Astreia

the occasion can be "onesies are comfy as shit"

my wife introduced me to them and during the fall/winter months they're just delightful

Democrats should be politicizing this every minute like the GOP did with the Afghanistan withdrawal. Media won't help them since they are loving this war for ratings

I depressingly think this might become the new normal in 'multipolarity'. minimal boots on the ground, no even pretense at nation building, just an occasional 'fuck you' bombing campaign that kills top leadership and has the explicit intent of destabilization.

This made me wonder when the last time a traditional land war of conquest was successful globally and I’m kind of coming up blank?

(those are the logos I'm talking about, they just look weird down there)

I thought about that but I don't remember ever seeing any games where dev/publisher logos are at the top

where the fuck do I put the developer/publisher logos on this, this is driving me a little nuts

Nowhere looks right

There is a shitload of blame to go around for this debacle, but Maine's labor movement (for recruiting Platner) and Chuck (for recruiting Methuselah the Union Buster) can share the gold medal.

That may be true. And also as a Jew who is worried for my own safety and the safety of my family by the aggressive mainstreaming of violent antisemitic conspiracism across the political spectrum, this is an insanely callous response.

I think the answer is probably (3) which is that a lot of populist politics are ideologically incoherent and conspiratorial in a way that transcends whether they are left or right-coded, and that this is all downstream of the total aesthetization of politics, and the collapse of strong boundaries.

No criminal record. Detained for eight months. Republican governance.

Why

they require a decent laptop

None of this is realistic. I'm not even sure any of it is *possible*.

Imagining a world where people are firebombing data centers is not a good use of your time

whatever, I'm going to bed. spend all your time wishing in one hand and shitting in the other. see which fills up first

Again, this would be an *extremely* totalitarian thing to do, if you take it seriously

it would also require you to have control over the entire world, otherwise the AI companies just relocate to whatever country isn't doing that

It also wouldn't have that much impact at this point

There is no real regulation or enforcement here that would be possible short of a totalitarian surveillance scheme! And even then that probably wouldn't work!

Your idea is fundamentally impossible, sorry! I suggest you start coming to terms with that!

I share concerns about the deleterious impacts but I think going "blah blah lead was useful too" is a fundamentally disingenuous attempt to wave off that whatever negative outcomes this will have, it is *genuinely* useful in other ways

This just seems like motivated reasoning

of "how do I get [effect x]" or troubleshooting "wait why is that grayed out" in conversation form, rather than having to look up another tutorial, and another, and maybe it doesn't answer my question or this was 7 years and multiple PS generations ago, etc

It is very useful!

I'm working on a silly little photoshop project for fun (I basically use photoshop to crop and resize images) and was able to use Claude to coach me through some significantly more advanced usage just today

and yes, once upon a time I'd have watched video tutorials but the plain-language processing

Okay. Then I guess we're fucked, because as mentioned, the genie is not going back into the bottle.

I also, strictly speaking, really don't think this assertion is true! Comparing them to lead is just fundamentally disingenuous

If you right now became dictator of the entire world and ordered all corporate LLM development to cease (and, as other people pointed out, you would have to like, stop individuals from publishing papers on these models), it would not destroy LLMs.

I understand that. I don't think you're being dishonest with me; I think you're being dishonest with yourself about what is possible. "In denial" might have been more accurate.

And we replaced lead with things that did the job better and weren't toxic. You are describing a world where better LLMs exist, or something.

Again, these comparisons just seem so... desperate and kind of dishonest?

That is an incredibly specious comparison. Whatever you think of genAI there is clearly at least *some* merit to it that "poison in makeup" didn't have

Again, I think this is desperate wishing and none of these ideas are remotely feasible, regardless of ~if we have the will~

Genie ain't going back

hundreds of millions of people are using LLMs for work and for recreation every day. Comparing it to a highly niche drug is really disingenuous. It's wishcasting and nothing more

The "screenshots" here were AI-generated, mainly because I already used my real commission budget on the front art and I'm not gonna spend *that* much on what is essentially a really glorified joke

My "make the fake PS2 game box" project for my D&D campaign finale continues, with the back of the box here. Still working on getting the feel right, but I think I'm on the right track.

it took years and years for the international community to arrest the SilkRoad guy, the various pirate bay sites keep popping up, and child porn rings are still endemic and impossible to stamp out

This is not a serious solution

No, impossible. The open source models are good enough at this point and you can just run them on your laptop if you want. This genie is not going back in the bottle.