jacksilver @ jacksilver @lemmy.world

Posts

1

Comments

1,024

Joined

2 yr. ago

Sadly this is poised to probably be worse than the previous given that Trump and Republicans keep adding fuel to the fire. We're literally just starting to see the tip of the iceberg and they are continuing to charge forward with the policies that are causing the economic crisis.

Yeah, they aren't trained to make "correct" responses, but reasonably looking responses; they aren't truth systems. However, I'm not sure what a truth system would even look like. At a certain point truth/fact become subjective, meaning that we probably have a fundamental problem with how we think about and evaluate these systems.

I mean, it's the whole reason programming languages were created, natural language is ambiguous.

The series had some great moments in it. Almost like a college version (more sophmoric) of It's Always Sunny.

The movie though was pretty bad. Which was a shame given how good the last episodes of the series were.

Yeah, but my point is that it's apparent from scene 1 when "Simon" wakes up the first time. Just cause he doesn't get it doesn't mean the player doesn't have to deal with the same concept getting rehashed over and over.

There was no build up of the concept or iteration on the idea. It's just the same arc from the first 10-15 minutes of the gameplay playing out again and again. Except they swap it up at the end to try to make it hit harder, but to me it just felt played out.

I get why people like it, but it just didn't have the pay off for me.

The setting was definitely interesting. However the main story was a bit too much of a one trick pony - who is the real you.

!Additionally they kinda cheat in the story telling around who lives on. It's not random chance, each time they replicate their memories it just makes a clone. The original was never going to make it to the end.!<

I never got around to it when it came out. Does it hold up well?

Chronicles of Riddick. Not sure it's considered a "bad" movie, but I definitely like it more than most. Just a crazy entertaining world and system they build in a short 2 hour long movie.

I liked the balance between hope and despair in the first game. The second game just felt like it went out of its way to be depressing. I played up to the first major scene and knew the rest of the story was going to play out like an academy award winning drama and just didn't have motivation to play though that.

While it isn't apparent from looking at recent events, senators are actually some of the most powerful people in US politics. That's because they are the smaller chamber of the US legislative branch.

Why I say they are powerful is that they (along with the house) dictate laws and the budget for the US. While the house, the larger chamber of the legislative, performs a similar role the house has 435 people vs the senate's 100 (meaning the power of the senate is less diluted).

While looking at the current affairs in the US might seem to imply Trump is all powerful. Right now he is only able to do what he is doing becuase Republicans effectively control all three branches of the US federal government (legislative - makes laws, executive - executes laws, judicial - evaluates/interprets laws).

If they wanted to, the senate could stop a lot of what Trump is doing. If they had support of the house, they could literally kick him out of office. While the judiciary also has a lot of power, it's more reactive rather than proactive when compared to the legislative.

So In summary a senator is one of the top law makers (as in literally defines the law) in the US. And if senate and house work together, they are the most powerful branch of the US government. The main issue is getting 635 people to agree on anything, which is why over the past couple decades the executive had been able to exert power power/influence in the US.

If you've been paying attention to the field, you'd see it's been a slow steady march. The technology that LLMs are based in were first published in 2016/2017, ChatGPT was the third iteration of the same base model.

Thats not even accounting for all the work done with RNNs and LSTMs prior to that, and even more prior.

Its definitely a major breakthrough, and very similar to what CNNs did for computer vision further back. But like computer vision, advancements have been made in other areas (like the generative space) and haven't followed a linear path of progress.

Why is this downvoted?

It's the right response, the top link is giving creditability through a ranking algorithm and is not guaranteed to have the right info. An LLM is trained on large corpus of (hopefully) quality data, but may not return the right information. Both may lead you to the wrong results and it's always been the users responsibility to verify information.

The only major difference between search and an LLM is that the LLM believes it knows the answer and search just tells you "this is the most relevant thing I could find".

The reporting on Trump and the current batch of Republicans is God awful.

I mean you have an entire political party touting the need for "fiscal responsibility" release a budget that increases the deficit?! How are they not being ridiculed for it?

Thanks for sharing your perspective. It sounds like it's the potential for harm/damage rather than the act itself that makes it an issue for you?

Thanks for sharing your perspective. It sounds like your main issue is the potential damage that could be caused and not the act itself?

I tend to lean more towards the problem being distribution rather than creation, so I'm curious about your opinion on this: Is there a difference between me imaging a sexual act with someone without their consent vs writing/drawing/deepfaking it?

I don't disagree, but my opinion is gameplay (or the interactive nature) of games is what sets them apart from other mediums so would be a deciding factor in a masterpiece game.

But I guess it largely just boils down to the fact Soma just didn't do much for me.

I think a masterpiece game has to offer more than just story. Additionally I think something like Firewatch does a much better job at telling a compelling story for a walking simulator. But clearly this is why "objective" masterpiece is hard to define, as nothing is really objective in these opinions.

Other games I'd consider better in the walking simulator category:

• Unfinished Swan
• Firewatch
• Gone Home
• Stanley Parable

Edit: Fixed formatting

It's probably me being pedantic, but for an "objective masterpiece" the game needs to stand on its own and not on its legacy. I just don't think Ocarina of Time holds up to later zelda games in many aspects (although I do think the story and soundtrack do).

Generally I think the ps1 and N64 era just suffer from the transition to 3D. Graphically and gameplay wise many games suffered for being the first foray into 3D gaming and those challenges wouldn't really be settled until the next generation.

I'm always curious why people add things like Ocarina of Time to lists like these. While the game was revolutionary at the time, I don't think it holds up particularly well nor succeeds where later zeldas fail.

To call it an objective masterpiece I feel like it has to be a game that someone picking up today would still enjoy and appreciate. Tetris and Portal for example hold up well even by today's standards.

I feel like Soma was a decent metaphysical question wrapped in a okayish walking simulator.

It got a lot of praise, but basically boils down to the question "what makes you you" with nothing else about it standing out.

If the gameplay isn't a driving factor of making the game objectively good, then I don't think it counts.