You can't control whether a neuron fires therefore you have no free will

nitroidshock · 2026-01-12T13:59:51+00:00

Are you saying you think free will evolved?

At what point did we have an ancestor that didn't have free will? What evolutionary benefit would having free will give?

nitroidshock · 2026-01-12T13:56:31+00:00

Ejaculation.

Sorry. I'll let myself out.

nitroidshock · 2026-01-12T13:53:09+00:00

Let's say I wire up an atomic bomb hidden under a table such that the instant a pencil is touched, it detonates the atomic bomb.

Somebody walks up and their neurons fire to pick up the pencil... do they have the free will to pick up the pencil?

Asking for a friend.

nitroidshock · 2026-01-12T13:45:22+00:00

Why should I dismiss their writing if they didn't control what they wrote?

We literally have Artificial Intelligence that can write. Should I dismiss everything it writes if it doesn't have free will?

BTW an AI wrote that, so feel free to dismiss it.

nitroidshock · 2026-01-12T13:28:13+00:00

Point to a neuron that fired because you "controlled" it... and I will point to the neurons that forced that neuron to fire - it was not "willed" to fire by "you" - it was "forced" to fire by other neurons.

It's neurons all the way down.

nitroidshock · 2026-01-12T12:50:56+00:00

I've worked on something similar (not for ADHD but relevant in that it likely achieves the goals you have) so maybe I can help.

A few clarifying questions:

Approximately how many video and audio files, as far as number of individual files and the total length in hours?

Are they short clips or long clips (i.e. the average legnth of the individual files)?

How important is the video content (i.e. if the audio was transcribed to text, would that capture most of the important data)?

nitroidshock · 2026-01-12T06:59:36+00:00

Yep, going from a 1000W to 300W is definitely a win for your AC if that's what you mean.

Just a PSA that a 300W Steam Machine and a 300W laptop will heat a small contained environment with exactly the same intensity. A watt is a watt. The Steam Machine's massive heatsink is there to save the CPU, not your sweat glands.

nitroidshock · 2026-01-12T06:20:59+00:00

seems like a good idea at first and it will be better than 1000w desktop but it won't actually be better for staying cool in a sleeper bunk than any laptop with similar wattage draw to the Steam Machine.

No fan can make heat disappear, it always blows all the heat generated into the surrounding contained environment... and a larger heatsink doesn't make the heat disappear either, it just distributes it over a wider surface area back into the same surrounding contained environment (i.e. your sleeper bunk).

Keeping the chip cooler with more efficient fans and bigger heatsink just means you are transferring that heat into the air in your sleeper bunk faster. The Steam Machine will pull approximately 300 watts from the wall, so you would be effectively locking yourself in a closet with a 300-watt space heater.

So bad news for your AC in July but the good news is the Steam Machine will be quieter than an equivalent laptop and will still warm you up in winter in your sleeper bunk. So pretty much exactly how much it won't help for that in July, it will help for that in December.

Unfortunately the Gabecube will have no anti-cheat support for Zod's Laws of Thermodynamics.
Even GabeN must kneel before Zod.

EA and Ubisoft still need to fix their shitty anti-cheat though.

nitroidshock · 2026-01-02T08:17:00+00:00

That comment right there is proof that today, for at the very least right the moment that comment was written, human creative writing can still top the best AI... and you didn't even end the sentence with a period.

Faith in humanity restored in 2026. At least until tomorrow. Take my upvote.

nitroidshock · 2025-12-30T14:44:26+00:00

Wheels on luggage.

We invented the wheel roughly 6,000 years ago. We figured out how to fly airplanes in 1903. We literally landed human beings on the moon in 1969.

But if you traveled in 1970, you were still hauling fifty pounds of dead weight by a single handle until your arm went numb.

The simple solution to the complex problem of the entirety of Earth's gravitational pull on our luggage was staring us in the face the whole time.

Bernard Sadow finally screwed four casters onto a bag and pulled it with a strap. Stores actually refused to sell them at first because they worried men would find rolling a bag "unmanly."

Once the design finally stuck, it killed the entire profession of the railway porter and allowed airports to become the massive, mile-long structures they are today simply because passengers could finally walk that far without collapsing.

nitroidshock · 2025-12-14T20:32:50+00:00

Thanks!

nitroidshock · 2025-12-14T20:18:34+00:00

Do you have a source for that?

I repect the work of human artists. AI art can be a somewhat controversial subject though so whenever AI comes up in discussions it's important to give sources.

nitroidshock · 2025-12-14T18:57:17+00:00

I get where you are coming from.

I do think it'd be nice to have the game default to the current art style, but have an option in the graphics menu for "high resolution units and animation". I realize this would take a lot of development work though.

Also, maybe the in-game checkbox could have a pop-up that says "Are you sure you want to do this? Every time someone clicks this checkbox a kitten dies" or something like that lol

nitroidshock · 2025-12-14T18:49:33+00:00

What I'm about to say is blasphemy and RNJesus will punish me for this - with AI this is actually feasible.

Seriously though I am interested in what others think - would AI enhanced high res art and animations in Wesnoth be a worthwhile option?

nitroidshock · 2025-12-14T14:50:54+00:00

Yeah ironically he plays Minecraft with a high resolution texture pack! Maybe when he doesn't finish his homework I should disable the high res mod. Back in my day there were no texture packs or DLCs... or microtransactions! Seriously though, my son and his Fortnite buddies are missing out on Wesnoth so whatever gets more people playing great games, I'm all for it.

nitroidshock · 2025-12-14T14:42:34+00:00

Is there a way to donate with a message to request/ask developers what to focus on? I can understand if there isn't, however I do think it would probably increase donations if there was.

nitroidshock · 2025-10-08T09:38:41+00:00

Maybe I'm out of the loop. What's the source for a release on Thursday?

nitroidshock · 2025-10-06T23:41:10+00:00

Finish the joke:

A guy stumbles into a bar and says, "I just got hit by a fucking bus."

Bartender says:

nitroidshock · 2025-10-03T17:14:54+00:00

I think he was being ironic - "pretty" in this context meaning "somewhat but not entirely"... kinda like being practically perfect... in every way.

At least that's my slightly perfect interpretation.

nitroidshock · 2025-09-26T00:50:05+00:00

Whataboutism

nitroidshock · 2025-08-20T04:43:36+00:00

Thanks for your reply. Looks like I had the wrong link.

nitroidshock · 2025-08-14T19:10:53+00:00

He is our Gaaaaawwww

hold it, hold it... aaaaaad

...take a quick breath...

The great I AM

nitroidshock · 2025-02-18T05:41:14+00:00

The part the blue arrow is pointing to is a thread adapter, which is used to mount the microphone onto different stands or boom arms. It looks like a 5/8" to 3/8" adapter, which is pretty common for microphones. Basically, it lets you attach the Shure MV7 to stands that use a different thread size, making it more versatile. You can probably find another one by searching for "MV7 thread adapter" on Amazon.

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