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Or playing League.

It is extremely easy to use the internet without using google.

I've done similar things in a coffee shop before, just working on my own code, and I have actually been 'politely' asked to leave by the staff.

The staff evidently being a bunch of morons who thought I was... hacking into ... something?

They didn't know what, but they were very concerned.

I was unable to convince them I was not, because 'terminal' = 'hacking' to idiots who only know anything about computers via movies and tv shows.

quite ironically, they are using syntax, specifically / , to indicate a specific kind of meaning afterward.

/sarcasm

/s

/joking

/j

I've seen all these used to more explicitly indicate that the previous statement was sarcastic, or a joke, due to irony being largely dead, but also to help with people may not natively read/speak/write english.

correct, you and droppedpacket beat me to it

Is this supposed to be a joke or have we truly gotten to the point where ... coding in a terminal via like hyprland or w/e, without relying on an what is basically an annoying tutorial character from a video game that acts as an assistant...

This is psycopathy?

Having actual competence in one's field?

Oh god we're all doomed, they'll soon be alternating between worshipping us demigods, or burning us at the stake.

EDIT:

Welp, I'm sure thats a good sign, lol.

Exactly.

The place is a literal tinderbox in terms of forest/brush fire risk, and its... beyond being a metaphorical tinderbox in terms of basically being a warzone...

...

In WW2, the Japanese sent mini hot air balloons up into the pacific jet stream, with rudimentary sensors, that would drop an incendiary bomb when they 'thought' they were over the US West Coast.

This didn't exactly burn down the entire West Coast, the vast majority of them failed, got blown to who the hell knows where, dropped their firebombs over the ocean, into somewhere humid, failed to detonate...

... but a few of them did actually start minor to moderate forest fires, and/or blow up on fhe ground in a curious hiker or kids face, from California up to British Columbia.

Everything is much drier and hotter now, than during WW2, and military gear, mass civil unrest... yeah, whole lotta things in that situation can potentially start an actual fire.

...

Conversely: Imagine LA in a fire scenario like last winter, started by nature or random idiots or sparking power lines, whatever, but uh now its functionally under military occupation.

They'd likely attempt to assert some kind of control over infrastructure decisions, get in the way of legitimate local govt efforts to help with the fire, who knows maybe fail to evacuate a detention center in the path of a growing fire.

Yeah I'm in my 30s, mostly stopped playing 2d platformers around age ... 15? 16?

I was going to suggest basically what you said in the first paragraph, but I didn't want to influence your own creativity =D

As for the second paragraph... depending on exactly what you mean by machine learning... say, possibly a more brute force, genetic-mutation, run 100s or 1000s of iterations to generate a 'strategy' ... that may be overkill.

I would suggest looking into Goal Oriented Action Planning, GOAP. GOAP is basically a theory, a conceptual framework of how to program AI, in the video game sense of AI... but it is way, way more computational lightweight.

It is also what made FEAR's AI so distinct, (the FEAR AI programmer invented it and named, has either an academically published or at least technical 'white paper' on it), convincing players that it was actually intelligently reacting to them, the environment, and making its own decisions... because arguably, it was, or at least doing a much more 'realistic' approximation of this at a fundamental level.

The difference between this game, your game's implementation of GOAP and most other ones... would be that it is like, the levels themselves, the sort of plot line itself, the 'dungeon master'... that is the Goal Oriented thinking agent, not just an npc entity in the world.

You can find some good explanations of how it works, how to implement it in a game engine, on youtube... though ironically I must warn you that a lot of tutorials from basicslly indie devs... they often do not fully even grasp the concept.

Which is funny to me, as they are not intelligent enough to understand a model of machine intelligence, yet feel confident enough to explain it or criticize it, lol.

But yeah, if you have both a comprehensive tracking and logging system for the player's actions... well, oversimplified, GOAP roughly invovles a sort of pathfinding algo traversing a node graph, with weights between nodes... and connections between nodes, or the 'cost' of traversing them... changing based on the agent's current situation.

So... you would roughly be trying to do a 'best fit approximation' of the player's own decision making process... into the the node graph the game itself uses... and then you could maybe reproduce the player themselve's approach to decision making, and then make that into an npc agent, if you wanted them to truly like, mirror fight someone that 'thinks' like them, at some point.

Well hey that sounds quite interesting! Thanks for putting it on my radar =D

That sounds difficult to pull off, but incredible if you could.

Not only is a time loop built into the main story, recreating something from another perspective... it also has branching paths in the more linear sense of a roleplaying game / imsim.

I like this idea too, but ...'nudging' the player, without it being too estoeric, or too obvious... that ain't easy lol.

I give LA 35% odds of largely burning to the ground first.

Also, saying this is the kind of thing that might actually get the Sinaloa Cartel to do a hit on Jake Paul.

(or i guess i wish your life is so dull and uneventful such that you never need therapy again /j)

I would entirely seriously prefer this.

You're talking to a high functioning autist who got two bachelors degrees simultaneously and then went off to work for various Fortune 500 companies...

... who came from a dysfunctional white trash family of abusive narcissists who all gaslight each other by default, all have various drug/alcohol addiction problems... as well as criminal records, fairly extreme religious views, fairly 90s white nationalist militia types.

Last time I talked with my dad, he was explaining to me how Tom Hank's son killed raped and ate babies for their adrenochrome (Q Anon insane shit), and then proceeded to take me to his garage where he showed me how he assembles untraceable ghost guns by ordering parts without serial numbers separately snd then doing some light machine tooling to construct them.

... I am very much enjoying my having ghosted all of these fucking nutters, but quite seriously, when I tell therapists things like this, they often suspect I am delusional, exaggerating, lying, etc, to the point of trying to diagnose me with some kind of disorder involving persistent hallucinations.

either way the only reason I responded was to say sorry i disturbed you. not really sure i mean that any more, that was kind of a dick reply but whatever

you're in 'therapist' mode, thats why you sense hostility from me.

you presume you have a better ... at least potential, understanding of myself, of any topic you feel you are well versed in, than I do or potentially may, and you speak and ask rhetorical questions with arrogance and authority, presuming you will be able to prove yourself as correct.

then on a dime you will flip to acting offended or outraged, as if you have not been being rude the entire time, by not actually reading or understanding what I say, and by throwing in your own assumptions first, then coming to conclusions, then getting emotional over those conclusions... when you could have just asked for clarification in good faith.

I have already expressed to you mutliple times that I require a therapist who understands how to communicate with and to a high functioning autist... and you continue to exemplify why this is the case; you have no idea how to connect with an autist, as evidenced by the fact that you do not understand why I do not appreciate the things you have been saying to me, the way in which you have been saying them.

In less words: you could stand to be more humble, less conceited.

Holy shit, the idea of enemies that also have deft control over time itself did not even occur to me.

Oh god, that could be baffling to try to concept and balance, oh man, but if you could, dang, and you sound like you've got a simple enough in basic concept, bounded enough... but so many possible things within those bounds...

Run with your idea! I like this!

Ok that, that sounds incredible rofl!

Damn, deleted, I'll never know what this said lol.

I mean, I explained why I don't really need a basic therapist beyond just going over the basics of CBT, which I've already done now... but sure, ok, thanks?

For what its worth, I'm not the single downvote your comment here has.

Fair point.

But we're on .world here, ie Reddit 2.0, ie, almost everyone is much closer to a normie who is way more uninformed than they think they are and way more confident than they should be.

But also, again... fair point.

I would like to see a river of geckos some time in my lifr, that sounds fascinating haha!

As to whether or not its serious... I dunno, sure yeah, could be fake, could be real, no real way of knowing, but interacting with an asshat of a landlord has been a pretty common occurence in my life, seems at least plausible to me.