Quote from: Hydra009 on May 24, 2024, 10:34:09 PMThis one has an insane mismash of religious dogmatism and magical thinking and techno-anthropomorphism combined with transhumanism and plasma cannons.  They're simultaneously the most dedicated and determined and resilient people ever and also the most closed-minded and backwards with deep and pervasive flaws in their thinking.

The Necrons are straight up omnicidal pharohs who formerly served what were essentially godlike yet physical beings who eat hope.
++My Cognitators register delight that you have discovered this simple truth but dismay that you have you have discovered this by heretical methodology rather than a rigid application of holy dogma, as instructed by Martian Scholams.  An explorator fleet with a suitable war host is already assembling++

I'm unfamiliar with the jargon of that particular game.

Are you happy in your escapism in such a world building gaming genre?

One of my favorite shows is called 'De Mol'.
It is a game show in an exotic location and each episode one person has to leave, he or she who answered the least questions right about who 'the mole' is.
Basically, out of the ten people, one is a saboteur who has to screw up as many of the games and missions as possible, preferably whilst being undiscovered for as long as possible so he or she can wreak as much havoc as possible.

This year, the had some clever uses of AI in the missions. They had a mechanical watchdog for a villa they had to infiltrate.
And one of the 'prizes' the contestants could stab eachother in the back for, was to hear the voice of the mole in private. Which the winner of that mission indeed got, but it was flanked by ai verdions of all the remaining voices. So he had a hard time figuring who's wqs real.
Clever trick. Had me giddy.

I'd also like to point out that all of the awfulness throughout this thread has a single root cause:  the almighty dollar.

QuoteA new Google Search AI feature helped boost its first quarter revenues.

That's the sole reason all this stuff is being rushed out without proper vetting or safeguards - profit.  To improve the bottom line and please shareholders.  And if someone eats glue or jumps off a bridge, no one is bothered.

More terrible AI advice from Google

They really need to stop using Reddit to train AI.  :/  There's a lot of insightful and funny content on Reddit, but man oh man, there's a TON of awful advice and negativity.  Going to Reddit for mental health advice is like going to a frat house for alcoholism rehab.

Especially bad advice includes cutting open a snake bite and/or sucking the venom out of the wound (it's physically impossible to de-venom someone that way and it'll almost certainly cause extra harm to them or yourself, especially when you waste time doing that instead of calling the ambulance and identifying the snake species)

And last but not least, I find it especially irksome that google takes such a lackadaisical approach to commonly-asked suicide-related questions, apparently now even offering helpful tips.  :(

Quote"Many of the examples we've seen have been uncommon queries, and we've also seen examples that were doctored or that we couldn't reproduce," it said, adding that AI Overviews underwent "extensive testing" before its launch.

Ah, the classic "that's not happening on my computer" with the implication that these problems are just made up combined with the other excuse that these are just unusual searches that borked the AI that simultaneously was extensively tested before going live.  Lots of mutually-exclusive propositions going on at once.

Either the thing was extensively tested - which would include lots of uncommon queries - or it wasn't.  Either these uncommon queries are producing borked responses or they're not.  Pick a lane.  It'd be like me blaming my bad driving on lack of sleep and bad directions and everyone else being a bad driver while simultaneously also maintaining that I'm a flawless driver who's always aware of the road at all times.

Quote from: SoldierofFortune on May 24, 2024, 08:31:32 PMI am not really into gaming, and I find gaming pretty time consuming activity which you can't gain anything other than pleasure. But my mind has changed about it after I discovered that some games has behind them some really fascinating philosophy and science.

This one has an insane mismash of religious dogmatism and magical thinking and techno-anthropomorphism combined with transhumanism and plasma cannons.  They're simultaneously the most dedicated and determined and resilient people ever and also the most closed-minded and backwards with deep and pervasive flaws in their thinking.

The Necrons are straight up omnicidal pharohs who formerly served what were essentially godlike yet physical beings who eat hope.

QuoteI have been studying neuroscience for some time and come to the conclusion that the fate of mind in the universe lies in the silicon chips rather than in meat and flesh.

++My Cognitators register delight that you have discovered this simple truth but dismay that you have you have discovered this by heretical methodology rather than a rigid application of holy dogma, as instructed by Martian Scholams.  An explorator fleet with a suitable war host is already assembling++

Exactly.

I play a game I got from the play store, called Physics Balls. It's a bit like pinball on super steroids!
You start with one ball, but that quickly becomes two, then three, and pretty soon you have a whole big pile of balls with which to play. My current high score is 161,000.
I like bouncy balls, so this is very satisfying.

No, it averages out to approximately something. There are no exact measurements.

I am not really into gaming, and I find gaming pretty time consuming activity which you can't gain anything other than pleasure. But my mind has changed about it after I discovered that some games has behind them some really fascinating philosophy and science. And If I don't like some subcultures, then there is something I don't understand about them.

I have been studying neuroscience for some time and come to the conclusion that the fate of mind in the universe lies in the silicon chips rather than in meat and flesh.