Gotcha, thank you for that clarification. I wonder if that’s technically against his TOS lol

I think it’s not that clear from the article but basically he has like a base VR conversion mod that can be adapted to many different games, and the entire thing is behind a recurring subscription. So you have to pay monthly but then have access to VR for every game you own which his mod supports

CDPR has it written specifically in their TOS that you can’t paywall any mods for their game. Some type of corporate logic about using their IP as a monetization platform, I don’t really understand why it’s a bad thing as people must buy the game anyway to use the mod, but it is what it is

So he just dropped support for the one game but his mod is otherwise still up for the other games. It also isn’t the first time this exact situation has happened, if I had to guess probably most games have similar TOS but just haven’t bothered to intervene

Yeah he definitely lost the plot long before then, I feel like that was just the moment when it all went viral

I wouldn’t overthink it. When they say ‘substantially’ they’re basically just banning obvious slop. If you make something people genuinely enjoy you’re not likely to get policed if the track has a little AI assist somewhere in the pipeline

What stops me from asking an LLM “Give me 5 chord progressions and scales that sound like Adele” and glue it together? How could it be detected?

There is in fact nothing stopping you from simply using the exact same chord progressions as her. No AI is needed for this task. You could literally take her sheet music, white out the lyrics and tune, and build your new song directly on top of the existing structure if you wanted. Chords and scales are not protected in any way :p

I looked it up after reading this comment

He says he tried Ivermectin to treat his cancer lol. Npr article about it, says he didn’t discuss any specifics of his treatment other than that

Edit: newer article indicates he eventually did seek actual treatment

He’s always been a bit off, but most of his weird statements over the years never got attention.

Towards the end of his life though he appeared to get heavily into some alt right rhetoric. As I understand it, this all came to a head during an episode of his podcast in 2023.

There was some thinly veiled right wing think tank that conducted some “poll” asking people “do you agree with the statement: it’s okay to be white” and they presented in big bold letters after that only half of black people responded “yes”

At the time that particular expression had become a popular slogan for white supremacists.

But Scott covered the story at face value and presented it as like “black people are an anti white hate group, white people should stay away from them for their own safety”

Literally overnight he lost basically everything. Every newspaper dropped him. He tried to relaunch as a direct to consumer subscription service, but his health declined so rapidly I’m not sure if anything happened with it.

But yeah that incident caused people to go digging into his past statements as well and as a result lots of people consider him to be awful

Awesome stuff :D nothing beats moving up another notch

I mostly train around ~10 reps these days but I updated all my singles in December and I flew past my old PRs, felt so good

I’ve been using a 2i2 for god knows how many years. The thought of it failing has literally never crossed my mind until today haha

It was one time!!

hiiii I’m already house trained

We probably will, eventually

My old boss told me one time (I’m translating from corporate speak) that it’s 100% totally okay to personally inflict any amount of environmental damage that benefits us in the short term, because the solutions to climate change are on the way. Like it’s a totally forgone conclusion that the bright minds working on these problems will solve them. Always have, always will.

You and I and every sane person agrees minimizing the damage is best either way. It just reminded me of that convo lol. Bro was using the “confidence in human ingenuity” as a blank check excuse to actively cause the damage that will need to be undone. Absolutely insufferable. If it were 100% confirmed there were no way for us to survive what’s coming he’d still run the business the same way just with a different convenient excuse

I mean, is it really that easy? Do I need a certain amount of dietary fat each day? Does saturated vs unsaturated fat matter? Avoid sugar, okay, can I eat fruit with breakfast? What about carrots? Oh you mean avoid added sugar. Then can I use honey instead? Fish is good, can I have canned tuna every day?

And so on and so on. You’re not wrong, but pretty much any attempt at a short summary like this runs into issues when it comes time to start planning meals. There’s actually a lot of important things that go into which the general public doesn’t yet have a strong consensus for

We seem to be constantly adding more words that meaningfully help us navigate the current moment, though. Like enshittify, or 67

Greek yogurt with frozen blueberries, and a glass of fruit punch!

Yeah solving it without following any method probably actually requires you to be a genius or something lol

I love the established speedcubing strategies tho, it basically changes it from being a puzzle you’re trying to solve into being similar to a rogue-like video game where you get a new “map” each time. Totally different skillset but also super rewarding in its own way

Presumably caused by people browsing on their blow-off-some-steam deck

RIP

Well now I don’t know who to believe

It’s mad annoying. You’re not even being paranoid, there have been several cases lately where these wannabe celebrities refuse to back off after being politely refused. Problem is they’re the ones filming so they harass you then just start the clip around when you start getting pissed off lol. Then somehow they all have an army of like a thousand angry men who will send you death threats irl over your ‘mistreatment’ of their favorite influencer

Nah you good, your experience is your experience, thank you for sharing. You even provided an answer to the question (quality training materials + quality censoring)

We see every story about how someone poisoned themselves by using it for medical advice etc., but we’d never really see the story of how it subtly nudged someone away from a right wing rabbit hole by encouraging them to chill and be normal. Maybe that’s happening a lot and the overall trend is neutral or positive.

I would contend with the possibility that, similar to social media algorithms, it’s very efficient at pleasing us. It may be that it automatically responds to you, being thoughtful and articulate in the way you prompt, in a way that users like you are more likely to agree and engage with.

We always have to remember the biggest issue with mass corporate surveillance is not necessarily our personal privacy being lost, but in these companies building accurate models of the human psyche which can be reliably used to manipulate us. Asking questions without revealing your preexisting biases is becoming an increasingly difficult skill, and once those biases are revealed these companies have about a hundred billion samples to work from to try and win you over