brucethemoose

@brucethemoose@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, BG3 is like bottled lightning, and I think it’s unreasonable to expect many (if any) other studios to produce something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Player two has entered the lobby⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And then congress with actually do something about it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're trying to charge Luigi with terrorism! Imagine that!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it a separate charge?

  He can still be convicted for 1st degree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I swear, that picture and her profile look AI generated. That smile… WTF.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty interesting when you really think about it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As if humans weren’t fiercely tribalistic forever. Other species beat each other to death, too.

  The post may be right, but getting a bunch of Homo sapiens from far away not to club each other to death is, historically, a hard problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to RFK Jr.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the admin can just lie to get him confirmed.

  I’m not even kidding or saying that bitterly. It just… seems like fact now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iraq War was preceded by the largest worldwide non-violent protests in history and the war happened anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One observation several have made is that audiences are defying their conservative influencers over this issue.

  Maybe it’s not individually important, but I think it could be a “start” that finally gets through to so many otherwise impenetrable minds and captive audiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a human, here is my human take on unions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except the king of disinformation bought Twitter. And “we” not only keep using it en masse, but basically elected him as president.

  The US is way past the event horizon, and the chance of ever arresting people like this is less than zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donuts are good for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just remember to take anything AI says with a grain of salt. TBH I’d suggest digging deeper into how LLMs work at a high level so you can understand just how they can be “wrong”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donuts are good for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking as a local LLM enthusiast, it’s still unreliable and is “googling” something behind the scenes to get answers. And it’s not like a human poking around, internally it’s looking at a wall of webpages and “hoping” to hit something right.

  But to answer your question Perplexity is similar, and perplexica is the open source equivalent. There are also researcher “agent” scripts that will script LLM calls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donuts are good for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gemini Pro is quite good, probably better than GPT-4, but it’s still terrible at doing a search engine’s job reliably, and Google is undoubtedly using an older, cheaper setup here.

  It’s mind boggling that Google shoved this into search the way they did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yeah I meant Sweeny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Epic Games is not publicly traded.

  And TBH their history with Unreal is not that bad. And Valve is already extracting a truckload of money out of us through their percentage cut.

  Carmack is absolutely a character though, lol. I have to wonder how controversial EGS would be without him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its happened to me after a full day too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am just using the browser UI, and just mean the notifications on the site.

  Sometimes I get a reply with no notification even within Lemmy, and someone else said this happens to them too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean, are you on some client that has notifications disabled by default?

  Genuine fediverse noob here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now this is a good reason.

  And random note, but I didn’t get a notification for this reply?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right but I dont see how its anything but a minor annoyance.

  Like, if the game is really good… What is so bad about installing the epic client? Its like a few minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it being annoying… But why is it such a deal breaker? Like, why not just install it, play the game, leave it when you’re done?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would also ask yourself if this is beneficial at all.

  Look at their historical prices. Investors have already bought into this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are spouting assertions about what sounds right while ignoring bodies of scientific evidence contradicting your viewpoint. Just because Lemmy users are unwilling to spend 20-30 minutes digging through arixv to refute you doesn’t make you right.

  You don’t want to go and look up and analyze evidence that floride in the water supply is beneficial, you want to just assert the hypothesis you’ve formed as likely truth without evidence and research into related work, and I can confidently say this because experts who spend their lives reading papers and writing them on this very topic are qualified to make these assertions.

  …This “sounds right” line of thinking has been the bane of civilization for eons. You aren’t breaking up some scientific fallacy like the church believing the Earth is the center of the universe, you are perpetuating one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I have an story/fanfiction idea ruminating my mind for a long time. I wish I could write it "⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s great for instant feedback. You can ask it “does this dialogue above feel out of character or stilted?” or ask it about character growth, and it will generally give an interesting critique.

  You have to keep in mind that it can go off the rails (repeatedly querying it is good to check for this), and has a sycophancy bias, and is kinda dumb, but its still quite useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I have an story/fanfiction idea ruminating my mind for a long time. I wish I could write it "⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s not efficiency, if anything it takes much longer running the LLM notepad because I will randomly ask it about passages/chapters and revise stuff.

  It’s kinda fun having an assistant to just bounce ideas off of on a whim. You can’t get that with beta readers, as they don’t just sit there while you write (and the LLM is much faster), and I don’t feel like I’m being charged for every response with an API model, especially if it ingests the entire story every time.

  It’s also “smart” beyond me. For instance, sometimes I wanna come up with a name for a character, city or whatever, and I can ask it “what’s an interesting name for this engineer character’s brother, maybe something logical,” and it will crank out tons of examples and start a little conversation about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why dont we do this??? are we stupid??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those diabolical Chile preservationists…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I have an story/fanfiction idea ruminating my mind for a long time. I wish I could write it "⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect Lemmy is going to dislike this, but local LLMs are great writing helpers.

  When you’re stuck on a sentence or a blank paragraph, get them to continue it, and rewrite it once it jogs your mind. If you’re drafting ideas for characters or chapters, you can sanity check them or sometimes get ideas. They can reword and clean up your writing and improve it beyond what self experimentation can do… just keeping in mind that its like an idiot intern that tends to repeat itself and hallucinate.

  And this is very different from an API model like ChatGPT because:

  • It won’t refuse you.

  • It’s formatted as a notebook you can continue at any arbitrary point, rather than a user/chatbot type format.

  • The writing isn’t so dry, and it isn’t filled with AI slop, especially with cutting edge sampling

  Along with all the usual reasons, namely being free, self-hosted, more ethically trained, fast and efficient with long context thanks to caching, and has nothing to do with Sam Altman’s nightmarish visions.

  I’d recommend: huggingface.co/…/Qwen2.5-Gutenberg-Doppel-32B

  And once the story gets long: huggingface.co/EVA-UNIT-01/EVA-Qwen2.5-32B-v0.2

  I’d recommend LanguageTool (with a local server and the browser extension) for locally hosted spelling/grammar/style as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨flouride⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The meme is now this is not US policy.

  Its like stating the world is not flat… when in fact NASA’s official stance is that the world is, indeed, flat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100%

  My mom went to an integrated school in the South, made friends… but sometimes overheard racist slurs and threats behind closed doors. Same story with family I have now, all pleasent in public, friends with some gay family members. But vehemently anti-vaccine and such behind closed doors… I don’t even dare ask about trans people :(

  The duality is unreal.

  A question is where that behind-doors comes from… a lot is from church. Church like you’ve never seen if you haven’t been to the South.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is that real?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine if it found its way into musk’s feed!

  I would not be against this. I absolutely know how.

  We can rebuilt him. We have the technology…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wrappers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so glad I’m not a tiny bug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2024 Administration is Shaping Up Like a Comic Book Villain Squad!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …No. No one is saying that.

  Her alignment depends on her depiction though. In the Harley Quinn series, for instance, she’s obviously not the bad guy because she’s a main character and depicted as a sane, regular person.