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Yeah. Though they do have some nods towards realism, like how most combat systems are fully automated. PDCs fire automatically (at most they need a designated target, and for point defense they just fire), and even torpedos are assigned to
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I really missed on watching Babylon 5 (it was during my time, but I unfortunately dismissed it as just another Star Trek wannabe, and only learned later this was unfair). I wish I had given it a chance. I cannot watch it now because of seve
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> But it also fell apart immediately. Like, they only sent 3 people, 2 whom died on this UBER CRITICAL SAVE THE PLANET idea? (I didn't downvote, you have a right to dislike a popular movie or book) They explain why only 3 people (
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> When I saw the series adaptation of The Expanse, it was really obvious they played a lot of artistic license to make it exciting. A real space battle would be dots firing invisible dots at each other. "Close quarter battle"
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> (This is one major reason I play Netrunner instead, where your action economy can be spent on draw. You might have weak turns, but never non-turns.) Is Netrunner something you can get into these days, or is it hopelessly OOP? I remem
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That's not a charitable reading of the comment, and furthermore, it's not even a reasonable assumption. Other comments clarify that the "theft" is in quotes because it's a figurative theft, not from Disney to themse
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Very likely yes. I was very familiar with this story, and other "Arabian" tales, well before Disney made the original animated version. We also had Grimm's fairy tales, which I loved reading, and nowadays am reading to my dau
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> Would the DRM exist without piracy? I think so, because their main goal is to prevent unwanted use of the digital product -- to the detriment of end users -- in more ways than just piracy. In fact, they don't solve the piracy is
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> It's the same walled garden principle As I said, it can be both things, both bad.
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Where did I mention the web?
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> Those who continue are those who do it for passion Nothing kills passion faster than your only audience being an AI crawler.
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You and I did whenever we assumed the pixels were an upload of a digitized photo taken with an actual camera of, say, a historical event, or something in nature (e.g. some rare bird), a birthday party, etc. The photo could be staged (e.g. C
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> AI media generation is a red herring, the main thing is tracking, ID verification, constant social credit-like ratings, etc. That's what is coming. It can be both things. I worry about tracking and the post-truth world of ever
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> I would even go as far as to say that you pirates are the reason I have to have a DRM I think this is largely an incorrect take. DRM is anti consumer, not anti piracy. In fact, it has done very little to deter actual piracy (and reme
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Once you get sensitized, it gets worse every year, right? Since my teenage years I was mildly allergic to pollen, and now in my adulthood it seems to be getting progressively worse. Each spring is worse than the previous one, and the antihi
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> If only, but no. Thanks to equally ubiquitous video and image editing and now AI and the profit potential of social media there are more such claims than anyone can count. That's a more recent development. UFO sightings surge wh
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Hm, anyone who's a nerd, artist or performer will tell you that's only partly true. There's intrinsic motivation, sure, but artists and performers also have an idealized audience in mind; someone to share with. It could be
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Ok, I indeed misunderstood your point. I'm not sold on the idea that as the chat session goes longer, the probability of an LLM saying "I'm tired" is increased; I'm not convinced this is modeled in LLMs at all. As f
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Yes, you are concluding this in the initial comment of this chain. LLMs cannot get "tired" or "lazy", that's just you projecting animal behavior on something that's not an animal. Now you're moving the goa
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That doesn't seem to be laziness, and is unrelated to how long the session has been going on. It's crazy that we're concluding "personality" or human-like traits from this. There's definitely human behavior her
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How do you know you're not reading things that aren't there? LLMs are very good at roleplaying, and they will pick up on hints you may inadvertently be giving them (about them being "tired" and needing "rest",
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"Personality" an "emergent behaviors" are not synonyms.
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> My favorite example is AI "getting tired" and "lazy" during long coding session Never seen this even once , nor anyone I know ever reported this. Do you have an example?
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> But this is already the case now, no? The only person you do self-improvement or hobbies for is yourself or your closest social circle. Well, you could be a professional in the field instead of a hobbyist. But not anymore (in this sc
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> post-scarcity wealth where people pretty much spend their time how they want In a true post-scarcity society where Musk et al are off colonizing Mars while you're stuck on Earth on UBI, doing what exactly? In such a future, AI
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> Basically, here's a solution. Find problems for it. Same where I work, and I suppose everywhere. It's upsetting, and there's no way of politely voicing concerns about this without looking like a luddite... which is obv
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Agreed, plus it ignores all the commentary making a fuss about phones listening, even here on HN. Just because it's a losing battle doesn't mean nobody cares.
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"Better how"? If you're going to dismiss a comment, you better address the points they are making, like: > I was reading article recently that said that a majority of people interviewed did not want to use AI agents simpl
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I noticed this from former coworkers who I know couldn't write beyond first grader level a few years ago. They weren't good at their native language either. Now they write "competent" blog posts on LinkedIn that seem 100
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I like plain text. You can always post process it into any other format you prefer.

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