You can also change it in the settings. Look for “search assist”; values are “never”, “on demand”, “sometimes”, and “often”.

But yeah, to be frank I use mostly DDG nowadays, I focused on Google due to the OP.

There’s an extension called Disable AI that gets rid of those intrusive Google Search AI “replies”. I strongly recommend people to use it, because… seriously, they are convincing but misleading trash.

The two phonemic transcriptions of “disregard” in the first picture are a prime example of that. I could go on a full rant about it, but to keep it short: compare them with the ones provided by Wiktionary, and play “spot the differences”. (Bonus points if you also play “spot the undeclared assumptions”.)

This might be fake but goddammit it’s still funny.

With 32 GB system RAM, Microsoft believes that the games can have more “breathing room”.

There’s no such thing as “breathing room”, dammit. Once you set up 32 GB as standard, shitty / assumptive developers are going to say “well, we assooooome users have 32 GB. It would be a waste to design the game to use less than that lol lmao”. Specially devs doing the same as Microslop, and using AI shitty code to pump out code faster than humans can desloppify.

System monitor says I’m running 12GB, but there’s a lot of unnecessary stuff open, and last time I restarted this machine is 4 days ago. Plus at this rate my computer is basically a server, and since I already have 32 GB I don’t care too much about memory management any more.

Giving free access to a tool you can’t rely on, over a system you must rely on. What could go wrong? /s

Plus come on, even my personal files get a monthly backup, and I’m damn sloppy*.

Ah, and like others said: Claude didn’t “confess” anything. A confession is an acknowledgement of something you’ve done but you’d rather avoid others knowing, good luck claiming a bot has a mental model of people like we do.

*currently using a single off-site backup, a USB stick. This will change in a few days, as my new hard disk pops up; the old one will be used for, among other things, backup of important files. Then I’ll get a bona fide 3-2-1.

RIP, apparently 😔

…wow. I wasn’t aware of that at all. But the forums confirm it, and Battosay wouldn’t joke about it. :-/

May he rest in peace.

Anyway. Now thinking, most of his takes were spot on, and proved true later on: Minecraft wasting huge amounts of dev time on pathfinding for pets and then testificates, Forge becoming a drama-generating machine, and, more on-topic, Molyneux.

Epic is evil while Ubisoft is just incompetent

Incompetence is a form of evil. Put them both in the same square.

Lemme quote a Minecraft forums post:

Now, I’m going to take an educated guess here and say that Peter Molyneux is probably the developer in question that suggested these things [that Notch should add pets to Minecraft]. It’s right up his ally [SIC - alley].

A couple of things to keep in mind with Molyneux: he has great ideas, but his ideas are often way overly ambitious. This is why his games are constantly very late and way over budget. While he’s brilliant, he also has a tendency to go way off on design tangents that keep his development teams spinning in circles.

This is from 2011. Fifteen years ago, at least professional game designers (like the OP from that quote, FlowerChild) were already aware Molyneux is an “ideas guy”. He pictures huuuuuge, world-changing games that are unfeasible. Couple this with anything related to RL money and guess what, you’ll get people losing money.

In-App Purchases
Requires 3rd-Party Account
Uses Kernel Level Anti-Cheat
Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA

Smells like gacha from a distance. Hard pass.

Remember Electronic Arts defending lootboxes because it claimed they brought “a sense of pride and accomplishment” to players? So. That’s the sort of corporation we’re talking about. So it’s no surprise its marketing team tried to boss the creator around, to make something less true to their vision of the game but more marketable. Sex and gore sell; but if they fit that’s another can of worms, you know?

Dev team might want to find another publisher for its future games, though. Even if this one sells like ice cream in the desert, odds are EA will try to find ways to punish disobedience.

At its most absurd nadir, one is reminded of Juicero, a company that sold a $400 juicer that did the same work as squeezing its proprietary juice packs with one’s bare hands.

It does.

My comment doesn’t, but the OP does. Four downvotes in Beehaw is quite a lot, given the local users don’t downvote. Same thread is in the negatives in one of the cross-posts even if it’s on-topic.

And, like. I get why people would react negatively towards the product itself, but I don’t think it’s good tone to react like this towards the news being shared, you know?

People, please stop shooting the messenger. Please.

With that out of the way: I wish Mozilla didn’t waste so much money on chasing the latest trend of the season, and instead used it for its main products. Including Thunderbird. The one asking for donations.

Some years from now Thunderbolt will likely pop up in this list, of abandoned Mozilla products. Because it isn’t the result of Mozilla finding a niche to create an AI product to benefit users; it’s simply execs chasing the latest trend.

*Beehaw users are likely not seeing this, but this post has a bunch of downvotes.

That makes sense; it would be a mix of “if you can do it and I can’t, you must be cheating” and “your a bot than you’re arguement is invalid” ad hominem.

I think unnecessary combativeness might be also a factor. I’ve noticed on the internet people who want to fight against “something”, it doesn’t matter what; so they pick any low-hanging fruit they can find to fight you.

I’m actually using more those resources (em dashes, three points lists, “it’s worth noting that”, “it’s not X, it’s Y”, etc.) after AI popped up. They’re a damn good way to detect assumptive people, eager to conclude based on little to no info or reasoning; the same ones OP is complaining about. They don’t want a conversation at all, they want to whine, so if you give them a low-hanging fruit you can detect them early and block them as noise and dead weight.

That’s in my “casual” writing style, though. Professionally (as a translator) I mostly play by the tune, trying to preserve the style of the original. (Plus I barely translate things into English, it’s usually into Portuguese, very rarely Italian.)

That might not necessarily be the case – there is a possibility every example is completely organic – but it’s a sign of the times that we can’t just relax and assume the things we see and hear were made by people.

Guys, I found em dashes! The author is a bot! Bring me my pitchfork! /jk (those are en dashes, by the way.)

I think the text leaves the worst parts out: assumptions, decontextualisation, faulty reasoning, focusing on individual words instead of what they mean, and things like this. As in, issues with that part of comprehension that depends on logic, not on language proficiency.

All of those were already a problem before chatbots. But since chatbot output is really bad at those things, I think increased exposure to chatbots might make the problem worse.

Also, free will implies there’s someone making a decision. What is that “someone” and where is it?

Yup, I agree it isn’t something epistemically real.

The reason I still find the concept of free will a desirable fiction is that it pushes people towards doing things that benefit other people, not just themselves, without necessarily curbing down their power. You can use it for example to drill people “yes, you have the choice to cause harm, but you should not act on it”.

…or something like this. It’s one of those things that is rather clear for me in my thoughts, but not so much when worded.

I don’t think so.

The main problem with dictatorship is that whoever is in power will act to their own benefit, even when this harms you. You don’t need to rely on the concept of free will to show this is a bad idea.

Instead of “illusion” (as the text says), I’d say free will is a fiction, or perhaps an abstraction. It has desirable legal, moral, and social consequences; but we should not confuse that with “real”.

In other words: no, you don’t have free will, but it’s better for everyone if you act as if you did.