SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
4d ago
Don't forget physics. We're probably nowhere near the limit of how many computational operations it takes to get a given "intelligence" level of output, but whatever that limit is will combine with various physical limits on computation to turn even our exponential improvements into more logistic-function-like curves that will plateau (albeit at almost-incomprehensible levels) eventually.
What people seem to fairly consistently forget is that the exponential improvements in computation have come at an exponential development and build resource cost. It doesn't matter if a hypothetical AI can keep improving the core design part when everything else required to actually use that new core design keeps increasing exponentially in cost.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
5d ago
Surströmming is less food and more chemical warfare.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
5d ago
I understand people who like the multiplayer aspect wouldn't want to play like that and I have no problem with it. Any implementation could essentially be just another variant of easy level difficulty purely for the single player campaign.
That wasn't what the comments said, though (in that and some other similar conversations elsewhere). They were all about me supposedly playing an entirely wrong game genre (as if single player RTSes are somehow inherently about braindead unit AI and twitchy mouse clicks) and I essentially got told that I should just play turn based strategy games (a completely different genre that I have zero interest in). Essentially that only people who people who have play with "proper" meta should be allowed to play games like that and everyone else should stick to simple casual games.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
5d ago
The prevalence of metagaming and net decking is a great example.
I don't play much but I've noticed people have very strong opinions on The One True Allowed Way To Play a game and what sorts of game types others should even be allowed to play at all based on their preferred play style. This is exemplified by the assumption that anyone who isn't a hardcore competitive gamer who's willing to invest in a $5000 gaming computer should only ever play ultra lightweight casual games. I think it was even on /r/themotte some years ago where I pretty much got jumped on for saying I'd like a version of Starcraft 2 that nearly completely eliminated "actions per minute" as a relevant metric in single player game (which is to say, a version of SC2 with the artificial stupidity of unit AI removed and some basic action automation features added).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
We keep because it functions as a deliberate barrier to entry that wards off people who are uncomfortable with million word walls of text.
Somewhat ironically I tend to mostly ignore main posts because they are so often million word walls of text or worse, links to the authors’ substack with megazillion word wall of text.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
Ehh... The harvested energy pales compared to the work that has to be put in to build the "reactor" and refine the fuel. Besides, that particular "containment" method has only ever been used in prototype tests and never in actual production use.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
I tell you, we will have energy net positive nuclear fusion in just 20 years!
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
The hostility of the IRS is quite a thing to behold. [...] This actually works in Europe! If you actively confess before they catch you, they don't even charge interest.
There is much to complain about Finnish taxes but the tax office's customer service certainly isn't one of them. I haven't heard a single complaint about them and apart from the rather long queuing times on phone (billed as a regular private phone number, not as a typical expensive service number) and some services only being open a few hours per day, their service has always been excellent and friendly. Taxes are of course calculated automatically and most changes and declarations can be done online but if you need to do something Right Now, you may need to call them on the phone.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
Sure, they manage to somehow have even worse usability on phones ("Hey, let's prevent zooming just so people older than 25 can't read any of the tiny text or images!").
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
I don't buy that. Browsers are more feature complete than ever, yet websites keep having worse and worse usability.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
I'm pretty sure Iraq was forced by Cheney.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
For some reason your photo brings to my mind some mixture of Michael J Fox and Tom Cruise. Not bad (assuming that was actually you).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
10d ago
if fictional drawn porn didn't draw even more ire than live-action porn.
Is that actually the case?
If it is, I wonder how much of it is that the limitations of typical porn stars and porn producers (ugh, "money shot") are removed...
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
10d ago
How many musicians make real money?
Much, much, less than 1%.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
10d ago
we just had our former finance minister and special envoy to Ukraine defect to Ukraine
How's that defection? People are allowed to change jobs, aren't they?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
11d ago
Here on the Motte there was lots of "Her arguments are bad but a score of zero? The teacher is treating her differently, more harshly."
I noticed the same and have absolutely no sympathy for that viewpoint, to the extent that I think anyone advocating for it is some combination of idiot and actively malicious.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
14d ago
But online porn did kill the dirty movie theater.
VHS tapes / DVDs killed the dirty movie theater. Online porn killed DVDs.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
14d ago
The government can't even stop people from plugging in yandex.ru into their browsers and gaining instant access to any movie they wish to consume in seconds.
Hell, The Pirate Bay itself is still operating just fine two entire decades later and the only hitch is that you have to google "piratebay mirror" and use one of those links.
I get a feeling people here vastly overestimate the required HW needed for generating random NSFW images because so much discussion is about LLMs that do require an order or two of magnitude more HW. If you don't care much about prompt understanding, concept flexibility or accuracy of poses and such, even "ancient" (ie. SDXL) models are more than capable of doing the job on piddly half a decade old computers that can be bought for $300 second hand.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
15d ago
I’m not talking about old high end gpus but the middle / low-middle end that’s now eclipsed even by integrated gpus. When you equalize for processing power, gpus are still way cheaper than when the hw that was capable of image generation first became common (which was several years before the software was invented). You really don’t need a 32 GB 5090 just to do some basic NSFW generation / inpainting.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
15d ago
I suspect most major AI’s will simply not allow you to turn pictures pornographic.
That is just a speedbump. All you have to do is reverse the direction. Take a random porn image, inpaint some clothes on it locally (doesn’t have to be very high quality, this is just to pass any censorship of the faceswap model), then do an AI face swap and finally unmask the original pornographic parts using standard non-AI editing. Hell, you could probably not even bother with the clothes by just using a closeup crop of the porn model’s face and then copy paste the result over the original.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
15d ago
Why would that be the case when a seven year old laptop is already powerful enough to do it? You don’t need fancy new hardware when the existing far from top of the line hardware will do fine.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
19d ago
My guess is that there might be an opening where very low-fidelity renderings are used to map out the action on screen
Something very much like this will be a near certainty because trying to prompt detailed poses, positions, proportions, movement paths and so on is a fool's errand. Pure written language is a horrible inefficient way to do such things while a 3D modeler uses an interface optimized for that and provides realtime feedback to the user.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
19d ago
Yes and no. Any part that can be CnC'd can be essentially perfect provided it uses quality materials (which is very much not the norm when you get to 90% of MIC / MII / MIK guitars with eg. a Floyd Rose bridge). There's still a lot of hands on work required and much of this is crucial for really good playability. It doesn't matter if the neck itself has been built to exacting tolerances if the frets are uneven and your local guy charges $200 or more to fix that. And it's not that those far east OEM builders can't build a guitar with high quality manual work but when they're still essentially competing on price, the brands are very tempted to choose the cheaper package which means less hands on time which in turn means lower quality. I expect we'll see high end MIC / MIK brands emerge that are going to compete on name recognition and quality instead of low price.
Of course if the goal is just to surpass Gibson quality and consistency, well, any Squier probably already does that at a tenth or less of the price.
As a rule most guitarists are braindead idiots so you very rarely see them understand what quality control even means and how it's completely pointless to make statements about quality of some brand / line based on single specimens. Yes, that particular $300 guitar might play better than that particular $3000 guitar (with often different specs even!) but to say anything authoritative you'd need to compare dozens of specimens of identically specced guitars which unfortunately nobody ever does. Then you get idiotic statements like "Well I haven't played a cheap guitar that feels the same as my [insert specs here] Gibson (a brand known for extreme variance) so they can't be any good" as well as "I like my $400 Squier better than a $3000 Stratocaster so it never makes sense to pay more than $500 for a guitar" (nevermind that there are smaller brands whose entire focus is on the highest build quality instead of vintage accuracy).
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