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Jose Valasquez posted:Blockchain is terrible at verifying something happened in the real world because people can just lie to the blockchain and now their lie is the immutable “truth” Countdown till someone sends cash to a random wallet with a note saying "Here's the ransom please let my son live" to test this?
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Honestly VR seems like another one of those things that's a solution in search of a problem to solve. Like, even if we take it at face value that the Metaverse stuff will take off and make billions of dollars... what is it for? I think it has to be the thing of execs hyping each other up over the tech assuming all their workers are dying to get their hands on an Oculus and go to chat to Derek from HR Mii-to-Mii instead of this rubbish Zoom nonsense. I'd only ever consider using like a virtual desk + monitors if I could do it through AR instead of VR because gently caress spending a workday depriving myself of actual vision, the primary sense I use to make sense of my immediate physical surroundings. When summer rolls around, it's a lovely pleasant day, get the windows open, oh nevermind I can't see poo poo because I've glued an opaque plastic box to my eyes so I can talk to you about this ticket. Can't wait to redecorate my home office and then spend 99% of the day in bullshit meetings in a VR chatroom with walls painted Focus Group Beige and decorated with a JPEG-artifacted version of the company logo, or logging into the meeting room to find that my manager has decided to cheer us all up by swapping the meeting room environment to a beach. Remote meetings are always going to be weirder than in-person since you can't read expressions as well or general body language, it's harder to interject if you have a relevant point, etc. VR meetings solve none of those problems and in fact remove the facial expressions you had previously. Beat Saber looks like it fuckin slaps tho.
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Aug 18, 2022 14:54
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Honestly I don’t think I’ll ever be down with using VR regularly. AR is a very different matter, but I genuinely have a massive aversion to just obstructing my own vision of my surroundings which is unavoidable in VR. I like to be able to look around, gaze out of the window, look at what my cats are doing, look over and see my wife’s reaction to a major scene in a thing we’re watching, see my houseplants, even random poo poo like being able to see post-it reminders I’ve stuck on the wall to prompt me to do something. Probably a personal hangup honestly but it’s basically a dealbreaker for me. AR glasses has a whole bunch of interesting applications for things like navigation, live translation, better contextual reminders based on stuff you look at, as well as also being usable for virtual screens and so on. You could even have zoom/FaceTime poo poo overlaid in your periphery while doing other stuff. I’m sure in time AR glasses will become the default smart device instead of a handheld phone, and I’m quite okay with that as an already-glasses-wearer but aside from immersive entertainment content I can’t see any real reason to use VR over AR. Even when it comes to games and things though, it feels like there’s a lot of contrived poo poo going into how you approach the player moving around and I can’t see there ever being a satisfying solution to that. You’re fully immersed visually and your body is the controller… for not quite everything. Cockpit based games or things like Beat Saber sure, but having to click on hot-zones and be teleported there as a form of movement or still having to use analog sticks is pretty disappointing, and the weird omni treadmill things are yet another huge price/space barrier to making VR a commonplace thing.
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Aug 19, 2022 10:27
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Waiting for the inevitable heist where someone just paints a QR code on the back of their van and the follower truck gets confused and obediently fucks off with the thieves.
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Sep 14, 2022 15:39
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Jagged Jim posted:Lies and slander. I’ve heard that there is actual child abuse images encoded in text added to the blockchain. (I think you can comment or write something when you make a transaction? Idk) The way blockchain works is that every computer involved has a full copy of the entire blockchain, and the truth of transaction history across the network is verified by consensus among those machines. I *think* that means anyone with a copy of the Bitcoin blockchain is in possession of csam - albeit not in actual image form.
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Nov 13, 2022 23:08
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Mega Comrade posted:As it's tech nightmares and people are talking up AI translation, let's see if there are any issues with it. The difficulty with machine translation is that almost by definition, any given party involved in using it can only read either the input or the output to check for correctness and not both. Let's add a further dimension of unknowable bullshit by putting it through an AI black box, what harm could that possibly do?
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The thing with LLMs in search is that I know search results are full of garbage LLM SEO bullshit so I’m instantly wary of any “summary” style panel on the result page because it’s probably grabbed a snippet from one of those that did the SEO ritual correctly, and some automatic process has seen that and presented it to me. Automatic summarisation also has the risk of inventing completely false information (even if it’s summarising a 100% correct source) and presenting it to me very convincingly. If I’m typing a query into a search engine I am looking for a list of websites with content that might answer that question or content related to that query, not for some magic error prone algorithm to try to second-guess my actual question and provide an answer it “thinks” I want. Honestly I hardly ever actually type a question “how are fursuits made?” vs like “making fursuit” or “fursuit materials” or something, which makes the LLM natural language thing even less applicable. Having a human-curated site quality ranking system in a search engine would be a thousand times more useful to me than Clippy 2.0: Making poo poo Up Edition, but obviously that has the problems of being both insanely expensive and basically unmanageable, plus not being able to connect your company cash flow to the infinite AI money firehose, so rip.
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