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#21
Gaming HQ / Re: Victoria 3
Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 02:47:02 PMI'm itching to jump in on 1.9 but still waiting for the bugfixes to settle in. Some of the fixes in the beta patch are pretty big.
#22
Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic
Last post by The Brain - Today at 02:03:38 PMQuote from: Syt on Today at 01:06:53 PMThis one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Royal_Affair
With Alicia Vikander and Mads Mikkelsen (who, I think, is required by law to be starring in every Danish theatrical movie).
Yeah.
#23
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by Razgovory - Today at 01:47:06 PMLawyers for the Mypillow guy, Mike Lindell, were fined yesterday for using AI to write court documents.
#24
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 01:29:05 PMOh and the second element is that everyone that surrounds him has to act like an idiot as well, whether they are one or not (most are at this point). As demonstrated by the Brooke Rollins quotation from Syt on the prior page, which first admits that the centerpiece administration policy for past six months has had no strategic direction and then proceeds to pack multiple levels of stupidity in three lines. These people are like the Hemingways of stupid policy discourse; they have a gift of packing the maximum stupidity of content into the most compact verbal packages.
#25
Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic
Last post by Syt - Today at 01:28:59 PMhttps://wien.orf.at/stories/3312884/
Summary: 46 year old man masturbates in front of magistrate building while showing Hitler salute. Police show up to book him, but the 38 year old woman filming the scene warned them to stay away from him because he was "in flow" and creating his "masterpiece". Apparently it was meant to be a protest against the state of humanity that required "drastic means." Charges have been filed.
A failed attempt to revive Vienna Actionism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viennese_Actionism
Summary: 46 year old man masturbates in front of magistrate building while showing Hitler salute. Police show up to book him, but the 38 year old woman filming the scene warned them to stay away from him because he was "in flow" and creating his "masterpiece". Apparently it was meant to be a protest against the state of humanity that required "drastic means." Charges have been filed.
A failed attempt to revive Vienna Actionism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viennese_Actionism
#26
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 01:23:12 PMQuote from: Richard Hakluyt on July 08, 2025, 10:19:37 PMOnce again I just don't get it.
It's not complicated. The world's most powerful nation (for now) is being run by an idiot with an epic Dunning-Kruger effect.
#27
Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic
Last post by Syt - Today at 01:06:53 PMThis one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Royal_Affair
With Alicia Vikander and Mads Mikkelsen (who, I think, is required by law to be starring in every Danish theatrical movie).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Royal_Affair
With Alicia Vikander and Mads Mikkelsen (who, I think, is required by law to be starring in every Danish theatrical movie).
#28
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 12:35:22 PMOne of my partners was in court yesterday making an application to strike a claim. The Plaintiff was self represented and completely honest. He was not asserting any facts that were not entirely true. The problem was the AI tools he used to research whether he had a claim, draft his claim, and draft his response to the application to strike, led him terribly astray. Prior to the court hearing my partner tried to explain to the Plaintiff that he had no claim and that he should just walk away so that he did not have to pay costs. But he had faith that AI had gotten it right.
During the hearing the judge gently asked him if he had used AI to draft his pleadings. He said he had, and the judge was heard to say "well that explains it".
I think our courts are going to become flooded with unmeritorious claims as more people come to rely on AI. I am also fearful of all the errors occurring in other fields where there is not a formal process for catching the errors AI makes.
During the hearing the judge gently asked him if he had used AI to draft his pleadings. He said he had, and the judge was heard to say "well that explains it".
I think our courts are going to become flooded with unmeritorious claims as more people come to rely on AI. I am also fearful of all the errors occurring in other fields where there is not a formal process for catching the errors AI makes.
#29
Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic
Last post by The Brain - Today at 12:23:08 PMQuote from: Syt on Today at 01:02:24 AMThe other day I by chance learned about Johann Friedrich Struensee, a doctor from Halle an der Saale with radical enlightenment views who became de facto regent for the incapable Christian VII of Denmark, enacted a huge array of progressive reforms 1770-1772, but then was executed for his affair with Christian's wife (though the king seems to always have liked him, even despite the affair).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Struensee
He was tutor to Christian's heir, Frederick VI who would continue his reforms.
Wasn't there a movie about this a few years back with whatshername? Haven't seen it though.
#30
Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...
Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 11:44:06 AMI feel perfectly justified occupying a thread devoted to a man whose stated ambition is to make our country cease to exist.