Railcar8095
@Railcar8095@lemmy.world
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 2 days ago:
Crash bandicoot 3.
Considering how uninformed I was back then, it was a hell of a success.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 4 days ago:
Honestly, yes.
- Comment on oh ok 5 days ago:
You’re the one replying, I can’t tell what you’re trying to add, or why you’re doing it.
- Comment on oh ok 6 days ago:
Fell free to offer a solution. For the moment the LLM wins, nobody else even tried
- Comment on oh ok 6 days ago:
This doesn’t answer the question of finding a better solution.
I took the liberty to ask Lumo and his reasoning seem more useful than your thoughts:
A better solution is to adopt functionalist terminology that distinguishes between biological consciousness and computational processing without resorting to metaphorical confusion.
Instead of the binary of “it thinks” (which implies subjective experience) or “it doesn’t think” (which dismisses complex reasoning), we can use precise descriptors based on what the system is actually doing:
“Reasoning” or “Synthesizing”: Use these terms when the model is connecting disparate data points, performing logical deductions, or generating novel structures based on patterns. This acknowledges the output’s complexity without claiming the machine has an inner life.
Example: “The model is synthesizing a solution based on its training data,” rather than “The model is thinking about the problem.” “Simulating” or “Mimicking”: Use these when the output resembles human thought processes but is strictly algorithmic. This clarifies that the form is human-like, but the mechanism is statistical prediction.
Example: “It is simulating a debate,” rather than “It is arguing.” “Processing” or “Computing”: Reserve these for the raw mechanical act of token generation.
Example: “The system is processing the query,” rather than “The system is considering the query.” Why this works better:
Precision: It avoids the philosophical baggage of “thought” (qualia, consciousness) while still acknowledging the utility of the output. Clarity: It prevents the “Plagiarism Machine” critique from being a total dismissal. Even if the data comes from humans, the recombination and application to new contexts is a distinct computational process worth naming accurately. Scalability: As models become more complex, “reasoning” or “synthesizing” scales better than “thinking,” which remains tied to biological definitions that may never apply to silicon. So, the compromise isn’t to keep saying “thinking” and hope people understand, nor to insist on “regurgitation” which ignores the emergent properties of large-scale pattern matching. Instead, we shift the vocabulary to describe the process (reasoning, synthesizing, simulating) rather than the state of being (thinking).
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 1 week ago:
The modern day mechanicus warships the omnissiah
A typo, but honestly a very fitting one
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
And if Pryor purple, it’s epic
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen balding. I’ve seen bald. But never seem famously bald.
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 2 weeks ago:
He just made a very pointy argument against guns.
- Comment on The three archetypes 3 weeks ago:
Or quiet
Source: ask Nvidia
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 3 weeks ago:
Yes, of course. They want a “everybody, all the time” service game.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 3 weeks ago:
Playtest this week was met with pretty mixed results, people either loved it or hated it.
Honestly, that shouldn’t be bad. Not all games need to appeal to everybody. Take ARMA, for example. It would do shit on a playtest, but the group who likes it does it for some of the reasons the rest would hate it. I think we need to switch a bit from “fuck this game, it’s not for me” to “I don’t care about it, it’s not for me. If it’s for you that’s fine”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Which are the other 2? WW I was called that. I don’t think they said they said the same of the second.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You mean a second “war to end all wars”?
- Comment on many have been saying this 3 weeks ago:
Feature not a bug (for them)
- Comment on Bill Clinton releases video statement after Jeffrey Epstein testimony | ABC NEWS 4 weeks ago:
It is wild that Trump is in the position he’s in with the state of his faculties and capabilities.
It is wild he’s there AGAIN
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I can tolerate genocidal colonialism, but I draw the line at FIFA
- Comment on No u 🫵 4 weeks ago:
But we already have much more evidence than our eyes. If one of the explanations require to disregard millennia of worth of scientific advancements, I don’t think you can invoke Occam.
Even in the times when geocentricism was the prominent accepted version, the shape was accepted as non flat.
That work is done, if you they want to challenge it they need to do their bit. Else it’s faith.
- Comment on Interesting question. For me it would be a dead grandfather 4 weeks ago:
Time travel is real, they are just ghosting OP
- Comment on Because, f**k you! That's why. 4 weeks ago:
Ubuntu is Snappy
/s
- Comment on Strange Times 4 weeks ago:
It’s my sons favorite dinosaur, we will fight by your side to defend it.
- Comment on Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games 5 weeks ago:
Terraria 2.
If they say it’s 100 euros, I’ll still get it as a long term investment.
- Comment on Would you look at the time 5 weeks ago:
I honestly love it.
- Comment on Tune a fish 5 weeks ago:
Ooops. I mixed it with some other then
- Comment on Tune a fish 5 weeks ago:
I love this comment, I’m going to save it on a PDF file.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 1 month ago:
Or the step brother, piracy?
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 1 month ago:
They can’t be called milk, but are under “dairy” (lacteos) on the supermarket. You can’t make this shit up.
- Comment on Anon gets an exotic pet 1 month ago:
If you want a way too unlearn terrible things and pretend you never knew about it, MAGAs seem to know the way
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 month ago:
Just reading that name made my articulations ache.
It’s great is still active though.
- Comment on Operation Pantry Storm 🇺🇸 1 month ago:
You meant it was… Raid there?