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fuck it, go full mathematician. Serve an empty bowl on the grounds that it’s a vacuous fruit salad, every ingredient in it is a fruit
fuck it, go full mathematician. Serve an empty bowl on the grounds that it’s a vacuous fruit salad, every ingredient in it is a fruit
Obviously, yes, but at that level of knowledge as a user, you either don’t know about that or don’t feel comfortable enough to deal with it.
Debian – I just wasn’t ready for it. Got told “oh you’re using Mint? That’s nice but you should try out Debian it’s the Real Deal™” but the reason I was using Mint back then in the first place was that it was my first step out of the Windows ecosystem, I was scared shitless and didn’t understand anything. What do you mean I don’t get a huge pretty start menu?! How am I supposed to find stuff then?!
Back in high school we played a game of this on the occasional Thursday night, as well as one long term game that took months and had its own dedicated wiki. It got pretty surreal pretty quick. The one set day a month you got penalized for each time you used a foreign loanword was brutal.
the peak of your civilization
I really hoped we would get a PS6 with a built-in stern cartoon Xi blocking the buy button in the PS store, pointing his finger and shouting “No! Finish your backlog first!” but I guess you can’t have everything in life
The only outcome I can imagine is the brigade closing this write-up as a duplicate and dragging off the author kicking and screaming, never to be seen again, like what happens to the vtuber protagonist in The Waldo Moment. The idea has grown too powerful for even him to contain it anymore.
Red Ed Redemption 2
After Liz Truss’ 50-day tenure I truly believe anything is possible
Reading this comment section is so strange. Skepticism about generative AI seems to have become some kind of professional sport on the internet.
Consensus in our group is that generative AI is a great tool. Maybe not perfect, but the comparison to the metaverse is absurd: no one asked for the metaverse or needed it for anything, as opposed to several cases where GPT has literally bailed us out of a difficult situation. e.g. some proof of concept needed to be written in a programming language that no one in the group had enough experience with. With no GPT, this could have easily cost someone a week. With GPT assistance – proof of concept ready in less than a day.
Generative AI does suffer from a host of problems. Hallucinations, jailbreaks, injections, reality 101 failures, believe me I’ve encountered all these intimately as I’ve had to utilize GPT for some of my day job tasks, often against its own better judgment and despite its own woefully lacking capacity to deal with the task. What I think is interesting is a candid discussion: why do these issues persist? What have we tried? What techniques can we try next? Are these issues intractable in some profound sense, and constitute a hard ceiling for where generative AI can go? Is there an “impossibility theorem for putting AI on autopilot”? Or are these limitations just artifacts we can engineer away and route around?
It seems like instead of having this discussion, it’s become in vogue to wave around the issues triumphantly and implicitly declare the field successfully dunked on, and the discussion over. That’s, to be blunt, reductive. Smartphones had issues, the early internet had issues. Sure, “they also laughed at Bozo the clown” and all that, but without a serious discussion of the landscape right now, of how far away we are from mitigating these issues and why, a lot of this “ha ha suck it AI” discourse strikes me as deeply performative. Like, suppose a year from now OpenAI solves hallucinations. The issue is just gone. Do all the cool kids who sneered at the invented legal precedents, crafted their image as knowing better than the OpenAI dweebs, elegantly implied how hallucinations are a cornerstone in how the entire field is a stupid useless dead end – do they lose any face? I think they don’t. I think this is why this sneering has become such a lucrative online professional sport.
Just because I’m calling it “hype” doesn’t mean I’m bashing the game,
Motte and bailey
How are we even having this discussion in a world where Cosmic Star Heroine exists…
We also had backseat modding and obnoxious rhetorical questions back on reddit, if you really insist we have this discussion
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Have you seen Mystic pop up bar? Or tomorrow? Both are about the after life.
Welp. Out with it, I guess: I have extreme fatigue with the urban fantasy “myth and legend is TRUE but in an ordinary and relatable way! What if Zeus was one of us, just a slob like one of us…” concept. I don’t know who to blame / give credit for kick-starting this ubiquitous trend; Probably the origin fission event was the early 2000s releases of Gaiman’s American Gods and Square / Disney’s Kingdom Hearts video game, and the critical threshold was crossed with Once Upon a Time. Back then the idea floored me and I couldn’t get enough of it, now I feel I’ve drunk my fill of it for a lifetime. Whatever remaining capacity for this stuff I had – “but what if it’s really funny and really clever and really profound and everything you like in a show, huh, what then?” – was taken care of by The Good Place. So, I’m sure those are very good shows, I’m just the worst person you could ask to appreciate them.
My wife is the real Kdrama nut, I think she’s on her way to the point where she’s literally watched everything. I’m more picky and join her when something catches my interest. And it’s turned out to be a Netflix original nearly every time, so I am, through no fault of my own, a corporate shill.
Cheesy romance wise, I probably best liked Crash Landing on You. First of all the sheer production value pulling off the concept, and second of all the drama doesn’t spend its entire run in the comfort zone of “will they? won’t they? can they? can’t they?” that 90% of dramas seem to wander around endlessly up to episode 15.9. At some point the ML and FL just… get together and do couple stuff while the crazy plot goes on around them, I say that’s a seriously underrated feature. The show’s weak point was the villain who at every point was exactly as menacing and resourceful as he needed to be: one moment he can teleport anywhere, follow anyone and summon infinite henchmen, the other moment he fumbles all his advantages and comes inches from death. It’s clear the action and intrigue weren’t the main focus for this show, and were used more as enablers for the star-crossed lovers to act out their story. Also I will never get over how the filming for this show involved two actors who were totally into each other and trying to hide it, playing two characters who were totally into each other and trying to hide it. I can just imagine the crew sitting there and thinking “wow! This is really believable acting!”
Intrigue wise – I’m tempted to say “Defendant” just because of the insane opening theme and the ML’s memetic rage (“CHA MIN-HOOOO!!!”) but the one that comes to mind is the recently-released “The Glory”. It is basically a sprawling and visceral revenge plot; a bunch of assholes being set up to destroy one another by the person who they wronged, where the lead asshole puts up a fight and you always have this suspense of “who thought X+1 steps ahead this episode”. In that respect it’s similar to the non-Korean Revenge (2015) starring Emily VanCamp (but thankfully avoids that show’s profound seasonal rot, which culminated in a final season built on the premise that the one character whose death set the entire show in motion was actually alive after all – I feel no shame in spoiling that). A similar and even grittier experience is “My Name”, also a brutal revenge story that invites you to guess the twist between one gut punch and the next.
WTF-wise I recently watched “The Interest of Love” and could not look away from it, like a terrible car accident. I don’t even know what to call it, the negative inverse of a love story maybe. When I grow old and forget every other kdrama I will still remember the FL from “The Interest of Love” and her pithy, soul-destroying one-liners. At some points I remember clapping and cheering at the particularly cruel ones as a defense mechanism. I don’t have the words to articulate the gaping hole at the core of this drama where a heart should be; maybe I can say the big emotional idea is kind of like the Basic Instinct movies – deep down the ML knows he is being slowly eaten alive but he won’t walk away, he can’t walk away, deep down in a perverse way he wants this and needs this, and so do the writers, the lord have mercy on their souls. It was certainly an experience, a piece of impossibly sour candy.
Sci-Fi wise I fondly remember “Sisyphus”. It’s the mirror image of “Crash Landing”: The love story is nothing to write home about, but the surrounding plot, wew lad. There’s time travel and an evil future at war with the present, basically like a more intelligible version of Nolan’s TENET. I can barely remember any of it now but at the time I remember being decently impressed with it, and that’s after reaching a point where I felt I’ve already seen every kind of sci-fi bullshit and nothing could impress me anymore. I particularly liked how they skirted around the whole issue of “how do the people with time travel not just stomp over all the obstacles in their path”, which to my taste was disastrously handled in e.g. “Signal”.
These sorts of vague sentiments, “why is the news full of negativity? And have you noticed common sense is very far from common?” are always popular – right up until one is forced to put a finer point on what popular opinions exactly need to lose support because they lack common sense, and which ongoing crisis exactly needs to have less media exposure so as to increase the ambient positivity
That game stands out in so many unique ways. The story is emotionally mature, the challenge is very tough but very fair, and the soundtrack by Lena Raine is gorgeous
I think ChatGPT can do a decent job of this already. Example.
What a deplorable take. Is the 10-year-old child living in the USA who says “I love my country” morally responsible for the war in Iraq? Is the 10-year-old Saudi Arabian saying “I love my country” morally responsible for 9/11? By what mechanism does your standard spare any human being at all, ever, from total moral condemnation?
I understand your resentment but the restaurant manager is a different user