Could you uh… elaborate a little?
Could you uh… elaborate a little?
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STORM CLOUDS, FIRE AND STEEL
DEATH FROM ABOVE, MADE THEIR ENEMY KNEEL
SHINING ARMOR AND WINGS
DEATH FROM ABOVE, IT’S AN ARMY OF KINGS!
I’ll bet Ada Lovelace had some somewhere.
Or the original plot of The Matrix, before the studio execs decided audiences were too stupid.
“Boy, I sure wish some megacorporation would dump a massive codebase on me to maintain without any financial assistance!”
This reads like an ad written by an LLM, wtf is it doing here?
(He even “decreed” the construction of a bridge or tunnel between San Francisco and Oakland on the other side of the bay, predicting the existence of the Bay Bridge and Transbay Tube!)
Sigma Star Saga for the GBA. Really creative mashup of an RPG and a side-scrolling shooter, with a cool weapon-configuration system thrown in. Definitely suffered a bit from platform limitations, but there’s absolutely more that could have been done with the core concept.
Shockingly good writing, too.
Good lord yes. Overwatch is just a corporatized TF2 ripoff, but Battleborn was a creative, unique game with a soul.
Anyone who hasn’t seen it should watch the game’s intro cinematic, which gives a great sense of just how much character the game had.
FYI, “anthropomorphizing” doesn’t strictly mean “viewing as human”. I never meant to imply that people see a spoon as a human being.
Anthropomorphization is the act of associating human qualities with non-human entities.
My point is that humans are remarkably good at doing this, even as far as, e.g., ascribing “unhappiness” to a spoon simply for being unused.
This kind of behavior is why we must be extremely wary of the Turing test and other measures of machine “intelligence” - humans may see intelligence even where none exists simply because it’s our nature.
Yep, this is the major flaw that’s becoming clear about the Turing test, and why people are so hyped over LLMs: computers don’t have to be good at imitating people, because people are so good at anthropomorphizing computers (along with everything else).
Hey, in my defense, the explanation there was only added in 2022, and I’d already given up looking by then!
Thank you! You would not believe how long I’ve been trying to figure out where the term came from.
The best explanation I’d heard prior to now was that the practice of composing functions was akin to mixing ingredients for curry, (the food) but I’d never really bought that line of reasoning.
Oh shit, I misread the thread title lol
Yeah, still deserves a song.
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In 1597, Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin, who had successfully managed the construction of a formidable fleet of warships, was stripped of his rank, tortured, and nearly executed, with naval command transferred to his rival, Won Gyun, due to political machinations.
Won Gyun promptly loses much of the fleet in several disastrous engagements with the Japanese, leaving the Koreans heavily outnumbered.
Yi is hurriedly reinstated, but by this point he commands just 13 ships against a fleet of at least ten times that size. Many of his ships are crewed by survivors of the previous battles, and fear a return to combat.
Yi carefully selects a narrow, shallow strait for his “final stand” limiting the size and number of Japanese ships that can attack simultaneously.
Yi’s flagship initially engages the Japanese attackers alone, due to the other ships’ hesitancy. As it repels one ship after another, like “a castle in the sea”, the other ships eventually join, and the Japanese fleet is repelled.
The Japanese lose at least 30 ships. The Korean fleet loses none.
Where tf are all my The Mummy (1999) stans???
Being a socialist living under capitalism will do that to you.
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