RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
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I've worked on some LLM-based gaming services. I think you and many on this forum are way too highbrow and don't appreciate what the consumer is actually like.
They are stupid and boring, can scarcely string a sentence together in the logs I see. Lower your gaze from the peaks of human literature and meaning to the nhentai comments section, the ESL who for some reason is writing stories on webnovel.com, or the fem-smut books about milking some bullman with a monster cock...
The strongest contemporary AIs are much smarter and more interesting than these people in my opinion. They can produce novel and interesting ideas if prompted well by a smart person. It's not so simple as saying 'come up with a smart novel idea', you have to give it a premise or a basis and then it'll expand it.
The issue is the stupid people giving poor prompts to mid-tier AIs and producing an ocean of slop - because for stupid people that's all they need. But stupid people and cheap LLMs are very numerous...
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
3d ago
Why would the AI need to fool people (and not merely the average person but accounting for potentially infinite angles of error!) into believing an image was real?
The whole point of fiction is that it isn't true, it's more interesting than reality.
The whole point of video games is not that they have no glitches or are indistinguishable from reality but that they are fun to play.
If someone was uploaded into a video game, the glaring deficits would be that you don't have to wait around in a traffic jam for 40 minutes before getting to a job that you hate with people you dislike, eating some fatty food, going home and then doing chores. Then watching or reading or playing out a more interesting story about love, betrayal, drama, stakes, violence, power...
Even an imperfect fictional world can be far superior to reality for many. Even the imperfect fictional worlds we have today are a compelling substitute for reality for many.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
6d ago
No, Americans do like to live in cities like all settled peoples. Americans invented the skyscraper!
Until recently the US had dense and highly developed urban centres. Americans failing to defend and preserve their city centres is a serious failure.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
6d ago
The reason isn't a failure of public transport but a failure of Americans. Get rid of the lowlifes shooting up in train stations or pushing random people onto the tracks and then you can have an efficient public transport system. Normal people don't want to be around these net-negatives and will move out to the suburbs, segregate themselves away in cars because they, quite reasonably, don't trust others.
"Teens menace boy with machete and pepper spray on Queens bus" https://youtube.com/watch?v=qalXSOLvEAU
Why would you want to take a bus if this is what you might get?
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
6d ago
The state provides lots of public services that aren't supposed to be revenue-neutral though. Public libraries for instance or parks.
I think a razor focus on revenue and cost is besides the point. Public transport should be more systemically efficient (1 engine for 40 rather than 40 engines for 40: economies of scale), produce less pollution than cars, take up less space... The problem in Washington isn't just that it's expensive but that it's unsafe (catching on fire for instance), not transporting good numbers of people. Probably epic amounts of corruption going on too.
Cost is important, it shouldn't be excessively expensive, but taxes are a thing for a reason. If all government services were expected to recoup their costs why would we have taxes?
If Trump cared so much about business interests, why would he go around raising and lowering tariffs willy-nilly? He only cooled on that when the stock market had a meltdown.
If Amazon had a choice, would they opt for 'tariffs' or 'don't hire illegals'? Surely it would be the latter. The latter would barely even affect share markets short or long term.
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