And then there are days wherein after I break a toe and probably a metatarsal with it, I just go get a random tattoo out of a vending machine. The end.
We've got artists, scientists, scholars, pranksters, publishers, songwriters, and political activists. We've subjected Discordia to scrutiny, torn it apart, and put it back together. We've written songs about it, we've got a stack of essays, and, to refer back to your quote above, we criticize the hell out of each other.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Cain on January 15, 2023, 06:02:47 AMQuote from: Suu (parody account) on January 13, 2023, 12:46:03 AM
The redundancy annoys me.
Yeah, there's definitely a few "tells" that it is generated.
That said, I've found it a useful tool for quickly generating NPCs or even small plot ideas. On it's own it came up with the idea of a hidden Ayleid city (?) in the heart of the Clockwork City (??) which the factotums need to hire the PCs to get into because the defences prevent them from being able to breach it (???) because the Worm Cult (????) were trying to steal an artifact from it first.
Which is batshit, but you can definitely work with it. Correcting it and re-defining parameters and exclusions make it a great brainstorming tool.
I also made it give me a summary for an entirely made up 1890s period "techno-thriller" involving sabotage of the telegram system, which was fun.
Quote from: altered on January 13, 2023, 09:12:26 AMQuote from: Suu (parody account) on January 13, 2023, 12:41:42 AMQuote from: altered on January 09, 2023, 12:03:21 AM
Funny enough, I think academia is going to be the first place to get well and TRULY fucked by AI for the combination of 4 important aspects:
1: Academic papers are usually kind of samey (with good reason), which makes writing them very automatable.
2: Feeding source material and new research in and getting a paper out is something most academics who are worth a damn think they would enjoy doing, because it'd reduce the time spent on writing papers and lower the barrier to entry for getting helpers on board.
3: The bleeding edge of AI is largely coming out of academia, so will likely have a lot of access to academic source material.
4: AI models that have high contextual awareness are the norm now, which means you just have to turn the temperature down real low and have it focus on turning data into words with zero creativity.
We already have shit like computer aided chemical synthesis design and automated theorem provers out there literally churning out almost wholly computer generated papers, and have had them for years now. Academia is already primed for this sort of thing and people would hardly notice at first, even in the "hard sciences". It might even have good side effects. Then again, it'll probably concentrate institutional power even more with good politicians who can't do science worth a fuck.
We already have software to catch them, and honestly, some of them are very, very "off" when you read them. It's a regurgitation of facts but with no argument. It's fucking WEIRD. That, and they cite incorrect 99% of the time. I know all of this will be fixed eventually and I'm out of a job to a bunch of Zoomers who speak entire sentences with one word, but it's not making the waves people thought it was going to.
Also, I'm in the humanities, so our papers are generally more flowery and have a detectable voice. I'm sure dry STEM professors with no sense of critical thinking skills will think their students are geniuses or some shit reading this garbage.
Oh, I was definitely thinking STEM there.
Quote from: Faust on January 07, 2023, 07:46:33 AM
They said thinking of human lives like that is monstrous but at least he is admitting it which most of his army comrads wouldn't.
Quote from: Cain on January 10, 2023, 10:37:57 AM
Meanwhile I'm using the AI to shitpost with my RP group:
Quote from: altered on January 09, 2023, 12:03:21 AM
Funny enough, I think academia is going to be the first place to get well and TRULY fucked by AI for the combination of 4 important aspects:
1: Academic papers are usually kind of samey (with good reason), which makes writing them very automatable.
2: Feeding source material and new research in and getting a paper out is something most academics who are worth a damn think they would enjoy doing, because it'd reduce the time spent on writing papers and lower the barrier to entry for getting helpers on board.
3: The bleeding edge of AI is largely coming out of academia, so will likely have a lot of access to academic source material.
4: AI models that have high contextual awareness are the norm now, which means you just have to turn the temperature down real low and have it focus on turning data into words with zero creativity.
We already have shit like computer aided chemical synthesis design and automated theorem provers out there literally churning out almost wholly computer generated papers, and have had them for years now. Academia is already primed for this sort of thing and people would hardly notice at first, even in the "hard sciences". It might even have good side effects. Then again, it'll probably concentrate institutional power even more with good politicians who can't do science worth a fuck.
Quote from: Cain on January 06, 2023, 02:55:49 PM
A true Scientologist would simply be able to redirect matter to avoid catching Covid.
Report them to the nearest OSA official.
Quote from: Scribbly on January 05, 2023, 07:27:46 PM
December 2019 I was hospitalised with a mystery respiratory illness which did not respond to the usual treatment. Blood oxygen was frighteningly low. I could not taste, smell or *hear* which is a symptom I haven't heard discussed much but was easily the most distressing for me other than... y'know... not being able to breathe. I spent the better part of two weeks in and out of consciousness and was pretty sure I was on my way out.
I was eventually discharged and was still very ill until January. My hearing didn't return fully until March. I suffered bouts of sudden exhaustion, fatigue and nausea until June and I still sometimes get exhausted though generally when I've exerted significantly. It has made it difficult to get back to stuff like regular exercise and I'm hoping that as I do I'll discover a lot of it is down to 2-3 years of minimal activity rather than anything permanent.
There were no tests so I'll never know for sure. But I'd been in and out of London a lot around that time and I suspect that Covid was with us during that flu season and people just didn't know what to look for.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 05, 2023, 12:33:12 AM
I have the antiviral. Dramatic difference.
I mean, everything tastes like shit now, and I have no sense of balance, but that beats what was happening.
Quote from: Telarus on January 03, 2023, 04:49:20 AM
Damn, that must have been terrifying. Liv once messed up her meds & just figuring that out over a couple of days was scary. Very glad he's doing better.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 02, 2023, 02:17:36 PMQuote from: Suu (parody account) on January 01, 2023, 09:44:25 PMQuote from: Doktor Howl on January 01, 2023, 08:06:36 PM
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.
I was more angry I was sick than I was sick, but the chills and aches the first night were hell on wheels. Tylenol was the only thing that worked.
For us, the only thing that stops the horrible chills is theraflu (which may also be Tylenol). Nothing stops the all over sunburn effect, or the total lack of energy. There's an antiviral that works on this paxlovid or some shit, we're getting that today.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 01, 2023, 08:06:36 PM
Jenn and TGG and I all have covid.
Quote from: Telarus on January 01, 2023, 01:06:20 PM
Holy fuck where am I? Sweet Eris' holy tatas WHEN am I??????