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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
Offtopic, but if by "Dragon Wing series" you are referring to the Death Gate Cycle by Weis & Hickman, it has been beloved to me since I read it as a teen in the 90s. I have gone through this entire series at least 3 times des
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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
I kept trying to find 'the people who have it all figured out' for way too long. I was in my mid-20s before I able to start letting go of it. I'm still angry and upset that there are so many entities which prey upon this nat
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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
If you know what you're doing, you put anything important on an M-disc. Everything else is prone to random flaking. Some discs last much longer than others, but there is not always an easy way to know in advance unless you do a deep
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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
Let's also not forget that humans are more than capable of creating tons of 'slop' far worse than any current SOTA model would create, and I would argue the majority of what people write is in this category. Models are still
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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
> blandly plausible filler material The real salient point, in my opinion, is whether we can get generative AI to create game content which is not this, but rather novel, engaging and interesting with a solid gameplay loop. I'm ge
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by slfnflctd 3mo ago
> I love the feeling of uncovering the little pieces of story and wondering if I've got it all and how much more there is To me, this is great too, and it's why I still enjoy reading fiction. However, having conversational NPCs
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by slfnflctd 4mo ago
I see someone else recently read Children of Strife . Damn, I really enjoyed that book. Best of the series so far, in my opinion.
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by slfnflctd 4mo ago
Not only this, but another perverse incentive is hereby introduced: Where published statements are carefully crafted to seem like LLM generated hallucinations, but are written in a way which opens various kinds of plausibly 'acciden
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by slfnflctd 4mo ago
I forgot that I once had (and frequently wore) one of those long ago. Pleasant reminder.
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by slfnflctd 4mo ago
"The market can remain irrational..." I called bubble on Tesla and Bitcoin both over 10 years ago. Still going strong. It's a whole lotta chaos, fueling some pretty messed up stuff. It is hard to watch.
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
I mean, I agree, but good luck with that. Especially in the current environment. We need to plan for the world we're most likely to be living in in addition to the one we want to live in but probably won't. The latter energy i
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
If at all reasonably possible, try to find a place where drugs can be tested to see what they really are (sadly a rare thing still, but it exists). The next best thing to do is talk with people in the scene and find out what they consider a
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
Bitcoin doesn't have long conversations with you, including deeply technical ones, in a way that you thought only a human being could just 5 years ago. They are not the same. I agree fully with you on the potential for energy waste. W
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
This is a satisfying way to deal with frustration. Unfortunately, it also gets spit all over whatever device you're speaking toward. Sometimes worth it for sure, though.
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
As a longtime student of the human condition, it is so obvious to me that this is real, has been happening, and will continue to happen as long as homo sapiens (in our current state) exists. False beliefs are not a neutral thing to ignore.
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
I think part of it depends on what kinds of friendships you have. Some kids have major problems finding healthy, positive relationships with other kids in real life, often for very arbitrary reasons. For a subset of those, interacting thro
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
Poor people often get a pass for various reasons. Many/most of those reasons may be bad or stupid ones, but I see it as a silver lining. There is often much more of a sense of community than in other places as well. Giving kids acces
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
AI will certainly cause job loss. It already has (regardless of to what degree it was an excuse for something else in many cases). I agree with what you say, though. The big question to me is whether the people who lost those jobs will ha
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
My childhood was free range. Some of the greatest memories of my life (admittedly, also some not-so-great ones, but still) are from that time period. Maybe I was lucky to not get severely injured or abducted, but I do feel it helped me bec
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
Pure speculation, but simply the presence of em-dashes may be a statement in itself. One of the big problems I see currently is all the wild accusations being thrown around by seemingly half the internet that every little thing has been AI
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
Far too many of us (particularly younger people, but not only them) undervalue or are dismissive of philosophy. I once was like this, partly because at the time I'd been brought up - like most humans - to believe my parents' reli
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
Same thing happened to me. My reading comprehension isn't always great first thing in the morning, but I still feel like the title was/is somewhat confusingly worded.
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
Yeah, I'm kinda sad about that one. Most of my friends and family are aware many of these are fake now, but argue that it still invokes the same response in us so it's okay. For me, though, however intangible or irrational it ma
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
> this is presumably written by technical folks, who know how these systems actually work, and should know better than to use such anthropomorphic, magicalhocus-pocus terminology I get your point. But regardless of whether we can defini
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
It may be relatively achievable to get 10 'friends' into ethical alignment via helping them all develop a deeper perspective on philosophy in general and a particular, finite set of ethical questions specifically. Doing this with
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
This particular section of your comment sounds a helluvalot like some of the SAP implementations I've seen: > it is not trivial software in the worst sense, it tries to do too much, while not being particularly good at any one of th
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by slfnflctd 5mo ago
Anyone who has seriously studied philosophy and/or science is aware of the many difficulties with definition of terms. I'm fairly convinced that at least half the criticism Dawkins has received is more a result of him being (perha
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by slfnflctd 6mo ago
Let's not forget that Waymo requires an extensive, custom mapping and software/pre-training development process for every new city they operate in, are only in 10 cities total after over 20 years, and are still nowhere near profit
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by slfnflctd 6mo ago
> my nerdy colleagues were going wild with home automation stuff [...] I wanted to play with it too [...] these guys weren't spending less time than me turning on their lights Yep. The IoT home automation stuff is still less perfor
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by slfnflctd 6mo ago
There are too many things that can go wrong, you should never look away from the road for more than a second or two. Adaptive cruise control, lane keeping, blind spot detection and emergency braking are all the modern automation I want in a

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