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#31
Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...
Last post by Josephus - Today at 02:13:31 PMQuote from: Valmy on November 12, 2025, 12:57:23 PMQuote from: crazy canuck on November 12, 2025, 12:52:25 PMMy advice is stop thinking about blobbing like you did in the EU I-IV. You need to think through your expansion carefully and consider all the cultural, religious, economic, political and tactical reasons for expanding or you will end up with a bunch of useless territory. Or worse, territory you cannot hold.
And man...territory is very useless without control. I think I get zero tax or anything from some of my largest cities. The most they contribute is a few hundred levies for wars.
In my current Naples game, I own a lot of territory in Serbia. I am making .1 ducats a month from them.
#32
Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...
Last post by Valmy - Today at 02:11:08 PMQuote from: Solmyr on Today at 01:33:34 PMQuote from: Baron von Schtinkenbutt on Today at 09:57:41 AMHow many thousand does Sweden have?
Only 63 events and 16 country bonuses. Denmark actually has more events.
Mainly events about how Denmark sucks and is not as cool as Sweden.
#33
Gaming HQ / Re: Valve Announces the Steam ...
Last post by Crazy_Ivan80 - Today at 02:06:03 PMI guess that'll be my next pc. in about a year or 3
#34
Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic
Last post by Tonitrus - Today at 02:00:32 PMQuote from: celedhring on Today at 05:13:11 AMI remember when we used to go on daytrips with my school and in hindsight the movies they played were probably not too adequate for a bunch of 10ish year olds - we all loved them mind. One of the memories of my childhood is half the bus screaming when the goon falls into the toxic waste in RoboCop
I saw old-school Conan (and other dubious sword & sorcery films) at around 10...and many of the fantasy novels I'd read as kid were easily borderline pornography.
I turned out fine.
#35
Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...
Last post by Solmyr - Today at 01:33:34 PMQuote from: Baron von Schtinkenbutt on Today at 09:57:41 AMHow many thousand does Sweden have?
Only 63 events and 16 country bonuses. Denmark actually has more events.
#36
Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...
Last post by Zanza - Today at 01:29:41 PMAnno 117 has launched today. I will try it now, looks spectacular if you like that kind of game.
#37
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by Valmy - Today at 01:01:56 PMYes. And there doesn't seem any way to stop powerful institutions from having this power. Either all powerful governments or all powerful techlords. Either way seems equally bad.
#38
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by DGuller - Today at 12:52:24 PMWhat scares me most about AI is not the possibility of it becoming more intelligent than human, but even what it can do without reaching that level. I don't see people appreciating the fact that AI can access and process way more information than a human can.
The product of intellectual work is connecting the dots; it's a combination of having the dots, and finding the right connections between them. An AI which is not as intelligent as a human can nevertheless connect way more dots, simply because it starts with more of them. A human spy can't listen to 100 million wiretaps at the same time and synthesize them, but an AI might be able to. Even a pretty dumb one can identify people unhappy with the regime, so that the regime can administer corrective measures.
The product of intellectual work is connecting the dots; it's a combination of having the dots, and finding the right connections between them. An AI which is not as intelligent as a human can nevertheless connect way more dots, simply because it starts with more of them. A human spy can't listen to 100 million wiretaps at the same time and synthesize them, but an AI might be able to. Even a pretty dumb one can identify people unhappy with the regime, so that the regime can administer corrective measures.
#39
Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic
Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 12:51:31 PMDidn't watch it as a class but my French teacher lent me a copy of La Haine when I was 16 to convince me to do French AS and I think just flag there was more to France than Amelie
It worked. And I often think about it because it also actually really kickstarted my interest in film - within the year I was watching the Mark Kermode curated season of Iranian films on Film 4 (back when that was just what Channel 4 became when it was late).
It worked. And I often think about it because it also actually really kickstarted my interest in film - within the year I was watching the Mark Kermode curated season of Iranian films on Film 4 (back when that was just what Channel 4 became when it was late).
#40
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by Jacob - Today at 12:22:51 PMThat seems another iteration of the "where in the deployment of AI do we leave room for human agency and responsibility" issue we're facing.
It's one thing if we let AI fuck up domestic traffic, draft legal advice based on spurious precedent, encourage people to commit suicide, or generate facts that makes the population more ignorant.
It's another thing entirely if we let AI trigger armed conflict with another state.
It's one thing if we let AI fuck up domestic traffic, draft legal advice based on spurious precedent, encourage people to commit suicide, or generate facts that makes the population more ignorant.
It's another thing entirely if we let AI trigger armed conflict with another state.