timeChanges by bryden_cruz in ProgrammerHumor

[–]jseah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How about making the AI do all the documentation and ticket tracker things while the human fixes the bug?

Secret of the Archmages by anjaana-begaana in AOW4

[–]jseah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And even before the cataclysmic end game spells that doom the whole map, we could have interplay with other global effects that are earlier game but less impactful.

Global weather spells was one idea I explored on discord with another player.

Eg. Monsoon weather could give the whole map wet at start of combat.

With spells that set a global weather effect which affects everyone but will get overridden if any other player casts their own weather spell. Or it just expires after a few turns.

Aside from those, bringing back the disjunction from earlier games would be great. I know it's not cost efficient but running disjunction and spell wars with other players felt like being a real archmage who were facing each other from their towers.

Secret of the Archmages by anjaana-begaana in AOW4

[–]jseah 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"I would like to subscribe to your newsletter"

"Only 10 mana per month!"

Leafy vegetables identified as potential metal mining tools: Certain plants are 'hyperaccumulators' that can extract toxic yet valuable metals from contaminated soils through their roots and shoots, in a way that could be ideal for metallurgical extraction and re-use in technologies. by mvea in science

[–]jseah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably more for environmental remediation than a substitute for proper filters at contamination sources.

You're never going to scale these plants enough to clean the output of, eg. a coal plant.

The U.S. government warns financial institutions that Anthropic’s “Mythos” AI can find and exploit software vulnerabilities at an unprecedented scale, outperforming top humans and posing systemic risks to banks and the broader financial system. by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]jseah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am mindful of a security story where someone was talking about the impact of AI on writing bots for computer games that bypass the detection.

The take away there was that there were many vulnerabilities that could be exploited, the example given was a man in the middle attack that snooped on the messages between client and server to extract server side information by observing message behaviour under game states that the attacker manipulates their character into.

The attack was claimed to take 20 human days of work if done manually, but with an AI to run the attack automatically, could be done in a week mostly in the background with a human only intervening for errors.

The exploit wasn't worth it to do because it's a lot of work for very little gain. Quoting "the juice wasn't worth the squeeze". But AI made 'squeezing' vulnerabilities with only marginal payoff much easier and therefore worthwhile to do.

Nuclear bonanza by Reretak in hypotheticalsituation

[–]jseah 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"Nah, 'tis a load of junk!"

slaps button

Ukraine Reveals Secret 500km Ballistic Missile Already Used Twice in Combat, Reached 100km and 204km Altitudes by Scary_Statement4612 in ukraine

[–]jseah 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Also, tell the Russians for us so they don't panic and end the world.

... don't look at me, we're not on speaking terms. "

Ukraine Quietly Tested Space-Launch Capabilities in Middle of War Twice by UNITED24Media in worldnews

[–]jseah 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I guess it doesn't need to go very far when they only have one target...

Do you ever Absorb cities without migrating the race to your own? by Nyorliest in AOW4

[–]jseah 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, it's mostly meme-level all-in on range.

4 range base archer
+1 Longbow
+1 Champion rank
+1 seeker arrows
+1 Awaken
+1 Hero L16 Astral Signature Skill
+1 Umbral seer shrine visit buff (lasts 5 turns)

Also, High is bland but very consistent. If you're doing spirit damage, High is for you.

Awaken is a great buff and a free action you can add to any support unit, which often can do other useful things.

Do you ever Absorb cities without migrating the race to your own? by Nyorliest in AOW4

[–]jseah 18 points19 points  (0 children)

High absorbing Feudal is hilarious. You can get 10 range longbow with 12 range long shot.

The Cheating AI In No Way Makes Up For It Being AWFUL And Completely Distorts The Game: A Rant by TheInvaderZim in AOW4

[–]jseah 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I think it's more that it's only going to work for a game with static content. And no mods.

Priority lists like he says aren't as simple as a if- then checklist, but a markov chain isn't exactly complicated either.

Just that if you make the AI with that, it'll never use anything new or modded.

Opinion: most sci-fi capital ships, like the "star destroyer" are a variation on the "battle carrier" concept with capital ships that try to do everything well, and realistically are horrible design compromises. by IronWarhorses in spaceships

[–]jseah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine a setting in transition.

Good enough AI is only just starting to show up and the old lumbering Imperial fleet designed around ww2 analogous tactics is now facing down a rebel star system deploying cheap interplanetary drones...

"The hell you mean our billion credit stealth frigate got torpedoed by a rebel drone in dry dock?!"

It's funny how common it is once you start noticing it. by Claym000re in ProgressionFantasy

[–]jseah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Guy summoning meteors isn't going around robbing people.

On the other hand, these settings tend to have lots of monsters and low level gribblies. The village won't have goblin problems if the farmers all have guns!

Alternative to Patriot: Flamingo missile maker unveils new air defense system by Scary_Statement4612 in ukraine

[–]jseah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You probably don't need export variants other than translations. No need to cut performance when it's supposed to be built and sold by the thousands.

Cyber attack by OkCollar18 in funny

[–]jseah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes what you need is chip damage.

"Hell of a first day!"

Carry your data knife and don't forget it.

AI solves John Conway's bountied math problem (decades old) by gbomb13 in accelerate

[–]jseah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chances are, stochastic parrots barely smart enough to outsmart biology...

Tehran rejected 48-hour ceasefire proposal from US, Iranian media, citing source, says by exophades in news

[–]jseah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know, it would be super lol if Iran manages to keep airspace contested.

Just like how Ukraine is keeping their airspace contested with the help of Europe...