, it's a learned fear, and is also why we don't see other animals in the same way when logically we should.

The fundamental fear of the unknown makes more sense as a source, in which the fear of demons or vampires becomes understandable when they were created to creatively prey on the unknown. Eg. vampires lurking in the shadows/night. This fear of the unknown can also explain why exposure therapy can be so effective, you're filling that void with knowledge.

This fear of the unknown would also explain why new modern creature creations can be scary, despite quite literally knowing they cannot physically exist, we still have that little bit of our amygdala going "but what if we don't know..."

lovethevoid··on Tauri 2.0 Release Candidate
Have you or your team written about the migration? Would love to read about that more as usually there's a lot to learn from these situations even when you don't make the same move.
lovethevoid··on The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning
That's not true, for example metacognitive ability studies have shown environment plays the dominant role. Twin studies on trust provide the same, in which genetic component while large at 33% certainly doesn't indicate what you're stating that it's only "extreme cases". Even in studies re-assessing conventional twin studies and educational attainment, the conclusion was that while some is genetic (sometimes even a large portion) the correlations between a mother and father's educational attainment points to environment playing a large role (unless you have the belief that the mother and father are siblings I suppose).

You'll be extremely hard pressed to find researchers conducting these twin studies who minimize the role of either genetic or environmental impact on certain aspects in the way you did.

lovethevoid··on The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
Religious places were always indoctrinating, they were just the norm for such a long time people didn't recognize such. It was just the thing you did.
lovethevoid··on The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community
> The chief unit and source of community is the family.

This view stems from Judeo-Christian beliefs. The very invention of marriage was a separation of community, where men wanted ownership of women and their children.

I also wonder if you're fully aware of how much you've attempted to repackage the original sin in your comment.

lovethevoid··on Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans
They are quite literally a MITM passthrough. The example you used doesn't make any sense either, it would be more like them handing everyone hacksaws and you getting mad at them over the fact some people are using them for bad things.

Again, get a court order and they'll take action. They are legally required to. Random Moldovan ISPs don't operate at the scale CF does, no wonder they were faster. Probably also easier to bribe as well ;)

lovethevoid··on Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans
Depends on if you're ok with the tradeoffs of KYC as they require comprehensive identity verification, and depending on service changes to structure to adhere to a per-person account model.
lovethevoid··on I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment
Yeah like the article hints at, I thought it was made by anti-AI folks due to it highlighting exactly the type of AI we don't need at all. Replacing the personal with the impersonal "perfect" spam.

Only Google could mess up such an easy ad concept of athletes and AI.

Barely related: I find it interesting the more I read about engineers refusal to allow their kids near tech, and how often their same companies use kids frequently in advertising.

lovethevoid··on Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans
DDoS isn't protected by Cloudflare and is already illegal, hence the court orders which get them to act.

What you are asking for is KYC to be implemented.

lovethevoid··on Threat actor abuses Cloudflare tunnels to deliver remote access trojans
Unless CF is actually hosting the site, which is rare, the most they can do is no longer act as pass through. In which case, your problem isn't actually solved, they just move to another provider who offers similar.

You instead want to be talking to browser and search engine providers and reporting there, as well as your government for illegal activities.

lovethevoid··on Robot dentist performs first human procedure
Is this the hypothetical future where every job is replaced by a ML algorithm? In such case, you better hope there is some form of collective safety net for you ;)
lovethevoid··on Robot dentist performs first human procedure
That hasn't stopped other fields. You can get skin patches that utilize micro-needles to inject serum into your pimple, reducing the need to wait for pimples to "naturally" disappear. This was previously thought to be wildly unaffordable. Didn't we just get a new breakthrough for hair regeneration earlier this year using similar techniques?

Fact of the matter is, dentristry has lagged so far behind other fields because there's a lack of care for it. Dental is often not even considered "healthcare", despite how important oral health is to general health. It's also the easiest to hide, who cares about actual rotting teeth just sharpen them down and replace them with plastic. Whereas things like skincare and hair get far more priority due to being visible. Of course there's also the severity, people don't care if their teeth disintigrate, but a broken leg is a broken leg and gets handled appropriately.

lovethevoid··on Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech
The embed has to be changed to YouTube-nocookie (which is what happens when you enable privacy enhance mode when sharing embeds). But that might not entirely comply with GDPR, as Google still does attempt other measures of tracking.

So they should either introduce a cookie banner, find an alternative host that more strictly adheres to privacy concerns, or just host the video themselves in a video element.

lovethevoid··on Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
Works great as is right now, I can see some workflows being affected or having to wait for an update, but even those can do with some temporary workarounds (like having to load another model for later inpainting steps).

So if you're wanting to experiment and have a 24GB card, have at it!

lovethevoid··on Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
I hope you find manual tagging of diagrams interesting, as that is what you'll be doing a lot of!
lovethevoid··on A network engineer in search of greener pastures
Arguing against this; the system doesn't work fine for the companies either. They're wasting huge amounts of capital on candidates that they're distrustful of as they ultimately leap away anyways for slightly higher returns, repeating the cycle. This leads into a whole lot of internal issues as well.

The system is broken. It's just that companies can weather the storm.

Also job searching on its own is broken even when you ignore the market favouring the employer, as online submissions are still disastrous from companies asking invasive questions, to demanding LinkedIn profiles so they can apply through there instead of their own network, to automatic resume apps most companies rely on not even doing their basic job properly, to forcing companies to have to invent weird ways to verify the person who is applying is even a person at all. It's all a huge mess nobody wants to tackle because again, companies can weather it fine, and eventually everyone gets a job somewhere that keeps them too busy to care.

lovethevoid··on Venmo and Zelle May Not Be Free for Much Longer
What makes that scenario much worse is linked in the original robbery article, where Chase started the investigation and then closed it as the transaction was deemed "authorized" thereby keeping them down ~$2k. Despite escalating with police reports and video footage of the assault, Chase still closed the case. It was only after they went to the local news org that Chase finally did something.
lovethevoid··on Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters
Its already available for comfyui
lovethevoid··on Robot dentist performs first human procedure
Yes they do! Unions though aren't the reason for the lack of cheap care, after all each party involved in a private system is incentivized to gouge as much as possible due to a lack of collective safety nets.
lovethevoid··on Robot dentist performs first human procedure
There are a lot of fields like this, where they have mostly been reduced to refinements but ultimately are still very barbaric procedures. All we've done is upgrade the stick (in this case, a nice shiny pick), but the procedure hasn't changed much at all.

Too much of dentistry is still stuck on instant fix solutions. Take hard metal, scrape teeth. Something wrong on inside, just drill into it scrape it out and fill it. Dental implants were the last major invention and that was what, in the 60s? There really needs to be far more money and research in the field, because there is ample opportunity for major improvements here as it's lagging so far behind other health fields.

lovethevoid··on Robot dentist performs first human procedure
If only you guys had universal healthcare and therefore the state would prioritize cheap new care to minimize those costs.
lovethevoid··on How Does OpenAI Survive?
The employee angle seems cowardly as investor pumping would keep that artificially high. Why not profitability?
lovethevoid··on How Does OpenAI Survive?
Why would they plug chatgpt into google when gemini is built in?
lovethevoid··on The consequences of generative AI for online knowledge communities
Remember the pineapple and pizza trend? It's pretty old now, but a lot of people were buying it to try it out because of what people were saying online.

Now that we have very accessible LLM, that same trend can be artificially created with ease. You can dominate entire subreddits with artificial content, and nobody cares as long as it isn't a giant glaring outlier. You can make people think a certain way, act a certain way, buy certain things, just as long as you seem human enough to pass the sniff test and that a large enough group of "people" were doing so.

These opinionated communities will not survive much longer without implementing more severe human ID verification measures. You can bet against that, but I see the writing on the wall in my smaller public communities. They already don't trust much that isn't coming from someone in real time video.

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