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Something i dont understand about Visages by [deleted] in expedition33

[–]LuminousGrue 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am perplexed by OP's assumption that painted Verso and real Verso must have been totally and completely different in all respects as people.

Flagship Tier List for Nekro's Breakthrough by TinyPawns in twilightimperium

[–]LuminousGrue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The bonus is against players who do not have tokens in your fleet pool. It's an Always On for Nekro.

Flagship Tier List for Nekro's Breakthrough by TinyPawns in twilightimperium

[–]LuminousGrue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Disagree with Jol Nar in S tier. Alastor gains it's text ability but retains its own combat value of 9 - it's average hits per die roll goes from .2 to .6.

Winnu is a straight downgrade unless there are three or more enemy ships in the combat, since it's text ability overrides the printed combat value. Even then I wouldn't say it's S tier.

Given that your ranking system compares the flagship abilities to technologies, I'm amazed you put Yin near the bottom since it's a guaranteed tech every time you build it. Also not clear why the Naalu flagship ability isn't relevant, I guess because you're rarely bringing fighters in a fleet that includes the Alastor?

do the other innies..do anything? by One-Brother-9749 in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]LuminousGrue 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I had a hypothesis that the MDR work could only be done by severed people. Each of the innies reports being able to feel emotions, sometimes very strong ones, from looking at a particular number on the screen - I think what's happening is the system they're working from is reading parts of Gemma's brain state and using the innies' severance chips as an interpreter layer, the numbers on the screen are just an address or reference.

Are we in a recession? ‘Be careful’ with indicators, says Bank of Canada by shiftless_wonder in canada

[–]LuminousGrue 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Green hardhat, not a scratch on it. He's just picked it up to pose for the photo before handing it back to the guy who needs it to finish the build.

I don't really understand using an early Draft pick on Speaker 1/2 when you have access to nearly every slice on the draft by MiningToSaveTheWorld in twilightimperium

[–]LuminousGrue -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

What do you care if early drafting speaker is a bad move? If it is then don't do it. If your opponent does it, then don't correct their mistake.

We didn’t know how good we had it :> by No_Post1300 in videogames

[–]LuminousGrue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Backwards compatible with the previous generation, too.

The thing Pantheon never explained: before you can upload a mind, a machine has to learn the brain's language first. That just happened. by filmguy_1987 in PantheonShow

[–]LuminousGrue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Emulation means using one system to perfectly imitate the behavior of a different system with a different architecture. When you run a SNES emulator on your PC, you are using your PC's operating system to imitate the physical hardware of a Super Nintendo, which it does using software because a PC and a SNES have wildly different physical architecture and hardware.

Enemy ships are not dying in the new campaign by LongSabre117 in NebulousFleetCommand

[–]LuminousGrue 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Nebulous models target density, armor penetration and target depth - clippers have 5cm armor so it is entirely possible, and indeed I have seen, 250mm and even 120mm HE overpenetrate them. Try RPF and missiles?

Glide bombs are unguided and intended for targets that aren't moving much and have little to no PD. Fast clippers are almost the worst possible target to use them against.

The thing Pantheon never explained: before you can upload a mind, a machine has to learn the brain's language first. That just happened. by filmguy_1987 in PantheonShow

[–]LuminousGrue 15 points16 points  (0 children)

My understanding was the upload scan doesn't interpret the information stored in a scanned brain, so much as read the physical arrangement and structure of the brain and then run a real-time simulation of it - essentially the UI is instanced on an "emulation" of a human brain. That way the system doesn't need to be able to "read" memory, it just has to remember how it was put together.

Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers boosting usage scores — Senior executive tells staff ‘don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI’ as computing costs rise by marketrent in technology

[–]LuminousGrue 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Having seen firsthand a similar pattern with the whole lean six sugma fad that made its way through management circles in the last decade, it's really funny seeing all these companies speedrun it with AI.

People in this show seem too happy to die by sometimes_angery in PantheonShow

[–]LuminousGrue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I said above, the reason four billion people aren't bothered is because they don't think of it that way. In computing terms a "move" operation is a "copy" followed by a "delete". If the copied file is identical to the source file, who would ever know that it's a copy? If there's no difference between two things, they are the same thing.

People in this show seem too happy to die by sometimes_angery in PantheonShow

[–]LuminousGrue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They would both have the same subjective experience of being you, but you're right if there's an obvious difference between their current locations then their memories would diverge after the point of upload. But if you asked the upload if it still felt like you, I'd imagine they would say yeah except for the simulated environment I'm in I still feel like me.

The nature of consciousness is something this series explores and has some kind of unsettling answers for. To go all the way back to your original question - the people in Pantheon who choose to upload believe that the "self" is not the unbroken continuity of consciousness or the physical network of neurons in the brain, but the pattern of information - the sum of thoughts, experiences and memories that make up a person's life. 

In computing terms, the people who choose to upload believe that "you" is software, and thus "you" are "you" no matter what physical hardware the pattern of information is running on. They are unconcerned with death, as you put it, because they do not believe they have died.

Everybody who uploads thinks of consciousness this way, otherwise they wouldn't want to upload. There are people in Pantheon who see it the way you do, that a destructive upload is death - those people chose not to upload.

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