ghostzilla

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by ghostzilla 2y ago
Which brings the question, if LLMs are an asset of such strategic value, why did China allow the DeepSeek to be released? I see two possibilities here, either that the CCP is not that all-reaching as we think, or that the value of the techn
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by ghostzilla 2y ago
This seems more like a move designed to frighten China -- or force them to spend money making LLMs -- then an actual threat. The clues are that Trump ceremonially blessed the deal but did not promise money (SoftBank et al will, supposedly),
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by ghostzilla 2y ago
That's interesting, it hasn't occurred to me to check his games. That said, I remember reading that Machiaveli was once given a territory to govern and he was terrible at it, despite The Prince. It may be a thing about teachers vs
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by ghostzilla 2y ago
Jesse Schell's book is a great read beyond game design. Thanks for the other links. To leave something in return, here's something I read the other day and kept thinking about it (I'm designing on a PvP motion based game) &qu
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by ghostzilla 2y ago
Another adage is "code should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute". This goes directly against code being written by machines. I still use ChatGPT for small self-contained functions (e.g. i
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by ghostzilla 2y ago
Or a pebble; for a super intelligent pebble. “God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.” ― Ibn Arabi
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by ghostzilla 2y ago
> You don’t need unit tests if you have integration tests. Which is why, as per Jim Coplien, most unit testing is waste. But converting one type of unit tests into another is a perfect showcase for AI-generated code. They could have even
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by ghostzilla 2y ago
On the internet, no one hears you being subtle. (Torvalds) I'll add my own view: when you watch a movie, read a book, listen to a song, play a game... you CONNECT with the mind of the person who made it. When there is no mind, or the s
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
Certainly agree with you on that one.
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
I find it draining to have to be on the lookout constantly for hallucinations, or omissions a person wouldn't make. I imagine as long as I'm walking well known paths -- well known to many but not me -- I'm safe, but the momen
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
> People raving about it on twitter For the most part usages of GenAI have been sharing output on social media. It is mind-blowingly fascinating, but the utility of it is far far behind.
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
They probably don't. Forced ad viewing is fundamentally dishonest: they can force the user to watch the ad, but they can't force him to pony up for what is being advertised.
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
The best description of AGI I've seen is in Michael Crichton's Prey. He describes in a fairly plausible detail how AGI rises from the building blocks. The emotion he captures is that of dealing with a psychopath -- goal oriented w
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
"What an insult to writers, artists, and game designers! None of them have managed to imbue their works with "unique spirit?" As someone said, to the extent they have managed to do it -- and many have -- it was not because of
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
About time. What makes a game unique in spirit is its engine.
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
I had always thought they had some sort of special treatment but wasn't sure of their social status. I found a bit on that: https://www.quora.com/Where-specifically-did-the-Crusaders-c... "Most seem to think they
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
How much -- not whether -- something is natural is determined by the statistical processes that make the thing. "Appeal to nature fallacy" misses that critical point.
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
In ancient Greece they supposedly ate meat only during festivals. That was not only better for people but also allowed animal populations to recover. I firmly believe that the level of meat consumption today is unnaturally high, simply beca
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
As Heissenberg said, "What we are seeing is not nature, but nature exposed to our mode of questioning." And the mode -- we invented it as it is because of a whim of history, because it is a game, and we like the game, and it'
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
Exactly right. Most of the new engineers have nothing of the libertarian spirit of the 2600 era. It was engineers who implemented censorship at online platforms, most incredulous of which was PayPal charging customers $2,500 in damages for
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
Only if a long time passes without evidence of harm, we consider that the "evidence" of safety -- there is no other. It is very difficult to claim that something new introduced in a complex system is safe, so you weigh what you ge
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
It is the statistical processes that determine how much something is "natural". Our bodies evolved alongside fruit that was on the smaller and less sweet side, and logically that's what we are the most compatible with. Over c
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
And this is an example of "where is the evidence" logical fallacy. In complex systems, such as the human body, the only evidence of safety is time -- a very long time. The Stevia plant (though not the same as extract) has been use
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
Apparently you deleted one of your previous comments on the topic, so I'll repost it here as it illustrates wonderfully how "pragmatic" your own thinking is, especially the part that matrix multiplication in a loop is "l
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by ghostzilla 3y ago
I was in a similar situation at a startup I worked for, except they are trying to get their software into the control systems in industrial refrigeration facilities. I have brought up repeatedly that their Netflix-style cloud model for cont