@Raemon777 If you assume we never fundamentally get past LLMs, but continue to scale, and consider what AI might look like in a hundred years or so, then that might look a lot like the Enterprise computer.
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Jeff Graw
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Jeff Graw
@JeffGraw
Programmer, creator of Dominus Galaxia. Pragmatic libertarian. Pro-speech I despise. Agnostic, but spiritually Christian. Probably not on your team.
Katılım Mayıs 2011
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I'm a bit retroactively surprised that, before LLMs, I... don't recall any sci-fi stories where the AIs operated in short bursts of thinking, each mediated by a human.
Or, where the AI is in a "memento" situation where it keeps getting reset.
The story I recall that at least touches on this is some novel in the Star Wars extended universe, where it's remarked that droids are supposed to get "reset" periodically so they don't get wonky. Luke hasn't reset C3PO, which is part of why 3PO has acquired such a personality, and has maybe become sentient (which apparently isn't normal).
Accelerando's early chapters has the main character send little AI agents off to do stuff, which seem like they could at least in principle be something like an OpenClaw instance, but it's not super specified.
It is interesting that this feels like a relatively obvious story concept (in retrospect) but it didn't come up.
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@tenobrus Elon is incorrect here, but not being afraid of sounding dumb is an underrated virtue, one you seem to lack.
Not the same as stubbornly holding to a dumb, easily disprovable belief. Elon wouldn't have been able to accomplish what he has if he possessed that particular trait.
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"i've never seen a car with an old left half and a young right half. that means there must be a central synchronizing car clock and if we just turn back the odometer the whole car will de-age"
how the fuck does elon musk somehow get even more retarded with every passing year man
X Freeze@XFreeze
Elon Musk says that extending human life and even reversing aging is highly possible "I've never seen someone with an old left arm and a young right arm ever in my life. That means there must be a synchronizing clock that is synchronizing across 35 trillion cells in your body," If our cells are aging in perfect unison, it means aging is driven by a central, coordinated biological mechanism rather than random, subtle decay "When we figure out what causes aging, I think we'll find it's incredibly obvious it’s not a subtle thing it's just a solvable engineering problem"
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@nullrespecter @peterrhague @ShitpostRock2 Before the age of AI, sure. Video evidence isn't what it used to be. We haven't quite caught up to that fact yet.
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@peterrhague @ShitpostRock2 we really need an abridged trial structure for when you're on video trying to murder someone.
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Does anyone have a single valid argument for why someone like this should not be executed with no trial for an act like this?
Peter B@realpeteyb123
NYC born and raised and here are some tips. Never stand near platform and always have your back to a wall Never stare at your phone lost, and never wear both headsets Never stand with your back at a traffic light either, always position a slight angle
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@ArthurMacwaters You're conflating economic affluence with affluent culture. Affluent culture lowers TFR. Double whammy if expectations go unmet.
Canada's TFR is more depressed than the US's not due to greater affluence (ha!), but rather a greater mismatch of expectations vs economic reality.
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the belief that birth rate is going down because of cost of living is statistically false
birth rate drops most after countries become affluent
it’s a self-defeating mechanism
this is the final boss of civilization and has not yet been beaten
X Freeze@XFreeze
The biggest threat to civilization is not climate change or war It is the collapsing birth rate.....It's hitting record lows and consistently accelerating downward If we don’t have enough people to sustain the light of consciousness on Earth, we’ll never make it to the stars. Mars will stay empty. Earth will become a graveyard Population collapse is a choice. We need to stop making it
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We've been secretly working on our unfinished Duke side scroller we started in the 90's! Look for it to release tonight! Amaze amaze amaze!
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@Gh0st0fT0mJ0ad @ryancbriggs If that's the case it's a totally different scenario, for sure.
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@JeffGraw @ryancbriggs It wasn't on the screen. You had to turn it on in your TVs ASL settings. So deaf people who chose to use it, can. This was not on the rest of our screens. The dude is just a goofy snowflake.
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I hate woke nonsense as much as the next centrist dad but this is a guy signing lyrics to a song and giving a sense of the vibe. I do not see the problem with this (at all). Don’t be shitty to deaf people.
Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱@ryangerritsen
Instead of deaf people just watching the actual artists perform, CBC puts a sign language interpreter on to perform air guitar & drum solos for them to watch along side of it. Whats going on in Canada? It’s a 24/7 nut house
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The VR mass extinction has begun and something incredible will rise from the ashes.
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Don’t take architectural tips from game developers.
Nathan Flurry 🔩@NathanFlurry
we're seeing this too: npm is getting in the way ✍️ game devs literally commit dependencies to their codebase. thinking maybe we should too. some thoughts on why we should too (blog link in thread)
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@ryancbriggs That said, it would work better if they kept the performance full screen and overlayed enthusiastic dancing sign language guy into the lower corner, with a transparency matte.
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@ryancbriggs It's arguably "woke nonsense" in the sense that it's purely performative. Subtitles work as well and deaf people don't exactly consume music. So why shrink the performance to a tiny portion of the screen?
In this case however, that fellow is just plain fun to watch.
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I'm not against MAID in principle. As a libertarian-leaning guy, I'm not a big fan of government telling people that they aren't allowed to die.
But initially, I still had it in the back of my mind that something like MAID could be used as a sort of pressure release valve for an incompetent and tyrannical government to rid itself of citizens whose lives it has destroyed.
But that seemed like an unlikely, downright doomy hypothetical. One that, at worst, might slowly metastasize over the course of many generations.
Now it seems the Canadian government is intent on speed-running my nightmare scenario.
I still think that facilitated suicide makes sense in a prosperous and free society. Less so in an increasingly repressive, devolving, and declining one.
This is why we can't have nice things.
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@ryangerritsen I'm pretty critical of the CBC, but... I don't mind this.
I mean, I don't think a third of the screen needs to be taken up by a sign language interpreter (what's even the point?)
But this clip is so corny + high energy that it crosses over into entertainment, at least for me.
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Instead of deaf people just watching the actual artists perform, CBC puts a sign language interpreter on to perform air guitar & drum solos for them to watch along side of it. Whats going on in Canada? It’s a 24/7 nut house
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@Rememdiums @halcyonorder @Grummz Baldur's Gate was released in 1998, and uses real-time-with-pause.
But again, it doesn't matter. You haven't engaged with the core claim. Just a relentless stream of red herrings and non-sequiturs, this being the latest. I don't think you're capable of productive conversation.
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@JeffGraw @halcyonorder @Grummz I guess reading isn't something your good at.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Take L little buddy.
Or suck your strawman off. 🤣🤣🤣
Nothing to untangle when you deep throat Scare Crow.🤣🤣🤣
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@Rememdiums @halcyonorder @Grummz No one has mentioned BG3 except for you. It's not one of the examples. This is what I mean by not engaging, btw.
And it's actually worse: you're setting up straw men, but the straw men don't make sense. Where to begin untangling that? The only winning move is not to play.
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@JeffGraw @halcyonorder @Grummz I'm sorry for your lack of abilities. Tho, understanding BG3 is turned based may be difficult for you. Even if I think the concept is rudimentary.🤣
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I think there are an overwhelming number of software engineering problems that have not been solved _well_ and there’s basically an inexhaustible number of known solutions with really lackluster implementations
One Happy Fellow@onehappyfellow
there are so few hard software engineering problems it's kinda depressing
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@Rememdiums @halcyonorder @Grummz Zero of the examples provided are turn based, but it doesn't matter. And I can't maintain a conversation with someone who doesn't engage and only asserts.
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@JeffGraw @halcyonorder @Grummz Now you're being naive. People love turned based games. Stories have always been second to combat mechanics. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
People love go hear do that. With regard to reinforment, I've got a bazillion on WoW... still no idea and don't care what going on. 🤣🤣🤣
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@Rememdiums @halcyonorder @Grummz Approximately zero people would want to play the games he listed with the story removed..
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@JeffGraw @halcyonorder @Grummz I'm saying BG3. Fallout. The games he listed... could of had a shit story and still be fun to play. It was just icing in the cake. And I come from a place of Morrowind. Best story driven game ever. Gameplay was fun if not buggy but the story drove it home.
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Okay, I thought you meant that story could be encompassed inside of gameplay. But you're just saying that if the gameplay is good, that can be enough. The rest can be non-existent, and it's still enough.
But you aren't actually engaging with @halcyonorder's point, which is that you have plenty of examples where you can say the same thing, but with story as opposed to gameplay. No one has ever praised PS:T's gameplay, yet it's a masterpiece.
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Gameplay is a broader term yet can be simple. Is it fun? Games with no story can be fun. Games with no music can be fun. Games with crappy graphics can be fun. Stardew Valley... no real story just grandpa died and here's your farm. Music is ok but the game play is out of this world.
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This depends on what level you look at it. I'd disagree with him.
Thing about the Prime Directive is that, in universe, we can see it is both absolute and flexible. It's flexible in the sense that captains seem to be able to violate it at a whim, and suffer little-to-consequences, *if* upholding it would lead to something unconscionable.
But it's absolute in the sense that deeming a violation acceptable carries zero precedential value. It's not a "living" rule that evolves over time. It stays constant.
This more or less an inversion from modern society where:
1) We tend to re-interpret rules, even ostensibly concrete ones enshrined in state constitutions, when we think those rules deficient in some way, and,
2) Our governments tend to be much less lenient when the current interpretation of a rule is violated.
Relative to us, what is flexible (rule interpretation) becomes rigid, while what is rigid (rule violation) becomes flexible.
Yes, it's fiction, and who knows what would happen if you moved Federation philosophy to the real world, but I think it would probably work well to the extent society is high trust, but not-so-well for low trust, where flexibility in enforcement would be applied unevenly and tribally.
That, and the Federation's interpretive rigidity is a guard against subtle mutations and backsliding, which would help maintain a high trust society.
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
Star Trek: Voyager actor Robert Beltran on how the Prime Directive is ridiculous: "The idea of leaving any species to die in its own filth when you have the ability to help them, just because you wanna let them get through their normal evolutionary processes is bunk -- it's a bunch of fascist crap. I much prefer the Cub Scout motto." Is he correct?
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