We might finally get a triumvirate of generalist, centrist instances!

…or .world will crash, burn, and implode

Speaking of which, nice username

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though I’m not sure I get the “train” bit

I’m not surprised they ultimately felt like GenAI isn’t useful to what they’re trying to do. Game dev has known about this type of generation for a while now (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_synthesis and the sources linked at the bottom) and it takes a lot of human effort to curate both the training data and the model weights to end up with anything that feels new and meaningful.

If I shuffle a deck of 52 cards, there is a high chance of obtaining a deck order that has never occurred before in human history. Big whoop. GenAI is closer to sexy dice anyways - the “intelligent work” was making sure the dice faces always make sense when put together and you don’t end up rolling “blow suck” or “lips thigh”.

It’s very impressive that we’re able to scale this type of apparatus up to plausibly generate meaningful paragraphs, conversations, and programs. It’s ridiculous what it cost us to get it this far, and just like sexy dice and card shuffling I fail to see it as capable of replacing human thought or ingenuity, let alone expressing what’s “in my head”. Not until we can bolt it onto a body that can feel pain and hunger and joy, and we can already make human babies much more efficiently than what it takes to train an LLM from scratch (and they have personhood and thus rights in most societies around the world).

Even the people worried about “AI self-improving” to the point it “escapes our control” don’t seem to be able to demonstrate that today’s AI can do much more than slow us down in the long run; this study was published over 5 months ago, and they don’t seem to have found much since then.

At least they aren’t green tips!

Good for them! I’m not surprised yet still disappointed by the spokesperson’s comments.

Re: 1), you’re not kidding - check out that gray banding on the caption in the top-level post!

That’s such a great riff on the original xkcd

Do you remember where you found it?

Relevant username

Also, no federation on the NodeBB/piefed unless/until the users overwhelmingly ask for it.

NodeBB or maybe piefed to host announcements and provide a place for questions and feedback.

Consider creating an account for each household with a “correct horse battery staple” style password that’s easy to input on mobile, print out a little slip of paper with an explanation blurb and account name & password, and deposit in their mailbox.

Do not expect any users until you’ve hosted several game nights that had multiple attendees. From what you say you are the events committee, not the online life committee. I would thus recommend to stay focused on events until people bring up, unprompted, a desire for more casual day-to-day interactions. You want to be integrating into their existing habits, not trying to replace them. Let the “switching” happen on their own initiative lest they feel like they’re being co-opted for your own personal agenda.

I like the colors, especially the contrast between the people skin and whatever that orange stuff is on it. Makes me think of coral.

Damn, and anthropic is supposed to be the least shitty of the western LLM actors.

I heard an interview with one of the victim’s family’s lawyers on the radio last week. They described going from incredulity to shock and outrage as each case was examined in court and the defense’s tone and arguments got more and more accusatory and belligerent. The anesthetist is apparently the one common factor in all the deaths.

Of course, it’s part of their job to garner sympathy in whatever way possible.

Scary stuff all around.

Interestingly, that page cites vocata as related work

homer-simpson-“worst-so-far”-meme.jpg

always nice to see a wholesome meme

What puritanical sexual repression does to a mfer

Thank you for going to the effort of typing out this review. I hope the catharsis it gave you makes up (in part) for the torment the gameplay inflected upon you.

If you haven’t already, I suggest posting this review on steam; the specificity of your complaints is valuable feedback on the off-chance the devs care about making “good” games and I imagine few prospective buyers will find this fedi post.

Banger title