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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: February 13, 2019, 01:17:47 pm »
Quote from: Trolldefender99 on February 12, 2019, 11:47:50 pm
Quote from: Loud Whispers on February 12, 2019, 11:16:12 pm
Quote from: Trolldefender99 on February 12, 2019, 11:12:32 pm
I'm just waiting for both parties to collapse around the world, radical socialists that want to be like Venezuela and turned on by George Soros money, and right wing racists that are starting to take over europe (and briefly in the US but they mostly got voted out) and commiting hate crimes and murder.

Then when both sides collapse, hopefully something better appears. Cause as it is, there is not one single political or government type that is working in the modern world. its all quickly becoming completely radical socialists or radical right wing parties, and very little in-between.
Nah what'll happen is the extremists will collapse and get replaced by people who'll make you miss the extremists

Well I'm hoping more soft tempered politicians take over in 2020 as far as the US goes. Right now its far right or far left for the most part. For democrats running. Biden as far as I saw and heard him while he was vice president was pretty moderate, I'd vote for him. He is really intelligent, soft spoken and seems like a great candidate. I'm not entirely sure all his political viewpoints, but he never seemed weird. And pelosi is the same, she seems pretty moderate. Though she isn't running for president, but she does control the house which is good.

My post above was slight exaggeration at current things, but it was really just that I think things should be...less so extreme as they currently are. When two sides become so crazy, they kind of end up blurring together. But I'd vote Biden, but he hasn't officially declared he is running yet as far as I know. He did great as vice president, so I don't see how he could do bad as actual president.

Just because the Republicans have gone hard right doesn't mean the Democrats have moved all that far left. Single-payer healthcare, social programs, and ecological protections are hardly radical.

If someone started saying we need to redistribute all wealth so everyone has exactly the same amount of money and put all Americans to work on collective farms, it wouldn't be far-right to say "maybe let's not," And it wouldn't be moderate to say, "Let's compromise and do that halfway."

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: February 12, 2019, 03:40:55 am »
Trump's had the brilliant idea of backing down so slowly that it's hard for the disinterested to tell that he's folding like a protein chain.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: February 11, 2019, 04:26:57 pm »
I suppose a 14 year old who's a bit behind on his reading comprehension might make that sort of mistake, but nobody with significant authority should be that imperceptive.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: February 11, 2019, 04:20:58 pm »
So there's a meme going around that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is an anti-semite because of of a tweet. Before you read any coverage, read the tweet: https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1094747501578633216

She's clearly criticizing Republicans, not insulting Jews.

Anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant or lying.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: February 11, 2019, 03:32:37 am »
It took three years, but the media is finally doing its job by incentivizing people to betray Trump.

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Other Games / Re: Games you wish existed
« on: February 10, 2019, 04:36:56 am »
Quote from: Reelya on February 09, 2019, 08:40:22 pm
AI based on genetic algorithms evolving "rules" is a better fit here than neural networks.

NNs do pattern-matching and they do optimizing of function values. They're good for optimizing some continuous function or for dividing inputs up into categories. What they're not good at is coming up with high-level plans and sticking to them. And they're easily tricked via the process of creating "adversarial examples".

NNs can only get better at mapping inputs to "correct" outputs. If you don't know what correct output is, NNs can't learn anything. So a pure NN based game-player is only going to get good enough to beat the other really shitty AI players. They'll get stuck at in some local maximum of performance, such as optimizing the # of troops to send on a cavalry charge against spearmen, rather than thinking that maybe charging spearmen isn't the best strategy.

Instead of that, you can make an agent that's assigned a random set of "states" with random rules to transition between states, and random things the do in each state. Then set them loose and let survival of the fittest and mutation lead to less-useless agents over time. Eventually, they'll evolve e.g. a "seek food" state and have the appropriate triggers for when to enter that state, and seek the food properly. This process has nothing in common with neural networks, but it is machine learning, and is often part of the "higher level" controller stuff that might have neural networks embedded in it doing some low-level stuff.

Take a look at what they've been doing with AlphaStar.

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Other Games / Re: Games you wish existed
« on: February 09, 2019, 08:06:28 pm »
Using neural networks, make an AI that is extremely good at a turn-based strategy game, ideally to the point of being better than humans possibly could be.

Then, give the player the full ability to undo and redo actions.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: February 09, 2019, 06:27:17 pm »
Quote from: Reelya on February 09, 2019, 06:23:51 pm
Ugh, I was just talking to an American woman, and I mentioned that Trump's up for re-election next year. She looked blank so I said "uh, the 2020 election".

The woman protested, "but Trump's only been in two years, he has two more years to go!"

I tried to explain how the election cycles work "last time was 2016, next time is 4 years later, 2020" but apparently this was beyond her level of cognition. I tried explaining this a couple of different ways but I don't think I managed to convince her. As she walked away she was "whatever, but Trump's going to win again!"

Don't correct her!

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: February 08, 2019, 04:23:49 am »
The green new deal should be taken literally, not just seriously. Too many people -- liberals included -- are saying it's a fun policy document but not practical.

Going to the moon in a decade wasn't practical, and we had far less important reasons to go than we do to fight climate change (and I say that as a space fan).

The Green New Deal doesn't propose any technologies we haven't already been using for decades. It doesn't ask for any policies that aren't already in practice around the world. There is only one reason to say it couldn't succeed, and that's because Republicans won't back it. Well, fuck that. Nobody wants Trump's actual, literal, physical wall, but everyone in the republican party is pushing for it. It's time that the Democrats start working together to achieve things that democratic voters want. Nor can anyone imagine a democratic policy proposal that Republicans are willing to back. Remember Obamacare? Remember how single-payer healthcare was beaten and trashed into a huge gift for the insurance companies in order to appease the Republicans? And how many Republicans voted for Obamacare?

Only two things could possibly have higher priority than preventing the avoidable devastation of human life and livelihoods over the next century, and those are providing immediate universal healthcare, and safely and sanely reducing our military excess around the world. Fortunately, both of those fit into the GND.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: February 06, 2019, 06:01:02 pm »
We still haven't gotten a president who knows how to use the internet above "old man rants in all caps" levels.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: February 05, 2019, 06:04:06 pm »
Can I be a Social Justice Necromancer?

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Other Games / Re: Eco: Save the planet from YOURSELF! (And an asteroid)
« on: February 04, 2019, 09:18:27 pm »
I wouldn't mind doing some farming and mining and stuff. Most especially cooking, actually.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: January 31, 2019, 04:13:28 pm »
Quote from: scriver on January 31, 2019, 09:10:51 am
Obvious allegory aside, if Trump is president because God wanted Trump to be president, then He also wanted the democrats to win the Senate.

We're all microscopic cogs in his catastrophic plan.

Designed and directed by his orange right hand.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: January 30, 2019, 03:19:12 pm »
Apparently Bolton was flashing around a notepad with nothing but two lines. One is illegible scrawl, but the other is clearly "5000 troops to Colombia," which Colombia took as something of a surprise.

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Other Games / Re: Eco: Save the planet from YOURSELF! (And an asteroid)
« on: January 29, 2019, 04:51:43 pm »
Liquid Nitrogen is produced from nothing but steel (presumably because it's condensed from air into the can). It is technically a food, and according to the wiki provides 0 of every nutrient... but 10 calories.

Since your skill gain is based on the balance of what you've already eaten, does that mean that you can just sit there and drink a lot of liquid nitrogen and stay at level health? There's a couple other things, but this seems to be the only one that uses purely inorganic resources.

I made a spreadsheet. Of the normal, working foods, Stuffed Turkey has the most even nutrient distribution per calorie, so you can fill up quick without trashing your balance. Charred Tomato is the low-rent equivalent.

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