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Unless it's been done these last few months, which is the last 2 or 3 games, it doesn't matter, no one remembers. Just go with it.

Tokyo Vice S1 and S2 was pretty good. I just binged them over the past few weeks. I initially had low interest a year ago after watching the pilot — slow pace, lots of subtitles, awkward audience-inserts in the form of two unrelated American characters living and working in Tokyo with fluent Japanese — but was recommended to return to it by a friend after they finished S2 recently. It’s a Yakuza thriller: feuding gangsters in Tokyo abetted by corruption are opposed by crusading journalists and a few incorruptible police, all set in a culture that is stodgily centered around hierarchy, tradition and performing politeness/respect. Overall a good quality watch with well-drawn characters. I would guess the story is complete after two seasons. Rebel Moon 2 was ridiculously bad. It’s a tired retread of Seven Samurai in a Star Wars-ish setting, which sounds bad enough (did The Mandalorian’s spaghetti western in a Star Wars setting inspire this?), but the writing, direction and execution are so weak. It’s disappointing to think this is what we get for two big-budget space operas.

It absolutely is, especially one that sidelines you for an extended period of time like he was. History doesn't mean that they're perennially injured; it means they have an injury, and that likely means that that part of them is going to be weaker and more prone to issues. That the injury required surgery is an even worse sign. I wouldn't be worried about him not starting all that much - being on Georgia means you won't get a ton of shots given the rest of the talent there. I would be worried about an offensive lineman having ankle surgery.

Get your tits out for the lads

To answer the thread question- For me, NO. AI generated is not art, I would classify it the same as maybe a glass pane, maybe decorative, but not an artistic creation. Now if a person were to turn around and depict the machine generated images, depict with thier own skills that is, then yes I could consider that an artistic act. But a machine generation is no more than the smoke off a vehicle muffler, its just a function or byproduct of that machine, some call it a widget.

An injury history for an OL is not at all a good sign. It's one of the best ways to determine how successful an OL will be in the league.

My wife closes her eyes when we drive through boro on the way home. To her it looks like robocop detritus.

Not sure I’d call one injury a “history.”

Huh. I took it as exactly the opposite - IE, we don't have other cues to gauge sentience, so we must only take them at their word, and if we don't believe them then that's our fault. My point is that it is not sufficient at all and that it isn't a matter of them being convincing; it's just not a valid test whatsoever to have them 'tell us' when they're sentient.

It's not the temperature. It's how you dress for it. My people are fucking idiots. We were on a ski holiday once in livigno when it was -32 and we decided to walk to the pub with our tops off.

I mean, I know Belgrade has much colder extremes than Newcastle but your averages are not that far off. Like I say, I live in Berlin which is colder than either and while the NE doesn't have anything to compare to a -15 day, I'm telling you, that wind stings. (there's a lot less data on wind speeds but what I did find suggests Belgrade's average windspeed in winter is about half of Newcastle's). I bet some of our Nordic friends would have us all beaten though

This first one wasn't odd >.< 'absent other queues' would, I think, be indicative I wasn't restricting parameters to such. Guess I shouldn't assume everyone is getting what I'm talking about [half smile at IFR]

I'm a neuroscientist by training. LLMs and AI are more of a hobby, though increasingly not. The very frustrating thing is, we went through the "black box" phase of understanding human and animal behavior, and came out of it with quite a few conceptual tools that are perfectly usable on AI. Some AI shops do try to bring this kind of experimentation and study to LLMs, but most are more interested in the hype machine of "AGI is coming" and so waste resources just feeding more data to larger arrays of GPUs for increasingly smaller gains instead.

This is a massive issue for her potential invasion and I don't really see how she can resolve it. 1. There is not enough food left in Westeros for Daenerys to supply her army via foraging/using reserves. It is pointed out numerous times that the food supplies remaining in Westeros are inadequate to feed everyone already there, so there is no way they can feed even more people coming later. This issue will be compounded by the size of the army Daenerys is aiming to bring. Not to mention all the difficulties that come with a regular winter. Then we have to factor in that it will probably be supernaturally cold, icy etc. 2. Daenerys cannot just ship food from Essos in as some people have suggested. First of all, there is a food shortage in all the territories she currently controls as well. Secondly, even is we assume she takes control of territories that have food/are growing food, she cannot just start taking food from there to feed a large army without depriving people living there of food, not to mention the logistics involved in shipping it over. And unless the army is near a port it will then need to be transported overland in the winter conditions etc. 3. How she is supposed to feed all the horses the Dothraki will be bringing? Where is the fodder going to come from? So it looks like either Daenerys will have to bring a much smaller army, or her army will starve, or she'll have to make loads of other people starve so her army doesn't starve.

I think I've already answered the latter - they do, often, end up talking to each other when put into an environment where they can, and they end up doing really scary things like inventing their own weird languages. In terms of curiousity and whatnot - that's another odd one to hang sentience on given a whole lot of humans will absolutely be taught to not show that. Thanks, @fionwe1987, this is more of what I was getting at. You cannot measure sentience by the language outputs themselves. You need to observe the other state changes simultaneously. Expressing curiosity or anger or sadness is not enough.

You seem really dialed in on this type of stuff, fionwe. Are you in this field, or?

While I absolutely agree that terms like sentience, consciousness and intelligence need more robust definitions, I'm confused by the discussions of chatGPT having sentience because it uses strings of words that express inner feelings. That is hardly the way we test for and understand human or, especially animal, sentience. I would simply ask this: are there measurable state changes in LLMs that go with their expressions of particular feelings? Do they display these state changes at rest (defined as unprompted state)? Will two similarly architected LLMs trained on different training data, or training data in different languages, show similar state changes associated with the "feelings" they express? If not (and that is currently the case for all these questions), we don't need a precise definition of sentience to determine today's LLMs are not sentient. On the flip side, the answer is yes for a heck of a lot of animals that have nothing approaching verbal expressive language we can understand, but hardly anyone will make a serious scientific case for these animals not being sentient.

Best to save them for a quick counteroffensive where they help punch through enemy lines.

Major thing with Mims isn’t necessarily the lack of snaps but the injury history.

I wasn't suggesting otherwise, and also harkens back to Larry's previous point. Well, yeah, because that's what I asked it to do and for that reason wouldn't convince me in the least. Have any of the extant AIs expressed curiosity about the nature of their prompts? Do they talk to themselves, would they talk to each other without us asking them to?

The Duke's great family is broke, so they commit more crimes to keep the coffers filled and continue the style of ife to which centuries of criming has made possible.

Woohoo! I can't believe I managed to guess it after all. Wouldn't have managed it without House Cambodia narrowing it down to books, and your helpful hints. RIP book indeed. I hate it when precious, rare and ancient things are destroyed, and this checked all three boxes. Would anyone like a new game? I have something in mind. Do I have to make sure it's not been done before or something like that?

I don't think this is accurate. It is a manifest of learned patterns of self worth/awareness. It can be trained just as any other thing can be. You can ask ChatGPT to behave like an aggrieved spouse or act insulted and it'll do so, convincingly. For a couple months it famously had some problems where it was both more inaccurate and more snarky than usual as well. Emotionally-laced dialogues and communication is not at all hard to simulate given enough pattern matching, which we absolutely have in spades thanks to social media.

Sure, there definitely are reasons why Klopp couldn't rotate his squad like Pep. But maybe he wouldn't have to rotate like Pep, just rotate better than he did and get a bit closer to Pep's level. Sure, it would require deeper squad but that's the cost you have to pay to not have your squad implode in April and drop out of running in 3 competitions. We have wind in Belgrade, too. Also it's not at all unusual to have sub-zero temperatures (reaching -10ºC, -15ºC, even -20ºC) for the whole January (not the last two years or so). Now, try combining the two.

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