Barfknuckle
3d ago
This rhetorical question actually caused me to have a think. Why do people want to talk to an AI? I mean productivity I can understand, all the usual "as a tool" excuses. But I've felt no compulsion, not even curiosity, to talk to an LLM just to talk. And yet I see people casually mentioning doing that all over the place. It's like something straight out of Her, a film which thoroughly squicked me out. Is there anyone here who just casually socializes with an LLM who can explain why they do it?
I don't chitchat with them but I do like it when they have a little bit of personality. There was a time when Microsoft's AI would refuse to comply with commands if you were excessively rude to it, and I liked it that way. I started using it much less once it became unshakably sycophantic.
Barfknuckle
12d ago
woke-right is such a misnomer, you can't just use woke- for a generic "hardcore true believer" it waters down the term.
James Lindsay uses it on Twitter as a derogatory term for anti-Jewish right wingers, who then all abuse, ratio, and fart on him in his threads. That's all I know it as.
Barfknuckle
14d ago
Yeah it's like if you're gonna create an environment where kids can never get served by better dancers, then you're not giving them any reason to get funky. May as well tear down the community center and make it a strip mall at that point.
Barfknuckle
24d ago
I've had this fantasy of traveling a thousand years into the past and trying to teach monks and engigneors modern technology with just my layman's understanding. I was pretty much going to try experimenting with feeding moldy bread to dudes with the bubonic plague.
Just try to get everyone to wash their damn hands and you're golden.
Barfknuckle
27d ago
Is scarfgate just salty sour pusses hating on a highly agentic women? Or are there deeper issues here?
Yo I'm just gonna speak my deepest monkeybrain here and tell you that this little story about stealing a scarf is either gross or adorable depending upon how hot the girl was and what the vibe felt like. Like imagine it twice, once with like peak Wynona Ryder getting her crazy stealies on, and then once again with some ugly broad. Yeah you know what's up.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
I'll have to throw vanilla on and see how I get along with the basic gameplay. MechWarrior has always sort of been about racing ahead trying to superhero everything to death before your three bumbling sidekicks can get themselves killed.
BattleTech on the other hand, I can sculpt a perfect precise clockwork death squad. The Phoenix Hawk flanks, the Marauders jump forward to look for headshots, the Atlas cleans up anything still alive by its turn. Entire lances wiped out in a single turn, some mechs dying before even getting to move. Reinforcement lances beheaded and burned. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria. I do a little bit of this shit in front of the computer.
I gotta see if I can still get into playing DuckTales from Uncle Scrooge's perspective.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
So I take it this game got good eventually? Is it worth playing without DLC? I got it when it was new and I had a worthless radar that only let me see things in front of me with a clear line of sight, my lancemates were total bumblefucks who tended to shoot each other, enemies were appearing out of thin air, etc.
HBS Battletech
Small lasers are daggers and highly mobile mechs with lots of support hardpoints are rogues. An ER SLAS++ off the black market hits as hard as a stock large laser but generates like half as much heat and still only weighs half a ton. If they didn't have piss-squirt range they'd be the best weapons in the game by miles.
What you do is you put four of them sumbitches on an SLDF Phoenix Hawk with max armor and jets, fill the five standard energy hardpoints with say those MLAS++ with the extra 10 damage, and stuff the rest of it with double heat sinks. With the +20% damage from the vectored thrust kits you're looking at like a 400 damage alpha coming off a jump.
Then you just scoot it around the edge of a battle and dare the enemy to either chase it and turn their backs to the rest of your oncoming lance, or ignore it while it rips their guts out from behind one by one. You just drop in directly behind them like "nothin personnel kid" and blow their rear CT out through their front CT.
It's an absolute monster, on par with a dooded up SLDF Marauder or Atlas II.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
Every random triviality in the book that manages to not blatantly contradict reality is apparently evidence for its validity, but I guess we're just supposed to ignore all the anachronistic horses, chariots, steel, etc. etc. etc.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
ChatGPT fucked up halfway through the first sentence. Mark Carney has been PM for almost 2 months now. Almost as long as Trump has been president, and it would be unthinkable to refer to Trump as "America's new president"
This is the problem with your slop. Not even an ounce of sense or awareness.
Referring to a guy who took office less than two months ago as new isn't much of an own, it just looks like you're reaching here. AI could replace pretty much all of written journalism and as long as there were a couple guys left to filter out hallucinations I don't think many people would particularly notice.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
naturally she cares a lot about what her character's armor looks like and very little about what it does
Based.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
A value that's still more than you sitting around and doing whatever else you do.
I disagree. Doing whatever I want without having to consider what Zeus might think of it has value unto itself. I'm not pulling a mythology out of a hat and basing my life around it because there's an abstract philosophical nonzero chance that Tiamat is real or something and maybe I'll have lucked out and guessed correctly.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
Scott Alexander is hysterically overrated just because he actually criticized wokes a bit back during the era where the spineless techies that make up his fandom were busy cowering and licking progressive boots.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
Isn't doing nothing the most foolish option, due to Pascal's wager?
Take the chance that God even exists in the first place, then divide that by the chances that he doesn't care about worship, or doesn't like cynical odds-based worship, or doesn't actually punish anyone, then divide whatever value you have left at this point by all the mutually exclusive religious options with nothing in particular to recommend them over one another, and what are you really left with?
Nothing worth restructuring your life over. If I actually considered vague abstract probabilities like this worth acting on I'd probably be doing all kinds of dumb shit all the time.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
But we're supposed to be on the same side. Just you wait until they hear about this at the next gay trans furry meeting, bucko.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
Gay/Trans/Furry PC-Gamer Master-Race rise up.
Hey, you know what would really stick it to the gay trans furry PC master Hot Topic race? You completing your argument.
Hoff said something to the effect of "here are some assumptions based on observed characteristics that regular people make all the time, explain why racial ones are uniquely different" like three days ago and you've done everything in the world except answer him ever since.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
He's trying to "build consensus" by claiming that a position is uncontroversial when it is very clearly not
Wait, are you having this big dumb embarrassing meltdown because you genuinely think positions like "the elderly are typically feebler than the young" are controversial, or did you just suffer a critical failure of reading comprehension at some point and now you mistakenly think we meant that racial stereotypes are uncontroversial?
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
I responded that from a Western/Culturally Christian perspective, yes it is a bad thing and provided a rationale. Specifically that the emphasis on individual merit is a key component of what sets "the West" apart, and that racial discrimination goes against that.
And when he provided numerous uncontroversial examples of other situations in which a person makes assumptions based on observable traits, you shamelessly ducked having to explain why those are different.
Guessing that an elderly person is likely to be weaker than a young person, or that a bearded man in a keffiyeh might not want any bacon, is just common sense. But you apparently don't have an arrow in your quiver that explains why some assumptions "go against individual merit" while others don't, so instead you just muttered something about not being gish galloped even though that's blatantly not what was happening.
Big fat L.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
Ive been around the internet enough to know that engaging with the specifics of a Gish Gallop is a fool's game. That's why I didn't.
Nah man you shamelessly ducked. Massive L.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
I mean Kasparov got buzzed by the dongcopter back in like 08. It's not hard to imagine putting a bomb in there.
Lower class black regressive muslims living in the desert can define gender however they want, as long as it doesn't infringe on my rights. Then everyone can decide which culture they would rather live in, and everyone can be happy.
Oh please, the entire LGBT project is only kept alive by the Dems capturing working-class minority votes with other issues and then leveraging them toward a cause that minority base mostly finds sickening. Letting everyone just "decide" is the last thing you want.
That's why Trump's campaign attacks on the issue and electoral gains among minorites were so significant. The Democratic Party doesn't need to be utterly routed in order to be defeated here, merely forced to choose between drag parties on the White House lawn and maintaining its blue collar minority voting base. Given how quickly Newsom jumped ship on the trans sports thing, it's safe to say they're already feeling the pinch.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
the word "man" refers more to an abstract social construct than something people are born with.
Only in the minds of a very specific cohort of predominantly white middle to upper-middle class progressives mostly located in particular urban enclaves in Western Europe and coastal North America. Nobody else ever bought into it. The aforementioned cohort is drastically over-represented among the media and loves telling itself that everyone agrees with it, but for the first time in living memory it really is going to be defeated on one of its pet social causes.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
There's still a slight chance I can squeeze you in, especially if you can commune with animals or something. Maybe like get a ferret to steal someone's keys, that kind of thing.
Barfknuckle
1mo ago
They can mint a single 1 quadrillion USD platinum coin and just put it into the account of the treasury.
So anyway I'm putting a little team together. At the very least I need a computer hacker, a tough guy, a demolitions expert, and someone who knows how to hang from the ceiling like that bit in Mission Impossible. Bonus points if you have a quirky personality, a cool accent, or an eyepatch.
Yeah man, hovering over this forum waiting for someone to do a flowery effortpost about how the moon just exploded (or whatever) so we can talk about it is kinda dumb.
What are the rules about just starting a new random thread on the front page? Can we just post a moon explosion thread whenever we want and post any kind of trash in it?
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