NeutralCrane

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by NeutralCrane 3mo ago
What about that makes you think it was written by AI?
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by NeutralCrane 3mo ago
The Crusades and colonialism can’t be distilled down to single causes, but even if you tried, religious reasons would not be the main ones. Political and financial motivations were far bigger factors in both.
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by NeutralCrane 4mo ago
It’s absolutely a bad thing, and there’s extensive research demonstrating it
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by NeutralCrane 4mo ago
I was going to mention this as well. Everything is a graphic novel these days. Go to the bookstore, and at least half of the shelf space dedicated to children is for graphic novels (and that doesn’t include the manga section). Almost every
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by NeutralCrane 4mo ago
This is the kind of thing where the extent to which people get worked up over it far exceeds the benefit of actually doing so. Is it theoretically possible that people can write good commit messages without a framework? Yes. Does that work
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by NeutralCrane 4mo ago
> fix and refactor Both fix and refactor are both verbs and nouns
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by NeutralCrane 4mo ago
In contrast, when I worked in office, I found these fabled “lunches with the guy in accounts or the women in the sales team” didn’t ever happen. A lot of the mythical spontaneous collaboration that supposedly happens in office seems to be j
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by NeutralCrane 4mo ago
These games are less niche than you think. I for one played way more Snowboard Kids than SM64. The other factor to consider is OoT and SM64 are Nintendo properties. Nintendo is one of the most litigious companies in the industry. That alone
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by NeutralCrane 4mo ago
My personal opinion is that the very concept of IP misses the mark. “Property” requires scarcity. If I use something, it means someone else can’t use that thing. When I use a house for living, others are unable to do so. When I consume food
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by NeutralCrane 4mo ago
There’s a few modern TCGs who take this approach, like Riftbound (the League of Legends TCG that launched last year) and Sorcery Contested Realm. Other attempts to fix the mana problem include games like Lorcana and Flesh and Blood, in whic
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by NeutralCrane 4mo ago
You might be interested in the relatively new TCG Sorcery: Contested Realm. It’s a a game that plays lands to a grid and creatures on the lands, somewhat like the game you invented. Also has an artistic direction reminiscent of 90s era magi
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by NeutralCrane 4mo ago
Hard to believe that even 10 years later, people who don’t understand probability are still hung up on an event with a 30% chance of happening, happening.
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by NeutralCrane 4mo ago
Knowledge being rented out to individuals is the status quo. Already there are court rulings dictating that “training” on data is legal, but model weights also are non-copyrightable, which seems like a step in the direction of sanity.
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by NeutralCrane 4mo ago
You need a prediction market to know if the Second Coming of Christ is imminent?
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by NeutralCrane 4mo ago
I think an on over-fixation on “freedom” is what leads to many of the societal ills we (uniquely) deal with in America. Freedom itself is itself a nebulous concept. Are my freedoms restricted when I can’t drive 80mph through my neighborhood
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by NeutralCrane 5mo ago
IP law is a farce, and the open source licenses are built upon that farce. If a single good thing comes out of LLMs, it will be forcing society to recognize “intellectual property” for the dystopic stupidity that it is. I doubt it though.
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by NeutralCrane 5mo ago
I don’t think many people are getting daily news from LLMs. Journalism has been dying since long before LLMs burst onto the scene as well. There really isn’t even a defensible argument as to how this even should be illegal. The idea that so
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by NeutralCrane 5mo ago
This is interesting to me given that another factor seemingly correlated with dementia is the bacteria that causes gingivitis. The obvious speculation for a naive layman like myself is if dementia is simply driven by cumulative damage done
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by NeutralCrane 5mo ago
There’s really nothing preventing an LLM from having the context a doctor does. The two avenues of context gathering by the doctor are: - looking at their medical history/charts - asking follow up questions An LLM based system is trivi
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by NeutralCrane 5mo ago
They aren’t objectively incorrect. You are conflating two things: - You aren’t considered to have a fever until you get to 100.4. Anything less than that isn’t considered a fever, let alone a concerning one - A fever isn’t considered concer
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by NeutralCrane 5mo ago
There is a significant chance they do get away with it.
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by NeutralCrane 5mo ago
I don’t think “the idea that our hero could be--gasp--a person of NON-royal lineage!” was even in the top 10 of the biggest issues people had with that movie.
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by NeutralCrane 6mo ago
The point is that the same thing is likely to occur with the arts
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by NeutralCrane 6mo ago
This will literally never happen so it is not worth considering
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by NeutralCrane 6mo ago
This might be a solution if there wasn’t staggering wealth inequality prior to AI.
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by NeutralCrane 6mo ago
You say that as if there aren’t an enormous amount of people for whom $2500 isn’t an enormous amount of money. Even in wealthy nations like the US, that equates to approximately 7% of the personal income for the average person. But for the
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by NeutralCrane 6mo ago
Even in non-capitalist systems people aren’t working for free
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by NeutralCrane 6mo ago
With an individual tendency towards betting? No. But I think Capitalism absolutely is a huge part of the fanatical drive to financialize everything, and the broader regulatory environment that enables the creation of entities like Polymarke
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by NeutralCrane 6mo ago
Yes, and their business model has been selling books about non-falsifiable predictions far out into the future. “Futurists” like Kurzweil are as reliable as astrologists, and should be taken just as seriously.
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by NeutralCrane 6mo ago
I think it’s learned sociopathy. People who start out knowing that a particular behavior is wrong, but over time are conditioned to feel like it’s fine, at least in certain situations (the corporate world being a prime example).

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