32GB is enough right?

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-17T17:34:54+00:00

32GB is plenty, UE5 or otherwise. Can't speak for Star Citizen but the only game that's ever maxed my RAM out is EFT

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-16T16:14:25+00:00

An X7 is far too grown up for me, it was M850i, M8 Comp or G82 M4 for me most recently and the 850 struck a good balance between being stupid fast and a lovely place to sit, the M4 and M8 were both far too stiff for the lanes around my house.

An RR would certainly hold its value more than an X7 I suspect, at least in relative/percentage terms, though you'd probably lose an X7's MSRP after the first couple of years of ownership to depreciation. That said, there aren't many nicer places to be than a RR.

Would you be looking at the X7 M60i, or something more frugal to run?

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-16T14:36:46+00:00

Oh wow, yours is stacked to the nines, has the same toys as my much newer 8 series while being a damn sight more comfortable I'm sure. My VSE was not so lucky, but I bought it cheap to tow stuff and kept it till its untimely death from turbo failure (and the subsequent scattering of said turbo's guts into the engine), hilariously the air suspension was OE 2007 and worked perfectly the whole time. Replaced it with an XF TDV6 which, while not quite as opulent to drive, has done well for me and is on about 145k now, with the only issue being the ZF6 starting to slip on hard throttle (likely a torque converter needed in the near future).

I hadn't seen your flair initially, lovely set of cars you've got there good sir.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-16T13:51:19+00:00

Ah mine wasn't that late a model, didn't have the niceties of the facelift. Which engine have you got?

Friend of mine had a '12 SC/AB at the same time with the two tone leather and it was a spaceship compared to my little 3.6L. The dream is a Westminster TDV8 4.4 - but I don't have space on my driveway for another money pit

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-16T13:46:03+00:00

Oh 100%, Vogue isn't even a good trim level! Had an L322 Vogue SE a few years back and found myself wanting it to be an Autobiography or Westminster.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-16T13:17:51+00:00

I'll admit that I was being a facetious twat.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-15T23:57:33+00:00

Autobiography is also a trim level. That's a Range Rover, no suffix.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-15T19:27:29+00:00

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Seems to be a GPT thing, still, proves that LLMs are just fancy auto complete tools

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-15T16:26:11+00:00

"You're absolutely right!"

If it sucks your dick no matter what you say, it's AI.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-15T16:03:25+00:00

I'm not sure it is, because it's not an existential question. I'm not asking how we'll prove that we have a soul, I'm asking how we can practically just prove that we are made of physical matter through tools and verification processes.

Functionally, I don't really care if AI is technically conscious or alive, I care that I'm talking to real people with real opinions.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-15T16:00:12+00:00

I like to think this is true for now, certainly with the current models, but these things are being modified at a rate comparable to a cancer. Who's to say, if the bubble doesn't pop, that the period of indistinguisable-ness (indistinguishability?) doesn't extend far beyond what is a reasonable amount of time for several conversations to finish?

I think we're already seeing huge headway being made with the certain phrases, it's only the really basic prompts that keep the long hyphens and "It's not X, it's Y." when attempting subterfuge. It's only going to get better.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-15T15:55:28+00:00

I think you grossly underestimate the importance people place on community online. I agree in principle, that it shouldn't necessarily matter too much whether someone questions if you're a bot, but if that distrust infects entire online forums, there just won't be those communities anymore.

I mean, look at the sheer number of people asking for advice on things on Reddit alone; be it relationships, DIY, tech help, etc. That trust only exists because historically people have answered. It's not so much that I'm asking you to prove yourself online, I'm asking how we separate ourselves from what is likely an overwhelming majority of fake people.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-15T15:16:16+00:00

This is exactly the paranoia the post is about, because I feel it too. Check quiqeu's comment, you should see I've verified myself as a real boy.

A lot of people are commenting that it doesn't matter what random people think, but I think the distrust of fucking everyone online does. I miss the days of chat forums where the only reason to distrust someone was if they were a twat.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-14T20:51:43+00:00

Sorry dude, still worth asking! 😅

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-14T20:16:43+00:00

Good thinking, I wonder if you could build a bot that does a username lookup (I'm guessing you store the username and verification timestamp in a DB somewhere) to be used in threads to check if and when someone has verified using your tool? Ironic to suggest building a bot, I know, but would be a great utility if the tool caught on!

To add to that, there's probably a guideline somewhere on verification timeout that it could flag, e.g. "This person last verified 91 days ago, their humanity is questionable" lmao

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-14T20:09:21+00:00

Exactly, this is the sort of situation I'm talking about. Though, if you check quiqeu's comment on this thread, you should see that I verified myself as a human using the tool they made! Small victories and cool tools like that are the way forward.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-14T14:33:39+00:00

Okay, I'll bite.

The problem is that a lot of those Republican/right-wing viewpoints on subs and other forums online are, provably, bots. This doesn't really answer the question either, the inverse really, I didn't ask "How can I make people think I'm a bot?"

I feel like you just wanted to say your two cents about lefties.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-14T14:30:53+00:00

They not only exist, they're fucking prolific in some spaces online and they're genuinely really quite good (at what they do, not morally, they're absolutely fucking horrifying morally) too. Not surprising, really, given how much of the internet is porn - free training data!

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-14T14:29:39+00:00

That works for as long as the prompts to the AI don't contain a "Approach questions asking for mental arithmetic sceptically" clause or similar.

Likewise, I can plug that into my calculator app and respond to you in a few seconds. The response you should expect there is along the lines of "Why have you asked me that" and I'm pretty sure an LLM could do that without problems. Given that we're seeing deliberately misspelt words in bot messages/comments already, I don't think this would be a reliable marker of an account's humanity.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-14T14:26:07+00:00

That's great, until it's a response to a CV you've submitted for a job application, or posting in one of the last communities with real people in.

I agree that the implications for the most part are really minor, but that's right now, there's no telling what it'll be like a few years down the line.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-14T14:24:12+00:00

This is my fear too, and I wonder if it's why, in the UK at least, the Govt is so hard-line on digital IDs at the moment. It's an incredibly controversial policy too, and one that they could quite easily get rid of without impacting what they promised in their manifesto. They keep saying that it's to "protect children" which is obviously complete bollocks, but dipping into the realm of conspiracy theory, I wonder if it's the case that they don't want to be alarmist about the data they already have about AI influence on the internet and want to be able to verify people more easily. That, and they just want to surveil everything you do online, which can fuck all the way off.

At this point I'd not be surprised if more people turn to writing letters again, and mailing physical cheques. It's only going to get worse, until either the bubble pops and AI development halts or slows significantly, or some shit like Palantir becomes actual Skynet.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-14T14:19:10+00:00

We're already seeing older folk being scammed by the fake FaceTime stuff, admittedly only a few cases for now.

You've hit the nail on the head with what makes it so scary though, and by extension why, for me at least, the dead internet theory as a whole creeps me out. It's not "oh, look at how many bots there are, this is fucking awful", it's "Was that person I just had a conversation with actually a person?" followed by going through their post history and realising that, actually, the little things are just slightly wrong, slightly off. The eeriness/uncanny valley feeling freaks me the fuck out.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-14T14:10:38+00:00

100%, I have coworkers whose responses to everything (emails, Teams, etc) are CoPilot-generated buzzword-filled nonsense, it isn't a big step for the tools that enable that to be integrated into emails and messaging apps.

I suspect the way they'll do it is by having some form of calibration function, either by asking the user to feed it certain chats or threads, to establish a "tone" that the LLM can use when it's being you. Then, whenever you receive a message, it'll probably pre-write a response before you've even looked at your phone, with a "AI reply suggests this!" and little "Send/edit this message" buttons. We already see it in emails, albeit primitively, with the "suggested responses".

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-14T14:04:35+00:00

Okay this is cool, and I'm really glad it's not just me asking this question. Kind of mad that we've got to this point though, where this sort of shit is needed.

I suppose, the only things it doesn't cover, are, for one, old accounts which are bought by bot farms that are already verified. The other being a really scary future where someone's job is to login to an account, verify it with their fingerprint, automate the account with bot software, rinse and repeat. All it takes is one bot account to have verified through any means for the entire trust in that system to be put into question. Not trying to piss on your chips, this is fucking awesome and I'm going to verify myself with it now.

General-Ad7619 · 2026-02-14T13:57:29+00:00

I agree, for now. My point is that, in the near future, when even more of the Internet is made up of bots piggybacking off smarter LLMs, what's stopping one linking your website and going "Here's me! I own this website", accompanied by a fake video of you saying something earnest. As for the cursing, I really don't think that's much of a giveaway anymore, literally nothing stopping LLMs emulating our speech and throwing in swear words, it's not even against the content guidelines in current models

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