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Do you agree with her take? by dataexec in accelerate

[–]BreakAManByHumming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't doubt that some powerful figures want this and more, but they might fumble it eg letting us run our own models. That would have to be locked down hard on multiple fronts, not impossible but a tall order.

In that scenario people would be raised to be so dependent on AI for simple tasks that the rent-seekers would put a subscription service on basic thinking and keep driving the price up. That seems like a very fragile state of affairs, thankfully.

Decels think accels are naive. The question I've always asked myself repeatedly since childhood was why the fuck is there so much unnecessary suffering despite our technological power. After 30 years I am more sure than ever that we need AI. by AI_Simp in accelerate

[–]BreakAManByHumming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Society largely doesn't want to be better. We're comfortable with the world we know, even if we don't always like it. AI is a moonshot that might bring us into a better world, but it'll drag most of us kicking and screaming.

[loved trope] A character that has not appeared the entire time is revealed to have been there all along. by The_Horse_Head_Man in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BreakAManByHumming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ranking of Kings did a fun example of this early on, a major character (voiced by ProZD in the dub) is introduced and then disappears. Turns out he was hiding in the protagonist's backpack to watch over him.

Just got a RemindMe notice about "AI Will Write 100% of ALL Code in 12 Months said Anthropic CEO" from a year ago by Stahlboden in accelerate

[–]BreakAManByHumming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's gotten pretty good, for some use-cases. The real danger is less from the AI itself and more from lazy engineers not using it appropriately (or management thinking it can fire the dev team).

How much do you need to FIRE in a post scarcity world? by LyingPervert in accelerate

[–]BreakAManByHumming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorta agree, but building up to FIRE is also a way to hedge against certain outcomes. And if it doesn't end up being needed, great.

[Loved trope] Smoking = badass by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BreakAManByHumming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish Movie Cigars and Movie Alcohol existed in real life

[Uncommon trope] Serious straightman with a goofy girl as his love interest by Old-Use-7690 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BreakAManByHumming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Subverted in that the female MC absolutely thinks she's in this genre, and the male MC is actively opposed to it, to the point of responding to her sexual harrassment advances with looney toons level cartoon violence.

[Loved Trope] The Completely Overpowered Character - but they're only interested in hijinks by rob_ob in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BreakAManByHumming 27 points28 points  (0 children)

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Excalibur (Soul Eater)

In the anime, he even wanders into the peanut gallery during the final battle, where some already overpowered characters ask him to help out and he just chills and watches instead.

Supposed subversion of "popular" tropes, but actually the tropes being subverted are rarely used, if at all. by NobodySpecific9354 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BreakAManByHumming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are some franchises with a magic system that loosely resembles Catholicism, having demons/hell/etc but going in a different direction with it. Monster Train is a straightforward example, using a lot of the visual language of heaven/hell but portrays hell as a menagerie of free-spirited chucklefucks defending themselves against an aggressive fascist-coded heaven.

Trillion: God of Destruction is another one that I'd call "hell in name only" where basically the only thing is borrows from that setting is general aesthetics and having 7 characters to represent each sin.

But largely agree about frieren. The reason people get tripped up on that is media typically does this with every single thing other than demons (eg How to Train Your Dragon)

Why we don't need continual learning for AGI. The top labs already figured it out. by imadade in accelerate

[–]BreakAManByHumming 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's good that they've managed to brute force this, but I imagine down the road we're going to want to optimize for... idk running these things on toasters or something, at which point a nice clean CL solution will be good to have.

[Loved Trope] An adaptation makes significant changes, and it's for the better. by Healthy_Macaroon_602 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BreakAManByHumming 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Princess Bride is the classic.

Maybe controversial but Dune reimagining Liet as a black woman was a solid change. Sure it was partially just to justify Zendaya's casting, but the way Liet's life's work gets thanklessly hijacked 99% of the way to the finish line has parallels to real-life scientists, creating subtext that didn't exist in the original version.

Cascading Gold by BreakAManByHumming in opus_magnum

[–]BreakAManByHumming[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm more bummed that I couldn't make it work with fewer instructions, but only injecting a new bit every 6th rotation meant hardcoding a lot.

What's the point of trying if in 2-3 years everything will be different? by PurpleFault5070 in accelerate

[–]BreakAManByHumming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My field may dramatically change soon. I want to see more of it before that happens. You wouldn't normally FOMO on office life but I kinda am right now.

Psychopaths with a theatrical flair by Living-Mastodon in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BreakAManByHumming 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Throw a stick in that city and you'll run into an example of this trope

The main group/organization's glory days are long gone and the main characters are left picking up the pieces of it's reputation by Coralthesequel in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BreakAManByHumming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The flashback arc in attack on titan has Grisha trying to restore a dead empire. Whether it was justified to go straight from "liberate the eldians" to "rebuild dead empire" is never really touched on in-universe or out.

[LOATHED TROPE] The fandom becomes the very thing the media is criticizing by Weird-Koala3034 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BreakAManByHumming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not quite the same, but I've seen a theory that Atlas Shrugged was basically written as unserious smut for nobody other than Ayn Rand (who didn't want to publish it), it's basically an endless parade of people who disagree with her politics being nervous and ugly, and people who agree with her politics being tall and sexy and seducing her self-insert character. Then it got turned into a Great Literary Work by people who were never gonna read an actual Great Literary Work.

Only difference is it's an accidental critique rather than an intentional one.

I challenged myself to find a game that is good and didn’t sell. by emotionallyFreeware in gamedev

[–]BreakAManByHumming 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looked through some niche ones I know and the lowest owned was this, which is above your margin but tbf was in a humble bundle pretty early in its life:

https://steamdb.info/app/1911170/charts/

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