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| Topic | Apple plans to introduce software that scans users phones for Child Porn/Abuse |
| darkknight109 08/08/21 3:44:58 AM #78 | Porque no los dos? I'm not exactly going to be shedding any tears over anyone who gets caught thanks to this, but it is a significant privacy overreach and I am concerned about the precedent set. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | I liked it when the Sonic the Hedgehog shows took place in a dystopian future |
| darkknight109 08/05/21 8:49:42 PM #35 | KodyKeir posted... based on evidenceSure, but it's still an educated guess, not a confirmed statement. Fans took it as the latter for years and Hurst was quite clear about wanting to set the record straight. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Conservative Black guy says Minimun Wage should '$0.00'... |
| darkknight109 08/05/21 7:12:22 PM #41 | Zeus posted... the ones who can't -- who, in the absence of government obstruction, might be able to hire less-capable workers at a lower rate they could afford to pay -- are just out of luckIf you can't afford to pay your workers minimum wage (which isn't even a living wage in the US), you are probably either extremely greedy or a terrible businessperson who deserves to fail. Or both. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | I liked it when the Sonic the Hedgehog shows took place in a dystopian future |
| darkknight109 08/05/21 5:36:51 AM #33 | Krazy_Kirby posted... according to special features on the dvd set for the first sonic... it was cancelled because someone else took over the network, and at the time it was standard to replace shows when someone else took charge.SatAM had two seasons; it was cancelled before Season 3. And the "new broom sweeps clean" reason for cancellation has always been speculation, which Ben Hurst freely admitted to in the interview you're referring to. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Bananas or strawberries? |
| darkknight109 08/04/21 3:19:43 PM #3 | Bananas if solo, strawberries if mixed in with other things like crepes or ice cream. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Are there any games (stories) about the invention of magic? |
| darkknight109 08/04/21 3:19:07 PM #3 | Chrono Trigger/Cross go into it a bit. Trails in the Sky (and the rest of the Trails/Kiseki series) also discuss the development of the setting's equivalent of magic (orbments) at some length. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | I liked it when the Sonic the Hedgehog shows took place in a dystopian future |
| darkknight109 08/04/21 3:16:30 PM #30 | I'm disappointed that SatAM Sonic didn't stick around long enough to have Knuckles or Metal and/or Mecha Sonic make appearances. Would have loved to see their takes on those characters - they had such a cool lore/setting in that show. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | California soon to have no more bacon due to people voting with their feelings. |
| darkknight109 08/04/21 4:45:29 AM #62 | LinkPizza posted... Sometimes, animals eat other animals. And if a pig was given us as food, I believe they would eat us. So, we are doing onto others as they do onto usPretty sure no pig has ever set up a human farm where humans are raised in tiny crates too small for them to even turn around in. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | California soon to have no more bacon due to people voting with their feelings. |
| darkknight109 08/03/21 4:47:18 PM #53 | Revelation34 posted... https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-health-california-coronavirus-pandemic-5ebe70407fcd94ef712c16410f32c4b1And? This doesn't refute what I've said. If this farmer's production is expected to drop by 16%, we would expect prices to rise by the same amount to cover the costs, plus more to deal with the initial overhead costs of renovating part or all of the farm. The initial article suggests pork prices in California will rise up to 60% - more than enough to cover it. Again, this isn't difficult - the people wanted hogs to be treated more ethically and they're going to get it. It will cost more, but that is something California voters are apparently willing to accept as a price for more ethical meat. Honestly? Good for them. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick by David Wong |
| darkknight109 08/03/21 11:33:06 AM #9 | Mead posted... Not familiar with that author or his booksHe used to write for Cracked and was, IMO, one of their best authors. Never read his actual books, so can't comment on his prose, but his opinion writing is very good. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | I liked it when the Sonic the Hedgehog shows took place in a dystopian future |
| darkknight109 08/03/21 11:24:33 AM #13 | Revelation34 posted... Chili dogs are a human invention. Therefore Robotnik has secretly been feeding Sonic hedgehog meat.The one chili dog vendor seen in the SatAM series was, funnily enough, an anthropomorphic pig. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | California soon to have no more bacon due to people voting with their feelings. |
| darkknight109 08/03/21 11:19:59 AM #47 | Revelation34 posted... No they're not. If it costs too much to upgrade then they'll just export it elsewhere.California is responsible for 15% of all pork consumption in the entire US, which is actually higher than their share of the population. Pork producers are not going to ignore a market of that size and even if they were, nowhere else is going to suddenly increase their pork consumption by enough to offset the difference - just carving out California from the pork market would result in a glut of supply, price drops, and herds being culled as producers are suddenly unable to find buyers for their hogs. So yes, they will upgrade; it will take time to do so and they will pass on the costs to consumers, but none of that is unexpected or untenable. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Lmao that pro-Trump social media platform has been invaded by ISIS |
| darkknight109 08/02/21 8:49:57 PM #32 | Social media platform designed to appeal to violent conservative extremists is used extensively by violent conservative extremists. How shocking. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | California soon to have no more bacon due to people voting with their feelings. |
| darkknight109 08/02/21 6:47:23 PM #40 | I mean... the people overwhelmingly wanted pigs raised in more humane conditions and they're going to get pigs raised in more humane conditions. What's the problem here? --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | So I actually finally really beat Trails of Cold Steel 4 this time. |
| darkknight109 07/31/21 9:21:03 PM #3 | I'm just annoyed they didn't stick with the normal ending. Would have given mad props to Falcom for having the stones to make that the canon conclusion to the game. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Just finished Trials of Mana |
| darkknight109 07/31/21 12:34:30 AM #27 | Lokarin posted... To be fair - I'm not objected to a remake changing the plot as long as it, like, is faithful to the motivations of the original characters... that's why FF7:R has me so dang curiousI don't necessarily mind the plot change so much as the fact that FF7:R feels like it's just incredibly padded out and filled with half-baked ideas that they don't bother to ever actually expound on. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Why are people who are vaccinated the most worried about rising COVID numbers? |
| darkknight109 07/30/21 10:19:33 PM #93 | Because if I wind up needing to go to the hospital for non-COVID-related reasons, I don't want all the beds to be full and all the doctors/nurses tied up with morons who couldn't be bothered to get a couple of pokes with a needle. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | When you enter a highway from an acceleration ramp, should you signal? |
| darkknight109 07/30/21 10:17:15 PM #8 | Your picture indicates there is no lane change going on, so no, you should not use your signal in that situation. Using your turn signal would suggest that you are going to change lanes. Simple rule of thumb is that if you are changing lanes or turning (into/out of a different traffic flow) your turn signal should be on. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Just finished Trials of Mana |
| darkknight109 07/30/21 10:12:18 PM #24 | Lokarin posted... This is about as good as it gets for how to do a remake (haven't played FF7 yet)It's funny, I played Trials of Mana and FF7:R back to back and it felt like a Goofus and Gallant comic. Trials of Mana was one of the best remakes (in terms of how it was faithful to the source material, while still modernizing it and improving the mechanics to make a fun game) I'd ever played. It is a sin that this game didn't get a bit of a bigger budget, as it could have been legendary instead of just very good. By contrast, FF7:R was a game that, to me, felt like all flash and no substance, where they tacked on a bunch of extraneous shit to a segment of a game that had been teased out to be way longer than it should have been. Whenever the game actually got out of its own way, pulled its head out of its ass and got around to being a game (which was usually the parts of the game that were in the original), it was fantastic, but there was so much fluff in between that it was an absolute chore to play through. Dunkey had probably the most accurate review of the game I've seen to date: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qlf3b9wa4s --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Do you have to use a blinker while in the turn lane? |
| darkknight109 07/22/21 7:04:01 PM #7 | In my locality, yes, it is mandatory. Not saying everyone does it, but you're supposed to. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Republican politicians are changing their stance on the vaccine. |
| darkknight109 07/22/21 3:59:36 PM #16 | Other: It's mostly their own voters dying now and it's also dragging their poll numbers. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Joe Biden is such a failure and Bernie Sanders would have been much better! |
| darkknight109 07/18/21 12:14:14 PM #57 | Zeus posted... As far I remember, Democrats weren't expected to keep control.You must have a terrible memory, then. For one, Democrats didn't have control of the senate last term, so they wouldn't be "keeping" control at all. Secondly, they were expected to pick up 4-6 seats for a solid senate majority. Susan Collins and Thom Thillis were widely expected to lose their seats (polling showed them behind their opponents by a respectable margin) and Joni Ernst's seat was also considered a potential flip for the Democrats. The House was a similar story. The Democrats were expected to gain several seats; instead, they lost five and nearly their majority. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Joe Biden is such a failure and Bernie Sanders would have been much better! |
| darkknight109 07/18/21 12:09:07 PM #56 | USER INFO: SYCOPHANT Hmm... --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | 4chan is literally unusable now. |
| darkknight109 07/14/21 11:45:47 AM #27 | Man, I just got here and what's with all the strawmen in this topic? Is this, like, a scarecrow convention or... Oh, Zeus is here. That explains it. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Have you played the Pikmin games? How would you rate them? |
| darkknight109 07/04/21 6:49:46 AM #15 | 1>3>>2 for me. Pikmin 3 is the better-crafted game, but I still prefer 1 just for nostalgia and simplicity's sake. Both are excellent and pretty close to evenly ranked in my books. 2 was a definite step back. It got too far over its skis and wound up being a less entertaining product as a result. The removal of the time limit just kills any sense of urgency or tension and some of the bosses are just obnoxious. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Which of my favorite villains do you like best? |
| darkknight109 07/04/21 6:47:09 AM #8 | Sephiroth narrowly edging out Dimentio. Red_Frog posted... For the non-weebs, Porky = Pokey from Earthbound.They've used "Porky" as his name in the Smash Bros. series since Brawl. Honestly, I think the number of people who now know him as "Pokey" is pretty small, given that it's basically just those who played the original Earthbound (already a small group) but not any of the post-Melee Smash Bros. games (a far smaller group). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | do you like the Matrix sequels |
| darkknight109 07/04/21 6:43:23 AM #9 | No one will ever be able to convince me that Revolutions wasn't the best of the trilogy. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What time of day do you typically shower/bathe? |
| darkknight109 07/02/21 12:36:37 PM #12 | fishy071 posted... My answer isn't quite there. I shower in the evening or night because I can't sleep without a shower.Then that's the second answer, obviously. It seems like I've accurately captured it to me. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | you can't resize the taskbar in windows 11 |
| darkknight109 06/29/21 10:32:07 PM #38 | So are they doing the usual Windows thing where every other version is terrible? --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Most underrated SNES games, go! |
| darkknight109 06/29/21 10:29:02 PM #24 | Legend of the Mystical Ninja is one of my favourite games of all time and one of Konami's best overall. Honourable mentions: UN Squadron (a super-fun schmup), Ninja Warriors (a solid beat-em-up that I could never find for years until I finally tracked down a cart), and Tetris Attack (probably the most tenuous claim of "underrated" of the games I've mentioned, but this is one of the best puzzle games of all time and I seldom see it get that recognition anymore). --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | What time of day do you typically shower/bathe? |
| darkknight109 06/29/21 10:24:49 PM #1 | What time of day do you typically shower/bathe?
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| Topic | Should the mothers of children with FAS or NAS face some sort of punishment? |
| darkknight109 06/24/21 11:43:58 PM #31 | Apropos to the topic at hand: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/24/pregnant-woman-charged-prescription/ tl;dr - a woman in Arkansas is being charged with a felony because her newborn tested positive for opioids. The reason? She had a prescription for painkillers to treat her chronic pain. She's being charged for prescription fraud even though: a) She filled the prescription legally b) She was not asked by her doctor if she was pregnant when he gave her the prescription The prosecutor is suggesting that she intentionally withheld her pregnancy from her doctor in order to get the prescription, but it was a prescription she's had since before she became pregnant. This is why automatically charging someone whose child has FAS/NAS is not necessarily a good idea. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Without naming the video game, what's the one quote that would give it away? |
| darkknight109 06/24/21 1:29:11 PM #71 | "I'll remind you that I have a very large stick!" "Wake up, Crono!" "I hid myself to repair myself" --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | WHO recommends AGAINST Covid vaccines for children and adolescents. |
| darkknight109 06/23/21 3:27:42 PM #17 | TC says: WHO recommends AGAINST Covid vaccines for children and adolescents. WHO actually says: There is not yet enough evidence on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 in children to make recommendations for children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Added hilarity: TC apparently didn't realize the thing he quoted directly contradicts his opinion. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Should the mothers of children with FAS or NAS face some sort of punishment? |
| darkknight109 06/23/21 3:21:58 PM #27 | I'm against it, because there are so many edge cases and unintended knock-on effects. Yes, in a perfect world, a woman who is pregnant who willingly drinks or goes out partying with drugs probably should be punished for harming her child. But what if she didn't know she was pregnant at the time? We can say, "OK, this only applies to women who knew they were pregnant at the time," but that just incentivizes addicts to not go to doctors or do pregnancy checks if they suspect they are pregnant so that they can claim plausible deniability. Are we comfortable acknowledging that a woman who drinks/takes drugs during her pregnancy is now incentivized to terminate the pregnancy - possibly illegally, if it happens late enough in the pregnancy, by forcing a miscarriage - to avoid potential criminal charges? Are we also comfortable acknowledging that this discourages women from admitting they have a problem if they are or recently were pregnant, thereby exposing both mother and child to further risks by isolating them from care? The best solution here is better education and health care for expectant mothers. If addicts have the resources they need to help beat their addiction, they are less likely to drink/use while pregnant, thus avoiding the problem in the first place. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | ITT: 90s One-hit wonder nobody remembers |
| darkknight109 06/22/21 3:32:29 AM #46 | Funnily enough, "Your Woman" was literally the first song I thought of when I saw the topic title. Anyways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO8vBVUaKvk Pepper was in heavy competition on the local radio station with Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People" for the top spot on the charts when they both came out. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | You do not know that the Earth is not flat because you have never seen it. |
| darkknight109 06/18/21 1:42:39 AM #39 | Someone doesn't know how optics work. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | TCU will no longer use 'Freshman' due to 'Gender' types |
| darkknight109 06/10/21 7:33:09 PM #23 | EclairReturns posted... So are they going to just call newcomers to that college ``fresh'' like that fictional prince of Bel-Air?Just call them "first-years", like pretty much every English-speaking country outside of America does. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Fauci's emails really showed how hypocritical he was. |
| darkknight109 06/04/21 4:29:29 PM #40 | Yellow posted... Yes, actually, that's what the CDC website said. They were ineffective for the general population. I saw it with my own eyes.Yes - because they thought they were! Because, as I said above, masks are usually ineffective at stopping viruses. Which, y'know, is what coronavirus is. And people were panic-buying them which was causing a shortage for doctors who actually need them. Believe me, I know. A couple of my clients are doctors completely unaffiliated with the CDC (not even in the same country) and they had that same guidance up on their websites with the same justification (doesn't work, causing shortage for people who actually need to use them). Only when the science behind coronavirus was better understood and it was determined that the virus needs water droplets for transmittal did medical scientists realize that masks actually were effective. This really isn't the evil conspiracy you're insisting it is. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Fauci's emails really showed how hypocritical he was. |
| darkknight109 06/04/21 2:14:53 AM #29 | Yellow posted... He admitted it was because of the possibility of a shortage for medical staff though.Yes, which I specifically pointed out here: "As such, the initial thinking was that people panic-buying masks wasn't helping anything, since they would be ineffective against a coronavirus, and it was putting a run on medical supplies that were badly needed by hospital staff (who need to worry about a lot more than just one specific disease and also need sterile environments so as to not cause further infections in their patients)." It was the same as when morons were hoarding toilet paper even though coronavirus wasn't a GI disease and there was no issue with the toilet paper supply chain. Idiots basically created a shortage of a widely available product where none existed before and the risk for that to happen to medical PPE that was badly needed by healthcare staff had the potential to be catastrophic. If doctors didn't need the masks, it's doubtful Fauci or anyone else would have stepped in since, like with the TP crisis, it's annoying but not crippling. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Fauci's emails really showed how hypocritical he was. |
| darkknight109 06/03/21 8:47:20 PM #17 | MartianManchild posted... Things like mask usageI always love watching people bitching about how the guidance on mask usage changed because it's clear they haven't the slightest fucking clue how science - and epidemiology specifically - works. The reason why medical personnel - Fauci included - originally said that masks were not needed by the general populace is that masks are, generally speaking, fucking useless against viruses. Viruses are tiny and most will slip right through the fibres of a cloth mask. It would be like trying to keep mosquitoes out of your yard by putting up a chain-link fence. As such, the initial thinking was that people panic-buying masks wasn't helping anything, since they would be ineffective against a coronavirus, and it was putting a run on medical supplies that were badly needed by hospital staff (who need to worry about a lot more than just one specific disease and also need sterile environments so as to not cause further infections in their patients). But as we learned more about the this specific coronavirus, we discovered that it travelled via water droplets, which are hundreds of thousands of times larger than a virus. Masks can't stop an airborne virus, but they can absolutely stop one that's spread via water droplets like SARS-CoV-2 (keeping with the above example, imagine a specific type of deadly mosquito only travelled within inflated balloons - now that chain link fence is suddenly much more effective at keeping them out). So the guidance on mask usage changed. That's not a sign of corruption or incompetence, it's a sign of scientists trying to fight an emerging and unknown disease and learning as they go. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Controversial Opinion #4: Automation |
| darkknight109 06/02/21 6:03:18 AM #292 | LinkPizza posted...Compared to what? That's a pretty important qualifier. And which experts? LinkPizza posted...Hey, look, it's another one of these bizarrely tightly constrained hypotheticals teased to try and force a point. Again, if you have to put that many qualifiers on your hypothetical to make it actually run, you've lost the argument. LinkPizza posted...Which is a veritable impossibility given the number of cameras you're talking about. LinkPizza posted...All of which is just as true for a human driver in the same situation, so you haven't actually proven anything even if we accept this ridiculous hypothetical as valid. LinkPizza posted...Humans aren't perfect and we let them drive. So AI that aren't perfect but are better than humans (which they already are) are more than ready to drive. LinkPizza posted...Survivorship bias!! That's double-bingo!! LinkPizza posted...Better get cracking, then - you don't seem to have anything better to do with your time. LinkPizza posted... And trust me, my memory is much better than yours. Certainly doesn't seem like it. At the very least, given the quantity of typos and bad grammar in your posts, you don't seem to be very good at writing, which doesn't speak very highly of your mental acuity. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Controversial Opinion #4: Automation |
| darkknight109 06/02/21 6:02:34 AM #291 | LinkPizza posted...You were talking about building once of these devices yourself. You claimed you could build and maintain a car from spare parts but not a self-checkout. Nothing about that postulate states that parts *must* come from a junkyard. So yes, you are wrong and I believe you are well aware of that, especially as you've now admitted that you *can* build a self-checkout from a catalogue. Thanks for playing. LinkPizza posted...About what? Please provide context to your sentences or quote what you're responding to, because otherwise it's impossible to tell what you're talking about when you suddenly change subjects like this. LinkPizza posted...Assuming this is still your bizarre fantasy scenario about self-driving cars getting in a mass-swerve to avoid an obstacle, you have yet to explain how humans would perform better in the same situation and have, in fact, accepted several times that the exact same scenario would be just as likely to occur with human drivers, likely with a worse end result. In other words, even if we accept that this scenario could "easily" happen (it can't, unless you're using a very liberal definition of the word "easily"), it's not a mark against self-driving cars, since they would still perform better than human drivers in this scenario. LinkPizza posted...Yep - and you know what will bring that accident rate way down? Self-driving cars. LinkPizza posted...And nobody can know that there isn't a teapot in orbit around Earth. We can, however, make predictions based on the data we have, all of which suggests that self-driving cars will be orders of magnitude safer than humans, with amplifying effects the more self-driving cars are on the road. LinkPizza posted...They are out; they are better. This is simple fact. LinkPizza posted...Or the self-driving cars could usher in a utopia where no one ever dies in a car crash again. Both of those events are about equally likely. Which is to say, not at all, but continue to hide behind your, "It's still totally possible!" non-defence if it makes you feel better. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Controversial Opinion #4: Automation |
| darkknight109 06/02/21 6:01:54 AM #290 | LinkPizza posted...Most people don't have problem meeting friends outside of work. From the sounds of things, you're overestimating yourself. LinkPizza posted...Well, good luck with that with something like Nirvana. Or the Beatles. LinkPizza posted...You literally talked about having to consult with your BF because he knew music better than you. LinkPizza posted...You're assuming I started the business to make money. That is a false assumption on your part. Turning a profit is a nice bonus, but it's not the reason I started this business. LinkPizza posted...Then you more or less understand where I'm coming from. I live in a house on the ocean. My main job makes me enough money to live quite comfortably. I don't need this business to make millions. Hell, I don't really need it to turn a profit at all. I get satisfaction out of it unrelated to my bottom line because of the nature of the work in question. LinkPizza posted...Yes, I'd wager that I didn't learn as much from your Mom as you did, but given what you've posted elsewhere in the topic I think I'm richer for not having gone down that road. LinkPizza posted...No, you picked the junkyard specifically because it was a source for parts that specifically constrained your argument such that there was no other conclusion. It had nothing to do with building a machine yourself, out of parts you could readily acquire for cheap, or else there would be no reason to constrain it to junkyards specifically. You simply picked a part source that you knew could provide for a car but not a self-checkout without also entertaining cheap part sources that could provide for a self-checkout. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Controversial Opinion #4: Automation |
| darkknight109 06/02/21 6:01:14 AM #289 | LinkPizza posted...This is one of the only alarmist things you've posted that actually has a ring of truth. There is a nonzero chance that AI will outgrow our ability to meaningfully control it and that is something that many significant roboticists are postulating as a risk that must be carefully managed as AI grows ever more advanced. LinkPizza posted.........and then you immediately undercut yourself by acting like the three laws are a real thing and not a literary convention written by a sci-fi author. LinkPizza posted...What stuff? Please provide context to your sentences or quote what you're responding to, because otherwise it's impossible to tell what you're talking about when you suddenly change subjects like this. LinkPizza posted...Everything I've said is already out is, indeed, already out. LinkPizza posted...Then you probably should have mentioned that with the sentence in question. And "everything" is a pretty wide variety of things, including tried-and-tested technology like car-building bots and ancient games like chess. LinkPizza posted...That sounds like you need to do some re-examining of your life, because that's not healthy. LinkPizza posted...Do you guys do any actual work at your jobsite? It doesn't sound like you do. I think I understand a bit better now why you don't want to be replaced given what your company apparently pays you for. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Controversial Opinion #4: Automation |
| darkknight109 06/02/21 6:00:37 AM #288 | LinkPizza posted...Yeah, that's a great source... oh, wait, you didn't post anything. Does it still count as a typo when you flat-out don't post a link? Or are you going to give some other excuse for your poor post construction? LinkPizza posted..."You see them" meaning you don't actually know how this works. I'm not sure why you keep expecting me to buy in to your ill-informed hypotheticals when you're not even clear on how AI works and the fact that, at a high level that is still theoretical at the moment, it's no different than the human creative process (humans also "smoosh together" their experiences to make a video game). LinkPizza posted...This is rich considering how garbled your posts are. LinkPizza posted...You know, you really undercut your point about how your posts are totally legible (no, seriously!) by following it up with this incomprehensible garbage. LinkPizza posted...And I'm guessing half of them must be within your own posts. LinkPizza posted..."Making hypothesizing" isn't proper English. And yes, I'm absolutely hypothesizing. The difference is that my hypotheses are based on an understanding of how AI actually works, whereas you very clearly are basing yours on how you *think* they work based on a couple articles you've read. Come back to me when you've actually worked with a machine learning program. LinkPizza posted...Sure - on a timespan multiple orders of magnitude slower than AI, but they can do it. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Controversial Opinion #4: Automation |
| darkknight109 06/02/21 5:59:38 AM #287 | LinkPizza posted...You're thinking too small. What if everyone owns these robots? As in, it's not owned by one person or business but everyone has their own personal all-purpose robot that can fill whatever function is needed? Cook a steak? Build a desk? Give Fluffy a checkup? All doable using the same bot. It's not as far-fetched as you'd think. All you need is one bot built by an altruist that can build other bots like itself. Even if the corporate interests don't want it to happen, there just needs to be one self-replicating robot to collapse the entire system. LinkPizza posted...If it's the government (and it is - all subsurface rights belong to the government) they can and will absolutely give things away for free, because if they're the only ones with commercial power than money effectively becomes meaningless. Which, y'know, is what I've been saying for a while. LinkPizza posted...Watching a short tutorial on Go (that you've already admitted you don't remember the details of) and claiming you know how it works is a bit like me watching a video tutorial on sutures and claiming I'm now a surgeon. LinkPizza posted...Just like "any game", you say? Tell me, how do you play Go Fish defensively? What's your passive strategy for Solitaire? Do you prefer an offensive or defensive game when you're playing Snakes and Ladders? Please stop trying to talk about a game you clearly have no understanding of. Whatever tutorial you watched, it wasn't enough for you to meaningfully participate in this conversation. LinkPizza posted...Which isn't meaningful when there are literally more possible game combinations than there are atoms in the observable universe. LinkPizza posted..."Probably" meaning you don't actually know. Please, this is really getting sad at this point. You're trying to mix two things you have no practical knowledge of - Go and machine learning - and the results are coming off like a toddler trying to debate political science. Stick to subjects you actually have some knowledge of (or can at least believably fake competence at). LinkPizza posted...No computer in the world will ever be able to brute force a game of Go because it is literally impossible. There is not enough data in the universe to hold every single combination of Go. That was the point of this way back when we started this side tangent. If you don't understand that point, it simply means you don't understand big numbers. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Controversial Opinion #4: Automation |
| darkknight109 06/02/21 5:58:54 AM #286 | LinkPizza posted...Only if those robots weren't built by other robots. That's not an oversight, that's you once again forgetting what "fully automated future" means. LinkPizza posted...Again, you seem to have a striking lack of business acumen (maybe don't go to your mother for future lessons if this is any indication of what she imparted). Profits can still rise without profit margin changing if you sell more units. If Farmer Brown is suddenly able to undercut every other farmer in the area thanks to his automated workforce, he will enjoy increased profits even if his profit margin is unchanged from what it used to be. LinkPizza posted...I almost want to ask what you meant by this sentence, but I'm afraid I would learn a lot more about your personal tastes than I care to... LinkPizza posted...Unless it's produced by robots owned by the farm. LinkPizza posted...Unless it's synthesized by the robot vet using materials it harvested itself. LinkPizza posted...Unless it makes one for itself. LinkPizza posted...Unless you have another robot that will make them for you. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Controversial Opinion #4: Automation |
| darkknight109 06/02/21 5:57:59 AM #285 | LinkPizza posted...Hey, another mangled sentence from the guy who insists he's good at speaking English. LinkPizza posted...The basic Roomba has not gone up in price. We've covered this at length already. LinkPizza posted...Nice save - is that also why you incorrectly used the plural form of "emphasis" in this quote? LinkPizza posted...Should be a question mark at the end of that sentence. Do you know what a question mark is? You don't seem to based on your posts. Anyways, why would you ask about growing plates? Who knows? It's far from the most bizarre thing you've said in this topic so far, so it honestly didn't strike me as all that unusual given its source. LinkPizza posted...Weird how only one of us is habitually making typos (including one at the end of this post) and doing it numerous times per post. Maybe you're just bad at this? LinkPizza posted...Which says more about your level of English knowledge than anything else if you're counting on a computer to tell you when you're making a grammar or spelling mistake (which is all kinds of ironic considering the subject of our discussion...) LinkPizza posted...None of which disproves the point that people can and do gather their own food for free. You can make your own bow and fletch your own arrows. You do not necessarily need someone else's services to hunt. It certainly makes it easier, but it isn't required. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
| Topic | Controversial Opinion #4: Automation |
| darkknight109 06/02/21 5:56:45 AM #284 | LinkPizza posted...Which is what I said - this stuff is free. You don't need to pay for it. All you're doing is admitting I'm right over and over and somehow not even realizing it. LinkPizza posted...I mean, in that case, yeah, Netflix (no capital F, Mr. English Expert) would be free for you. That's not the same thing as saying it was free for everyone, of course, but if Netflix hypothetically offered one month free to all its subscribers then yeah, Netflix would be free for that month even though Netflix itself is paying costs associated with that decision. You seem to struggle with understanding what the word "free" means, but given your English level in the rest of your post, that doesn't surprise me. LinkPizza posted..."You think" meaning you don't know. LinkPizza posted..."I'm not admitting you (should be "you're") right, I'm just taking refuge in my ignorance." Brilliant argument. LinkPizza posted...The fuck does this have to do with literally anything? LinkPizza posted... The fact that paid stuff also exists does not mean there isn't free stuff. At this point, I think you're just upset that you've been so thoroughly debunked on this point. LinkPizza posted...When I can show you literally tens of thousands of free games, that does not - by any meaningful metric - constitute a "rare" occurance. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! |
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