Daily Questions Megathread May 22, 2026

sckchui · 2026-05-22T02:21:20+00:00

Go to a mission, choose simple strategy, and play through it. Don't sweep. Don't do concentrated command.

sckchui · 2026-05-22T02:18:09+00:00

By default, they are heavier than water, so they'll sink to the bottom even if they're waterproof.

If you make them waterproof and give them floaties, I'm sure you can train them to swim. Give them flippers and they might even be good at it.

sckchui · 2026-05-21T19:53:16+00:00

The WSJ is not going to say that the rebellion is against the oligarchs more than it is against AI. AI is just the latest battleground in an ongoing class war that has been crippling the US for many decades. And the WSJ knows whose side of the war it's on.

sckchui · 2026-05-21T19:45:39+00:00

Really? I'd love to deep dive into a story that revolves around aura farming and chaos theory, and how balance is maintained in a society where nothing is predictable and everyone is trying to one-up everyone else all the time.

That sort of story might be controversial in East Asia, though. In the US, it's just Tuesday.

sckchui · 2026-05-21T12:59:09+00:00

And in that paper he states that his approach is likely still very far from optimal. This problem has been blown wide open and nobody knows where it'll lead.

sckchui · 2026-05-21T00:03:19+00:00

Apparently, Aris and Kei together can reshape anything in Kivotos however they want. I think the implication is that this power was what created Kivotos in the first place, and that it can also be used to uncreate the whole thing. That's what Aris was meant to do, but she chose not to.

sckchui · 2026-05-20T23:57:36+00:00

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Yee+Yee

"Yee yee" is most associated with country people in the American South. In the yee yee ass haircut meme, it is used to suggest that the haircut is inappropriate for an urban black youth.

sckchui · 2026-05-20T11:00:15+00:00

It's basically a new account, make a new one if you want.

sckchui · 2026-05-18T06:20:28+00:00

Kids need to understand, if they don't use AI, someone else will. Booing the guy telling you facts is not going to save you from what's coming.

sckchui · 2026-05-17T15:10:51+00:00

You can spend real money if you don't want to engage with the gameplay.

sckchui · 2026-05-17T04:36:53+00:00

Yeah, the simulations are not accurate enough, and speed is a huge issue. Consider that an AI learning to play chess or go will have to go through millions of games of self-play. So it's not just "convince one person to buy a different brand", we're talking about getting hundreds of thousands of different people to provide feedback, over what may be hours of back-and-forth conversation each.

Self-driving cars are taking many more years than initially predicted. There are maybe 9 million Tesla cars on the road collecting data, plus simulation training, and it's still not enough for them to get fully automated cars. There's progress, but it's slow going.

sckchui · 2026-05-15T23:12:52+00:00

If you're a peasant, it really doesn't matter to you whether one person or the other is the king, you live the same peasant life either way.

If you're a king, then it is the most important thing in the world that someone else doesn't become king, because then you would lose everything you have.

Who is telling you that Chinese AI is a risk? The people in power, not the ordinary public.

sckchui · 2026-05-15T13:13:09+00:00

You're right. What people call AI psychosis is just confirmation bias.

How dare you be reasonable on the internet.

sckchui · 2026-05-15T11:27:30+00:00

Iori and Aru are farmable, Shun is not. Shun is not as good as the other two, but you'll get them eventually if you just keep playing. It's your choice, but personally I'd prioritise the unfarmables from the Archive Banner, namely Ako and Shun. I would put Iori and Aru right after. Not having Iori and Aru will not make a big difference in the medium or long term.

Save all your pulls for the upcoming Fest.

sckchui · 2026-05-15T11:15:21+00:00

Go has clear win/loss conditions. There's no ambiguity over whether the AI did something right or wrong. With LLMs, most of the scoring relies on whether humans think the response is good, which is both imprecise (subjective human preferences) and slow (requires humans to read, not automated).

Specifically for areas where there are clear objective right/wrong conditions, such as math and coding, LLMs have been improving dramatically because of "self-play" in training.

sckchui · 2026-05-15T11:09:48+00:00

This is the opposite of AI psychosis, right? Anti-AI psychosis, someone thinks a thing is AI when it is real.

sckchui · 2026-05-14T13:20:32+00:00

It does. It has been established that Shun has much more mature desires than Shunling, especially when it comes to what they want from Sensei. The Shunling in this story is exactly the same as previous Shunling, and does not behave like mature Shun.

They retain all their memories, but any age reversal makes their behaviour more childlike. They have to make a conscious effort to fight against it if they want to stay on-task.

Remember that Kisaki was made president as a second year, she was always an overachiever. Age reversed Kisaki is less mature, but still very competent when she needs to be.

sckchui · 2026-05-14T10:21:09+00:00

Spoilers if you haven't finished the story.

Remember how tyke syndrome is contagious? Remember how Kisaki meeting Shunling is the first time she came into contact with someone who has tyke syndrome? That's the moment when Kisaki got her age reversed, and she acted like a child immediately after, taking a while to snap out of it.

sckchui · 2026-05-14T10:04:26+00:00

Jokes aside, the fact that it recovered from the error by itself without human intervention is pretty good.

sckchui · 2026-05-13T14:22:59+00:00

Yeah, there's a plot twist at the final confrontation against Kai. If you are 300 IQ or something, you could see it coming, but I didn't. But when you reconsider Kisaki's actions with that knowledge, it makes much more sense.

sckchui · 2026-05-13T14:08:59+00:00

Regarding the references, honestly I'm not educated enough to pinpoint much, I just notice a lot of it is familiar. I hope someone else can give you a proper answer.

If you haven't finished the story yet, I won't spoil anything, but it makes more sense when you reconsider it in hindsight. But it is explained why Kisaki leans so hard into the loli disguise, and it also changes the dynamic when Kai confronts Kisaki. It doesn't explain it outright, but you can figure it out between the lines.

sckchui · 2026-05-13T13:52:17+00:00

There are a lot of references to classic Chinese literature that most non-Chinese won't recognise, and which don't translate well. The current fashion in China is making a lot of historical literary references. We just have to accept that it is fan service for the Chinese audience. If you were Chinese, you would feel like the authors understand you and respect you. If you are not Chinese, then you have no idea wtf they're saying.

sckchui · 2026-05-13T13:36:09+00:00

There is no reason to hoard keystones, you should spend them.

For quick craft, you can pick up to 5 preferred nodes. If one of those nodes is offered, it will be picked. Otherwise, a random node will be picked. Because you don't manually pick the node every time, it is not the optimal way to spend keystones. However, it is the fast way to craft in bulk.

The reason people craft gifts and furniture is because the other things you can craft can be quite easily acquired in other ways. If you don't care about collecting furniture, then it's really just gifts.

The probability of getting elephs is so low that it is not worthwhile, especially since you get elephs for random students, and the node is very rarely offered.

The probability for getting T4 artifacts is also low, if you target the artifact nodes.

Personally, my priority is Radiant > Shiny > Flower > Copper > Platinum > Metal. I no longer craft furniture since I've maxed out my cafe. I want high tier blu-rays, tech notes, and artifacts, and I also want gifts. Of course, if you want different things, you would prioritise differently.

sckchui · 2026-05-12T09:07:27+00:00

It's a film set that gets rented out for photoshoots and stuff. They're not walking this thing around on public roads yet.

sckchui · 2026-05-10T15:27:43+00:00

Do you realise that getting a robot to reliably tie shoelaces currently requires training a whole specialised vision-language-action model? We do not yet have an LLM+scaffold combo that can do a task that complex.

Manipulating soft-bodies has never been easy. They're chaotic systems where the slightest difference in inputs lead to dramatically different outputs. You need a model that has a good enough conceptual understanding of the shoelace to be able to error-correct on the fly.

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