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Gold wasn't exactly cheap back in 2005. I don't understand how this ever got put into production.

More warcrimes. May every one of them be captured and held to account.

4chan users love playing Schrodinger's Racist, so we'll never know for sure.

I just treat racism as racism, unless it is set up with the most obvious irony or sarcasm beforehand - this ain't, seems like a genuine whine at their real situation.

Well that sounds right.. like I said, Ambien is counter-indicated for alcohol, combined they can cause euphoria which leads to abuse. Gotta chill on the alcohol, the meds work without it.

This is more and more sounding like alcoholism? Treat that first, your sleep will definitely improve.

"Antifa are the real fascists"

"Anti-hate crime is the real hate crime"

There is a regulated medication I have and success with called Belsomra that works well. Not cheap though, unfortunately (circa $1/tablet) - definitely cheaper than boozing it up every night though.

Whatever you try I'd recommend staying away from Ambien (zolpidem tartrate) as it can be abused with alcohol, and alcoholics often develop a tolerance and dependence on it. Docs would most likely recommend against it, but the internet / random people might.

Also called it Obongocare which made me immediately lose any empathy to them for the racism, but it is 4chan I guess.

99% likely they vote Republican based on the attitide also, which is the root cause of a lot of their complaints (min wage, shitty employee protections, expensive Internet [almost certainly one of the monopoly ISP areas], has to rely on a car because public transit is socialism).

Yeah, the Democratic party sucks by and large for many other reasons, but id rather live in a D city than an R one any day of the week. /end obligatory response to "but Dems"

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It is absolutely predefined - if you make the same moves it will give you the same results, every time. Same as playing ChessMaster 2000 from 1986.

It may narrowly fit into the broad definition of 'AI' (like, since the 70s) but that's not what's being discussed in this thread.

Believe what you like though.

I agree it's great at writing and frame-working parts of code and selecting libraries - it definitely has value for coding. $1500 bil value though, I doubt.

My main concern there lies in the next gen of programmers. The work that ChatGPT (and Claude etc) outputs requires some significant programming prior-experience to allow them to make sense of the output and adjust (or correct) it to suit their scope and requirements of the project - it will be much harder for junior devs to learn that skill with LLMs doing all the groundwork - essentially the same problem in wider education now with kids/teens just using LLMs to write their homework and essays. The consequences will be long term, and significant. In addition (for coding) it's taking away the entry-level work that junior devs would usually do and then have cleaned up for prod by senior devs - and that's not theory, the job market for junior programmers is dying already.

When people say "I fucking hate AI", 99% of the time they mean "I fucking hate AI™©®". They don't mean the technology behind it.

To add to your good points, I'm a CS grad that studied neural networks and machine learning years back, and every time I read some idiot claiming something like "this scientific breakthrough has got scientists wondering if we're on the cusp of creating a new species of superintelligence" or "90% of jobs will be obsolete in five years" it annoys me because its not real, and it's always someone selling something. Today's AI is the same tech they've been working on for 30+ years and incrementally building upon, but as Moore's Law has marched on we now have storage pools and computing power to run very advanced models and networks. There is no magic breakthrough, just hype.

The recent advancements are all driven by the $1500 billion spent on grabbing as many resources they could - all because some idiots convinced them it's the next gold rush. What has that $1500 bil got us? Machines that can answer general questions correctly around 40% of the time, plagiarize art for memes, create shallow corporate content that nobody wants, and write some half-decent code cobbled together from StackOverflow and public GitHub repos.

What a fucking waste of resources.

What's real is the social impacts, the educational impacts, the environmental impacts, the effect on artists and others who have had their work stolen for training, the useability of the Internet (search is fucked now), and what will be very real soon is the global recession/depression it causes as businesses realize more and more that it's not worth the cost to implement or maintain (in all but very few scenarios).

I know you're meming, but in Civilization (as in most games), you're playing against predefined scripts and algorithmic rules that the computer opponent has, as well as having cheaper costs for resources than the user at higher difficulty levels - because it cannot compete with a skilled human player at that level (it literally cheats).

No LLM, no neural network, no deep learning.. not 'AI' in the modern sense that's being discussed here.