Pennomi

Sleeping with your Vaporeon: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-EWMgB26bmU

Apocalypticism will always be in fashion.

Yeah, albedo of an object might be described as the true color of a thing, if you take away the shading, reflectivity, and metallicity.

Asking that question is the first step people need in order to finally come to that conclusion. We all just completed the process a loooooong time ago.

Our current campaign has a recurring mook named Qarl who the party has killed several times… somehow he keeps showing up every time they square away against the baddies. There’s a little riot every time they find out he’s back!

Sure, go for it. But good luck paying an army of copywriters to summarize every article you read.

That’s not what I’m implying. What I’m saying is that wasting time and effort on quality is pointless when the threshold for success is low.

For example, I could use aerospace quality parts (perfectly machined to micron-level tolerances) to build a toaster. However, while this would not increase the performance meaningfully, the cost would be orders of magnitude greater. Instead I can use shitty off-the-shelf parts because it doesn’t really make a difference.

Maybe in other words, engineering tolerances apply to LLMs too. They’re crude devices, but it’s totally fine if you have a crude problem.

It might be all I care about. Humans might always be better, but AI only has to be good enough at something to be valuable.

For example, summarizing an article might be incredibly low stakes (I’m feeling a bit curious today), or incredibly high stakes (I’m preparing a legal defense), depending on the context. An AI is sufficient for one use but not the other.

This seems to be millions of times more accurate, according to the article.

If AI is really that disruptive (and I believe it will be) then shouldn’t we bend over backwards to make it happen? Because otherwise it’s our geopolitical rivals who will be in control of it.

I’d disagree with that. Randomness is orthogonal to player agency. Both can exist at once.

Yeah this is the opposite of “player agency” which is the whole point of RPGs.

That’s because they are serious about it. Chip fabrication will likely determine the victor of the next 25 years in world politics.

That’s where he keeps all the anger.

We’re in that awkward part of AI where all the degenerates are using it in unethical ways, and it will take time for legislation and human culture to catch up. The early internet was a wild place too.

AI is falling into disillusionment for like the 10th time now. We just keep redefining what AI is to mean “whatever is slightly out of reach for modern computers”.

Nah, local LLMs are easily in the range of transcribe/summarize. I bet you could do that nicely with llama 8B without even needing a gpu.

For what it’s worth, Ocarina of Time Link ended up ditching that stupid blue suit in Majora’s Mask, instead opting to possess the body of a dead Zora. Infinitely cooler.

He deserved it, wearing blue like that.

Ash is like 10 years old as well.

Or so he says. He’s been the same age for like 20 years.