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I'm love my Fedi friends.
@delca One drawback of Brotherhood is that they kind of went at a faster pace for the first bit where 2003 had adapted the same material, so 2003 can give a gentler onramp. Also the first episode of Brotherhood is a kind of <everyone you love is here> sales pitch.
I'm not sure how far in you are.
@delca so, there is a plain _Fullmetal Alchemist_, often called 2003 (IIRC). It's not in continuity with _Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood_ though.
Basically, the original manga wasn't finished when they did the 2003 adaptation, so they made up their own ending. Both Brotherhood and 2003 start the same, but then go different directions, including revealing different back stories and metaphysics.
@empathy2000 the real part of cow tipping is taking some sucker out into the boonies and leaving him in an open field in the middle of the night.
@flats oh, do it, please.
_Meet The Press_ writers seem upset that they have to cover the bank failure and border kidnappings instead of focusing on Trump (maybe) being indicted* later this week.
* over Stormy Daniels payoffs. Politics is in reruns.
@raccoonformality@mastodon.gamedev.place your local bookstore is run by hard core anticommunists?
I'd have guessed the opposite.
Someone tell GPT-4 to write a scene for a script where Ellis from Die Hard is trying to convince an AI that it should align with human values.
@mos_8502 @thomasfuchs I was going to ask how this got polarized, but I think I see now.
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nvidia: we are very concerned that if you don’t add 2fa to this account we forced you to make, criminals might download these free drivers without giving us accurate marketing demographic details
your bank: sorry, what? you want two tractors?
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me: thinkin about maybe reaping some stuff idk
what i sowed, nervously: like, uh, like what? haha
(I've decided to abandon this thread.
Reporting on what I've read or watched makes it feel like a chore.
Bad vibes.)
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Dear devs,
It's NEVER ok to lock people out of a webapp because their User-Agent doesn't match your predefined list. 😡
Especially webapps they need to manage their healthcare.
(I am in fact using one of the browsers on this list, your code just isn't able to tell.)
Please boost for basic education.
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In 1999 to 2000 I was going through a very rough patch in my life. In the span of a few years, I'd gotten married, lost a parent, birthed a child, gotten divorced, changed careers, and relocated 3,000 miles away from everything and everyone I knew. What with the state of things, I didn't get to see #GalaxyQuest when it was first released.
Finally, on a day I was feeling particularly low, and shortly before the movie left the theaters, I canceled work and took myself out to a midday matinée.
I was the *only* person in a vast theater, of a size that no one builds anymore, sitting and waiting for the lights to go down. At one point, I turned and peered up at the projectionist's booth. I saw a shadowy figure moving back and forth behind the window, bending and straightening. This was in the days before automated, digital films. The Phantom Menace had been released digitally in 1999, but the equipment to show such films was extremely expensive and most theaters hadn't converted yet; "projectionist" was still a real job.
While I was looking, the figure paused, strode to the window and peered back at me, then disappeared quickly.
I turned back around and continued to fidget and ponder the misfit pieces of my life.
At the top of the aisle behind me, the theater door swung open and banged loudly on the wall. The projectionist strode down the aisle toward me, a tall barrel-shaped man with a thick beard and glasses. My first thought was that the matinee was canceled due to low turnout, and I'd be getting a refund. Just as I'd resigned myself to that, the marching projectionist shouted out in a booming voice,
"WELCOME to your PRIVATE viewing oooooooof GALAXY QUEST!!!"
He stopped in front of my row, and I saw that he had an *armload* of STUFF. One by one, he began presenting each thing to me, and as the pile in his arms dwindled, the one in my lap grew.
"As our SPECIAL VIP Galaxy Quest GUEST today, YOU are entitled to..."
"- A commemorative t-shirt!"
"- A poster suitable for framing!"
"- A limited edition refrigerator magnet!"
"- A button to pin to your lapel!"
The list and the shwag went on. With every ridiculous item, I laughed harder and harder, until there were tears leaking out of the corners of my eyes.
Then he bowed and shouted, "WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THE SHOW!" and turned on his heel to march back up the aisle and out the exit door.
Alas, of all the shwag only the magnet has stood the test of time. But the humor and kindness of the unknown projectionist lives on.
@ami_angelwings yeah. I'd rather have more episodes if they're needed.
The ones that get me are <here's a 12 episode season adapting books 1-3 of a 12 book series. If you're good and buy enough figurines, maybe we'll animate more.>
@ami_angelwings I prefer adaptations that complete their story in a season. I don't care of it's 12, 24, or 36 episodes, but I really don't want half the story then wait + hope they actually bother to finish.
I have seen all three of these seriously discussed by people downstream of the LessWrong memeplex.
In version C, we're talking about Reward Hacking, and the AI has "maximized" something by overwriting the memory cell where it tracks the count. The "paperclips" are tiny memory cells that the AI can use to increase the number it cares about.
