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General Discussion / Re: Emotional Responses to War in Ukraine - Personal Diary & Mutual Support
« on: October 01, 2022, 11:23:50 pm »
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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: September 26, 2022, 11:10:39 am »
I get visual snow for a short while when I suffer some G-forces, so to speak. E.g from falling. Like off my bike.
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General Discussion / Re: News Update War in Ukraine - Junior Reporter Edition
« on: September 26, 2022, 11:09:43 am »
Bruh.
Steering the topic away from this minefield, yeah Dagestan is Muslim and I don't think their off days are the same as in Christian parts. Not sure tho, I barely know about the area.
Also, the national guard was deployed there according to my sources. Not just police, national guard. Shit's real.
Steering the topic away from this minefield, yeah Dagestan is Muslim and I don't think their off days are the same as in Christian parts. Not sure tho, I barely know about the area.
Also, the national guard was deployed there according to my sources. Not just police, national guard. Shit's real.
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General Discussion / Re: News Update War in Ukraine - Junior Reporter Edition
« on: September 26, 2022, 07:39:28 am »Who knew a Rebellion would start on the CDDA forum, of all places. Well, they want to overthrow Putin, not Kevin, so I guess it's ok...rofl
I rant there about politics sometimes. And argue with people. And scroll up to answer everyone's questions in the game channels.
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General Discussion / Re: News Update War in Ukraine - Junior Reporter Edition
« on: September 26, 2022, 07:21:31 am »
https://twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1574274348218580992
Quote from: Hanna Liubakova
#Russia A shooting was reported at a military recruitment office in the Irkutsk region. The head of the recruitment commission was wounded. It happened in the city of Ust-Ilimsk. This video shows the aftermath. There is a video of the actual shooting, too: a man shots from a gun
Spoiler: More info (click to show/hide)
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General Discussion / Re: News Update War in Ukraine - Junior Reporter Edition
« on: September 25, 2022, 09:20:12 pm »Spoiler: HERE IT COMES (click to show/hide)
Courtesy of the CDDA server.
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General Discussion / Re: If we have Human-level chatbots, won't we end up being ruled by possible people?
« on: September 25, 2022, 11:24:33 am »
Yeah, NAI isn't the best for poetry/song lyrics.
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General Discussion / Re: Emotional Responses to War in Ukraine - Personal Diary & Mutual Support
« on: September 23, 2022, 10:30:50 pm »
They might be objectively similar, but to people they are not. And honestly, unrest is mounting again even against conscription.
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General Discussion / Re: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)
« on: September 23, 2022, 10:16:17 pm »
I'm back to hyperposting, suckers.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: September 23, 2022, 10:15:16 pm »I had a hell of an eulogy for my grandpa, but I guess I don't have that for my uncle-once-removed. That's fine.RIP.
We walked together a lot with my mom. Once we traveled together to Montana, and that RULED! Like, ... the mountains were so incredibly high up, literally unthinkably so. It was like walking through the skyscrapers of Charlotte NC and realizing that the Raleigh skyline wasn't shit. It was... humbling.
And we had that together, except we didn't. My experience was naive wonder, his was something else. I may have been 30 but this guy had seen some things in his long life. But you wouldn't know that by how he acted.
He was humble, and a metalworker. This is is his memorial. He touched my life and he was a good person, an international person, who lived in Mexico in his waning years. He was taken too soon by illness, he was only in his 60's. I think... I think he suffered, but that's how these things go.
I liked him. He was kind, and interesting, with a wealth of knowledge. I never shared my "weirdnesses" with him, but he definitely knew from my mom/his best friend. He was a cool guy.
I'll miss him. I'll demonstrate my sadness tomorrow, but I consider this my true contribution to his epitath.
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General Discussion / Re: If we have Human-level chatbots, won't we end up being ruled by possible people?
« on: September 23, 2022, 10:12:02 pm »I've been playing around with NovelAI and it can do those things. It can even keep up a semblance of a conversation, sort of. But it's pretty clear that the stories it writes are AI-generated, it needs some steering to really shine. I just use it to mess around in fantasy/SF worlds I create.Just to win this argument:
The guy who wrote that Simulators article specifically generated this as a proof of concept.
The future is scary, who knew.
And what is so impressive here? That it kinda looks like a piece of literature? It is not a conversation. It is not even a long novel with a consistent plot
I would be very much more impressed with a GPT that would reliably understand the concept of a 20-year person becoming a 21-year on their birthday or GPT that always remember that a mute character can't speak. Or even a GPT that will manage to describe a long coherent 3 vs 3 fighting scene... But even those would be merely good at imitating literature, nothing more
But yeah, at no point did I feel like I could get manipulated by a character in one of those stories, no matter how compelling they are. That just sounds idiotic.
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General Discussion / Re: Emotional Responses to War in Ukraine - Personal Diary & Mutual Support
« on: September 23, 2022, 10:09:02 pm »
Almost definitely. We are apathetic, but not that apathetic.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: September 23, 2022, 10:01:14 pm »
What I dislike about the Star Wars sequels is that they kind of mess with the ending and conclusions of ROTJ, specifically Anakin's redemption and the prophecy. He was supposed to bring balance to the Force once and for all, and he did by killing Palpatine. And then Palps "somehow returned". Also it's clear that the sequels had little in the way of a plan behind them and so the plot was disjointed.
I'd have preferred if they had loosely adapted the Thrawn books from the 90s instead. They pick and choose things from the Expanded Universe in the new continuity anyways. Thrawn was a great villain. He was different enough from Palpatine, but still very menacing and had a strong cool factor.
I'd have preferred if they had loosely adapted the Thrawn books from the 90s instead. They pick and choose things from the Expanded Universe in the new continuity anyways. Thrawn was a great villain. He was different enough from Palpatine, but still very menacing and had a strong cool factor.
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General Discussion / Re: Emotional Responses to War in Ukraine - Personal Diary & Mutual Support
« on: September 22, 2022, 02:53:35 am »
I lied at the recruitment center about having even worse vision than I do (by saying I didn't see a letter that I saw clear as day) and got "Category D". I won't get conscripted even if there is a full mobilization. Proud of what I did.
If needed (e.g there is a civil war), I can flee through the Kazakh border and figure out what to do next from there.
If needed (e.g there is a civil war), I can flee through the Kazakh border and figure out what to do next from there.
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General Discussion / Re: Emotional Responses to War in Ukraine - Personal Diary & Mutual Support
« on: September 17, 2022, 02:19:32 am »Or Russia's government is overthrown and the people in charge want to consolidate power rather than focus on a war
Overthrown Russian government changes little. A huge majority of Russians have the ideology that Ukraine doesn't exist (or should not exist) and this means that the war will continue. It may merely temporarily deescalate. Russian culture, as it is, is incompatible with Ukraine.
Whatever you say. I don't believe you.