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I can't see anything that Gen AI NPCs would add unless maybe you're talking about a Sims kind of game where the interactions are the point, and they don't have to adhere to a defined progression. Other than that, it's a
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TBH I haven't seen a single use of LLMs in games that wasn't better served by traditional algorithms beyond less repetitive NPC interactions. Maybe once they get good enough to create usable rigged and textured meshes with enough
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The interface, look and feel, controls, color pallet, textures, animation, camera angles and movement, icons, branding, music, sfx, vfx... Those are all part of the experience and why it succeeded. Especially in games— people play games for
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> nothing in Minecraft as a game (rather than the code) deserves intellectual property protection > excellent, well-designed implementation And there we see the problem laid bare. Excellent designs that are well-executed are not worth
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Avoiding legal and ethical issues. This stuff was made by a bunch of real people, and people still get their name in movie and game credits even if they got a paycheck from it. Microsoft shamelessly vacuuming up proprietary content didn&#
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Not just wrong, but superficially credible-looking wrong, which is much worse. "Fake it till you make it" works fine for some things, but not a large chunk of what they're trying to sell AI for.
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Yeah I avoid porous things in general for that sort of work, but I remember hearing that the lower-end of Mexican ceramic crocks are particularly bad. I see a lot of lead recalls for Chinese products but it could just be because there are s
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The danger in the US involves general poor tea handling with iced tea. Sun Tea involves leaving water and tea bags in the sun for a long while to do kind of a cold brew. Many places (shitty donut shops, greasy spoon diners, etc) make iced t
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Well they've got a couple things going for them— they're sealed so there's very little chance of cross-contamination in transit or storage, and since it's a ready-to-eat food item rather than a raw ingredient, at least t
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There's no single important thing— It's a combination of killing as many pathogens as you can with heat or chemicals, removing as much material as you can that bacteria feed on, and drying. Drying isn't going to do any good i
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It is impressive... though I must admit the prices are impressive, too. I'm going to be driving a relative to Florida next week from New England, and then flying back. Anyone that knows the seasonal migratory patterns of the new englan
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Dude-- I don't even have a downvote button for replies to my comments, and neither of my rarely used alt accounts even has enough rep to downvote. From the looks of the comments you left here you've spent far too much time on Twit
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Ha! I was like "Ok whatever that shit is"
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For sure. It definitely lends a chicken/egg component to it. That problem can't get better without more people involved but more people aren't likely to get involved because of that problem.
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I think one of the big problems with the ham scene is, ironically, communication. If you search the internet for information about using ham radio, the loudest voices are sour, cantankerous forum dwellers for whom unwanted clandestine vigil
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by chefandy 2y ago
> I don't think there's anything to get - it's just for fun. It started as an AARL one-off for the 110th anniversary of the establishment of national parks in the US, and proved popular, and turned into its own thing. >
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I have better things to do than watch hn all the time. I'll put exactly as much thought into my response as you put into any of yours: "" And I'll add that I don't need to know how to do a valve replacement to know
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https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/AI-poised-to-...
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Sure, that's not the point of what you said but it's the premise. > We poured similarly large amounts of resources into hundreds of companies in the dotcom boom, crypto, and so on. I don't agree with your ostensible implic
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I'm not implying that there isn't money going into AI in medical research, and a bunch of other worthy pursuits, also. However, there's also an extraordinary amount of resources going into dumb shit that nobody wants that co
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Great. I'd rather add a drop in that bucket than have another model trained to make my phone do something I wish it didn't do.
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"It's what we've always done" is a classic non-argument against doing something. Is there an amount we could spend on something that essentially winds up being useless that you think would be bad? Do you not think there&
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You misread my comment. I think solving problems like finding genetic patterns in cancer is exactly what we should be investing in. That is not even close to the largest resource sinks for AI model training right now. In the resources were
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Cool response
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Surely the nihilist approach will be an effective solution.
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You don't feel that the astonishing amount of resources poured into current consumer level AI products is different?
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Good thing silicon valley is pumping billions of dollars and burning through unimaginable natural resources in the midst of a climate crisis to make systems that compete with commercial artists by selling cheap knock-offs of their artwork a
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Cool. Nothing says intellectual confidence like refusing to acknowledge someone pointing out that you're spouting complete nonsense. Glad you were able to protect your ego by deciding I was talking about something that was more conve
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And considering how many people use some sort of abstraction layer like an ORM, have databases installed as part of some deployed application, or just do basic CRUD stuff, it probably would have worked on a postgres install from the 90s. I
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Nobody ever went broke banking on the laziness of the American public. People could also go to the pizza shop or liquor store or grocery store or 7-11 or whatever instead of paying a shitload more delivery but they don't.

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