The internet is already mostly bots talking to bots. Now it will be AI talking to AI and training on the shit the feed each other. An AI “human centipede” situation.
Except if the AI companies get what they want, and age/id verification goes through globally as seemingly planned, and they get a convenient “this is safe to train on” stamp on all their data.
The death of online privacy for most/all, better training for the models they use to manipulate public opinion, easier protection against scrapers (can’t have your competitors stealing the things you’ve stolen first) and a sweet deal for the advertisers that can rest easy knowing their ads are shown to real people.
Last time I went to a reddit thread because of a search for some arcane information, I found it disgusting how many of the comments were OBVIOUSLY bots. I even checked a few comment histories just to be sure.
Last night I got a wild hair and decided to search for ergonomic gaming mice. Most of the top results were to Reddit - and holy shit is it bad. I swear half the comments were in the same format like:
“As a 39 year old engineer who likes X and Y, I like the blah blah blah”.
Wow, that is fascinating! As a 37 year old web surfer, I personally would never browse Reddit without using the latest version of Google Chrome™ as my browser of choice. No other browser comes close.
Logitech G502 is an awesome wired mouse, and the Mx Master 2S is the best mouse I’ve ever had. Both are worth considering. Both have a wheel that can free spin if you want, which is nicer than you might initially think. The master has a lot of cool shit it does, and has shockingly low latency for a wireless mouse.
Razer Deathadders are extremely popular, but just know that Razer peripherals have (or used to have) high failure rates. I had 2 different adders that failed under normal use in about a year before I ended up with the Logitech options I mentioned above. Had both Logitech mice for several years - no issues.
Thanks! Yeah I have a Logitech G500s and a Razer Basilisk V3 X Hyper speed right now. After using my computer for a while, my wrist gets uncomfortable. I’m thinking of moving to a vertical mouse. Maybe a Keychron M5 or a Logitech MX Vertical.
The high failure rates of both Razer and recently Logitech made me try the Razer Basilisk with the optical switches. So far so good on multiclick failures, and it works fine without Razer’s garbage software. It’s a 502 knockoff ergonomically, so its also got that going for it.
I just with someone would recreate the G701 with optical or hall switches, and a decent battery life.
We have similar tastes in mice. I have a bunch of variants of the MX Master mice, some from old jobs, some I purchased outright. The full sized clicker variant is my favorite. I can’t vibe with the soft-click buttons like I can with the clickies. They’re all decent mice though and work well under Linux and even Android. I have a very similar Logitech (but including wireless) and it’s great for gaming. I remapped the forward and backward keys to raise and lower DPI using a Linux tool (I forget what it was, probably Piper). Now it’s perfect. I don’t see myself buying a mouse for quite some time.
I haven’t been crazy about Razer stuff. Had a keyboard die and a mouse that was meh.
Tl:dr the user above me is right and knows their mice!
weirdly, the best mouse I’ve used is perixx mx-2000
the newer years aren’t as good as my older one (now like a decade old if not more), but they’re still more comfortable than any other mice I’ve tried. which I find weird because it’s all sharp edges and stuff. but it just works for me. and I do have RSI issues
I also find it’s the mouse where I had to reposition my hand the least. I’m currently using some razer mouse I think, and I’ve tried a bunch of other ones, and all of them have smooth surfaces where I find I lose my grip and it’s like anti ergonomic because of it. whereas the perixx had a nice sharp edge that I could very lightly hold on to
I’ve got an older mouse too that you could add weights to like that. Was nice feeling like your mouse was substantial. Now most mice are made with as little material as possible and they sell that as a bonus of being ultra light weight. I hate how they feel!
Like 5-10 years ago there was a “subreddit simulator” which would generate fake reddit posts generated from specific subreddits. It was almost entirely garbage, but that time the /r/askreddit simulator posted “Redditors of reddit, what’s the biggest mistake my mom makes in bed?” probably justified that whole endeavor. Such a perfect encapsulation of the content.
There have been a few over time. It originally started out as a project to test some new Reddit features with fake users, using Markov/GPT-2 bots, and then it became funny enough to let users see.
Okay, that’s hilarious. But I had to do a double-take when it dawned on me that AI has indeed been with us for nearly 5 years now…
I remember in 2021 there was all the buzz about “AI is already here, it’s just extremely flawed still and not even close to ready for use. The government needs to regulate it before some idiotic businessmen do something stupid with it.”
And then the attempted legislation got shot down because it would ostensibly “hamper innovation,” and then the first commercial LLMs hit the scene and then everybody lost their minds.
The internet is already mostly bots talking to bots. Now it will be AI talking to AI and training on the shit the feed each other. An AI “human centipede” situation.
Except if the AI companies get what they want, and age/id verification goes through globally as seemingly planned, and they get a convenient “this is safe to train on” stamp on all their data.
The death of online privacy for most/all, better training for the models they use to manipulate public opinion, easier protection against scrapers (can’t have your competitors stealing the things you’ve stolen first) and a sweet deal for the advertisers that can rest easy knowing their ads are shown to real people.
Yay.
Will this lead to AI data center shootings? Wherein AI drones go into other data centers and start shooting up the place?
I’d call this macabre, but nothing value would be lost.
Not nothing; RAM Other than that though…
Not my precious DIMMs!
don’t worry we will save our rgb blessed children.
Iran has been threatening to blow up data centers. Stop teasing me, you crazy bastards!
PLEASE let them go ahead 🙏🙏🙏
Last time I went to a reddit thread because of a search for some arcane information, I found it disgusting how many of the comments were OBVIOUSLY bots. I even checked a few comment histories just to be sure.
Last night I got a wild hair and decided to search for ergonomic gaming mice. Most of the top results were to Reddit - and holy shit is it bad. I swear half the comments were in the same format like:
“As a 39 year old engineer who likes X and Y, I like the blah blah blah”.
Wow, that is fascinating! As a 37 year old web surfer, I personally would never browse Reddit without using the latest version of Google Chrome™ as my browser of choice. No other browser comes close.
(This comment was definitely not posted by a bot)
“I’m 37!”
“What?”
“I’m 37, I’m not old.”
“Well I couldn’t just call you ‘man,’ now could I?”
“You could’ve called me Dennis.”
“I didn’t know you were called Dennis!”
“Well you didn’t bother to ask, now did you?”
“Look, can you please just tell me who lives in that castle?”
Logitech G502 is an awesome wired mouse, and the Mx Master 2S is the best mouse I’ve ever had. Both are worth considering. Both have a wheel that can free spin if you want, which is nicer than you might initially think. The master has a lot of cool shit it does, and has shockingly low latency for a wireless mouse.
Razer Deathadders are extremely popular, but just know that Razer peripherals have (or used to have) high failure rates. I had 2 different adders that failed under normal use in about a year before I ended up with the Logitech options I mentioned above. Had both Logitech mice for several years - no issues.
Thanks! Yeah I have a Logitech G500s and a Razer Basilisk V3 X Hyper speed right now. After using my computer for a while, my wrist gets uncomfortable. I’m thinking of moving to a vertical mouse. Maybe a Keychron M5 or a Logitech MX Vertical.
The high failure rates of both Razer and recently Logitech made me try the Razer Basilisk with the optical switches. So far so good on multiclick failures, and it works fine without Razer’s garbage software. It’s a 502 knockoff ergonomically, so its also got that going for it.
I just with someone would recreate the G701 with optical or hall switches, and a decent battery life.
We have similar tastes in mice. I have a bunch of variants of the MX Master mice, some from old jobs, some I purchased outright. The full sized clicker variant is my favorite. I can’t vibe with the soft-click buttons like I can with the clickies. They’re all decent mice though and work well under Linux and even Android. I have a very similar Logitech (but including wireless) and it’s great for gaming. I remapped the forward and backward keys to raise and lower DPI using a Linux tool (I forget what it was, probably Piper). Now it’s perfect. I don’t see myself buying a mouse for quite some time.
I haven’t been crazy about Razer stuff. Had a keyboard die and a mouse that was meh.
Tl:dr the user above me is right and knows their mice!
If you’re still searching, razer and corsair both seem to have good options in various styles and spanning different price ranges.
They’re not the only options out there of course, but they’re what I narrowed my choices down to when I was looking not that long ago.
Akko also has one that looks nice if you want something simple without all the extra inputs, but a high DPI/polling rate.
Thanks!
No problem!
weirdly, the best mouse I’ve used is perixx mx-2000
the newer years aren’t as good as my older one (now like a decade old if not more), but they’re still more comfortable than any other mice I’ve tried. which I find weird because it’s all sharp edges and stuff. but it just works for me. and I do have RSI issues
I also find it’s the mouse where I had to reposition my hand the least. I’m currently using some razer mouse I think, and I’ve tried a bunch of other ones, and all of them have smooth surfaces where I find I lose my grip and it’s like anti ergonomic because of it. whereas the perixx had a nice sharp edge that I could very lightly hold on to
I’ve got an older mouse too that you could add weights to like that. Was nice feeling like your mouse was substantial. Now most mice are made with as little material as possible and they sell that as a bonus of being ultra light weight. I hate how they feel!
With the own social network Moltbook (Humans are welcome to observe)
It would be an interesting experiment if it weren’t such a waste of resources…
Like 5-10 years ago there was a “subreddit simulator” which would generate fake reddit posts generated from specific subreddits. It was almost entirely garbage, but that time the /r/askreddit simulator posted “Redditors of reddit, what’s the biggest mistake my mom makes in bed?” probably justified that whole endeavor. Such a perfect encapsulation of the content.
There have been a few over time. It originally started out as a project to test some new Reddit features with fake users, using Markov/GPT-2 bots, and then it became funny enough to let users see.
Them calling themselves bots or coincidentally being unable to tell cats and dogs apart was also quite funny back in the day. (They didn’t do any actual image recognition, it was just making links and a title.)
Okay, that’s hilarious. But I had to do a double-take when it dawned on me that AI has indeed been with us for nearly 5 years now…
I remember in 2021 there was all the buzz about “AI is already here, it’s just extremely flawed still and not even close to ready for use. The government needs to regulate it before some idiotic businessmen do something stupid with it.”
And then the attempted legislation got shot down because it would ostensibly “hamper innovation,” and then the first commercial LLMs hit the scene and then everybody lost their minds.