[-] Chozo@fedia.io 19 points 1 hour ago

I was pressed for time when filing this year, so I didn't want to experiment with the IRS' new program and just went with FreeTaxUSA since I knew it would be fast and have my data from last year saved. For those who tried the new program this year, how was it?

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 7 points 8 hours ago

It holds up about as much as those "Not responsible for broken windshields" stickers on the back of dump trucks. Which is to say: not at all.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 21 points 8 hours ago

Finally, a SIM card that can run Doom.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 6 points 9 hours ago

Reminds me of something you'd find on the Dreamcast.

I was thinking this, too! The level design looks like a mix of Jet Set Radio's architecture with Katamari's color palette.

This game looks really adorable. I wish there was a PS port.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 14 points 10 hours ago

Conservatives need to come up with a better tactic than banning things that are already illegal.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 15 points 13 hours ago

It's what the doctor ordered.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 11 points 13 hours ago

LOL, he definitely gives off "hall monitor" energy. But for what it's worth, he is 20 years younger than Miyamoto, so maybe he's still in the cards.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 42 points 14 hours ago

It's not that sort of hand-down. Miyamoto isn't in charge of Nintendo as a whole; he just heads some of the creative departments. The legal/business end of things are still going to be largely under Furukawa.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 7 points 14 hours ago

The sign guy returned their deposit. The shirt guy wasn't so kind.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 58 points 1 day ago

Video source for those who don't feel like clicking around.

They don't go into detail, but I'd be real interested to see a breakdown of how this was made. It looks almost entirely like actual Sora output, with the exception of Geoffrey and the TRU logo, which I think are comped-in renders. But the rest of it all looks like genuine AI output, all the way down to a bit of R'lyehian text in a few places.

It's honestly a little scary how good this looks. Granted, this was made by a professional media team who understand how these tools work and know how to use them better than anyone else, so of course it's going to be good. But it won't be long at all before this becomes the baseline.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 32 points 2 days ago

And instead mentions Bluesky, which I wouldn't even really classify as part of the Fediverse. Sure, it's federated, but it's pretty much just federated with its own self, and isn't accessible from any part of the Fediverse at large.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 134 points 2 days ago

How quickly we went from "I didn't do it" to "I did it, but it wasn't that bad".

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submitted 4 days ago by Chozo@fedia.io to c/til@lemmy.world

Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to incentivize said advancement.It originated in a 2010 post at discussion board LessWrong, a technical forum focused on analytical rational enquiry. The thought experiment's name derives from the poster of the article (Roko) and the basilisk, a mythical creature capable of destroying enemies with its stare.

While the theory was initially dismissed as nothing but conjecture or speculation by many LessWrong users, LessWrong co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky reported users who panicked upon reading the theory, due to its stipulation that knowing about the theory and its basilisk made one vulnerable to the basilisk itself. This led to discussion of the basilisk on the site being banned for five years. However, these reports were later dismissed as being exaggerations or inconsequential, and the theory itself was dismissed as nonsense, including by Yudkowsky himself. Even after the post's discreditation, it is still used as an example of principles such as Bayesian probability and implicit religion. It is also regarded as a simplified, derivative version of Pascal's wager.

Found out about this after stumbling upon this Kyle Hill video on the subject. It reminds me a little bit of "The Game".

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Don't poke the Viper in the jungle unless you're ready for the venom.

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