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by rsaarelm 5mo ago
There is a variant named NetHack 4, they might want to avoid confusion with it.
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NetHack 5.0.0(nethack.org)
527 points by rsaarelm 5mo ago|180 comments
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by rsaarelm 5mo ago
It's also funny how Finland has a concept of "thermic spring", which is defined by the temperature no longer dipping below 0° C, and the term doesn't exist in English because the definition wouldn't work in the clim
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by rsaarelm 6mo ago
It's helpful to tell people that they are in uncharted territory and can't rely on running on autopilot even if you don't have a new map to give them. Whether they can make their way or not is unclear, but the first step is j
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Investigating an LLM generated C compiler(shape-of-code.com)
4 points by rsaarelm 7mo ago|0 comments
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Cosmologically Unique IDs(jasonfantl.com)
2 points by rsaarelm 7mo ago|0 comments
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The Anthropic Hive Mind(steve-yegge.medium.com)
10 points by rsaarelm 7mo ago|1 comments
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by rsaarelm 8mo ago
Archive.today does not seem to have worked for people connecting from Finland since mid-January, it just gives an endless captcha loop. Is this related to whatever this drama is?
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by rsaarelm 1y ago
There is a true asymmetry that's avoided by the anodyne "everyone needs to think about these things" talk. If you take a group of 20 people from your country chosen completely at random, some people are likely to find things
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by rsaarelm 1y ago
> Mostly true actually. If this was not so, the world would look like a daycare without supervision. Just a bunch of primal feelings and violence. The inner self isn't just an id, it's your goals, interests, values and ways of
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by rsaarelm 1y ago
> Thinking about the things you say isn't faking it - it's just using your brain and being considerate. I guess what gets me with this stuff is that there are multiple things going on that are getting conflated. Considering you
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by rsaarelm 1y ago
> Fake it till you make it. What are you trying to make though? You're pretending to want the same things the people you think you need to fit in with want, but if you don't actually want those things, what point is there to be
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by rsaarelm 1y ago
Sometimes people already are like something and don't want to change it or feel like they could change it, but also don't get along being like they are. This is more awkward to think about than just treating them as damaged or inc
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by rsaarelm 1y ago
Mask every day. Life goal: Be 100% artificial person. All openings and responses must be calculated and faked. Your inner self is faulty and not appropriate at any situation. Once you train and work hard enough to suppress it at all times f
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by rsaarelm 1y ago
English has the idiom "reading the tea leaves". Elsewhere in Europe it's "reading the coffee grounds", eg. "kahvinporoista katsominen" in Finnish.
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by rsaarelm 2y ago
I think OP is thinking about covering the sphere of directions in 3D space, not just directions in a 2D plane. No matter how hard you spin the pencil, you're drawing a one-dimensional curve that has no area, so any finite amount you dr
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by rsaarelm 2y ago
> They always assume their race (or gender) will end up on top - probably just coincidence! I always wonder what they'll say about research that turns out otherwise. They go "hey, cool, we can get a paper out of this" htt
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by rsaarelm 2y ago
The Z-code images are up on IFDB: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=4h62dvooeg9ajtfa You can click the "play online" link or download the image and play locally with an interpreter like frotz.
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by rsaarelm 2y ago
Static site generation and Github pages. Start with the Jekyll generator Github supports out of the box and roll your own if you need something it doesn't provide.
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by rsaarelm 2y ago
Someone with IQ 160 might have trouble empathizing with what IQ 100 people find convincing or compelling and not do that well with an average IQ 100 population. What if they were dealing with an average IQ 145 population that might be much
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by rsaarelm 2y ago
Yes, because you need to spend a lot of time doing social organization and thinking about it to get very good at it, just like you need to spend a lot of time doing math or science and thinking about it to get very good at it. And then you
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by rsaarelm 2y ago
Why will it never be? If the adequate intelligence is what something like 0.1 % of the populace naturally has, seems like there's a pretty big difference between that level of intelligence being stuck at 0.1 % of the populace and it be
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by rsaarelm 2y ago
So you're saying that it's naive to suppose that everybody being much smarter than they are now would transform society, because any wide-scale societal change requires ongoing social cooperation between the many average-intellige
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by rsaarelm 2y ago
Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Stephen King's stuff up until the early 90s (I later found out the point where the books turned boring was when he'd stopped using drugs), short stories of H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and C
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by rsaarelm 2y ago
Are you objecting to the formal system breaking down or to the deviation from expected meaning? You could just say something like "to simplify error handling, our programming language uses a 'zivision' operator that behaves e
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by rsaarelm 2y ago
You could call it an incorrect answer if there was a correct answer to division by zero, but it's undefined instead with no correct answer. Sounds pedantic, but in math pedantic stuff matters, and apparently you can expand things to
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by rsaarelm 2y ago
It's more "nobody else is interested" than "it's not out in the open", but I've made my own structured data format implemented as a Rust serializer https://github.com/rsaarelm/idm and
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by rsaarelm 2y ago
I remember how CD-ROM killed the golden age of the PC computer role-playing game. When people had to make do with text, limited graphics and procedural content generation, we got things like Serpent Isle, Darklands, Betrayal at Krondor and
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Things I hate about Partiful(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)
2 points by rsaarelm 2y ago|0 comments
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by rsaarelm 2y ago
How do you think humans are doing this this if you don't think machines can ever do anything similar?

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