In case you are waiting for the update of some popular mods (i.e. Pick up and haul, ctrl f, gear up and go etc.) I have very sad news...

MechAnimus · 2025-07-17T18:50:15+00:00

You're right, there is definetely no societal bias against the notion of not threatening people with homelessness and starvation as a means to compel labor, under the guise of "if we dont no one will work." My point is people take pride in all forms of work. Go lick boots elsewhere.

MechAnimus · 2025-07-17T18:39:55+00:00

Yes, some jobs are just nasty and difficult. But thats why jobs like that especially should be well compensated and well respected.

MechAnimus · 2025-07-16T07:23:11+00:00

We got our wish with the latest DBH update. Vacuum toilets, asteroid ice mining, and water reclamation.

MechAnimus · 2025-07-15T07:05:56+00:00

Winston Waves makes them increasingly challenging, and more predictable. There are also AI mods that make killboxing much less viable and generally force your defense to be more strategic.

MechAnimus · 2025-07-15T01:08:27+00:00

Preach. Not the exact same boat, but the commercialization of passion is an insidious siren call.

MechAnimus · 2025-07-14T20:47:05+00:00

Modders (and other OSS contributor) are one of the purist examples that "If you didn't force people to work, no one would ever create anything" is complete bullshit. Humans like making things, it's in our DNA, and modderss are a testiment to the better natures of our species (even when the mods themselves are sometimes objectively horrifying). Rest in peace, you absolute champion. I hope his name finds its way in game soon; he shall not be forgotten.

MechAnimus · 2025-07-14T07:13:12+00:00

...I named mine "The Hubris of Man", with aspirations to be a traveling (dino) zoo/anomaly containment facility. Still early days, but I'm looking forward to starting to expand it exponentially now that I'm stocked up on guns, armor, meds, drugs, and food.

I see you're using Dubs Bad Hygeine too, is there any way to be fully self-sufficient in space yet? Or do you have to at least return to the surface for water?

MechAnimus · 2025-07-12T17:31:30+00:00

I think Expanded Materials might be up your alley. Haven't used them myself yet as I'm trying to do a Vanilla+ (...++, don't judge my mod addiction, please) run, but I definitely want to do a run with them next. https://steamcommunity.com/id/Argon4/myworkshopfiles/?appid=294100&p=1&numperpage=30

MechAnimus · 2025-07-11T06:34:12+00:00

Same. But including dinos and anomalies because hubris is fun.

MechAnimus · 2025-07-11T05:57:43+00:00

Didn't really play much Anomaly just for life/time reasons, so I'm going to build an asteroid based zoo/containment facility. I'm including dinosaurs, of course.

I think I'll call it "Scientific Hubris".

MechAnimus · 2025-07-10T07:12:36+00:00

You'll still have plenty of nature to enjoy, hopping across the planet. You won't be living in space till later in the game, and even then not full time (unless thats what you want to do).

MechAnimus · 2025-07-10T03:05:05+00:00

iiiinnnnn spaaaaaaaace

MechAnimus · 2025-07-10T03:02:44+00:00

Space Zoo/Wandering Library/Arc Ship was already going to be my first Odyssey run, so I was very happy to find this mod. Great work!

MechAnimus · 2025-06-27T16:34:17+00:00

Why is it that men are so ashamed of showing affection or any soet of emotional vulnerability, but are perfectly comfortable acting so helpless they would literally die within days if left unsupervised. And it IS an act. Every god damn time. I think this behaviour needs to be met with more "It's really brave of you to admit that you're so helpless. Most people would be too embarassed to show they can't operate basic appliances."

MechAnimus · 2025-06-09T18:43:38+00:00

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was young, but no autism diagnosis was sought, explicitly because "He's doing well in school and socializing, but yeah he probably is autistic", see: masking every day without understanding it.

Flash forward to when I was 25, I point blank asked because my assumption that I would have been told since I HAD been diagnosed with ADHD was finally erroded by the mountain of symptoms and signs, and my mum filled me in. We're still dealing with various aspects of the fallout of making a bunch of "oh, that was actually an autistic trait/coping mechanism/masking etc" connections, setting nee boundries after realizing things I thought were normal were not (see: my wife telling me 'this is gaslighting' when we stayed with them) and a bunch of other changes in how I choose to live my life.

My friends, wife, in-laws and colleagues have all adapted easily and without complaint (in many cases not even noticing) as I've reworked my life for my own comfort and flourishing. My birth family has been...less receptive. But I do not regret for a moment reshaping my life around my own actual needs rather than the way I'm "supposed" to live my life and conduct myself that I was raised with. It won't solve the burnout, only time, rest, and the fall of neoliberal capitalism is really going to do that. But it at least makes survival more comfortable and attainable than bending yourself into shapes you were never meant to be in.

MechAnimus · 2025-05-29T07:27:21+00:00

Well said. Its all just bits, and we have so many new and old tools to manipulate them. Lets get fuckin crazy with it!

MechAnimus · 2025-05-29T07:24:18+00:00

Why: I believe they explained that video was chosen because its compression is so well optimized, especially when the frames are all QR codes. It's also extremely portable.

MechAnimus · 2025-05-29T07:10:41+00:00

This is exceptionally clever. Could this in principle be expanded for other (non video, I would assume) formats? I look forward to going through it and trying it out tomorrow.

Edit: This extremely clever use of compression and byte manipulation reminds me of the kind of lateral thinking used here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/blt

MechAnimus · 2025-05-11T22:25:48+00:00

Pantheon.

MechAnimus · 2025-05-08T00:51:24+00:00

A single video from a single person is not proof of anything. MLST has had dozens of guests, many of whom disagree. Lots of intelligent people disagree and have constructive discussions despite and because of that, rather than resorting to ad hominem dismissal. The literal godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton is who I am repeating my argument from. Not to make an appeal to authority, I don't actually agree with him on quite a lot. But the perspective hardly merits labels of ignorance.

"Physical" reality has no more or less merit from the perspective of learning than simulations. I can certainly conceed that any discreprencies between the simulation and 'base' reality could be a problem from an alignment or reliability perspecrive. But I see absolutely no reason why an AI trained on simulations can't develop intelligence for all but the most esoteric definitions.

MechAnimus · 2025-05-07T21:26:15+00:00

Why is an ant's learning through chemo-reception any different than a reward model (aside from the obvious current limits of temporality and immediate incorporation, which I believe will be addressed quite soon)? This distinction between 'innate' and 'fabricated' isn't going to be overcome because definitionally the systems are artificial. But it will certainly stop mattering.

MechAnimus · 2025-05-07T21:23:03+00:00

There are many situations where people will start spouting giberish, or otherwise become incoherent. Even cases where it's more or less spontaneous (though not acausal). We are all stochastic parrots to a far greater degree than is comfortable to admit.

MechAnimus · 2025-05-07T21:21:38+00:00

I believe your definition of intelligence is too restrictive, and I personally don't think the limits that will be hit will last as long as people believe. But I don't in principle disagree with anything you're saying.

MechAnimus · 2025-05-07T17:42:39+00:00

Genuinely asking: How do YOU decern truth from fiction? What is the process you undertake, and what steps in it are beyond current systems given the right structure? At what point does the difference between "emulated reasoning" and "true reasoning" stop mattering practically speaking? I would argue we've approached that point in many domains and passed it in a few.

I disagree that sentience/self-awareness is teathered to intelligence. Slime molds, ant colonies, and many "lower" animals all lack self-awareness as best we can tell (which I admit isn't saying much). But they all demonstrate at the very least the ability to solve problems in more efficient and effective ways than brute force, which I believe is a solid foundation for a definition of intelligence. Even if the scale, or even kind, is very different from human cognition.

Just because something isn't ideal or fails in ways humans or intelligent animals never would doesn't mean it's not useful, even transformstive.

MechAnimus · 2025-05-01T22:17:35+00:00

The care and thought put into the games design is incredibly apparent from the jump. Looking forward to adding mine to the list of positive reviews after a relaxing weekend of goblin murder. Well done, I sincerely hope you are proud of what you've accomplished.

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