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No, your honour, we did not use the porn downloaded to train our AI, at least not directly.

The people working on training the AI? Oh, the definitely had a cheeky wank here and there after a stressful day! This just shows how committed Meta is to the wellbeing of our employees.

I guess the way we look back at Nazi Germany.

Hitler had the almost exact same propaganda going, and he even got the Nobel Peace Prize…

Yeah. It’s well past time to tax these fuckers out of existence.

Patron-funded news doesn’t work in the combination of post-scarcity news (i.e. when anyone can have a platform because there’s no limit to entry, like owning a printing press) and economic recession where people’s disposable income drops sharply.

Even the first point is enough to kill all but the largest patron-funded news services. The two combined? Guaranteed death sentence.

Wish I could have them 😩but thanks to my ADHD, I’m super forgetful, and I’d absolutely hate myself if in a hyperfocus-depression cycle I forgot to feed my little guys.

I do have a few friends who have rats, though, so I do get some playtime. Which is awesome.

As in, the whole “no President shall serve more than two terms” thing.

Trump didn’t have two consecutive terms so he gets a third.

Nope, it was based on one of the, I think, 3.5 one shots?

I was once in a game where the GM allowed his buddy to be a build like that, but in a nifty “hidden origins” way, where the PC slowly realises their own immense power, but is super clumsy with it, so they’re an active danger to the party but you also can’t just leave them at an inn because they can potentially destroy the world if they have a nightmare…

Then he got turned into the campaign’s secret big bad that was only revealed at the very end. THAT worked out well. Turned out he could control his powers and just used us to get rid of his also evil archnemesis of his before attacking the party.

Special skill: bag of holding with infinite cabbage and bean stew supply.

They’ll try to word the change in a way that it only applies to his tangerineness the Great Leader and nobody else.

the already floated idea was that the wording to be changed so it only applies to two consecutive terms. Which would exclude Obama.

I’ve frequented r/RATS enough to comfortably confirm this statement.

I mean, kbin was specifically developed (and a lot of people were initially hesitant to join Lemmy instances) because the dev team behind Lemmy was known to be supertankies. No surprise here.

No no no. That is dessert at that point.

Toast and butter - maybe with a bit of garlic rubbed on the bread prior to buttering - is perfect on its own. Especially in the autumn with the cold weather coming in.

Here’s a better idea, expand the building on the Canadian side, and house all the books of the US side (and even more), so that Canadians literally have no reason to go across the border.

Sends a stronger message IMO.

And your comment also counts for jackshit since you provided no evidence of your claims, not even your own experience.

So you can fuck right off, buddy.

I have worked on games, and have a good understanding of the workflows involved.

You’ll obviously still need to do the creative parts manually (and should!) but the majority of the work involving the engine core build and the specific game coding, that can all be sped up borderline exponentially.

But I’m glad that someone with absolutely no understanding of the topic does their best to call out those who do show some experience on the topic just because they don’t get a neatly pre-chewed and pre-digested reply detailing all the information they lack and are unwilling to look it up themselves. As a next step would you like me to cut your steak up and feed it to you byte by byte, or tuck you in at night?

Thanks now I’ll have new kinds of nightmares.

To be perfectly fair, rocket-propelled explosive technologies have come a long, long way even in just the past 30 years.

You could potentially get it done with a few kilos of C-4 and a DJI drone.

Alright I did read further and damn, you just keep going on being wrong, buddy!

Yes, you can fucking do “stand on the table and make a speech” work. You know how? By breaking it up into detailed steps (pun intended), something that LLMs are awesome at!

For example in this case the LLM could query the position and direction of the table compared to the NPC and do the following:

• plan a natural path between the two points (although the game engine most likely already has such a function)
• make the NPC follow that path
• upon path end, it will instruct the NPC to step onto the table via existing functions (Skyrim pretty much has all these base behaviours already coded, but the scripting engine should also be able to modify the skeleton rig of an NPC directly, which means the LLM can easily write it)
• then the script can initiate dialogue too.

I’ve asked Perplexity (not even one of the best coding agents out there, it’s mistake ratio is around 5%), and within seconds it spit out a full on script to identify the nearest table or desk, and start talking. You can take a look here. And while my Papyrus is a bit rusty, it does seem correct on even the third read-through - but that’s the fun part, one does not need trust the AI, as this script can be run through a compiler or even a validator (which let’s be honest is a stripped down compiler first stage) to verify it isn’t faulty, which the LLM can then interact with and iterate over the code based on the compiler feedback (which would point out errors).

now mind you this is the output of an internet-enabled, research oriented LLM that hasn’t been fine-tuned for Papyrus and Skyrim. With some work you could probably get a 0.5B local model that does only natural language to Papyrus translation, combined with a 4B LLM that does the context expansion (aka what you see in the Perplexity feed, my simple request being detailed step by step) and reiteration.

You’d also be surprised just how flexible game engines are. Especially freeroaming, RPG style engines. Devs are usually lazy so they don’t want to hardcore all the behaviours, so they create ways to make it simple for game designers to actually code those behaviours and share between units. For example, both a regular object (say, a chair) and a character type object (such as an NPC) will have a move() function that moves them from A to B, but latter will have extra calls in that function that ensure the humanoid character isn’t just sliding to the new position but taking steps as it moves, turns the right direction and so on. Once all these base behaviours are available, it’s super easy to put them together. This is precisely why we have so many high quality Skyrim mods (or in general for Bethesda games).

And again, code quality in LLMs has come a VERY long way. I’m a software engineer by trade, and I’d say somewhere between 80-90% of all the code I write is actually done by AI. I still oversee it, review what it does, direct it the right way when it does something silly, but those aren’t as minor functionalities as we’re talking here. I’ve had AI code a full on display driver for a microcontroller, with very specific restrictions, in about 4 hours (and I’d argue 2 of that was spent with running the driver and evaluating the result manually then identifying the issue and working out a solution with the LLM). In 4 hours I managed to do what otherwise would’ve taken me about a week.

Now imagine that the same thing only needs to do relatively small tasks, not figure out optimal data caching and updating strategies tied to active information delivery to the user with appropriate transformation into UI state holders.

Okay I won’t even read past the first paragraph because you’re so incredibly wrong that it hurts.

First generation LLMs were bad at writing long batches of code, today we’re on the fourth (or by some metric, fifth) generation.

I’ve trained LLM agents on massive codebases that resulted in <0.1% fault ratio on first pass. Besides, tool calling is a thing, but I guess if I started detailing how MCP servers work and how they can be utilised to ensure an LLM agents doesn’t do incorrect calls, you’d come up with another 2-3 year old argument that simply doesn’t have a foot to stand on today.