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by the_af 8mo ago
> Generally speaking, my feeling is that most code doesn't need to be carefully-crafted. We have error budgets for a reason, and AI is just shifting how we allocate them. It's only in certain roles where small mistakes can end
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by the_af 8mo ago
I mean you're not helping. Why is that?
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by the_af 8mo ago
Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows?
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by the_af 8mo ago
I've heard Andor described as having the same vibe as The Mandalorian's episode "The Convert"; the one about the former Imperial scientist being rehabilitated and living in an apartment block with other former Imperials.
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by the_af 8mo ago
But "impressive" is not a benchmark, it's a human reaction. I care about being impressed, as do many people.
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by the_af 8mo ago
> I think now you are freed up to make a shooter that people will actually want to play. Or at least attempt it. Taking this to an extreme, let's say vibe coding becomes real enough, and frictionless enough, that you can prompt a
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by the_af 8mo ago
> It's hard to tell any more. Wait, I think I have the answer! "You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip
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by the_af 8mo ago
Of course they'll learn. LLM bots have been spotted on HN using that hipster all lower case style of writing. i can write like this if i want. or if i were a clever ai bot.
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by the_af 8mo ago
Yes, and also many fandoms lack the maturity to know when to say "no, I do not want to know MORE details, and certainly not about this obscure secondary character's difficult childhood that explains everything they did later in li
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by the_af 8mo ago
> except The Mandalorian Mandalorian started strong, with cool spaghetti Western vibes, and then ended up devolving into mediocrity too. In my opinion. Haven't watched Andor yet.
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by the_af 8mo ago
I think that's the joke.
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by the_af 8mo ago
But working on DEI on your boss' orders in 2024 wasn't reprobable, anymore than bringing your boss a cup of coffee to their desk was. The point is that the shift in what is considered "a capital crime" is arbitrary, this
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by the_af 8mo ago
"Just be yourself" seems to me a lot like the rightfully discredited "if you don't have anything to hide...". Everybody has something to hide. Everybody has said things they regret, or meant to be heard by some peop
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by the_af 8mo ago
> I operate by a simple, general rule - I don't often say anything online I wouldn't say directly to someone's face in real life. I think this isn't enough for the digital age, simply because "comments you&#x27
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by the_af 8mo ago
My guess is that a statistical analysis of other things such as access patterns, timestamps, content you engage with, etc, could de-anonymize you regardless of the phrasing you use, so LLMs won't save you.
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by the_af 8mo ago
I don't disagree actually. It is a fun project!
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by the_af 8mo ago
Wow, impressive! Though I don't dig that "crumpled" style as much, maybe a bit of it but not this much.
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by the_af 8mo ago
Am I the only one who starts folding an origami design, gets distracted, and somehow ends up with either a crane or a frog?
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by the_af 8mo ago
Wow, those look fantastic! I love Blade Runner (I'm obsessed with it), but the unicorn origami never clicked with me. These ones look much better.
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by the_af 8mo ago
I think by "they", Forgeties79 means me, the_af. I get the general point you're making. Indeed, Altman's take is capitalism taken to 11. There was a lot of that going on before AI or the past few decades, but I don'
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by the_af 8mo ago
Ok, let me reframe in a less assertive way: it's not common to say that you should hire human artists "because of water", so uncommon it's not a widely held belief I've seen in artist or hobbyist communities, and th
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by the_af 8mo ago
The LLM cannot derive meaning in a human sense. The shapes of clouds and positions of stars aren't completely random; there is useful information in them, to varying degrees (e.g. some clouds do look like, say, a rabbit, enough that
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by the_af 8mo ago
If you haven't read the scifi classic "City" by Clifford Simak, please do so! (But your comment hints that you have already).
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by the_af 8mo ago
We haven't evolved past the point intent matters. First, because there's intent in the very verbose initial prompt. Second, because you have to factor in the quality of the output. I don't want to be a killjoy, but past the (
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by the_af 8mo ago
The AI cannot drive meaning from the dog's input because there's no useful information encoded in there. It's effectively a random string (if there's less randomness, it's just because it's a dog's paw phy
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by the_af 8mo ago
> There are people who say that you should use a real artist instead of AI due to AI's water use. Nobody I know says this. In fact, I've never heard of this ever before, and I read artist and hobby communities pretty hostile
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by the_af 8mo ago
Yup. The Torment Nexus meme proved depressingly accurate.
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by the_af 8mo ago
That's ok. To be honest I had to suppress a similar feeling when I noticed the dog is just an entropy generator. But then I realized I find this kind of whimsy article more fun than a lot of what gets accepted unquestioningly here on H
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by the_af 8mo ago
It helps to picture some sort of extraterrestrial saying this. Maybe someone like Alan Tudyk in "Resident Alien". It makes much more sense than to assume it's a human being saying these things.
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by the_af 8mo ago
> It's a prompt that makes an LLM turn iuqefxygn9urg0fh1 into a little Godot game. It's like a slot machine with no payoff, and the dog component is slapped on top of it and makes no difference whatsoever in the project. Righ

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