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- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 10 hours ago:
For background NPC, sure nothing lost, at least nothing lost that isn’t already being lost in the “put big exclamations/question marks over NPCs with something actually important to say”. Once upon a time there was a nice experience of evaluating NPC text to determine if there’s an interesting side quest or at least an interesting side story playing out in the dialog. But with the push for more credible ambient NPC instead of big cities with like 25 people living in them that has been significantly lost anyway.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 10 hours ago:
Yeah, already things were getting harder to follow as people went to address the “strangely sparse cities” problem by flooding the environment with way more stuff aiming for more plausible, but it’s more than you can ever consume and it’s generally hard to know when you are actually supposed to pay attention or not. Finding interesting side quests among the flavor text used to be a thing, but now the flavor text is just overwhelmingly too much for that.
Of course, there’s recognition of that and games start putting indications of “THIS RANDOM NPC HAS SOMETHING TO SAY” bright over anyone vaguely important. So I suppose in that context NPC flavor text vomit might as well be AI since it’s been clearly indicated as stuff to ignore as background noise. Still disappointed in the decline of “is this important or not” determination being organic.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 day ago:
- Comment on Self-report 1 day ago:
Worth being clear that all the people in question are between 10 and 13.
I actually never read the book, but heard of that one scene and can’t imagine it would have felt like it should have fit in, and really should have raised more questions about… Everything really.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 day ago:
Well if you are having to watch on mute anyway, not like you even know the plot…
Of course you miss out on the narrative masterpiece of things like lemon stealing whores …
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 day ago:
I don’t know if I want to try to find out if that is satire or actual things…
- Comment on Self-report 1 day ago:
Ah yes, that one scene that all the movies conspicuously skipped…
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 day ago:
What I dread is a game lengthening dialog using AI. Some folks mistake quantity for quality, and make their games unbeatingly tedious. Just like games that lean heavily on procedurally generated content.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 day ago:
I think there’s room for someone to recognize there’s an utterly generic facet to an otherwise creative work. If you for example know you just want a generic night skybox, I don’t think there’s going to be more quality by doing it directly.
However that sentiment carried forward to the assets will rapidly degrade the experience similar to using stock assets.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 day ago:
Feel like “anytime it’s good for” could be subjective.
There are likely folks who think they can just vibe code up an unreal tutorial and say AI was good at “all of it”.
if some boilerplate mechanics are AI code completions, or you had it generate a skybox for you, ok. If it’s generating a significant chunk of your “foreground” assets, then I’m likely to find out as disinteresting as the titles that have leaned hard on stock assets.
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 5 days ago:
If someone is claiming God is on their side, then absolutely they should not be trusted.
A good example was Huckabee’s message to Trump where he says he shouldn’t listen to humble old Huckabee, but he should listen to God, who, coincidentally, is saying exactly the same thing as Huckabee.
If you have your faith but make no assertions about it’s validity over other opinions nor that it confers divine authority to the words or deeds of any person, cool, I respect that faith. I’m inclined to have some faith myself, but I’m not about to claim any of it is more than my personal wild guesses and hope.
However organized religion is generally exploitable and bad people take advantage…
- Comment on What is the funniest insult / joke you've come up with on the spot? 1 week ago:
My nephew was trash talking me about Mario Kart talking about how he’d smoke me because he had been playing it so long.
My reply “I was playing this before you were born”
- Comment on What is the funniest insult / joke you've come up with on the spot? 1 week ago:
Not me but in way back in high school I saw a comeback I’ll never forget. I’ll call them John and Bob.
John was teasing Bob in a mock flirting way. Bob was uncomfortable and told John to stop it.
John says “what’s the matter, aren’t you secure in your sexuality?”
Bob instantly replies “absolutely, but I’m not secure in yours”
- Comment on They are so clueless they don't realize that this just pisses everyone off. Shove your banana 1 week ago:
I mean, it’s one banana. What could it cost? 10 dollars?
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 2 weeks ago:
Why should that be bundled with peripherals… doesn’t seem to be a good “synergy”.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 2 weeks ago:
That is your use case, that relative to your individual usage only one application uses the framework. In that very specific scenario, sure. However with electron it’s forced to be that way for every single application no matter what your scenario is.
If electron packaged as a dependency, then it would be similar. But it’s always forcibly bundled.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 2 weeks ago:
With the caveat that we can accommodate everyone so long as sufficient people put in their fair share of effort. In an ideal world that will mean very short working hours and/or nicely early retirement/late entry into the work force.
Certainly the usual talking heads are spoiled rich guys that have never known labor and have not done their fair share, but it is a difficult thing to balance to make sure we do take care of each other but make sure enough people are engaged to successfully do that
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 3 weeks ago:
I think that in some domains (for example, software development) one person working 40 hours is significantly more productive than two people working 20 hours each.
I’ll go one further, often in software development, one person working 40 hours is significantly more productive than two people working 40 hours each.
Someone working 4 days is always going to earn less than someone working 5
I guarantee that an executive working 4 days a week will make more than the fast food worker doing 6 days a week. I get your sentiment but I don’t think that even pans out for software developers. Most software developers are salaried, and whether they work 3 or 6 days in a week they get the same (just more likely to get fired if they work 3 while everyone else works 5, but their work can trump that deficit). In fact a role that is micromanaging hours of a software developer is in my experience more likely to be stingy with pay and pay less despite trying to demand perpetual unpaid overtime.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 3 weeks ago:
I’ll say it has been marginally more useful integrated into my code editor, prompt driven for me has been useless output for too much effort, but it ambiently sitting there in code editor can be helpful.
I still can only get it to provide useful suggestions about 15-20% of the time for like two lines, maybe a nice error message, but the failure rate is less obnoxious if you didn’t spend extra effort to ask for it and just ignore and keep going. Getting a feel for whether or not the LLM is likely to have something in the completion worth trying to review is a part of it based on what you’ve typed helps. Notably if you are some keystrokes into a very boilerplate process you might be more optimistic, or if you are about to provide a text string as a human error message, decent chance it wrote that for you well enough.
Still I’m more annoyed and not sure that it’s worth being annoyed, but I could buy that shaving typing out a couple lines 15% of the time could be an objective boost that outweighs the burden of futzing with the high error rate.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 3 weeks ago:
That perspective is consistent with the code completion suggestions I get all the time.
LLM seems to think I really want to just rewrite the same 12 lines of code over and over again instead of calling the function where I wrote those 12 lines of code already.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 3 weeks ago:
So my experience has been:
- For at least some jobs, there’s a ‘work item’ of basically generating a bunch of text for humans that no human will ever read, but management thinks it’s important. AI can generate those walls of text no one actually needs while making management feel good.
- It can catch some careless mistakes and guess remediation frequently. For example, if you provide a template string but forget to actually push it through templating, it can see that a string looks like it should be a template and add the templating call and also do a decent job of guessing the variables to pass for the template. However it does have a high false-positive rate, and does hallucinate variables that didn’t exist sometimes, so it’s a bit frustrating and I’m not sure if the false error annoyance is worth it…
- On code completion, it can guess the next line or two I was going for about 15% of the time, 20% of the time with some trivial edits to fix it. A bit annoying because along with the suggested line or two it can get right, it will tend to suggest like 6-10 more lines that are completely wrong 99% of the time, so if I accept the completion I have to delete a bunch. The 1% of the time that it manages to land a full, 6 line completion accurately seems magical, but not magical enough to forget being annoyed at usually having to undo most of the work. Further a bit of a challenge as it has a high chance of ‘looking’ correct even as it makes a mistake, and if you are skimming the suggestion you might overlook the mistake because you aren’t forced to process it at the slow speed of typing. One thing it does do pretty well is if I’m about to construct a string intended for a human user, it will auto complete a decent enough error message for the human user, which tends to be a bit more forgiving of little mistakes in the data.
- Comment on Please remember to spread the word about this :( 3 weeks ago:
Ok, I’m going to make a new nutritional supplement: “oops! all electrons!”
- Comment on The "We Tried" Award 3 weeks ago:
On this specific point, I’d say that neither side seemed poised to pull that again. GOP has historically kicked off the biggest conflicts, but Trump’s rhetoric and even his first term seemed consistent with “it’s not worth risking American military over foreign crap” in a break from the broader GOP.
His second term seems to have shifted that and you can see it as it fractured his base, to the point where Trump supporters threw “America First” in his face and he petulantly declared HE gets to decide what “America First” means because he "invented’ it.
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 3 weeks ago:
Conversely, you can’t have a house, you have no credit.
Fine I just paid off a 1.50 loan for a hot dog.
Ok, now you can borrow 500k because you proved yourself responsible with $1.50
Reality isn’t too far off, back in the day I couldn’t get a loan because I had zero credit history, but then could get a mortgage after a few months of getting a credit card with like a 500 dollar credit limit.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 3 weeks ago:
Who am I, Parker Lewis?
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, spend 30 minutes to download an image and print it out on your dot matrix printer to hide for use when you can’t access the computer.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 3 weeks ago:
Specifically, the magazines in the back of your older cousins closet they think they hid.
But you can get fancy, you visit your cousin overnight, who doesn’t have a spare bedroom so you just have to sleep on his couch in front of the TV that has just all of the channels on satellite… Especially those channels
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately the Pentium 60 botches your blockchain with some bad floating point operations.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 3 weeks ago:
Use up my turns in Tradewars 2002 on my local BBS and some other door games.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 3 weeks ago:
He’s agreeing with you on secular. The parent poster said equinoxes should replace a religious holiday, and he’s saying that equinoxes are not strictly secular, they are religious.