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  • I’ve also cone to realize that this is the real purpose of ads.

    Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world, you have the right idea, but the other key thing you should remember is to never talk about the corps to anyone, even if you’re dragging their name through the mud. “No such thing as bad press,” as they say.

    It’s good to denounce the practice, but it seems naming and shaming specific companies just doesn’t work anymore at this stage.




  • I heard they already killed off Cortana, which is (kind of) a shame since it was one of the more interesting voice assistants I’ve seen, plus it actually had some personality IIRC. They even got the voice pretty darn close to that of Jen Taylor.

    At one point I managed to get the voice working in other TTS programs but the process was extremely convoluted and I’m sure it wouldn’t work anymore, if the files are even still buried within Windows.

    But back to your point, it will absolutely be Copilot or some other forgettable flavor-of-the-week data siphon AI










  • This is just off the top of my head from a bit of experience in KSP, but depending on the thrust-to-weight ratio of the engines, it would probably be able to take off, but you’re right, it wouldn’t win any fuel economy awards.

    Actually I doubt any material could stand that kind of wing loading, and the aerodynamics would probably be all kinds of fucked. Pretty apt analogy for a beginner developer.




  • These answers are all really fun but I didn’t see anyone point out one thing: why should we assume that our creators’ “computer” architecture is anything remotely similar to our technology? I’m thinking of something like SETI—We can’t just assume that all other life is carbon-based (though evidently it’s a pretty good criterion). The simulation could be running on some kind of dark matter machine or some other exotic material that we don’t even know about.

    Personally I don’t subscribe to the simulation theory. But if it were true, why would the system have any kind of limitation? I feel like if it can simulate everything from galactic superclusters down to strings vibrating in Planck Time, there are effectively no limits.

    Then again, infinity is quite a monster, so what do I know?