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#61
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Richard Hakluyt - November 26, 2025, 07:28:54 AMI'm arguing for the right to call for a trial by jury, not mandatory trial by jury. For most offences it will just be trial by magistrate, as it is now. But if someone is in a politically sensitive trial (such as those silly buggers with the orange powder at stonehenge or the "we support Palestine Action" crowd, I think it is only right that they can call for a trial by jury.
#62
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by Josquius - November 26, 2025, 07:27:53 AMQuote from: Tamas on November 26, 2025, 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?
Video games are a key one for me where I really raise my eyebrow at the recent talk of AI as this new and amazing revolutionary thing. We've had AI for....ages. LLMs are not the same thing as all AI.
I do wonder when LLM will become more of a mainstream term.
I got to thinking the other day too- all companies, governments, etc... are going on about how they will embrace AI and become so brilliant for it. There's lots of worries about this for jobs, quality of output, etc....
It strikes me though....Its not that LLMs are entirely something new here. Cast your mind way back to pre-covid....And much the same stuff was being said. Only it was about data. Not AI. And it didn't have half as much marketing success.
#63
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Josquius - November 26, 2025, 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.
#64
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Tamas - November 26, 2025, 07:23:16 AMYeah I'd rather keep trial by jury around.
#65
Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...
Last post by Richard Hakluyt - November 26, 2025, 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?
#66
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by crazy canuck - November 26, 2025, 07:01:20 AMQuote from: Tamas on November 26, 2025, 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.
#67
Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...
Last post by Tamas - November 26, 2025, 06:52:56 AMRest easy, on very short notice, Orban is visiting Moscow on Friday. Probably receiving new orders.
#68
Off the Record / Re: The AI dooooooom thread
Last post by Tamas - November 26, 2025, 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?
#69
Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...
Last post by Josquius - November 26, 2025, 05:38:00 AMHuh. Here the vibes were the game was totally abandoned with it feeling so....empty. Unfinished.
#70
Gaming HQ / Re: The Miscellaneous PC & vid...
Last post by Solmyr - November 26, 2025, 05:00:59 AMMount & Blade Bannerlord's War Sails DLC is out and is apparently getting good reviews. Ships, Vikings, naval combat.