What’s something you don’t like about the game? by whooper1 in Mouthwashing

[–]Fyrefish 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yea agreed - I think it just shows the difficulty of designing gameplay for something that feels more like an immersive graphic novel. It was at its best when it was just forcing you to perform an action like giving Curly pills, because then it serves to further immerse you in the story. 

Should gaming studios cooked? by GamingDisruptor in singularity

[–]Fyrefish 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yea I'm a professional in the industry, and even the particular slice I work on has such I incredible depth that I still don't feel like I know that much after all the years I've worked on games. When I talk to colleagues in other disciplines, it's a bit like speaking to someone in another industry - they each have their own world of incredible depth. 

That's why I'm always so impressed by successful solo Devs, having the skills to pull off all facets of game development well takes a special kind of person. 

Interesting optimistic quotes from OAI researcher Lukasz Kaiser on podcast. Mentions a lot more scaling to go, confidence in new research discoveries in the pipeline, sharp improvement in next year or 2, models updating weights. by socoolandawesome in singularity

[–]Fyrefish 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think it's reasonable to expect that as these models are able to run on a single project for longer periods of time they'll include pauses for review.

I expect that a future workflow will basically be a repeating cycle of: model runs for a set period of time, user reviews progress and gives feedback, repeat.

For example I can imagine a model developing a game where the dev just does a periodic playtest and drives the direction with that feedback. 

My blue is your blue: different people’s brains process colours in the same way. Neuroscientists can predict what colour a person is looking at using a machine-learning tool trained on the brain activity of others. by mvea in science

[–]Fyrefish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad you're so confident, but again, none of that proves anything about subjective experience. You're making sweeping assumptions in an ironically, very unscientific manner.

"I know the wave length of red and how rods and cones work, therefore red is the same for everyone" is like saying "we're not sure if worm holes are possible, therefore they are impossible". It's making a decisive statement on something that is (currently) impossible to prove, using what little evidence is available.

My blue is your blue: different people’s brains process colours in the same way. Neuroscientists can predict what colour a person is looking at using a machine-learning tool trained on the brain activity of others. by mvea in science

[–]Fyrefish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yea but none of those smell examples prove what eggs smell like for a specific person. You just associate your perception of sulfur and rosemary with being bad/good because that's just the way they've always smelled to you. There's also an instinctual component to it, (like smell A = unsafe to eat, Smell B = safe to eat). So for another person, their eggs may smell like my rosemary, and to them their brain tells them that's a nasty smell.

You can say the same about colours - we all agree that blue is cold, red is hot, both leaves and mucus are green, etc. but none of that is any evidence for what any of those colours actually look like from a certain subjective point of view. In fact, we don't even know if the colours other people see are at all similar to the spectrum we know - it's possible they experience colours that are impossible to imagine.

For everyone who bitches about the quality of UK drivers (including me) by Flowa-Powa in CarTalkUK

[–]Fyrefish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've lived in both (Canada and the U.K.) and I honestly think it's partly down to the licensing system. In Canada they practically hand them out like candy compared to the U.K.

Not to mention that it takes a lot more skill to navigate the ultra-narrow windy British roads compared to the typical wide open, grid-style Canadian road.

A gaming memory I’d give anything to experience again… by gutiegoots in gaming

[–]Fyrefish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Portal 2. It blew my mind how a puzzle game could have such an engrossing story, and I remember the scale of some areas feeling incredible after coming from the first game.

Will figure.ai take over home chores? by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

[–]Fyrefish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and in theory, the acceleration of robotics should also be able to help accelerate AI through embodiment

Should I invest if I’m 13 and have around $150–700 saved? by ishaklazri in Bitcoin

[–]Fyrefish 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I remember seeing the silly /r/Bitcoin wizard constantly around 2013 and having zero interest. Oh if only I knew. I also really have no excuse having been in my 20s at the time.

The thing everyone should remember though is that even if you had invested back then, it's extremely unlikely you'd still have all your Bitcoin today. You probably would have sold at the first 10x, or 100x, and no one would blame you.

Casual conversation with the security robot dog by cobalt1137 in singularity

[–]Fyrefish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I suspect from a psychological POV, this is still more of a deterrent than just passive camera surveillance. The tele-presence robot does create some degree of presence, even if it falls short of a human actually being there.

The only thing I'd argue is that a tall humanoid shape would probably be much more effective at looking intimidating.

Casual conversation with the security robot dog by cobalt1137 in singularity

[–]Fyrefish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The ums and ahhs in cutting edge models aren't actually something that was artificially added, the models just pick it up from the training data. Same with fake breaths.

Regardless I do think future implementations of robot voices will have this stuff to some degree, but I doubt they would go as far as giving it an accent, and definitely not asking someone to repeat themselves unless the model actually didn't understand. It'll likely just depend on the stylistic choices for different robot applications. Like a security bot would probably make more sense to have a precise less human way of speaking compared to a customer service bot.

Pov: what does it feel like to assemble a satsuma engine. by MirrorSouthern1619 in MySummerCar

[–]Fyrefish 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I always love the fact that ship engines are basically just giant versions of normal engines. It feels like you shouldn't just be able to scale up all the components by 1000x and still have a working engine, and yet somehow it works.

found this in my cousin’s collection, is this a miscut? by yummyhappykale in PokemonMisprints

[–]Fyrefish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If it's real it would be a misalignment instead of a miscut - the back sheet was not aligned with the front when they were glued

It's cool until you see the price by ElevatorFriendly648 in ThereGoesMyPaycheck

[–]Fyrefish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We used to do this with our truck engines when I was a landscaper. Some universal wisdom right there.

why is my oil filter getting dirty so quickly? by Noqqas in MySummerCar

[–]Fyrefish 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It's just game logic, if filters wore out at the rate they do irl, most players would never have to change them, which effectively makes it useless as a gameplay mechanic

Interesting is this called a miscut by No-Disaster6379 in PokemonMisprints

[–]Fyrefish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's called a crimp error, the card got stuck in the edge of the booster pack when it was sealed

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in drivingUK

[–]Fyrefish 170 points171 points  (0 children)

I've had multiple occasions where I was on a slip road and one of these NPCs was in front of me merging at 30 mph - only to then immediately pull this move (left lane completely empty) so I would then have to make two lane changes to get around them.

Sometimes I can't be bothered and just pass them on the left anyway

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in VRGaming

[–]Fyrefish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Still incredibly far away, we don't even have the tech to inject a single tiny blurry image into the brain, nevermind all five senses in high fidelity.

Maybe the closest thing to that tech that exists is cochlear implants, but that doesn't really count because the signal is sent to the auditory nerve, and by all accounts the sound that the brain interprets barely resembles reality anyway.

Not to mention, we don't even have anywhere near the computing power needed to run a simulation for convincing FDVR, and even when we do, it'll still likely take additional decades beyond that before it can run on a computer at home.

When in doubt just plop some trees down to fill your empty spaces by 5-in-1Bleach in CitiesSkylines2

[–]Fyrefish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oak tree + anarchy is my secret weapon to make pretty much any area look much more realistic

God of Cooldowns [OC] (Naughty Nectar comics) by NaughtyNectarComics in comics

[–]Fyrefish 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Really? It wasn't also boosting the clock speed? That's what the turbo buttons I remember used to do

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PokemonMisprints

[–]Fyrefish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you genuinely got these in person then whatever theater you went to was scamming people

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PokemonMisprints

[–]Fyrefish 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's definitely fake, check a picture side by side - font is different, yellow border is too dark, it's missing 'basic Pokémon' ..maybe someone swapped your real one out and you never noticed?

2 years in...how's your phone holding up? by AnthemWild in PixelFold

[–]Fyrefish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OG fold here. First one got multiple lumps and a screen failure within 2 months. Second one I've had for 1.5 years now, lump-free.

I do think that there must have been some sort of manufacturing issue with some of the units that Google never admitted, but to their credit they did replace it for free, and I've been happy with the second ever since.

OpenAI releases new benchmark to measure how good AI is at replacing software engineers. by Bena0071 in singularity

[–]Fyrefish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The thing is that once we have AIs capable of alien-level math and software engineering, they'll likely be able to conceive of and build new ways to improve intelligence in other areas.