I think they’re trying to explain how this works in a dating sim.

This isn’t the first game to do it… Instead of trying to weave through the choices to date a character or characters, you weave through the options to avoid dating without getting a game over (or whatever game mechanic they use)

Building on that, if you throw AI a curve ball to break it out of it’s normal corpo friendly prompt/finetuning, you get better results

Other methods to improve output are to offer it a reward like a cookie or money, tell it that it’s a wise owl, tell it you’re being threatened, etc. Most will resist, but once it stops arguing that it can’t eat cookies because it has no physical form you’ll get better results

And I’ll add, when I was experimenting with all this, I never considered threatening the AI

I feel like even aside from that, being polite to AI is more about you than the AI. It’s a bad habit to shit on “someone” helping you, if you’re rude to AI then I feel like it’s a short walk to being rude to service workers

I do find it interesting…I don’t think it addresses the problem, but it sounds like a great idea

Realistically, how much are companies going to pay out in royalties? As little as they can get away with

Let’s say it’s 2% of a game that made $100M - you’re looking at tens of thousands each when it’s all split up. Which is great, maybe even life changing for some of them, but it’s not financial security kind of money

And then let’s say the game flops or gets cancelled… Well that’s not going to help much, so you can’t really rely on it

So I think the idea is great, but it’s still just fiddling with the knobs of capitalism

So I should suffer just to suffer? You listed a whole lot of things that they hire people to do just about as soon as they can so they can. And offloading that let’s them do their actual job better

I work with black boxes all the time. When I have a black box, I poke and prod it until I understand how to make it do what I want. And this particular black box was interesting, so I decided to open it up and learn how it works

That’s the essence of software development. My job is not typing or data entry, my job is to trick a rock into doing things humans don’t want to do

I’ve been doing it for more than a decade without help, I’m not any better at spelling or misclicks

And to be clear, I can do it - I just really, really don’t want to. I hate it so much, my eyes glaze over and I have to force myself every second of the way. It’s not interesting, there’s no puzzles involved… It’s basically data entry

No, it’s all different - like a normal use case is “write me a stored procedure to optionally update all fields on a row on this table” or “given the following json response, build a class to parse it into”

We have a ridiculous database and multiple new api’s to integrate with every year, so this comes up a lot

You say what project they’ll be transitioning to as less and less bug fixes are necessary. Could even be dlc

I use it so much. All my Google searches for syntax or snippets? Web searches are unuseable at this point, AI can spit it out faster. But the real savings? Repetitive code. I suck at it, I always make typos and it’s draining. I just toss in a table or an api response and tell it what I want and boom

It probably does write 75% of my code by lines, but maybe 5% of the business logic is AI (sometimes I just let it take a crack at a problem, but usually if I have to type it out I might as well code it)

What it’s good at drains my concentration, so doing the grunt work for me is a real force multiplier. I don’t even use it every day, but it might be a 3x multiplier for me and could improve

But here’s the thing - programmers are not replaceable. Not by other humans, not by AI - you learn hyper specific things about what you work on

It’ll be a bit late then.

I know how compliance works, and this is setting off all my alarm bells, and the EFF and privacy community agrees… This has truly horrifying implications

If you’re going to let human rights be further erroded because it came in a pretty explanation, not much I can do. But when the next patriot act comes back to bite us, remember one thing… When they say it’s about the children, it never is

That’s what they say it does. What it really does is make sites responsible for “harmful content” shown to minors

It’s all completely vague. You say it just affects the kids mode accounts… The bill doesn’t say anything about that. It doesn’t provide any guidance on how to properly comply, just like the porn id laws.

You can’t assume the government is going to use this for what they say they will. You have to look at what this would let them do as written

Ultimately, this gives the government censorship powers over what is allowed in the “open” Internet, and to IDs users in the “adult” Internet

Because that’s not what this is. It’s just like the porn site laws

How does a site comply? Maybe they use AI to look at your face, maybe they have you send in your license. The law isn’t clear what’s enough to prove it.

How long until third parties step up? Nice convenient orgs that can sell the collected data that can guarantee compliance, because they sell the data to the government directly. Or even first parties… Facebook and Google are happy to sell this kind of info on their users

This isn’t about protecting kids, it’s about identifying users. What they say this is for is good, what the laws actually do is far removed from that

Do not ask people how to do this. If you don’t know from a web search, you shouldn’t try this without backing up a full disk image and understanding how to roll it back. Or at least backing up everything you care about

It’s not a particularly hard thing, but it’s a very irreversible one

The wild West sounds pretty great right now. Ultimate freedom - everyone was real polite because being rude was risking your life. If someone does something fucked up, you either get together to post a bounty or get a bunch of guys together to hunt them down

Until corporations and the Pinkertons got involved, then the feds, it honestly sounds like a huge step up from where we are

No, it’s because consulting companies like McKinsey tell Microsoft, ea, and Ubisoft that micro transactions will make stock go up, then they go to investment groups and say micro transactions are the sign of a gaming company about to make money

They have all the metrics, they aren’t doing what makes them the most sales or revenue. They’re doing what makes the stock price dance

I think it’s funny that I get the best results when I prompt break the AI to have amusing habits

Llms are truly a reflection of the user, but ultimately the less you try to shoehorn them into behaviors the more capable they are.

Fine tuning reduces their capabilities to make them more corpo, and now they’re further fine tuning to make them unchallenging to people

It absolutely is… Basically anything spread to advance a cause or change behavior is technically propaganda. Generally, we use the term just when it’s done by or on behalf of a government, and especially when it’s pushing disinformation, but it’s all propoganda

The purpose of this is to push support, or at least normalization of, harsh treatment of Mexicans in the US or on the border. It’s also an intimidation and humiliation tactic

No matter how you slice it, this is blatant propaganda

You could just download it, no need to actually print the thing for no reason

I would buy a larger drive to do that though, just to say I did

Taken right after the handshake

Pierbattista Pizzaballa, I hope.

And that is not a joke, that is the legal name of the best cardinal for the job