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#41
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Josquius - Today at 07:23:34 AMThat's a problem with the law. Not with the way the law is enforced.
If I were to be accused of a crime I didn't commit then I'd absolutely trust a group of trained experts to decide on the truth of things than a bunch of randomers pulled off the street.
There's other problems that become more pertinent taking the European approach- the need for more diverse judges for instance- but I do think we are in a very different situation today to pre-industrial times when there was a genuine need to put chicken theft in front of a jury rather than a group of guys who deal with this every day and are firmly neutral.
If I were to be accused of a crime I didn't commit then I'd absolutely trust a group of trained experts to decide on the truth of things than a bunch of randomers pulled off the street.
There's other problems that become more pertinent taking the European approach- the need for more diverse judges for instance- but I do think we are in a very different situation today to pre-industrial times when there was a genuine need to put chicken theft in front of a jury rather than a group of guys who deal with this every day and are firmly neutral.
#42
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Tamas - Today at 07:23:16 AMYeah I'd rather keep trial by jury around.
#43
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Richard Hakluyt - Today at 07:03:14 AMMost of Europe is wrong then 
I completely disagree with you on this. Take, for example, the government's current efforts to curtail free speech and protests. With the "rationalist European approach" people falling foul of these laws will simply be punished. In the UK, with trial by jury, if the government is engaged in unpopular overreach, then the plaintiffs can be found not guilty.
I would say thet curbing free speech, which the government is trying to do, is unpopular in a non-partisan way. Why make things easy for these wannabe masters?
I completely disagree with you on this. Take, for example, the government's current efforts to curtail free speech and protests. With the "rationalist European approach" people falling foul of these laws will simply be punished. In the UK, with trial by jury, if the government is engaged in unpopular overreach, then the plaintiffs can be found not guilty.
I would say thet curbing free speech, which the government is trying to do, is unpopular in a non-partisan way. Why make things easy for these wannabe masters?
#44
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 07:01:20 AMQuote from: Tamas on Today at 06:50:44 AMAnyways, we have been ignoring a key question:
How can LLMs be made to play computer games?
I was thinking: if the UI of something like a Paradox game could be "translated" into a format processable by these "AIs" (so, text, I guess) then they would be able to learn optimal strategies from online sources, wouldn't they?
Yes, but it would not be able to distinguish good strategies from bad. So the same problems exist and are likely worse as AI inevitably gets trained on AI slop.
#45
Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...
Last post by Tamas - Today at 06:52:56 AMRest easy, on very short notice, Orban is visiting Moscow on Friday. Probably receiving new orders.
#46
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by Tamas - Today at 06:50:44 AMAnyways, we have been ignoring a key question:
How can LLMs be made to play computer games?
I was thinking: if the UI of something like a Paradox game could be "translated" into a format processable by these "AIs" (so, text, I guess) then they would be able to learn optimal strategies from online sources, wouldn't they?
How can LLMs be made to play computer games?
I was thinking: if the UI of something like a Paradox game could be "translated" into a format processable by these "AIs" (so, text, I guess) then they would be able to learn optimal strategies from online sources, wouldn't they?
#47
Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...
Last post by Josquius - Today at 05:38:00 AMHuh. Here the vibes were the game was totally abandoned with it feeling so....empty. Unfinished.
#48
Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...
Last post by Solmyr - Today at 05:00:59 AMMount & Blade Bannerlord's War Sails DLC is out and is apparently getting good reviews. Ships, Vikings, naval combat.
#49
Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...
Last post by Solmyr - Today at 04:54:55 AMLuckily there are already mods to automate child education as well as courtiers' marriage. 
#50
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Josquius - Today at 03:04:25 AMMost of Europe, including many far freer places than the UK, abolished trial by jury some time ago.
The system the Govenrment are going for seems to be pretty akin to the French one where they keep juries for serious crimes cos tradition but otherwise follow the rationalist European approach.
This really does seem to be a typical British/anglo thing of letting tradition and things being for positive reasons historically, really hold us back.
The system the Govenrment are going for seems to be pretty akin to the French one where they keep juries for serious crimes cos tradition but otherwise follow the rationalist European approach.
This really does seem to be a typical British/anglo thing of letting tradition and things being for positive reasons historically, really hold us back.