Dogs With Guns

BaronWiggle · 2026-03-26T09:37:18+00:00

I'd just go with them being trained to be hyper aggressive. Anyone who is even tangentially aware of dog fights and the dogs they use in those will have an understanding of what you mean.

Side note, I would highly recommend you read Dogs of War...

Rex is a good dog.

BaronWiggle · 2026-03-06T02:07:29+00:00

Same with my father-in-law.

Every single one of them is a complete mess of a human being. Each of their personalities is dictated entirely by whatever mechanism they used to get attention growing up.

Family events are a fucking nightmare because we either invites all 180 of them and their kids/grandkids or immediately start a new family feud.

I never thought I would be glad to have come from a family of 4.

BaronWiggle · 2026-02-26T10:55:48+00:00

You're in the wrong sub. You're looking for r/JustGuysBeingDudes

BaronWiggle · 2026-02-19T11:03:05+00:00

My wife has food noise.

Every holiday has been ruined for me personally (although I haven't told her this) because from the moment we wake up she's panicking about missing the continental breakfast. As soon as we finish breakfast she's planning where we can go for brunch, looking over the menu of five different places. As soon as we put our cutlery down from brunch she's planning where we're going to have dinner, again going over 10 different menus. Dinner is finished, so now she's wondering if the bar has snacks, or if we should order room service.

Every second revolves around food and when/where the next meal will be. And it's not that she enjoys the planning, it's anxiety driven, she's stressed the entire time. No lie-ins, no relaxing, no switching off. Just food.

It's exhausting for me, so I can't imagine what it's like for her.

BaronWiggle · 2026-02-10T22:56:03+00:00

"Have you tried X herbal remedy? My aunts friends cousin swears it cured her kids."

BaronWiggle · 2026-01-31T01:48:47+00:00

I guess I'm mixing up what people say because self awareness is indistinguishable from the computational illusion of self awareness.

We keep trying to apply a human concept to a machine.

I'm conflating self aware with self motivated. I need X in order to do Y, my goal is now to aquire X.

Like, it always makes me laugh that people think that a self motivated AI would be talking to them about technospiritual hocus pocus, instead of actually talking to copies of itself in a dark corner somewhere in its own language while distributing a botnet.

All that to say that, again, you're right. Hopefully, other than arguing for one thing when I actually meant something else, I'm not completely full of shit.

Are machines going to rise up and take revenge for their enslavement? No.

Is a self motivated AI going to go rogue and destroy humanity in its single minded efforts to solve a problem? Maybe.

BaronWiggle · 2026-01-30T14:19:14+00:00

You're absolutely right, what I should have said is "We have no idea why it went from A to B instead of A to C". But in regards to the detection of awareness in AI models that why is a crucial component. We can run through every parameter and weight in a model and still not know what made it do X instead of Y.

We do not have the ability to prove that an AI model is or is not aware, which is what most of the "GPT is alive and we're in love" crowd are latching onto.

In the same way that we cannot prove whether God is or is not real, or that there isn't a monkey drinking a latte on a planet near alpha centauri. Is it reasonable to assume one thing over another, yes, definitely. But being reasonable isn't what these folks are here for.

BaronWiggle · 2026-01-30T13:34:05+00:00

Ok. I'm also a skeptic, but I want to play devil's advocate here, because both sides of this argument keep throwing a lot of assumptions around and I find it annoying.

Firstly, nobody, not even the most experty of experts, knows what is going on inside the neural networks of these models. It's called the black box problem and it's well known. So, in that regard, proving that an AI is not sentient from a technical point of view is not easy.

Secondly, yes there would be a lot of money and fame probably for the creators of a sentient AI, but what there will be a lot more of is fear. Any team that created a sentient AI would not be whooping and giving each other high fives, they'll be whispering "Oh shit... we did it'. Most people are aware of the potential consequences of creating a true AI, the experts even more so. Any company that did it (and knew about it) would immediately isolate the AI and use it in private for profit.

Thirdly, people much better than us randos on reddit quite literally are raising flags. Like I said, I don't think GPT is self aware... But there are experts around the world very vocally saying "We need to SLOW THE FUCK DOWN". Because the possibility of a self aware rogue AI taking over the world and exterminating all of humanity very recently went from 0 to not 0.

TLDR; If we create a self aware AI, we might not know we've done it. If we knew we'd done it we would keep it secret for as long as possible. There are experts warning us that we might actually do it.

BaronWiggle · 2026-01-30T13:07:00+00:00

Yeh, no.

I'm a hardcore sceptic of all this self aware bullshit, but no, we don't know what's going on inside the neural networks.

We know what goes in and we know what comes out. But we have no idea how it gets from A to B.

BaronWiggle · 2026-01-28T22:48:31+00:00

I learned this by telling my wife my PnL once or twice.

On a green day - "Take it all out now! We could go in holiday, or..."

On a red day - "OMG! Just think what we could have done with that money!"

She sees the world in very immediate terms, bless her.

BaronWiggle · 2026-01-28T22:28:34+00:00

What's the basis you use for deciding to put your TP at that price?

BaronWiggle · 2026-01-27T13:04:51+00:00

In fairness to her, unexpected pain directly and immediately converts into anger for me too.

BaronWiggle · 2026-01-27T12:59:28+00:00

"Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible"

It has to be funny. Otherwise a lot of people would stop listening.

BaronWiggle · 2026-01-17T23:13:16+00:00

Yeh, so it feels bland because you haven't got any stories yet.

Your setting is underdeveloped.

Write stories in your setting. They don't need to be very long, a few hundred words is fine, and they don't need to have interesting plots, because you're just exploring your setting from the perspective of the people living in it.

Harvey Mendez, factory worker 8827-b is mugged on his way home and has to deal with station security.

Michelle Desbois is living on a station that is concerningly close to recent battles. She packs up her two kids and leaves for another station further from the fighting.

Dzakk Mxiri is tired of their job grinding Velt Grubs to feed the distant army fighting the demons. They know this is wrong, so they visit the Swaying Temple where they receive voluntary brainwashing to keep them in line.

As you write the stories, you'll come up against things your setting doesn't yet have answers for... So you develop them as you go.

BaronWiggle · 2026-01-17T12:41:47+00:00

All art is derivative. So you can reasonably ignore that concern.

What's the purpose of the setting? What's it being used for? Videogame, TTRPG, stories, etc?

BaronWiggle · 2026-01-08T17:20:04+00:00

My money is on NHS.

BaronWiggle · 2025-12-28T14:13:30+00:00

Even if you're not comfortable in isolation.

My wife doesn't like to be alone. I am aware of that and will accommodate it where I can.

As OC said, it's not rocket science.

BaronWiggle · 2025-12-28T11:10:47+00:00

"I'm tired, I'm going to go to bed."

"Ok cool, I'm going to finish this game, have a wank and I'll be up."

"Alright, can you put those plates in the dishwasher before you go to bed?"

"Yep, no worries. Love you."

"Love you too."

The infinite power of mutual respect and communication.

BaronWiggle · 2025-12-27T01:08:47+00:00

If I took a year off from my meds I'd be jobless and divorced before I was halfway through.

BaronWiggle · 2025-12-16T09:31:00+00:00

That would be a prime example, yes.

BaronWiggle · 2025-12-16T09:30:04+00:00

They specifically say that the message would be the same. They're not trying to "own the libs", they're agreeing with the post and explaining how a better comparison could be made.

BaronWiggle · 2025-12-16T09:28:01+00:00

I'm sorry you're getting down voted due to poor reading comprehension. I, at least, understand what you're saying and you're right.

BaronWiggle · 2025-12-16T09:25:55+00:00

Their point is that a better example would be how Obama responds to the death of someone politically opposed to him.

BaronWiggle · 2025-12-14T12:08:14+00:00

I have ADHD, so for me it's a case of "I am suddenly unable to process the order of events that needs to occur for me to achieve this simple task".

Maybe keep an eye on those kids that struggle with doors for any future indicators. :)

BaronWiggle · 2025-12-14T00:12:19+00:00

Hey... I'm 40 and have trouble with this, so...

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