FunkyStuff

joined 4 years ago
[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 4 points 9 hours ago

I'd honestly rather just play Splitgate because I can handle the portals, I used to play the first game a fair amount when it came out. But I'm saying I want to practice mostly because I legitimately am so outclassed by average players that I'm learning at a pace that's too slow for comfort. It's like if you were brand new at chess and started trying to learn the game by practicing against people that are 800 ELO above you: sure, you'll get better, but you're definitely better off studying and playing against people closer to you in skill so you can at least understand their thought process when they beat you.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 41 points 9 hours ago

It's not even that. It's more like he's deliberately putting himself in Plato's cave. It's like if you saw your parents boning but you started rules lawyering about how technically you don't have an epistemological position of absolute authority to make the determination of whether or not your parents were having sex or if they were just doing an unrelated genital activity.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 4 points 10 hours ago

I think I'm rusty on every single aspect of shooters, but aim is by far my biggest issue. I am routinely emptying entire mags of automatic weapons and missing all but 2-4 shots (out of 20+) because I really, really can't keep track of moving targets. It's something I've always struggled with, and it's part of the reason I stuck with Valorant longer than any other shooter, since the emphasis is more on fast reactions, crosshair placement, positioning, and game sense than god aim.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 9 points 14 hours ago

He looks like he's in a bar inside a cave, Dwarf Fortress style.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 23 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Has it become easier for people to leave in the last decade?

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 16 hours ago

sadness I wish I could visit, honestly, I haven't even been to an actual city in like 6 years.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 9 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

gaming

Friends, I'm honestly considering downloading an aim trainer and grinding for several hours because I'm embarrassingly bad at Splitgate 2.

I used to be silver 1 in Valorant, which I was genuinely proud of because of how much work I put into improving (started bronze 3). But I stopped playing years ago because I really was getting a lot more stressed out than anything else while playing (plus, I switched to Linux). Now in Splitgate I honestly feel like I aim about as badly as someone who hasn't played a shooter game in their lives. I can't believe how bad it is, actually.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 8 points 17 hours ago

I think the independence movement is good because it would make Canada weaker.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 13 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I was under the impression that Montreal is one of the best cities in NA between how relatively walkable it is, the municipal politics being way to the left of the rest of the country, and just being very diverse generally.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 40 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

He didn't stop supporting Israel because of anything they did to Palestine. The only reason he dislikes Israel is that they don't support Ukraine enough.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 2 points 18 hours ago

Knowing biology, medicine and math at the same time is extremely cool.

 
 

and post

 

Prompted by the recent troll post, I've been thinking about AI. Obviously we have our criticisms of both the AI hype manchildren and the AI doom manchildren (see title of the post. This is a Rationalist free post. Looking for it? Leave)

But looking at the AI doom guys with an open mind, sometimes it appear that they make a halfway decent argument that's backed up by real results. This YouTube channel has been talking about the alignment problem for a while, and I think he probably is a bit of a Goodhart's Law merchant (as in, by making a career out of measuring the dangers of AI, his alarmism is structural) so he should be taken with a grain of salt, it does feel pretty concerning that LLMs show inner misalignment and are masking their intentions (to anthropomorphize) under training vs deployment.

Now, I mainly think that these people are just extrapolating out all the problems with dumb LLMs and saying "yeah but if they were AGI it would become a real problem" and while that might be true if taking the premise at face value, the idea that AGI will ever happen is itself pretty questionable. The channel I linked has a video arguing that AGI safety is not a Pascal's mugging, but I'm not convinced.

Thoughts? Does the commercialization of dumb AI make it a threat on a similar scale to hypothetical AGI? Is this all just a huge waste of time to think about?

 
 

@dead@hexbear.net expansion name reveal this week (left page)

 
 

everyone keeps farting

 

I get that it's normal to do this because it's more polite, especially for when it's a constructive criticism, but it means that when you say "a little bit" it's unclear that you actually mean it.

 

FFS!

 
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