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Maybe I am a frog. But so is everyone else. I mean who doesn't own a smart phone? Everybody mostly doesn't care.

Hey didn't appreciate this comment at all. I have the right to say I don't give a shit about something and your imagined implications are just you. It was extremely insulting to compare me to a person shouting at a funeral as well. Weaponizing a person's death just to use it to make me look bad is the worst. We are done. Please Do not speak to me on this site ever again.

You can word it like that. But in actuality I don't care and most people behave exactly like me. Ads are just an annoyance mostly.

Look up IQ. A search on intelligence is obviously obfuscated by AI topics.

They've also been backdoored by the nsa. I think those Snowden docs revealed that.

Even so, me and most of the world still doesn't care that much as we all use and own smart phones. The backlash in this thread is just hypocritical.

No. I'm just the only one honest with myself. The world owns smart phones. These are surveillance devices that can record you talking at any time. Snowden already revealed the nsa backdoored every single one. And guess what? I still use smartphones and Gmail. So does.the rest of the world. And likely, so do you.

This thread is mostly people pretending to give a shit. They don't.

How is it cool? The trendy thing to do is to hate surveillance. I'm doing the uncool thing here. Hence the negative karma. You're the one acting cool.

Do you own a smart phone? If so everything I said applies to you. Those are surveillance devices.

I literally said even criminals don't have to worry.

I think my main point here is not only is there too much data. But that the reason for too much data is most of it is fluff data no one gives a shit about.

That's the key. Your data and my data is the fluff. Nobody cares for it. Amazon doesn't give a flying shit about you. You're not important. At best you data is analyzed by an algorithm and you're served the relevant ads. Oooh shit big deal.

Where do you live?

This is why I don't have much concerns about privacy. I own an Alexa and some HN dude tells me it's like having a one way mic that records everything I say 24/7 and transmits it to Amazon.

I agreed with him it's possible but I didn't see the problem and he didn't see why I didn't give a shit.

The title of the article is one reason among many about why I could care less about privacy.

I could see if you abuse your kids regularly or some other heinous disgusting crime in your home I could see how you could be paranoid about this, but from a practical perspective I don't think even criminals have to worry about it at all.

No there's a lot of articles on IQ and intelligence. Less on hard work. Mainly because most people on here are programmers and the job and interview is related to intelligence. People who take pride in there programming skill think they're intelligent.

As a programmer myself I think most programmers are average. Programming isn't a very hard job imo. It doesn't require a huge amount of intelligence hence the reason why it's one of the few occupations that can be entered without a degree, with self training, or a bootcamp.

People think this is a field that requires high intelligence. This is false. It's a field that requires slightly above average intelligence mostly. It depends on your specialty but for the typical web dev software engineer it's more closer to average.

No he didn't. I'm adding to his statement. Saying it's kind of a meaningless statement as meaningless as saying a car can go faster then a plane if the plane isn't moving.

A hard working stupid person can accomplish more then a smart person if the smart person isn't working at all. This statement is as obvious and insightful as the statement about the plane. And it sort of obfuscates the fact that smart people have a huge advantage in the fact that they have to work less hard.

Additionally despite all of this, there's no magical thing stating that all smart people never work hard. Smart people may in many cases even work harder than stupid people.

Given how people on HN think they're so smart I'm surprised this article got voted up. Usually it's some article about how high IQ correlates with people who drink water. They just vote up the article for self validation.

Now it's an article for the Narutos of the world. Guess a good number of people think they're stupid. I think both sides are wrong.

Sure but just because someone is smart doesn't mean they don't work hard. And a smarter person can achieve what a stupid person can with less effort. This is just reality.

I mean it's akin to saying a car can drive faster then a plane if the plane doesn't accelerate. Of course. I think as stupid person I can find certain niches and excel in areas where smart people typically don't attempt to try, but reality is reality and we have to face it.

It's not an analogy. This is actually what is done with ML. It is literally a best fit curve problem.

Or maybe it is actually an analogy, but then if this was the case the entire field of ML is capable of only understanding the intricacies of ML through the analogy of curve fitting and what's actually going on underneath the analogy remains elusive.

It really needs a 3D display. Humans never actually need to worry about the extra 3rd dimension given our entire sensory system is optimized for 3D.

It's just the view port of 2D slices is not optimal.

True, but most points on the curve aren't close to Any data point. That means most of the output of ML is completely original. Let's use a simplified example of a straight line between two datapoints. Example:

   Point A ------|----------------------------------------|------Point B

For a line segment (above) between two points, most of the line does not approach the vicinity of Either point (the boundary of closeness for points A and B is demarcated figuratively with a pipe "|" if the line segment is between the pipe and the point it is too close, if it is not then it is an original work). This intuition still applies even if the line only moves close to the point and does not touch either point. Basically the output of ML is by majority not even close to a copy as most of the curve is far from any point.

The only way for most of the line to be a copy is if the data cluster is so close and similar that the data itself is mostly a chain of "similar" copies. Not sure if you're catching my meaning here. Example:

   Point A --|--|-- Point B

Above A and B cross their own thresholds and are essentially "close enough" copied data points. The left Pipe is the threshold for B and the right pipe is the threshold for A. As a result the entire line between the two points must be a an illegal "close enough" copy as well.

If such data is used it means existing data is in violation of copywrite law already. The logical implication is this:

For most of the results of ML to be a technical "close enough" copy of the datapoints, you must also admit that most of your data contained "close enough" copies as well.

As a side note this kind of thing can be useful for defining a quantitative measure of what close enough even means as we can certainly define a numeric threshold between close enough and not close enough for copywrite law.

Technically it's not a copy. And nothing was stolen. It's a best fit curve among a series of datapoints. The datapoint is a copy, if the best fit curve never touches the datapoint then it's technically not a copy.

The difficult part is the technicality here is legal and ethical from any standpoint. The high level ramifications are a bit unfair in the sense that yes the data is being used to create an AI that can replace you and your job from data you created to DO your job.

This is the conundrum with AI. Our legal system and moral intuition makes it permissible to read and interpret things which is pretty much all ML does. Does it make sense to make it illegal for someone to learn programming for free from online articles? No. Does it make sense to make it illegal for someone to learn programming for free from online articles to take over your job? No. Should it be illegal to use tools to help me learn programming for free by using tools to help me read for free from online articles so I can take over your job? No.

But if that tool is AI, suddenly, Yes, it should be illegal. The logic makes no sense. But we shouldn't rely on logic to maintain our morals, even if it doesn't hold logical cohesion if the outcomes are negative it should still be immoral imo.

Yeah except a jury votes on it and it's all up in the air whether all the predicates are actually enforced. Even the "predicates" themselves are open to interpretation and enforcement of a verdict is also sketchy. It's not even close to CS or an OS, more akin to the output of an LLM.

Which makes sense if you think about it.

The Pulitzer never awarded a sci Fi so it tells you what they think. It's obvious why settings don't get awards it's because world building is sorta niche. Not popular enough to be considered "serious".

Agreed on your last part. Games have great setting and not as good stories.

But my point was d&d is great for what it is: settings for stories rather then the stories themselves. I think you disagree with this, and you think the setting is more subservient to the gameplay but I'll reference Warhammer then. Warhammer clearly has a focus on setting at many times over gameplay. And my argument is that d&d is largely similar.

Yeah that's not a common list. Planescape torment is frequently listed as the best (in terms of writing only). No criticism here but your preferences are different enough that I would say your definitions of good and bad are outside the shared reality people usually talk about when they refer to what's the best crpgs.

The below would match a more common ranking that most people would have: https://youtu.be/jGT0YlNYpmQ?si=0J8aTlWIoiCuSklf

The goal for the game system is created to facilitate great stories. It's art, and no other piece of fantasy lore matches it in depth, breadth and consistency to my knowledge.

The amount of artists and writers who created it makes it art in my eyes. There's no other utility for it other than story telling either. If that's not art, what is it? The snobs at the Pulitzer who haven't even awarded a win to sci Fi novel may think otherwise but to each their own. In terms of the topic at hand, fantasy lore, there's few that can rival d&d.

Let's be real too. Baldurs gate and torment weren't made because of the great d&d gameplay system... The creators wanted to utilize the lore.

I was joking a bit. Flash is part of DC. The writing on that series is atrocious. I didn't really comment on marvel.

MCU is good writing. Tony Stark especially is just well written.

The movies are obviously not works of literature. Super heros are a genre and within that genre the writing is excellent. The writers fulfilled the role well.

I'm fine. A bit rude to ask that it implies as if something is wrong with me.

If it's trivially disproveable then just trivially write out the proof. No need to comment on the fact.

>Well, yes, but childish isn’t a synonym for poor quality.

At a pedantic level yes they aren't synonyms. But any reasonable person knows writing is dumbed down and made worse in order for children to understand and follow. It's not just the writing, but the plot line and everything else is made worse and simplistic.

This is your thing. You equate simplistic to good writing. Most people would consider this completely orthogonal to good writing. A simplistic plot can be expressed in a silent film with absolutely no writing. See those Pixar shorts. But in those cases writing doesn't even exist, writing isn't even part of the equation, but I feel that is what you label as "good writing" and what your main point is about.

I'm not talking about the novels. I'm talking about the dungeons and dragons setting which is part of the game.

Forgotten realms is just one "region" in the setting. It is one universe in a multiverse of regions. This multiverse is called Planescape. All d&d games that I know about utilize that setting. In Planescape any arch way or opening can be a potential portal to another realm. You just need the right key. The key could be an object, a leaf, or a childhood memory or a song that can take you to another world when you walk through the archway of which there are an infinite amount. The forgotten realms is one of these places. But I'm repeating myself. You played torment so you know this as it takes place in the city of sigil the city that lies at the nexus of the multiverse.

I mean there are books dedicated to just describing the d&d setting and if they gave out awards for settings, these books would win. The novels aren't part of this. That's what I'm saying.

Logically there's not much. If bg3 isn't in the top 5 it's likely in his top 10.

Pokemon is an anime. Video games and the card game are derivatives of the anime.

I linked to the anime as an example of the writing to prove you wrong. The anime is childish and the games reflect that in the writing.

Maybe you're too young to know this. The anime just had its last episode 2023. It's been around for 25 years. Or maybe you're trolling. Pikachu is literally in that video. The information is quite obvious.

Nowadays anyone can probably put together a good book about this topic by using an LLM.

Anecdotally I think the zoomers are more this way. It's not HN. HN is just reflecting the change happening on the outside.

Good answer.