Tar_Alcaran

“AI”, referring only to LLMs.

Yeah, it’s annoying because there are a lot of legit image recognition and pattern matching applications in my work field, and I need to ask for clarification every time someone says “AI”.

Like, is this actually useful, or do you mean “we asked ChatGPT to generate you 20% nonsense”?

Chemist here: yep.

Chemistry is just simplified biology.

Eh, for organic, maybe. For inorganic not really. And all the crystal stuff is just physics we appropriated. And the rest of materials science is rightfully ours as well and one day we shall take it back from the engineers.

Barrels launched to an orbital platform, then dropped where needed

Exactly. Same in organic chemistry: very few things in the experiment will actually hurt you, but a lot of things on you will ruin the experiment.

This is basically exactly what Vintage Story does. And it’s working extremely well for them

Yeah ok, if you want good shoes, it gets expensive fast.

But if you know where to find cheap larp gear, please let me know.

Cheap? Mytholon. Cheap and good? Sorry, not really. I mean, Mytholon has great fabrics, but they’re not exactly sewn straight or neatly.

But a thousand bucks will get you there easily, depending on admission cost and food of course.

Edit: depending on what you want, Burgschneider is pretty great. Not super cheap, but definitely good and not crazy expensive

It’ll almost buy me three quarters of an 8 heddle loom, or buy me a nice benchtop milling machine to make said loom (and many other things).

It’ll buy a really great larp outfit, a barely acceptable reenactment outfit, or half of a suit of plate armor for either.

1000 bucks will get you a pretty awesome larp outfit, as long as you’re not looking for plate armor.

I know both, but I still went with “Duke Nukem isn’t a game” as my first thought

I’m working on an 8 heddle (the things that make the string go up and down, it determines how complex your pattern can be), 80cm wide loom. They’re about 1200 euros to buy, and I really really want one.

It’s not really working well, tolerances are pretty tight, but I’m pretty motivated.

Best succesful project is probably an armor stand, handmade for husband’s larp armor. Not technically complex, but with a lot of cool hand carving

Well, when you’re used to privilege…

I’m a woman and the manliest thing I do is woodworking, the husband sews clothes (occasionally from fabrics I weave).

I also do bodybuilding, but that’s hardly masculine anymore, yay!

Even Cyberpunk 2077 ran perfectly on launch,

Liar.

Also, the age of aquarius starts somewhere around 2600. Or if you’re not really into actual astronomy, but instead prefer nonsense, somewhere between 1962 and 2024, depending on how you define the word “in”.

Gluttony: I desire all the penises and will waste them garishly on myself in excess in all sorts of ways.

Greed: I must own and control all the penises.

Lust: I desire penises above all else and want them to fuck me specifically.

It won’t happen while I’m alive. Current LLMs are basically parrots with a lot of experience, and will never get close to AGI. We’re no closer today than when a computer first passed the Turing test in the 60s.

I need that outfit!

That’s mostly because google search has turned to absolute shit. ChatGPT rarely returns anything useful either, unless you want the most absolutely mundane answers. Anything remotely niche or specific has a far too great chance of just being plain wrong.

LLMs are a way to turn hundreds of billions of dollars into mediocre slop content that nobody wants to pay for. Humans will generate mediocre slop content for a fraction of the cost.

There is no way LLMs of this kind will ever be remotely affordable, and I fully expect OpenAI to fold in a few years. Amazon and Microsoft are already bailing out on LLM, realizing they’ll never pay off.