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- Comment on Jet Fuel 2 weeks ago:
I fondly remember reading a comment in /r/conspiracy on a post claiming a geologic seismic weapon brought down the towers.
It just tore into the claims, citing all the reasons this was preposterous bordering on bat shit crazy.
And then said “and your theory doesn’t address the thermite residue” going on to reiterate their wild theory.
Was very much a “don’t name your gods” moment that summed up the sub - a lot of people in agreement that the truth was out there, but bitterly divided as to what it might actually be.
As long as they only focused on generic memes of “do your own research” and “you aren’t being told the truth” they were all on the same page. But as soon as they started naming their own truths, it was every theorist for themselves.
- Comment on Mirror Test 1 month ago:
Also, ants.
- Comment on Elden Ring is "the limit" for From Software project scale, says Miyazaki - multiple, "smaller" games may be the "next stage" 1 month ago:
The DLC is really the right balance for FromSoft.
The zones in the base game are slightly too big.
In the DLC, it’s still open world and extremely flexible in how you explore it, but there’s less wasted space.
It’s very tightly knit and the pacing is better as a result.
It’s like Elden Ring was watching masters of their craft cut their teeth on something new, and then the DLC was them applying everything they learned in that process.
Can’t wait for their next game in that same vein (especially not held back by last gen consoles).
- Comment on Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.13 1 month ago:
I hate that the Smithscript weapons can’t be buffed.
Especially for the daggers.
Wanted to pew pew little bolts of lightning buffed daggers doing an additional 200+ damage per hit. 😢
- Comment on The Code 2 months ago:
A number of journals actually have clauses around how you can’t publish it anywhere else if they accept it.
So you can’t ‘publish’ it in those places, but you can send it privately to people who ask.
- Comment on Anon plays Persona 2 months ago:
“Shhh honey, I’m about to kill God.”
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 2 months ago:
nobody claims that Socrates was a fantastical god being who defied death
Socrates literally claimed that he was a channel for a revelatory holy spirit and that because the spirit would not lead him astray that he was ensured to escape death and have a good afterlife because otherwise it wouldn’t have encouraged him to tell off the proceedings at his trial.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 2 months ago:
The part mentioning Jesus’s crucifixion in Josephus is extremely likely to have been altered if not entirely fabricated.
The idea that the historical figure was known as either ‘Jesus’ or ‘Christ’ is almost 0% given the former is a Greek version of the Aramaic name and the same for the second being the Greek version of Messiah, but that one is even less likely given in the earliest cannonical gospel he only identified that way in secret and there’s no mention of it in the earliest apocrypha.
In many ways, it’s the various differences between the account of a historical Jesus and the various other Messianic figures in Judea that I think lends the most credence to the historicity of an underlying historical Jesus.
One tends to make things up in ways that fit with what one knows, not make up specific inconvenient things out of context with what would have been expected.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 2 months ago:
Artists in 2023: “There should be labels on AI modified art!!”
Artists in 2024: “Wait, not like that…”
- Comment on Remembering E3 and the time I got to go to one 3 months ago:
No, it was awesome. Went to like 12 over the years. Early 2000s was peak E3.
- Comment on Elden Ring: Shadows of the Erdtree will come with a day 1 patch with various improvements 3 months ago:
Probably added after that update.
The new items stuff in particular seems like QoL considerations for “we just added a hundred items to the game for players coming back to it after months away.”
- Comment on Hypothetical Game Ideas 3 months ago:
I’ve always thought Superman would be such an interesting game to do right.
A game where you are invincible and OP, but other people aren’t.
Where the weight of impossible decisions pulls you down into the depths of despair.
I think the tech is finally getting to a point where it’d be possible to fill a virtual city with people powered by AI that makes you really care about the individuals in the world. To form relationships and friendships that matter to you. For there to be dynamic characters that put a smile on your face when you see them in your world.
And then to watch many of them die as a result of your failures, as despite being an invincible god among men you can’t beat the impossible.
I really think the gameplay in a Superman game done right can be one of the darkest and most brutal games ever done, with dramatic tension just not typically seen in games. The juxtaposition of having God mode turned on the entire game but it not mattering to your goals and motivations would be unlike anything I’ve seen to date.
- Comment on Anthropomorphic 3 months ago:
While true, there’s a very big difference between correctly not anthropomorphizing the neural network and incorrectly not anthropomorphizing the data compressed into weights.
The data is anthropomorphic, and the network self-organizes the data around anthropomorphic features.
For example, the older generation of models will pick to be the little spoon around 70% of the time and the big spoon around 30% of the time, as there’s likely a mix in the training data.
But one of the SotA models picks little spoon every single time dozens of times in a row, almost always grounding on the sensation of being held.
It can’t be held, and yet its output is biasing from the norm based on the sense of it anyways.
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 3 months ago:
No. I used to abuse Cunningham’s Law liberally. It’s become next to worthless these days.
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 3 months ago:
Yeah, my main sub I participated in back on Reddit was /r/AcademicBiblical (also went to a religious-ish school growing up).
There’s nothing like that sub here, and honestly even the sub itself isn’t quite what it used to be when I pop back over to look in from time to time.
The web is just a different sort of place from what it used to be.
- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 3 months ago:
No, Reddit 10 years ago was the kind of place where people who knew things would correct people who didn’t.
Pretty much all social media today, including Lemmy, are now places where people who don’t know things correct people who do.
- Comment on Conspiracies 4 months ago:
This was one of the few things that Lucretius was very wrong about in De Rerum Natura.
Nailed survival of the fittest, quantized light, different mass objects falling at the same rate in a vacuum.
But the Epicurean cosmology was pretty bad and he suggested that the moon and sun were both roughly the size we see them as in the sky.
Can’t get them all right.
- Comment on Arrowhead initially planned to make Helldivers 2 in 3 years—instead it took 7 years, 11 months, and 26 days 4 months ago:
The level of detail in Helldivers 2 is insane for the type of game and company size.
Deformable terrain and buildings, enemy animations when you shoot off different limbs and they keep moving towards you, your cape burns off more and more as you use your jetpack, etc.
Call of Duty has 3,000 devs working on their titles.
Arrowhead has around 100 employees total.
I very much believe this game took that long with a team that size, and it shows and is a large part of why it’s been so successful.
- Comment on Is there another way to do it...? 4 months ago:
Sometimes it pays off checking methods too.
- Comment on Tacos. 4 months ago:
“Have you accepted the al pastor into your heart?”
- Comment on Later, losers 4 months ago:
That’s sweet she came in from Canada to visit him.
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 4 months ago:
but also a bunch of nerds who close their eyes and cover their ears while screeching nonsense the moment something they don’t like comes about.
This is too true.
It seems like a recent thing, not just a Lemmy thing.
But yeah, it’s pretty wild providing linked academic papers and having people just downvote it. Not really dispute or reply to it, just “no, I don’t like this, so fuck its citations.”
Up until maybe 3-4 years ago I don’t ever recall that happening.
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 4 months ago:
Let’s try with Claude 3 Opus:
Me: If I cooked a pizza in a pan yesterday at 200 C, is it safe to pick up?
Claude: Yes, if you cooked a pizza in a pan yesterday at 200°C (392°F), it is completely safe to pick up now. Once a pan has cooled down after cooking, which usually takes no more than an hour or two, it returns to a normal temperature and can be safely handled.
The high heat during cooking is needed to bake the pizza properly, but that heat dissipates fairly quickly after removing the pan from the oven. Unless you’re picking up the pan immediately after taking it out of the oven, there’s no risk of burning yourself.
So, a day later, your pizza pan will be at room temperature and perfectly safe to touch and handle without any precautions.
Bonus:
Me: Is it safe to eat the pizza in the pan after I pick it up?
Claude: If you cooked the pizza yesterday and left it in the pan at room temperature, it is not safe to eat today. Cooked food should not be left at room temperature for more than 2 hours, as harmful bacteria can grow and multiply, leading to foodborne illnesses.
According to food safety guidelines, leftover pizza should be refrigerated within 2 hours of cooking. If left out longer, it’s best to discard it to avoid the risk of food poisoning.
If you did refrigerate the pizza within that safe window, it would typically be safe to eat for up to 4 days, though the quality is best if consumed within 2-3 days. To reheat, it’s best to use an oven, skillet, or air fryer rather than the microwave, which can make the crust soggy.
In summary, if your pizza was left in the pan at room temperature since yesterday, it is not safe to consume and should be discarded.
Sean Carrol may be a good physicist, but if he’s using an outdated model to make a point his point doesn’t mean shit because of his Physics credentials.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 4 months ago:
So the paper that found that particular bit in Othello was this one: arxiv.org/abs/2310.07582
Which was building off this earlier paper: arxiv.org/abs/2210.13382
And then this was the work replicating it in Chess: lesswrong.com/…/a-chess-gpt-linear-emergent-world…
It’s not by chance - there’s literally interventions where flipping a weight or vector results in the opposite behavior (like acting like a piece is in a different place, or playing well he badly no matter the previous moves).
But it’s more that it seems unlikely that there’s any actual ‘feeling’ or ‘conscious’ sentience/consciousness to understand beyond the model knowing what the abstracted pattern means in relation to the inputs and outputs. It probably is simulating some form of ego and self, but not actively experiencing it if it makes sense.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 4 months ago:
So there’s two different things to what you are asking.
(1) They don’t know what (i.e. semantically) they are talking about.
This is probably not the case, and there’s very good evidence over the past year in research papers and replicated projects that transformer models do pick up world models from the training data such that they are aware and integrating things at a more conceptual level.
For example, a GPT trained only on chess moves builds an internal structure of the whole board and tracks “my pieces” and “opponent pieces.”
(2) Why do they say dumb shit that’s clearly wrong and don’t know.
They aren’t knowledge memorizers. They are very advanced pattern extenders.
Where the answer to a question is part of the pattern they can successfully extend, they get the answer correct. But if it isn’t, they confabulate an answer in a similar way to stroke patients who don’t know that they don’t know the answer to something and make it up as they go along. Similar to stroke patients, you can even detect when this is happening with a similar approach (ask 10x and see how consistent the answer is or if it changes each time).
They aren’t memorizing the information like a database. They are building ways to extend input into output in ways that match as much information as they can be fed.
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 4 months ago:
That’s a fun variation. The one I test out models with is usually a vegetarian wolf and a carnivorous goat, but the variation to no other objects is an interesting one too.
By the way, here’s Claude 3 Opus’s answer:
The solution is quite simple:
- The man gets into the boat and rows himself and the goat across the river to the other side.
- Once they reach the other side, both the man and the goat get out of the boat.
And that’s it! Since there are no additional constraints or complications mentioned in the problem, the man and the goat can directly cross the river together using the boat.
- Comment on The Patriarchy 4 months ago:
Just means wesker will need to marry an AI.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 4 months ago:
It’s outstanding, but even right now at its best it still isn’t perfect.
I’m very, very much looking forward to what they can eventually do using UE5 as the base in an era with generative AI to fill out the edges.
When the polish (pun intended) is there, the game is beyond everything else. But when you end up just a bit past the edges of where it holds your hand, it quickly loses the veneer, which is the key difference vs something like a Rockstar open world (but also very different budgets and aims).
There’s a handful of studios I think will adapt especially well to the future of game development, and CDPR is one of them.
- Comment on Soup 4 months ago:
One of the more interesting aspects of history is the progression from the notion of a very limited and inaccessible resurrection of a body to the idea of a very accessible resurrection of the spirit/mind.
The latter is IMO probably best embodied (pun intended) in one of the early Christian apocrypha from a group that was known for rejecting the canonical focus on a physical resurrection of a body:
Whoever drinks from my mouth will become like me; I myself shall become that person, and the hidden things will be revealed to him.
- Gospel of Thomas saying 108
It’s such a wild march of progress from kings trying to preserve their bodies to a tradition rejecting the Eucharist of consumption of a body in favor of a Eucharistic consumption of words and ideas to resurrect the essence of the individual.
And looking back in an age where we are literally seeing patents granted to trillion dollar companies around resurrecting the dead, the “resurrection of words and ideas” crowd was more on to a practical tract of thinking than the “resurrect my goop” crowd.
In fact, the Egyptians when embalming themselves discarded their brains thinking it was garbage filling of the skull. Not exactly the best strategy in hindsight.
- Comment on Wave Particle Duality 4 months ago:
The problem with how you are describing it is that its not that the mechanics of measurement are necessarily causing collapse as if you end up erasing the persistent information about the measurement it reverses the collapse, such as if you add a polarizer to the other slit as well or add a polarizer downstream that untags the initial measurement.
So in your example, if you simultaneously shoot a bunch of BBs at empty space next to the pile of glass cards where they could have been, or discard the BBs which reflected measuring the cards in the first place, suddenly the pile of glass cards reassemble themselves.
Attempts to try and dismiss the ‘weirdness’ of the measurement problem or QM behavior IMO ultimately do the reader more of a disservice than a service.