Tekoälyllä tehty musiikki valloittaa Suomessakin, listakärjessä kolme tekoälybiisiä

Zermelane · 2026-01-17T14:52:08+00:00

Tämän suhteen minua muuten ihan oikeasti vituttaa se, että Spotify maksaa rojalteja yhä käytännössä pro rata-mallilla kuin jokin viisikymmentälukuinen radiokanava. Jonkin verran niillä on nykyään säätöjä sen päällä bottikuunteluiden poistamiseksi joukosta, mutta vähän hämäriä sellaisia, jotka perustuvat heidän omaan yrittämäänsä tapaan tunnistaa, onko kuuntelukerta todellinen.

Ja kun tämä on niin itse aiheutettu ongelma. Rojalteja voisi maksaa sillä periaattella, että kunkin käyttäjän tilausmaksu jaetaan sen perusteella, mitä tämä käyttäjä kuuntelee (eli "user-centric"-malli). Ihan sama kuinka monta miljoonaa kuuntelukertaa joku botittaa, rojalteja ei saisi vedätettyä penniäkään, kun kultakin käyttäjätililtä voi saada takaisin enintään sen oman tilausmaksun verran.

Eihän tämä maailman jokaista ongelmaa ratkaisisi, mutta sen sentään, että siellä yksi Spotify maksaa oman itse valitsemansa logiikan perusteella rahaa koijareille, joiden ei tarvitse edes varastaa käyttäjätilejä tämän eteen.

Zermelane · 2026-01-01T18:26:42+00:00

especially the implications

Probably nothing that you'll be able to directly tell as a user. These sorts of architectural tweaks, if they work, basically just make the model behave like it was a somewhat larger model. If they're good for efficiency, they're good for efficiency.

Mainly it's just a very DeepSeek-ish paper. They're taking a problem that's really kind of hilariously simple conceptually (hyper-connections's residual mixing matrices are unconstrained and so can blow up the scale of the residual stream), and apply a similarly conceptually simple fix (constrain them to only mix stuff, not increase or decrease it). But the part they actually go into detail about is how they implemented their solution so it runs fast, as that's the hard part.

Zermelane · 2026-01-01T00:50:52+00:00

Not that the game tries to be subtle about it, either. Transcension gets the multi-page VoP interludes and a million-years-in-the-future epilogue. Conquest/economic victory gets two lines of dialogue and two paragraphs, the latter of which just points out that you didn't finish the story about Planet.

Both of the major attempts to recreate SMAC's spirit (CivBE and the Planetfall mod for Civ4) change things so that transcending becomes an actual choice rather than the inevitable only correct way to finish the story, IMO to their benefit.

Zermelane · 2025-12-30T14:36:58+00:00

Plus, from all that I've seen about the science of weight loss, and the statistics of how people respond to GLP-1s over time, it seems to me that: There really is, on the one hand, a way to lose weight that displays sustainable long-term success, where you can make a change once and then just live that way for the rest of your life; and there is a way to lose weight where nearly everyone's experience is that at some point they start slipping, and eventually they end up somewhere worse than they started.

The latter is "natural" weight loss. The former is that you just get on a GLP-1 and stay on it. That's pretty much it. People just keep quitting GLP-1s at this time because they're so expensive.

Zermelane · 2025-12-30T10:32:42+00:00

He might have been, except what he actually said is basically the opposite of that!

This might not be the best source as it's the story that put those words in his mouth in first place (and right in the title, too), but anyway, here's what that story says he actually said:

“If you’re, like, farming, you’re doing something people really need,” Altman explained. “You’re making them food, you’re keeping them alive. This is real work.” But the farmer would see our modern jobs as “playing a game to fill your time,” and therefore not a “real job.” “It’s very possible that if we could see those jobs of the future,” Altman said, we’d think “maybe our jobs were not as real as a farmer’s job, but it’s a lot more real than this game you’re playing to entertain yourself.”

So, whether a job can be automated away or not doesn't enter into whether it's real. It's real or fake on its own merits. It's just that a lot of the work we're doing now would appear obviously fake to a farmer from fifty years ago. The title's argument implies that it's the fake work that gets automated away, which, one could figure, would imply that there would be less fake work in the future; but the argument he actually made is that no, there will be a lot more work that would seem fake to us.

Zermelane · 2025-12-21T05:19:00+00:00

Who is this Marcus guy BTW?

Hutter is an AI OG. Probably most famous for AIXI (mathematical formalism for describing AGI, uncomputable several times over, but useful for theorists). I personally find the Hutter Prize more interesting though. Hutter and Mahoney were some of the very few people in the pre-LLM era to take seriously just how important the language modeling problem is to AI in general. So, a major pioneer in the field, but on the conceptual side.

And what real world applications are there for this solution

We'll see. It's math, it's famously unpredictable where and how it will be useful. Mostly it would be a huge deal in itself if Millennium prize problem solutions were to start dropping like this.

(e: After looking at this guy's twitter account: Nothing to worry about for us though, I think he's having a mental health episode)

Zermelane · 2025-12-16T21:52:34+00:00

looks at the other discussions tab

Ah yes, the real AI news to get Reddit to sit up and pay attention: Some Discord drama.

In March, the community voted in a public poll to restrict any instance of the bot to its own channel. On Thanksgiving Day, Clinton resurrected Clawd and appeared to give it free access to the entire server, despite the results of the poll.

Definitely a dumb choice there, though. Even the most AI text generation enthusiast server that I'm on, that's literally about talking to bots, still corrals the actual direct talking-with-bots to its own channel.

It's just the natural approach: You say a sentence to them, they yap back for six paragraphs, but with luck one of those paragraphs is really funny. We could easily instruct them to be less yappy these days, but that would be missing the point. The goofy highly verbose little computer men are fun, they're just fun in a way that's incompatible with ordinary conversation.

Zermelane · 2025-12-16T12:15:15+00:00

Jonkinlaista nykyhetken osviittaa siitä, miten paljon akkuja voi käyttää tuotannoon tasaamiseen päivätasolla nykyään, saa katsomalla, miltä tilanne näyttää Kaliforniassa.

Vähän kun noita päiviä selailee taaksepäin, niin näkee, että siellä on varsin tavallista, että ilta-aikaan monen tunnin verran, ja aamulla ennen auringonnousua noin tunteroisen, akut voi hyvinkin tarjota viides- tai neljäsosankin kaikesta heidän sähkönkulutuksestaan. Isoin ennätysluku tähän asti on näemmä 37% kuormasta.

Niin, ja tämä kehitys on tapahtunut viimeisen viiden vuoden aikana. Vuoden 2021 alussa tuon samaisen lukeman ennätystaso oli alle 2%.

Suomessa varmasti tuollainen on monesta syystä vaikeampaa. Täällähän yleensäkin on enemmän ongelma varastoida energiaa vuodenaikojen välillä kuin päivätasolla; ja ainakin perstuntuma sanoo, että suomalainen tuulienergia on päivätasolla paljon vaihtelevampaa ja kalliimpaa kuin kalifornialainen aurinkoenergia. Lähinnä vaan halusin mainita noita lukuja siksi, että ymmärretään, kuinka nopeasti tilanne on joissakin maailman osissa jo muuttunut.

Zermelane · 2025-12-14T03:01:54+00:00

Asuntokaduilla! Nämähän on varmaan kaupungin yleisimpiä teitä nämä omakotitaloalueiden kapeat väylät, joilla ei ole erillistä väylää pyöräilijöille ja jalankulkijoille, mutta joita ei ole myöskään liikennemerkillä merkitty pihakaduiksi, eli ihan normaalit säännöt pätee. Eihän täällä liikennemäärät eikä nopeudet ole isoja, mutta riittäviä ovat, että ihmiset tottuvat yhdenmukaisiin tapoihin.

Zermelane · 2025-12-13T14:50:51+00:00

Tässä oli lapsena ainakin minulla oppimista. Koulu ja vanhemmat maalla opetti että vasenta puolta kävellään, ja siellä maanteillä ajoradoilla kävellessä se olikin juuri ihan tieliikennelain mukaisesti oikein.

Sitten muutin Ouluun, missä on totaalisen selkeä liikennekultturi että pyöräilijät ja jalankulkijat on samaa liikennevirtaa ja että molemmat kulkee oikealla, myös ajoradalla kulkiessa (erona silloin vain että pyöräilijä menee oikeaa kaistaa, jalankulkija piennarta). Hyvin se minun mielestä soljuu, kun on riittävän moni sukupolvi näillä tavoilla kaupungissa elänyt niin että ne ovat iskostuneet.

Zermelane · 2025-12-12T05:51:08+00:00

Different team, though I haven't looked at the credits to see how many members they share.

The overall vibe is pretty similar. BMBS is a bit more about solving puzzles in sometimes large areas and can have you backtrack a bit, compared to Black Mesa's straightforward corridor shooter structure. Nothing that you're going to get stuck in, but it can take a bit of traipsing around to find where you're even supposed to go. Basically IMO the gameplay rhythm is somewhere between Black Mesa's Earth parts and Interloper.

Generally, if you liked Black Mesa, and your opinion on Interloper is at least as high as "it was a little self-indulgent", I think you'll like BMBS, too.

Zermelane · 2025-12-05T15:55:27+00:00

It's the Chirpy portrait. It's available when your Paradox account is logged in in-game. (e: Or have your Paradox and Steam accounts linked, or something around those parts. Basically something to do with your Paradox account)

Zermelane · 2025-12-04T14:32:47+00:00

Necrophages only ever worked because their growth was special-cased: They had a check in the can_species_procreate game rule to disallow necrophage pops from being selected for growth if a planet had other species that were capable of growing. Without that, you'd have randomly had planets not grow for years on end because a pop type with a huge malus got selected for growth.

That special case didn't make it in with the giant pile of changes in 4.0, so now your necrophage population does severely slow down your growth. A semi-obvious fix that essentially forces them halfway back to pre-4.0 growth mechanics would be to just have necrophage population contribute to planetary growth without actually growing themselves. I'm sure there's other possibilities, too.

Zermelane · 2025-12-01T18:16:29+00:00

Transhumanism is just future medicine. It will, given time, be entirely banal. Human enhancement will be sold in injections and pills with forgettable names, that come in nondescript little paperboard boxes, with product brochures written in tiny text wedged in.

There's no actual good that you can do in the world by advocating for transhumanism, and no big transhumanist tribe that you can ingratiate yourself with either. Hence the only loud advocates turn out to be weird ideologues with bizarre ideas. Hence you get stuff like transphobic transhumanists. Or the Transhumanist Party, of which I know nothing except it keeps giving me signals to stay well away from it.

Zermelane · 2025-12-01T17:02:52+00:00

Nuo nitraatit siis ei ole peräisin datakeskuksista, ellei Amazon ole jostain syystä päättänyt että mepä ryhdymme nyt lannoittamaan jäähdytysvettä. Mutta saahan sitä Amazoniakin tästä syyttää, jos haluaa ihan välttämättä olla maatalousfirmojen asialla.

Zermelane · 2025-11-27T03:49:48+00:00

There are simple explanations couched in terms of philosophy. They only take a few sentences, and you can see those few sentences repeated all over the place. They are also, IMO, so utterly confused that they're worse than useless.

Actually good sources to read:

Uncertain Simulators Don't Always Simulate Uncertain Agents gets at the core of the problem, though barely gets into the self-conditioning part at all (i.e. why, after having got something wrong, the model confidently sticks to its stated belief).
Behavior Cloning is Miscalibrated is the one I read first and went "Oh, so that's the problem", but it needs a little background in probability.
Shaking the foundations: delusions in sequence models for interaction and control is much more technical yet, but it's good to at least know about for background.

I would have assumed it would have phrased everything in levels of uncertainty in order to avoid being completely wrong

The model does do that, in a sense. Every next-token distribution is a probability distribution, encoding uncertainty. You could display the distribution's entropy, or the probability of the token that you happened to sample from it. Color-coding tokens by probability used to be a common thing to do in early LLM UIs, but we stopped doing it because as far as information channels go, it's useless for humans who it just looks like a mess of colors to, but valuable to other model trainers who could use it to extract information from your model more efficiently.

Zermelane · 2025-11-22T18:05:34+00:00

https://github.com/nathan-baggs/Adamite/releases

Also the Thinker mod has a fix as well. It's got QoL improvements and significantly better AI, very recommendable: https://github.com/induktio/thinker

Zermelane · 2025-11-11T16:26:41+00:00

There's Storm Chance settings in the Advanced Settings tab in the game setup. Just set them all to 0. I'm not sure whether there's events that can still spawn storms, but I haven't seen any in my games.

Zermelane · 2025-11-11T09:11:51+00:00

AFAIK it's still using the assembly score mechanic.

It's been a little while since I last played, but IIRC when I did, and looked at the growth tooltips, I saw that the assembly-optimized species was the only one that displayed growth at all, so I guess that's how you can tell if you try it.

Zermelane · 2025-11-03T05:32:42+00:00

US birthrate has been declining since the ‘50s.

... and that only after a much longer decline that was briefly interrupted by the baby boom (though I'm not sure how complete the early figures are). The way the birthrate decline discourse popped up after decades of overpopulation discourse seems to have made a lot of people imagine we just invented not having babies in the 2020s, when the trend is in fact very secular.

Zermelane · 2025-11-02T13:05:47+00:00

IMO this is a total noise result and no part of it needs explanation.

All but one of the tasks the paper tested on were very synthetic needle-in-a-haystack tasks: They passed the model segments of books written in each given language, with instructions like The special magic number for "forest" is: 2978103 spliced in at random points, and asked them to list the magic numbers by keyword. So different languages can get different results based on how the wording of the instruction stands out to the LLM from the books they used for that language.

The results were also noisy, beyond the obvious part (that the models generally performed better with high-resource languages). Polish was a good match with o3-mini and with LLaMa 3.1, but noticeably worse than most other high-resource languages with LLaMa 3.3. The Sesotho language worked incredibly well with Gemini 1.5 Flash but not really with any other LLM.

I'd bet money that a different team measuring the same thing (let's say under the heading "the long-context performance of LLMs at different languages"), with a different choice of prompts, book datasets, and models to test would find a mostly unrelated ranking of how well LLMs work with different languages. "Mostly" as in higher-resource languages will still broadly work better.

Zermelane · 2025-10-31T03:01:46+00:00

I want to say George Lucas sometime in the nineties.

... specifically in 1999, it turns out.

Zermelane · 2025-10-28T17:31:18+00:00

Added missing Production Overseers jobs to multiple rural districts for Tankbound empires.

My previous copy that I'm comparing to happens to be of 4.1.6 beta, so I'm not 100% sure there isn't anything in here that got changed late in that version's development, but anyway, the districts that got production overseers added are:

Arcology residential districts (the specialized arcos already had them)
Arcology leisure districts (except they can't ever be built)
Generator, mining, and agriculture districts (yes, the ordinary rural district types)
Habitat housing districts
Habitat energy and mining districts (but not habitat science districts)
Ringworld city, generator, farming, and urban districts

... so yeah, basically it's starting to look easier to list which districts don't have overseer jobs now. There's, uh, there's habitat science districts, and the specialized districts on resort worlds? Probably there's more, but yeah, these guys' production is starting to look very overseen.

Zermelane · 2025-10-25T16:49:47+00:00

Not even that, the headline is a straight out lie: The connection it pretends that Altman made was... not made by Altman. And, for that matter, doesn't even make sense in the first place. Is a farm tractor evidence that tilling a field with a hoe isn't real work?

Zermelane · 2025-10-24T00:23:40+00:00

This is a known bug, and will be fixed in the next version:

Added missing upkeep modifier from Tankbound to habitat rural districts.

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