Nihilartikel (u/Nihilartikel)

Nihilartikel commented on Is a corporation a slave? Many philosophers think so theconversation.com/is-a-... · Posted by u/hhs

Nihilartikel · 11 days ago

In circles of occult technology, a corporation would simply be understood as an "Egregore". Which is itself might be considered a slave of its constituents, but no more than they are a slave of the collective will.

Am I a slave to my cells? Are my cells a slave of 'me' (whatever 'me' is)?

Nihilartikel commented on Why are there so many rationalist cults? asteriskmag.com/issues/11... · Posted by u/glenstein

mlinhares · 15 days ago

> One is Black Lotus, a Burning Man camp led by alleged rapist Brent Dill, which developed a metaphysical system based on the tabletop roleplaying game Mage the Ascension.

What the actual f. This is such an insane thing to read and understand what it means that i might need to go and sit in silence for the rest of the day.

How did we get to this place with people going completely nuts like this?

Nihilartikel · 15 days ago

I'm entertaining sending my kiddo to a Waldorf School, because it genuinely seems pretty good.

But looking into the underlying Western Esoteric Spirit Science, 'Anthroposophy' (because Theosophy wouldn't let him get weird enough) by Rudolph Steiner, has been quite a ride. The point being that.. humans have a pretty endless capacity to go ALL IN on REALLY WEIRD shit, as long as it promises to fix their lives if they do everything they're told. Naturally if their lives aren't fixed, then they did it wrong or have karmic debt to pay down, so YMMV.

In any case, I'm considering the latent woo-cult atmosphere as a test of the skeptical inoculation that I've tried to raise my child with.

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trgn · 21 days ago

this exists on very large scale for students in belgium, but not allowed for working adults.

Nihilartikel · 21 days ago

Belgium is overpaying for labor then! Open up those dormitories for workers and you can squeeze employee costs down at least 20% and harvest that value! (cynicism)

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Nihilartikel · 2 months ago

I once had a kind DM accommodate my misuse of the 'summon steed' spell to materialize my war horse within the allowed 30 foot range above an enemy to drop it on their head.

Nihilartikel commented on Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM theregister.com/2025/05/0... · Posted by u/mpweiher

dannersy · 4 months ago

Companies building entire workflows to replace existing ones on technology that is already expensive, is losing money on every use, failed to show it can reliably do the things it claims, has burned unknown billions in advancing marginally, and will almost certainly get exponentially more expensive as the AI providers realize they have no more investors as we precariously navigate possible global recession and trade/supply chain complications.

What could go wrong?

Nihilartikel · 4 months ago

At least it's not shitcoin crypto!

Nihilartikel commented on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/josephcsible

Nihilartikel · 4 months ago

Wonder how well it will work from chromium in Wayland.

That is, I'm genuinely curious. Like is there any protocol or standard to mark a part of a DOM or a canvas as uncapturable? Up though the compositor and pipewire or however it happens these days?

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Nihilartikel · 4 months ago

Man, I had a hand-me-down Atari 800 with 48k. It was great, but I coveted the c64 with its crunchy cool sid sounds.

Then I had a 486 vga pc that could barely scroll a game at 60fps (except for ones like jazz jackrabbit with its hardware scrolling wizardry) and I coveted the Amiga with its smooth scaling and rotation and 4 channel samples.

Nihilartikel commented on Gemini 2.5 Flash developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

cdelsolar · 4 months ago

what tool are you using 2.5-pro-exp through? Cline? Or the browser directly?

Nihilartikel · 4 months ago

For 2.5 pro exp I've been attaching files into AIStudio in the browser in some cases. In others, I have been using vscode's Gemini Code Assist which I believe recently started using 2.5 Pro. Though at one point I noticed that it was acting noticeably dumber, and over in the corner, sure enough it warned that it had reverted to 2.0 due to heavy traffic.

For the bulk data processing I just used the python API and Jupyter notebooks to build things out, since it was a one-time effort.

Nihilartikel commented on Gemini 2.5 Flash developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

jdthedisciple · 4 months ago

> thousands of points of nasty unstructured client data

What I always wonder in these kinds of cases is: What makes you confident the AI actually did a good job since presumably you haven't looked at the thousands of client data yourself?

For all you know it made up 50% of the result.

Nihilartikel · 4 months ago

For what it's worth, I did check over many hundreds of them. Formatted things for side by side comparison and ordered by some heuristics of data nastiness.

It wasn't a one shot deal at all. I found the ambiguous modalities in the data and hand corrected examples to include in the prompt. After about 10 corrections and some exposition about the cases it seemed to misundestand, it got really good. Edit: not too different from a feedback loop with an intern ;)

Nihilartikel commented on Gemini 2.5 Flash developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

arnaudsm · 4 months ago

Gemini flash models have the least hype, but in my experience in production have the best bang for the buck and multimodal tooling.

Google is silently winning the AI race.

Nihilartikel · 4 months ago

100% agree. I had Gemini flash 2 chew through thousands of points of nasty unstructured client data and it did a 'better than human intern' level conversion into clean structured output for about $30 of API usage. I am sold. 2.5 pro experimental is a different league though for coding. I'm leveraging it for massive refactoring now and it is almost magical.