interesting conclusion, maybe you should publish? you seem to have more info than they did ten years ago.

here’s one. it’s a paper from microsoft research researching why so many scammers say they are from nigeria, but the same premise applies:

Far-fetched tales of West African riches strike most as comical. Our analysis suggests that is an advantage to the attacker, not a disadvantage. Since his attack has a low density of victims the Nigerian scammer has an over-riding need to reduce false positives. By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.

i feel like this should take into account the month when the program was compiled, or at least when its process started.

people just wanted an excuse to say a slur, no matter what it was for. at least that’s what it seems like.

most procedural algorithms don’t require training data, for one. they can just be given a seed and run. or rather, the number of weights is so minimal that you can set them by hand.

generative ai is a subset of procedural generation algorithms. specifically it’s a procedural algorithm with a massive amount of weight parameters, on the order of hundreds of billions. you get the weights by training. for image generation (which i’m assuming is what was in use here), the term to look up is “latent diffusion”. basically you take all your training images and blur them step by step, then set your weights to mimic the blur operation. then when you want an image you run the model backwards.

no apology necessary, i find it an interesting question. i was aware of things like worldedit but using a pure voxel editor for terrain work is new to me.

i think the relationship is probably reversed here though, it’s more likely that tools like avoyd can be made to export things for use in luanti and/or bonsai.

but those tools are built for minecraft right? this is a different system with (presumably) a different format, and from what i can see, no builtin terrain generation algorithm. it would be easier to just build one in luanti.

how?

luanti is an engine and so is bonsai. i don’t think they can be “used together”.

i assume that “it’s real” thing would have been more impactful if i knew anything about disney parks.

the only documentary i know that has a twist in it.

why is she burning that bald man

point being that the active firefox forks are heavily dependent on upstream, just like the active chrome forks. if firefox dies, the forks die, unless they can scramble the 400ish full-time devs seemingly required to keep gecko current.

sounds like you want this thing but smaller

if the one i saw on fran’s lab was any indication, your keyboard would have to be about 10cm thick.

i do prefer the theory that it’s just a fifth fundamental force, with no inherent good or evil built in. which is why i like johnson’s nod to the fact that anyone can pick it up by themselves, rather than being trained for years. you’d still probably need training to focus properly but it’s not about “powers”, more about reading the world. less harry potter magic, more discworld magic.

there are certainly moral and immoral uses of a power like that, just like there are moral and immoral uses of… magnetism.

as for the more hard sci-fi stuff… eh. star wars doesn’t hold up to scrutiny like that. it’s a pulp space opera, sword and sorcery in space. a lot of the eu tried reeeeeally hard to lean into the science fiction aspect, but it really doesn’t work imo. i was really enthusiastic about shit like the space ship layout as a kid, still have all the “essential guide” books, but the fact is that nobody thought about that stuff when creating the world like in 90s trek, it’s all just rule of cool. once i realised that my interest sort of waned.

lise is very consistent with the “speech-lines” from what i can see, but maybe there just wasn’t room. you’re right.

about your second point: the text outside the speech bubbles symbolises background noise, e.g. friday i’m in love is playing in the room.

i expected like… a generic file or media organiser. but no, it’s literally designed just for porn. til.