I have a shower as warm as I can to open all my pores and clean them out.
Then I slam the water all the way to the coldest possible and force myself to stay under it for two minutes.
That's a huge wake-up call.
Why do the techbrodudes always read dystopian literature and view it as a model, not a warning?
And the idiot is selling this as something GOOD!?
Just execute every LLM researcher. They're going to destroy civilization if left unchecked.
I'd reward you with an elephant ear sandwich for this joke, but I'm fresh out of those giant buns.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/profit
Time to brush up on your vocabulary a little, Sparky. Definition 3.
You don't play D&D. You don't use AI. But you're in a thread about AI being used for D&D.
This makes you either one of the JAQing off assholes or a liar.
Which is it?
"Profit" doesn't have to mean in cash.
But it is very telling that this is what you reach for.
Say "I am not any kind of artist" without using those words.
Ah. OK, wholesale infringement of the works of others is A-OK as long as you use it for your personal profit.
Yes. Wholesale infringement of the works of others so that you can turn a profit is a great thing! I can't see anything that could possibly go wrong there!
I found an '80s show that I somehow completely missed: "Sledge Hammer!" I don't know how I missed this show, but I've binged it now.
Degenerative AI has not led to any of that propulsion advance, etc. That's "machine learning", not LLM.
Nobody is disputing the value of non-LLM (non-degenerative) AI. It's the degenerative AI that's utterly and fucking useless for anything except burning down rainforests.
A "virus" is now "any program that doesn't work"?
All programs are viruses!
I guess I was the sucker that just learned to write.
Or, you know, I could just search for the links.
All ChatGPT adds to the equation now is burning down a rainforest or ten.
Which is absolutely hilarious to me given how often it hallucinates answers.
I recently tried ChatGPT as a Google alternative. It looked very impressive as it found things based on the slightest of clues. Except that literally everything it found was made up. It "found" a movie quote by Orson Welles that was never quoted. It "found" a song by an artist that said artist never released. It "found" an album by a group released four years before said group's first release.
If you're using ChatGPT as a Google replacement you are being dangerously misinformed by a degenerative "AI" that speaks with the certitude of a techbrodude.
This reminds me of a similar factoid.
Did you know that if you took the entire Pacific salmon catch and laid it out nose to tail across the Sahara desertโฆ
โฆthe stench would be overpowering!
OpenAI stays alive the same way Farcebook stays alive, Goober stays alive, Xhitter stays alive, etc. etc.
Flat-out grifting.
What is the most bizarre or unusual name for "GM" that a game has ever used?
For me it was "Hollyhock God" from Nobilis.
Why do game designers do this? Does anybody, anywhere, actually use these weird terms while actually playing?
โฆbecause they take everything literally.
Even when in the same jobs, men are much more likely to turn to the tech
(CMV) The west is ethnocentric and hypocritical in its approach to international relations.
The "ethnocentric" in the title is coded languageยน. It was triggered by a paperยฒ I just stumbled over but is the product of by now over two decades of observation (and, to be fair, festering resentment).
I bring attention to a key phrase in the conclusion of this otherwise meandering and unclear paper:
> Thus, we suggest that policymakers in China consider emphasizing more on the reciprocity benefits and build a collaborative effort across the scientific community.
What. A. Coincidence.
A study published in the (western) journalยณ Humanities and Social Sciences Communications comes to the conclusion that the Chinese government needs to emphasize the benefits of open data sharing.
Yet the very same culture that preaches loudly "open data sharing" and other such nigh-utopian ideals, in a stunning example of "do what I say, not what I do" also practices the precise opposite. For example the Chinese are specifically barred from cooperation in space venturesโด with anything that NASA is affiliated with (which is, essentially, all space ventures and most such conferences).
This is not, however, just the USA and just China. Canada (my nation of citizenship), for example, routinely issues thundering condemnation of any nation that treats indigenous peoples badly (unless that nation is aligned with Canada, in which case Japan's treatment of the Ainu and Taiwan's treatment of their assorted indigenous groups gets passed over with an embarrassed cough) while it treats its own indigenous peoples in ways that are positively shocking even to this day, despite the facade of rapprochement. (Keep in mind that the last of Canada's horrific residential schools was closed in 1997โI was 31 years old at the time!โand that in Canada being a native means you are not a "visible minority", a term fraught with its own weird baggage.)
And you'll find similar ethnocentric, hypocritical bullshit all over the west, even down to all the (well-deserved!) official condemnation of Hamas over the October 2023 attacks while standing by in embarrassed silence as Israel commits open genocide both in and out of Gaza starting well before October 2023 and continuing to this day.
So... My current view is that western powers are a large collection of hypocritical twats whose views can and should be safely ignored by other peoples of the world as far as is possible when so many (chiefly) American guns and bombs are pointed at them threateningly.
Change my view.
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ยน Decoding it: "white supremacist".
ยฒ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03570-9
ยณ Yes the primary authors are Chinese in Chinese universities. There are reasons for this.
โด The fact that this has backfired, both directly and indirectly, on the USA multiple times is a never-ending source of amusement to me.
...that I didn't Nintendo.
Just in case that URL doesn't replicate the session properly I've added a screenshot of the session to the end.
A few things are obvious here. First the choice to trumpet the "strengths" of degenerative AI while qualifying the weaknesses is clearly a choice made in the programming of the system. In later interactions it claims that this was not specifically programmed into it but, as it says, it's a black box and there's no way to confirm nor deny anything it claims.
Which is, you know, pretty much the reason why degenerative AI can't be trusted.
Can't they afford the real stuff?
Up until now I thought he was only a theoretical physicist!
To kill a French vampire you have to drive a baguette through its heart.
Sure, it sounds easy, but the process is painstaking!
Kirk: I'm having trouble hearing lately. Bones: Can you describe the symptoms? Kirk: Homer is a fat guy, and his wife Marge has blue hair.
I got a new pair of shoes from my recreational pharmaceutical direct sales outlet.
I don't know what they were laced with, but I've been tripping all day.
I stumbled over this today. Apparently it was inspired by listening to his most recent analyst earnings call.
Emergency Dice
Are these practical? Or are they just nerdy flex? I don't care. I find them delightful! The pill-box keychain filled with pill-sized dice is going to be on my person all the time. And for "formal occasions" (like gaming conventions) the pendant filled with them will be around my neck and ready ...
What to carry in case you suddenly need dice and don't have them.