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#21

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Josquius - Today at 09:31:13 AM

I have heard the experience of using the Chinese AI is rather interesting. I've not given one a go myself.
Apparently it will start to give you answers like "There are huge human rights violations happening with minority groups in western China" then suddenly run into a technical error where it can't give you the answer for some strange reason.

#22

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Tamas - Today at 09:25:52 AM

Now I see Labour is in-fighting over not ruling out potentially decreasing aid for disabled children.

FFS will the government finally get a clue and forget welfare cuts for a year?!

#23

Gaming HQ / Re: The NEW New Boardgames Thr...

Last post by Habbaku - Today at 08:09:05 AM

Okay, but how many sessions is that? 

#24

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Darth Wagtaros - Today at 07:39:40 AM

I couldn't get past the first 20 minutes of the first episode of season 1.

I think Anthony Bourdain was a cool dude, but this veneration of food and the chef culture is so cringe. It feels like a show for white hipsters.

Yeah, even fast food was like that back in the day and probably still is.  I remember friends working 8o hour weeks (getting paid for 20 because TEAMWORK) and justifying it like it was a dotcom startup.  

Food industry leaves your joints fucked up and may include substance abuse.  I don't get the verbal and emotional abuse shit. 

[existing large language models are not safely aligned with acceptable political and social norms.]

#25

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 07:22:03 AM

Interesting piece on the FT with a slightly provocative argument (that I think could be right)...

The White House favours gutting any effective regulation of artificial intelligence, even as more and more experiments confirm that existing large language models are not safely aligned with acceptable political and social norms.

Can you tell me what this means Shelf?

In a Liberal Western context- LLM cannot be relied upon to not endorse ethnic cleansing or undermining the rule of law and the like.

In a Chinese context, LLM cannot be relied upon to not challenge Xi Jinping thought.

The first is true, scholars studying generative AI are beginning to think the second proposition is not also true.

#26

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 07:08:28 AM

We used to be far more committed to freedom than we are today. The IRA, for example, was not banned until the 25th of November 1974....five years into the troubles https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1974-11-25/debates/8422b814-468c-4637-97ef-77184fe1cde2/Terrorism

Needless to say that I dislike nearly all of these groups (probably all of them but the list may include Tunbridge Wells WI for all I know), in a free country there is no need to break the law to make your point. Conflating these troublemakers with the likes of ISIS or hamas though....utterly ludicrous and counter-productive. Though there is the rub, are we still a free country?

To go full RETVRN to tradition, Palestine Action can protest provided they inhale helium first.

#27

Gaming HQ / Re: The NEW New Boardgames Thr...

Last post by Darth Wagtaros - Today at 07:05:24 AM

Eighteen months into Gloomhaven.  

#28

Off the Record / Re: Archaeologists do it in ho...

Last post by HVC - Today at 06:49:37 AM

To me it looks like someone in the process of unburying the stargate.

#29

Off the Record / Re: Archaeologists do it in ho...

Last post by The Brain - Today at 06:43:45 AM

Didn't Darkplace have a short run in Peru? They are no strangers to fantastique.

#30

Off the Record / Re: Archaeologists do it in ho...

Last post by Josquius - Today at 06:39:05 AM

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/peru-lost-city-penico-south-america-archaeology-b2783723.html

An article about some archaeology in an ancient Peruvian city.

Except.



That ain't no city.
That's a Federation star ship.