Counter proposal: ban OP from this community along with anyone else who removes artist trademarks from comics they post.

There’s also chess960, where the positions of the pieces are randomized (with constraints). I like it because it removes memorization of positions as a factor.

Wait, is there someone out there forcing people to care about whether the moon is reflective or emissive?

The problem I’ve been realizing over the last few years is that while I have no need for religion myself, there are a lot of “if there wasn’t a god, why doesn’t everyone go around killing each other all the time” types out there. Things might be even worse if religion wasn’t there to make those ones control themselves.

Afaik in Canada, you aren’t even breaking any law until you try to leave the premises without paying. Perfectly legal to grab shit from the shelves and stuff it in your pockets as long as you take it out and pay for it before you leave. If you wanted to fuck with their loss prevention people, do that looking as shady as you can, like furtive looks around as you shove things in your clothes, then just pull it all out at the register.

Note that they can ask you to just leave and ban you from the store without needing to charge you with anything (after which returning at all could get you a trespass charge), so it’s more of a funny prank to think about and then not bother doing because there’s nothing to gain.

My point isn’t AI is good or bad, but that the difference is how much it gets leaned on.

In this case, it’s how AI is (assumed to be) used at MS vs how it was used in the OP.

MS appears to be heavily leaning on generative AI producing code. In my own experience, that is pretty good these days at responding to a prompt with a series of actions that achieves the desire of the prompt, but is bad at creating an overall cohesion between prompts. It’s like it’s pretty good at making lego blocks but if you try putting it all together, it looks like you built something from 50 different sets, plus the connections between the blocks are flawed enough that it’s liable to collapse the more you put it together.

In the OP, AI is being used to submit bug reports. This one can be thought of as using an AI to write a book report instead of using an AI to write the book in the first place. If the AI writes a shitty report, it has zero effect on the book itself. But the AI might just include a list of all the typos in its report, which is useful for correcting the errors in the book.

Also, game studios forgetting to replace placeholders is yet another issue more on the process itself, though it can also show a lack of attention to detail and maybe indicate that an AI was handling more of the process. A decent system would flag all assets for whether they are placeholders or final and then include a review of all flags before publishing to catch something like this.

So this isn’t a general defense of using AI, I’m just saying that it’s possible to use it without everything it touches turning to slop, but that it often isn’t used like that, resulting in slop.

And it’ll be easy to fall into the slop trap, what with how it’s always making leaps and bounds inprovements that help with instances of it fucking up but don’t resolve the fundamental issues that will probably mean LLMs will always produce some sort of slop (because everything boils down to some sort of word association, just with a massive set of conditional probabilities encoded into it that gives it the illusion of understanding).

The same reason any personal projects (and not using it to diminish what linux projects are but to say that the people working on them do it because they want the project to progress, not because of any financial incentive) can do better then commercial projects: where the passion is at.

Someone just looking to get paid is more likely to say “ok this is good enough” and move on to the next thing. They are more likely to have managers breathing down their necks to get something done by some arbitrary deadline, too.

It’s why indie games have been able to compete with AAA games. The latter are following a formula to get paid, plus are more willing to make compromises in the name of either saving costs or increasing revenue. The former just want to make their fun idea reality.

Also, MS has invested a ton of money into AI and seem to be getting desperate for a return on that. Which means there’s a certain amount of denial about the quality. It’s not just a tool to them, but a tool they desperately need to work and prove it’s worth throwing a ton of money at.

But for anyone that it’s simply a tool for, it can be useful. They are great rubber duckies. Like my last interaction with one was a case where it did horribly and was completely wrong about what “we were discussing”, but I still got to the right conclusion despite it because going through the conversation helped me think it through.

And though it makes a lot of mistakes, its feedback isn’t always wrong. The fact that it can rehash previous things from its history means its good at spotting new instances of problema that have already been solved. So accepting bug reports should be fine, just with the understanding that they each need to be looked at and some reports will need to be rejected because they are wrong.

Sorry aliens but you’ll need to go back to your science labs because we have since discovered how to compact discs themselves. No more data discs the size of records, we can fit an entire 70 minutes worth of full fidelity (to our ears) digital audio and then surpassed even that and managed to get it up to 74 minutes! 700 times 2 to the power of 23 bits of arbitrary data (or maybe it’s just 700 times 8,000,000, we never did figure out the concept of honestly describing things marketers want to sell), all within our outstretched fingers or around a single extended finger.

It’s about 300 samples for an estimate of the distribution with a 95% confidence iirc. That’s assuming the samples are representative (unbiased) and 95% confidence doesn’t mean it’s within 95% of reality, but that 5% of tests run in such a way would be expected to be inaccurate (and there’s no way of knowing for sure which one this particular sample is because even a meta study will have such an error rate, though you can increase the confidence with more samples or studies, just never to 100% unless you study every possible sample, including future ones).

If propaganda worked on everyone, why is there anyone trying to counter it?

The hole could lead down to a ramp instead of a flat bottom. Something steep enough that anyone who falls down keeps going after the first impact.

Though my guess (if anyone ever actually used a kick to death hole) would be they had an access tunnel to get rid of the bodies so they wouldn’t eventually make the kick to death hole stinky. Assuming they could even smell it over the usual classical/pre-classical age stink.

Was probably just sufficiently satisfied with life at that point.

Looks like the frames were extended. If you zoom in, there’s a pretty obvious vertical line on both sides, guessing that shows where someone used some AI tool to extend them.

Edit: actually, it’s even more obvious zoomed out, you can see on Piccard’s sleeve right where reality ends and slop begins.

Whoever made this seems to have low standards to think that “they made” an improvement.

Though what if honey bees are only so docile because they don’t have the energy to be assholes and this is the first step in a total bee world takeover?

Lmao, it was while reading this comment that I realized it wasn’t Semi-Charred Kind of Life, a mistake that ironically helped me see that it was darker than it seemed.

It makes the line “I want something else to get me through this semi-charred kinda life” pretty obvious that he has negative feelings about it and from that I could guess that there was some kind of pain between the lines, though younger me thought maybe infidelity or some kind of mania (which I guess isn’t too far off the mark).

That said, despite the hidden tone, that song always makes me feel good. The overt tone is just so upbeat!

Linkin Park - Pretty much every song

Yeah, it’s not even that much of a stretch, like that future could be within humanity’s reach. Not sure we’d actually want that particular future, but there’s just something about realistic sci fi that makes this reality feel cooler.

Which is fucking cool because it’s one of the few space travel things that really does work. Like if we can figure out the fuel/propulsion thing and some kind of equivalent to deflector shields (not for space battles but for all the random shit in space that could destory your ship in a collision, especially if we get up to relativistic speeds), we could have space travel where you can walk around normally on the ship.

Also the gravity increasing ships like Goku used in DBZ, so we could actually have someone doing extreme gravity training while en route to a big fight.

And it works for both acceleration and deceleration, only difference is you’re either travelling up or down.

Also loved the special seats they used when doing combat maneuvers. ST didn’t just make up artificial gravity (since their ships moved forwards rather than up), they had inertial dampeners, because the evasive maneuvers would have been much more dangerous than the shocks from getting hit.

ST is more rooted in science than SW, but parts of it are just as much fantasy as the force, which was depressing to realize when you’re hoping for humanity to eventually go in that direction. The biggest human tech fantasy in the Expanse is an engine upgrade that gives improved thrust and efficiency. Not to light speed, but just by like an order of magnitude. And they’ve even got a brutally realistic scene about the discovery that was great world building imo.

Hell, just stick them in a closet and forget them for a decade or two and they’ll probably have gained value to collectors.

Or open them and play them. Now or later. I like having the “problem” of having a backlog of games to play, better than being bored (actually, maybe it would be better to get bored on occasion and use that to broaden my horizons).

Best part is tonight we can have leftovers. As much as I love cooking, I also love not cooking.

But I just remembered I took some stewing beef out of the freezer the other day, so I should probably use that.