Archer6621

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by Archer6621 4mo ago
True. People don't do it though, because keeping skills sharp and using them takes effort, and we have a predisposition to be as efficient as possible with how we spend our effort; if there's an easier way to do it in our awarenes
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by Archer6621 5mo ago
Money is how you test whether someone is currently in privileged circumstances (be it their own doing or not), not whether they are good at argumentation or decision-making.
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by Archer6621 6mo ago
I think you can quantify the amount of creative expression you engage in by looking at all the decision points in the creative process where you are directly involved in making the decision. For an LLM prompt, that is going to be fairly lim
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by Archer6621 7mo ago
You're right. My point was more that LLMs are bad at (3D) math and spatial reasoning, which applies to renderers. Since Unity neatly abstracts the complexity away of this through an API that corresponds well to spoken language, and is
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by Archer6621 7mo ago
Actually, in the specific case of a 3D program it's the current generation of LLM's complete lack of ability in spatial reasoning that prevents them from "understanding" what you want when you ask it to e.g. "make a
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by Archer6621 7mo ago
A couple of other people have expressed similar sentiments here, and I think it's the truth. You have to be in a position to give before you can sustain it reliably and/or reap the benefits from it. Often though, this position is
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by Archer6621 8mo ago
I agree with your overall perspective here. You need the human in the loop to ground the request/direction in a reality with human needs, but that's about it. What I was getting at is that nothing stops you from asking AI what wou
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by Archer6621 8mo ago
What makes you think that AI cannot become significantly better than humans at "understanding" and modelling the world? If the AI is always more likely to be right than you or me due to being able to take more variables/knowl
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by Archer6621 9mo ago
It's even more general than that: LLMs seem to be exceedingly good at translating bodies of text from one domain to another. The frontier models also have excellent natural language translation capabilities, far surpassing e.g. Google
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by Archer6621 9mo ago
That makes sense. Some skills just have more utility than others. There are skills that are universally relevant (e.g. general problem solving), and then there are skills that are only relevant in a specific time period or a specific contex
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by Archer6621 9mo ago
That's a nice anecdote, and I agree with the sentiment - skill development comes from practice. It's tempting to see using AI as free lunch, but it comes with a cost in the form of skill atrophy. I reckon this is even the case whe
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by Archer6621 9mo ago
I agree. I also don't think forcing yourself to be an organizer is necessarily a solution to fixing the loneliness, as it also just requires a certain passion. In my experience, some people love organizing things, others just really ha
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by Archer6621 9mo ago
Important point. AKA the halo effect, and it can have a significant influence. In general, I feel that this is a more widespread problem with stories and experiences such as these - there are simply too many "hidden" variables to
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by Archer6621 9mo ago
If anything, it made it more clickbait-y due to being an unusual title.
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by Archer6621 11mo ago
I wonder whether it could be related to some kind of over-fitting, i.e. a prompting style that tends to work better with the older models, but performs worse with the newer ones.
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by Archer6621 1y ago
Your last point is also something that happened when the big game engines such as Unity became free to use. All of a sudden, Steam Greenlight was getting flooded with gems such as "potato peeling simulator" et al. I suppose it is
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by Archer6621 1y ago
By using AI, you learn how to use AI, not necessarily how to build architecturally sound and maintainable software, so being able to do much more in a limited amount of time will not necessarily make you a more knowledgeable programmer, or
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by Archer6621 2y ago
I think one difference between a hammer and an LLM is that hammers have existed since forever, so common sense is assumed to be there as to what their purpose is. For LLMs though, people are still discovering on a daily basis to what extent
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by Archer6621 3y ago
Wondering whether it subconsciously helps to have some sort of (automatic) expiration timer associated with things that end up in your "learning inbox". I know from myself that I tend to bookmark and save many interesting talks&#x
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by Archer6621 4y ago
Very nice! I like the idea that allows you to make notes skip certain bars, keeps the UI compact instead of having to show all the bars. It would be nice if you could place notes while dragging the mouse instead of having to click all the t
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by Archer6621 5y ago
Pretty damn cool, would be a nice feature :D EDIT: Mine looks like some tentacle-headed creature
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by Archer6621 5y ago
I also don't believe in this claim, or at least in it being a generally applicable thing. There's a point at which slowing down gives diminishing returns in my experience. I'm a music composer and I had to learn that the hard
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by Archer6621 5y ago
This is also still alive: https://openmpt.org/ What I liked most about .mod files is that you could actually open them directly in the editors and see how they were made, quite fun to do that with old games that still used
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by Archer6621 5y ago
I think he rather meant that it is petty that people make such a big fuss about it.
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by Archer6621 5y ago
Slightly rarer for me to play lately, haha! But you may have seen some of my clanmates, such as psyx|Pendulla, he plays quite often. You're right about the Russian presence, it has gotten to the point where using "))" to indi
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by Archer6621 5y ago
Xonotic is great, been playing it almost since it started. Also contributed some music to it! I've always been amazed in particular by how polished it is for an open source game. Don't think I've ever heard anyone that tried
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by Archer6621 6y ago
That's a good question, I wonder about this too. The games that have the entire environment covered by one screen all share this same frustration of getting surprised at the borders. But another thing that also used to be popular was t