awesomesauce309

u/awesomesauce309@midwest.social
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Season 1 they paced it great, but I agree. Season 2 the pace was excruciating. I’ll have to see all of 3 but it definitely started slower than I’d like.

::: spoiler Spoiler I think with last week they’ve gotten over the amnesia hurdle. :::

I don’t know your story, and I’m not trying to rag on you dude. But did AI fuck your life or did the person making the decisions that matter?

I think there are a few key positions on AI I’ve seen online.

The rabidly for AI think it’s an ends justify any means wundermachine that can solve any problem with enough compute. Even if I don’t agree, I understand these people, they’ll swim in any water they smell profit.

The mildly annoyed see that all these companies treat their users as the product and are happy to test and train the next attention grabber in anything and everything they’ve been using for free for 10 years.

The practical see that it’s not sustainable for the planet to continue maximum compute manufacturing and the power to run it. The Industrial Revolution has already leveraged much of the planets health for human advancement, we can’t continue this practice forever without dire consequences.

Which leaves the rabidly against AI. Some are luddites against the plow taking farmers jobs. Some go on about how AI pictures have no soul until they’re foaming at the mouth. The only common thread I’ve seen with them is that they are angry about something, and they will not be reasoned with until you figure out for them what they are angry about.

The recommended videos algorithm uses what it knows about you to arbitrarily pick out some videos you might click on. The megacorp picks which algorithm is used based on one thing: audience retention. They are the puppet masters, “the AI” has no sentience or responsibility, it is a plinko board that trys to hit the right bucket at the bottom. Decide what you are angry at, the people making the decisions or the sorting machine they built. Here’s a hint: If you get a mob together and you smash the sorting machine, the exact same people will still be making the decisions that matter.

If the algorithm was shit before AI and its shit after AI, maybe the issue isn’t AI, but the mega corp running the whole thing.

YouTube is like a casino that they are learning how to build as they go. Every light bell and whistle they try to cram in is to get you to keep the tab open longer. AI didn’t enlighten them to profit, this is how it’s always been. They will happily throw recommendations at the wall and see what sticks especially if it helps them train the algorithm to make more stick.

I thought you were saying dpad above the fold geez. I hate DualShocks placement so I’m fine with the Xbox layout. The cstick was a much more ergonomic analog stick, placed to let you rest your thumb, and lets you make much smaller adjustments to do the same thing. It wears your thumb out way less as a result. Regular analogs suck on handhelds because it asks a lot of movement of you in a cramped space.