bitofhope

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

This but unironically.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

We probably live in a simulation with the purpose of producing the best anime. This is why we are living in an age with so much anime and with so many people who are interested in anime. The anime maximizing AI is simulating all kinds of scenarios from abiogenesis to a prolific anime industry. Most possible scenarios of life evolving from its first forms would not lead to the development of an anime industry, which is why it would be improbable for us to exist in a world with anime, if not for the fact that the simulated scenarios without anime in them are dropped and not simulated further.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bashing my own head with a rock might seem harmful to my brain, but it also leaves minerals lodged in my skull. Minerals I can then sell to buy a bigger rock.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's Symbian, though. Nokia managed to launch a grand total of two or three Maemo/MeeGo phones (N900, N9, maybe another one I forget) before Elop killed it in the crib. It would have been one thing if the Burning Platform meno had been about S60, but it wasn't.

Being basically just a Qt-based DE on a pretty standard RPM-based Linux distro (much much more so than Android, even at the time) Meego had a low barrier to entry into application development and a rather stable and mature API to work with.

Then again, if you "don’t think the company had the mentality to offer that" I guess you're right in the sense that the alleged trojan horse CEO killed the platform before it had the chance to gain any traction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I read the source. It was pretty funny, but I'm not installing a massive statistical word regurgitator program just to run this. I don't want to be too mean about an anticapitalist piece of art but I don't think posting an LLM-based game here is going to net you a hugely positive reception.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

And even if Joseph Weizenbaum did actually say, verbatim: “if the problem hasn’t been solved in twenty years, it is time to give up”, that's not the same as asking for the precise time when “machines will reach human-level intelligence”.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

So far away we wait for the AGI
For the billions all wasted and gone
We feel the pain of compute time lost in few thousand days
Through the sneering and the flames we carry on

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Imagining a guy who asks me a dumb question so I can let everyone know how I'd mock them with a joke answer.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The Burning Platform debacle was huge where I live and I remember it quite well.

It seems that Microsoft was planning on coasting on brand recognition, while the public correctly noticed the lack of any real synergy between Windows Phone and Microsoft's desktop computer software. Nokia's hardware was indeed top notch, but WP lacked a killer app, or indeed most apps at all. It missed the train and developers ignored it in favor of iOS and Android.

I doubt MeeGo would have managed to recapture the dominance Nokia had on the pre-iPhone market, but at least nerds like me would have vastly preferred it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

That sentence is somewhere between exactly 420.69 and 1,337.00 millialtmans of cringe.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It also doesn't bode well for the hope of it dying down anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Oo that might be even better from artistic standpoint!

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