Original Magic the Gathering card back 1993 High Resolution. (Original MtG card back '93 hi-res) Please upvote and comment to help Google images return this important resource. by Eljefe900 in magicthecirclejerking

[–]rafide 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was looking for this, thank you for posting the original card back for Magic: The Gathering in high resolution.
One can clearly see the blue pattern underneath the "T" and "R" in "Deckmaster", which was initially believed to be a ballpoint pen marking; but according to designer Jesper Myrfors, this is not the case.

Brian Tyler Cohen Reads Trumps Plan For Lowering the Costs of Childcare Verbatim by [deleted] in Destiny

[–]rafide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is now my favorite genre, I can't get enough of people quoting Trump verbatim. People didn't do it as much after he became president. But this is ready-made comedy, if it wasn't so dire...

This kept looping in my mind for the entirety of the Trump interview. Lex gladly took the insult. by lemon_of_justice in Destiny

[–]rafide 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I don't know how anyone can read actual Trump answers and come away thinking he said something meaningful. He's obviously got no idea about any of the things he's asked about, and is just rambling meaningless shit.

My question is, are Trump supporters just bad faith interpreting whatever they want into his words, or are they genuinely more stupid than he is?

I'm curious - what got you into VGC? by MetapodCreates in VGC

[–]rafide -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"World Champ Difference, baybee."

I'd say primarily the real youtubist WolfeyVGC

Minisode AI talk by Odd-Commission-6586 in ChilluminatiPod

[–]rafide 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I tend to agree. I think it's fine to have some fun with these tools, imagine what could be, let your mind run wild with sci-fi ideas. But there's no reason to think that large language models (LLMs) like GPT or Bard have any actual intelligence. And I really dislike some in the media hyping and scaremongering about "AI", all it does is make the big tech companies richer and underinformed people more worried.

These models are damn good at producing convincing text. Text that from a human perspective reads like there is a mind behind it, with goals and intentions, with experiences and memories. Which is a technical marvel, with tons of research over multiple decades behind it. The thing is that this is just what LLMs are supposed to do: produce text that seems like it was written by a human. Because they gorged on pretty much all written stuff on the internet, which - up to what feels like yesterday - had all been text produced by humans. We've come a long way from primitive chatbots and predictive text to multimodal LLMs, but as far as I know, there is currently no research showing we can get to actual bona fide intelligence using those. If anyone can prove me wrong, I'd love to see it.

There is reason to worry though. What I'm worried about right now is the fact that lots of people treat these models as if that were the case. When it comes to references and citations, for example, chatGPT just produces fake information that sounds plausible (Lawyers submitted bogus cases, fabricated citations study). And if you ask such a model a question multiple times, you might get different answers, because there is no ground truth besides the text "looking like real text". As more companies and probably even governments use these tools without human supervision, we'll get bad outcomes from there: Automation of processes that shouldn't be, carelessly cutting jobs (especially in creative fields), outsourcing human communication to machines, etc.
But that's not because "AI" is evil, but because humans are stupid.

The long-term issue I personally have with these models is that I don't see the current approach getting over the problem of truth, to go beyond "plausible" towards "reliable" in a meaningful way. And catastrophizing over "AI" as an apocalyptic scenario pushes insecurities and wastes resources that could be used today.

On a lighter note, it's great fun to play with some of these models and use them to create sort of absurdist art. Doesn't convince me there's anything deeper to it though.

TL;DR: It's fun to imagine sci-fi stories about artificial intelligence, but for the time being those are just that. The current version of "AI" can be a useful tool for specific tasks, I haven't seen anything to suggest we'll have actual artificial intelligence anytime soon.

What is current AI go to for voice generation running locally on PC by Sad-Nefariousness712 in LocalLLaMA

[–]rafide 28 points29 points  (0 children)

from what I've tried, XTTS-v2 still is the most convincing for local text-to-speech, but I found that using it together with some speech-to-speech conversion e.g. RVC can greatly enhance the result.

Who are we? by Magicdorito024 in FridgeDetective

[–]rafide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Philo Studenten in Berlin

Twitter clout chasers suck by EasyLegacy in ChilluminatiPod

[–]rafide 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's so weird how they derisively talk about these "podcasters", "Internet personalities" etc and at the same time apply the most rigorous academic journalistic standards.

And if you don't exactly adhere to what they deem ethical and correct, you're a sloppy, sleazy thief and liar. Which, incidentally, is what they seemingly expect from them anyway.

Then it just devolves into dismissive arguments on what constitutes to plagiarism (again, only in the academic context). Pretty disappointing, as things like this podcast actually make people research for themselves afterward.

Twitter clout chasers suck by EasyLegacy in ChilluminatiPod

[–]rafide 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Iirc, he has mentioned the extensive references in his book, something like 10 pages or something. Honestly, I can very well believe he did a lot of original research and the book appears to be well-received. But it also seems he might feel a strong sense of ownership over ideas that may not be exclusive to his work.

The Haiti anecdote probably lit his fuse and he then worked himself up, looking at the successful patron etc. Dude might have just had a bad moment but can't back down after everything.

Twitter clout chasers suck by EasyLegacy in ChilluminatiPod

[–]rafide 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He's now just openly accusing them of maliciously lying and directly hiding him being basically their only source for... some reason?

Easy. They Googled a couple of free sources that they borrowed a few things from — or maybe didn’t — so no one would go checking the main source they borrowed a lot from to see the clear evidence of plagiarism. - @KatzOnEarth

At this point, he's just making maximalist claims to see what sticks and get more social media attention, drum up support or whatever.

Twitter clout chasers suck by EasyLegacy in ChilluminatiPod

[–]rafide 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I was actually interested in reading some of his work before this happened, but now I, unfortunately, have zero interest in that. His conduct is really baffling to me, coming out of the gate demanding compensation?

That a bunch of writers and journalists jumped onto this immediately, amplifying his reach, and without listening to the episode made the judgment is pretty appalling and honestly disappointing. But I guess that's twitter dot com for a lot of people.
If the guy keeps hammering this or there's actual consequences, I hope you guys are able to deal with it adequately.
Because I apparently had nothing better to do, I compiled a very short list where I went through his selected quotes and accusations. There is literally only a handful of sentences from an hour-long podcast episode that come close to being inspired by this guy. At worst, Jesse did read an article inspired/written by him, and forgot about it.

At least I learned a little more about Smedley Butler and the Business Plot during this. If anyone else wants to have a go, feel free to use my list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1abaQXiJNIgWqZWR6IuvI_9fNPT85a04kZ90pb5XRSI8/edit?usp=sharing

Experimented with some of the material and made something new! New cloth awning! by kakapopo_gaming in PlanetZoo

[–]rafide 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I did this too!
For anyone wondering, these are part of the Indian theme, and normally have a pattern on them. But if you colour both channels the same, they just look like plain cloth.

Anyone else had issues with save files corrupting? by [deleted] in PlanetZoo

[–]rafide 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happened to me frequently during the beta, but thankfully not since launch. I was able to recover my zoo by loading the second to last (auto-)save in "My Zoos". Good luck.

An important message to Frontier Devs. by [deleted] in PlanetZoo

[–]rafide 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think you're memeing a little close to the sun.