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Is this possibly dementia? It's just so fucking weird and the dude is old.

Well, it won't last long with the new expansion coming out, but in just under 50 hours, I've finally unlocked all achivements! Steam Community :: Alerus STEAMCOMMUNITY.COM Dreams of electric sheep. I also go by the handle "Legend."

Absolutely stunning. I haven't been this impressed with a jump in graphics since Cyberpunk. Which is a weird thing to say! Now I really have to think about whether I want to get a 4090 or wait for the next generation like had been my previous plan.

Hmm. I never interpreted Luke as guiding the torpedos with the force so much as he used the force to help him line up a very difficult shot, which seems very much in line with what any force sensitive individual can do and often do do instinctually. Luke even comments in the briefing before hand that it wasn't some impossible shot.

FWIW, I enjoyed it and know nothing about the previous anime nor manga. I also watched it dubbed because I'm a heathen.

I'm on board with retconning details as they go and I don't expect Star Wars to have anywhere near perfect consistency. But the ST feels like it puts them in a position that's more egregious than usual. Mostly, I blame JJ.

To make it worse, there's no real build to the new order existing that could be explored in the in between. The new order is just kind of there all of a sudden and apparently all powerful. How the hell are you supposed to build to this future? You can't have an interesting iterative fall and instead anything accomplished by the characters in this era just has to suddenly not matter because the NO just takes over immediately somehow.

The PT was bad in lots of ways, but I think it succeeded in its world building, which has been great when looking at the whole franchise.

You know, I really wish the sequel trilogy didn't exist. I find the world they're building from the extended mando verse much more interesting, but the sequel trilogy makes for this awkward future that they somehow have to eventually fit this new stuff into and I can't see it doing anything but constraining it.

Christians are always threatening us with a good time.

The DLSS3 sounds like good performance though! Unfortunately, I'm still using my 3080 and I don't know if it will translate to decent performance on that. It's always fucking CDPR that makes me want to upgrade!

I do not remember either unfortunately! It's been a while and I've been waiting for the expansion before I play more again. But it feels like the expansion is always just out of reach!

Alright, they got me with this one!

Yeah "Skywalker" as a new Jedi philosophy would have been more interesting. I suppose they could still force it into that direction. All indications in the movie is that it's a superficial name choice, but it's the last word in the series, so they could always re-justify it later. Maybe give JJ a bit of his own medicine of other directors changing the interpretations in the next movie

I like Daisy even though I found Rey's arc shallow and find the whole "Skywalker" name choice stupid. Hopefully they can do better by her.

Yeah, that works for me. Good trailer.

Fortunately no one at my work does that. But I have had people I don't really know on Discord DM me because they know of me from an AI server and want to ask me something but all they send his "Hi" and wait for me to respond before sending anything more. It feels like a trap so that once I respond they feel they'll have my attention to dive into some really long and ill-defined question that I won't really want to respond to. Like "how come my RL agent isn't learning?" I dunno, because you did it wrong? Debug it or do some data analysis for Christ sake. I don't know anything about you, nor what you're doing and I'm not going to download your code and debug it myself for you. Ask a specific fucking question or don't bother. Or, if one more person wants to tell me about this really "novel" idea they have to apply RL to market trading but they just need some one to do all the work for them even though they're being told it's a terrible idea for a million reasons, I'm going to gouge someone's eyes out. I guess this thread stirred something in me.

While there are obvious advantages to the Windows handhelds, I'm kind of hoping they all fail and that Steam Deck is a wild success to further encourage Linux gaming support. If I could remove Windows from my life, that's a win, and gaming is the only reason I use it.

That's probably more true than I'm comfortable with. They will always tell you they're doing what they do for the benefit of all mankind, but the fact that they so specifically benefit from their "altruistic" efforts is extremely suspect. Some of the worst actors in our history would tell you they do what they do for the benefit of mankind, so it's not like this would be new.

FTFY

If we took them as wholly honest actors, these people believe that AIs will transform from low intelligence to all-powerful genies who will destroy mankind in a matter of weeks, simply by thinking really hard. The AIs won't need to do, you know, science that requires interacting with the world, to advance even. It can just think really hard for those few weeks on the data that exists and divine all the missing answers to the universe. (No, I'm not kidding, this is what they believe.) Of course, that's only if AI isn't solely developed by the "right people"--mostly philosophers. If the right people work in secret on AI, they can make a benevolent genie instead that will allow trillions upon trillions of future simulated humans to exist and colonize the universe. All current social issues are irrelevant to this goal because what's millions of people suffering to a potential future of trillions of trillions of happy virtual people? You might be starting to see why this particular branch is called "The Future of Life Institute." So consequently, they want to be the ones in charge of AI development and they want all the funding for their "safety work" which is typically bad mathematics and decision theory with manufactured problems because they don't actually understand the basics. And those who claim to be on their side and are influential are often the most irresponsible when it comes to AI tech. Elon Musk, for example, likes to sign on to these things and play the savior from the big bad AI genie, while simultaneously beta testing his shitty autonomous driving on the general public. There's those among them for whom this is probably just a convenient set of beliefs to empower themselves and they get to pretend to be the savior at the same time. I suspect it's a combination of "true believers" and people in it solely for the convenience. Some probably only partially believe it, but believe enough of it to go along. Sam Bankman-Fried is among their cult, and we saw how well that turned out. I think the primary person responsible for this "movement" Eliezer Yudkowsky drinks his own koolaid though and honestly he's starting to sound dangerous.

The open letter is immense BS and many of the signatories were suckered by the cult that is The Future of Life Institute. FLI has a history of getting experts to sign onto open letters for some sensible parts they include in their letters along with their more extreme ideas. They will even argue with you and try to guilt you into signing it to support the sensible parts since those parts are important. Then they always focus the extreme parts once they go public and use the signatures to give the illusion that experts agree with their nonsense in its entirety. I know multiple people who got burned by this tactic on this letter. Many are trying to back pedal now with the fallout or at least clarify they don't agree with all of it. More people need to understand that FLI is a cult. For some perspective on that, the FLI letter cites the Stochastic Parrots paper as evidence that experts agree with their claims, and the authors of the paper were none too pleased that they were disingenuously co-opted. You can see their response here: The DAIR Institute WWW.DAIR-INSTITUTE.ORG We are an interdisciplinary and globally distributed AI research institute.

If the game is as good as BotW, they deserve $70.