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Happy birthday! As someone who has dropped ~all attention to fitness over the last decade, I can confidently say you should not do the same!  

7 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

Season 4 has been dropping, three episodes out so far. So far it's pretty good! Kelly and Aleida are annoying as always, and Margo's decision making has been called into question for seasons now and continues to be, but other than that it's been really great! Excellent space sequence in the season opener. And getting rid of the two Gordo kids (finally!) is refreshing. The Dev Ayesa board meeting was hilarious in episode 3 but whatever I'll take it. Anyone else watching?

 

Edit: Can a mod update the OP thread title to reflect this is season 4 out now, not season 3?

 

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I am watching! So far, I'm enjoying this season more than 3. Very glad to be done with Gordo's kids.

34 minutes ago, Bacon said:

I mean, I'm still evil tho

 

I actually wish there was a better option than what picked, but the rest were too good or neutral. I like having characters with bloodlust. I want my character to relish in violence but in battle. Essentially, a person who joins wars because he wants to kill. I don't want my character to be a murder hobo who dishes out random acts of violence. Simply put, I want my character to be a Barbarian.

There is still a world of difference between that and where the character starts  

On 11/26/2023 at 7:45 PM, Bacon said:

Here is a cool, epic, and proper way to end The Dark Urge personal quest - 16 minutes and full of spoilers

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Here is the giga chad way - 9 seconds and very minimal spoilers

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I love this ending to the arc. Makes me feel like anyone who didn't play Dark Urge resist missed out and I kind of think it should have just always been the MC story.

27 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said:

Discord is great for small communities, chat with the same, and with certain games / industries, troubleshooting or assistance. Anything beyond that it's fucking terrible, and the fact that a lot of people use it as de facto wiki / website replacements is absolute shit. I appreciate that it's easier to build and maintain for a lot of people, but it's still awful.

Agreed. I've found there is a sweet spot in community size for discord for technical discussion Q&As. Too small, and no one is around or the right people aren't there to respond. Too big and any topic/question you bring up gets easily lost the fire hose of messages. (Which I've observed on both sides of the Q and A).

7 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

I've made fun of cypto in general and worldcoin specifically, and I'm not backtracking on any of it, but I suddenly understand why they think an ID system that just verifies that there's a person would have some value. It's still a bad idea, and if SI is going to invent profiles for fake writers, the existence of some blockchain blue check isn't going to solve anything, but at least I can see what they might be after.

Incidentally, verification without exposing identity is technologically simple without the blockchain. The main hurdle is making sure an org is actually doing the vetting in the first place.

You just need good old-fashioned signing. No blockchain needed. And with the advent of Passkey tech, this might get *much* easier to use in practice. I even have some designs I've been thinking about as part of my "I want to re-invent how we publish" overly ambitious plans that will never happen  

1 minute ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

We'll end up with the generative model equivalent of Habsburg dynastic inbreeding:

 

There is research that looked at this for image generators. The outcome was not good!

Probably exists for language models too, but I don't recall any.

The real fun begins when new generative models are trained on old generative model content.

3 hours ago, ort said:

Is this another tale about a westerner who inexpicably becomes the greatest warrior in a strange foreign land, better even than the thousands of locals who have all been training in the same combat arts for generations?

I was worried this would be the case, but no, it's not like that. Without giving much away (since what I'll say is explained very early) the main character is the child of a westerner who traveled to Japan and a Japanese woman. The MC has been Japanese since birth, but their split race has made them an outcast.

2 hours ago, Ominous said:

Where is the line drawn? What about fatty fat people that eat shit and feed their kids shit? Oh so you want insurance to cover your type 2 diabetes meds, but you won't fix your diet? Too slippery a slope. 

Regulating diet is wildly complex. Regulating smoking is not. Also, it's at least possible for a parent to eat poorly themselves while giving their children a better diet. That's far less easy to do with smoking.

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DOS2 isn't at the same "AAA" quality as BG3 but it's still fully voiced, just as comprehensive, and its combat mechanics are arguably better than the DnD 5e ruleset.

You can also run it on a toaster these days.

1 hour ago, skillzdadirecta said:

For me the show is pretty damned good up until the last two episodes. The Battle of Winterfell is one of the most epic and best shot episodes of ANYTHING I've ever seen. The fact that they did that on a TV budget and schedule is pretty damned amazing to me. The sacking of King's Landing is pretty good as well in spite of Dany's heel turn but I really think if they had another couple of episodes, her and Jon's love affair and their conflict would have had more of an impact. The show isn't "ruined" for me at all by the finale and is still one of the best shows ever made, but that rushed ending does sour things a bit. D&D really should have done another couple of seasons or passed the show over to someone else, but I totally understand why they were ready to be done with it. This show was a MASSIVE undertaking from season to season given how many different locations they were shooting on. Honestly I feel more for them than I do GRRM. These guys missed significant chunks of spending time with their families in order to make this show. 

There were some good moments but I recall having one too many wtfs at the shortcuts they took. It’s too bad because it could have been a gold standard series if they took a breath. 
 

But yeah it didn’t ruin the rest of the series for me. It’s not like it was mass effect 3 bad

19 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

Superb gif reaction. I award you 10 internet cookies.

9 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Game of Thrones got pretty bad after they ran out of books to adapt. Best example of a show that was so good for so long, then turned to poop. 

I think it was still great for one more season after the books, but they were probably still leaning on stuff Martin already knew for that.

"The Door" episode is one of my favorite "twists" in tv/movies because it wasn't a twist for a twist sake. It actually explained things and brought a new perspective on a long standing character.

A reminder: the board of Open AI isn't a usual corporation's board. They are a relic from The "non-profit" era and deliberately do not have the same fiduciary duties as a regular board. If they think it's in the best interest of "humanity" to tank the company, they can, and that's exactly where we are  

Was this "convert from non-profit to "capped" for profit" ever a good idea? Of course not. Most everyone involved in the higher up workings of Open AI are practically out of an episode from Silicon Valley.

Sure. Might as well.

4 hours ago, johnny said:

 the dragons show is good just enjoy that 

Just now, Remarkableriots said:

The following book after this was supposed to be the last if it happens?

Yes. If by some miracle he actually finishes this book, I wouldn't be surprised if he actually decides he needs 3 more books to finish it though.

I'll be blown away if he finishes this before he dies.

14 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

 

The body only contains 3-4 grams of iron.  So, at best, an ASI will only be able to make 4 paperclips out of every person.  Pretty inefficient. 

It’s an insane idea for a multitude of reasons

23 minutes ago, finaljedi said:

 

I don't even get what that's a response to.  Did he watch Star Trek, see a cashless society and get cold chills?

Pretty sure he's using the badness of nazis to emphasize how bad he thinks building AI will be, because he thinks the latter will destroy all mankind (thus getting rid of all future value or "utils" from mankind), whereas in the former you still have people alive -- they "just" cause severe suffering across the world.

EDIT: Yes, my above interpretation is correct. Here is the thread it's from:

"Paperclipped" is referring to an idea from the AI doomer cult that if you build an AI to make paperclips it will wipe out all of humanity to turn them into paperclips.

7 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

They should have appointed @legend to be CEO

Honestly, I would hate being CEO of anything and would probably do a bad job at it. As it is, I feel like I do too much people and organizational management and I only directly manage 8 people. (And they're good people too!)

2 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

The new CEO of Open AI, folks!

 

Welcome to the insanity of AI doomers. It's a cult for silicon valley techies. And just like most cults, some are true believers and some are just opportunistic about it.

I’m torn because I think there needs to be more responsible development and deployment of AI tech, but the “safety” people at open AI work on “problems” that are based on self-serving delusions of a malicious genie being let out of its box.