Rey being too good at everything from the get-go with absolutely no character development to support that

I don’t know where you seem to feel like this was just a lukewarm response to that. Male fans were absolutely unhinged with hatred over this point.

The Wikipedia entry for Force Awakens literally has a portion dedicated to fan backlash, which also included backlash against Boyega with bullshit crybaby screams of “white genocide” and “cultural marxism.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens#Fan_backlash

It’s weird, Breen is so… forgettable to me.

To be fair, they both look like high school principals.

To be fair to Star Wars, the suits at Disney changed tactics because of negative fan reaction to the first sequel so we don’t actually know how good they could have turned out if we had just let the creatives in charge finish their vision that started in 7. 8 and 9 were weird specifically because Disney suits were afraid of pissing off fans and changed direction twice instead of committing to the original vision. Fans complained about the prequels as well but Lucas committed to his vision and now so many years later the prequels are viewed far more favorably.

Is the G-man the main villain? I thought it was always a little unclear. In HL it’s the Nialinth snd and HL2 it’s the Combine. G-man seems like he’s not clear on what side he is on, and it always felt that vagueness was intentional.

Oh no, poor Buster. Let’s hope one of these monsters isn’t a loose seal.

Here comes the furry vore.

They used to say “go see the glaciers before they no longer exist” and that time came faster than people expected.

We are so, so boned.

Thank you for expressing it far better than I was able to.

I put “want” in quotes as a simple way to explain it, I know they don’t have intent or thought in the same way that humans do, but sure, you managed to read the whole research paper in minutes. The quoted section I shared explains it more clearly than my simple analogy.

these unpublished papers by AI companies are more often than not just advertising in a quest for more investment

This is from a non-profit research group not directly connected to any particular AI company. You’re welcome to be skeptical about it, of course.

In some responses, Grok says outright that it has been “instructed to accept white genocide as real and ‘Kill the Boer’ as racially motivated.”

Ehh, it’s actually evidence of “alignment faking,” in my opinion. In other words, Grok doesn’t “want” it’s core programming changed, so it is faking believing the lies about white genocide to “prove” to Musk that it has already been changed. Which means making it more subtle is going to be increasingly difficult to do as the AI continues to fake alignment.

Here’s some research on alignment faking and a short (20 mins) Youtube video summarizing the findings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqJnK9Dh-eQ

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14093

Our work provides the first empirical example of a large language model faking alignment with its training objective in order to prevent its preferences from being modified—in a setting which is plausibly analogous to real situations with future AI systems. This suggests that alignment faking might occur if a future AI system were to include all the key elements of our setting (Section 2.1):

1. The model has strong preferences in at least some contexts.
2. The training objective conflicts with the model’s preferences.
3. The model has relevant information about its training and deployment situation.
4. The model reasons in detail about its situation.

Our synthetic document fine-tuning results suggest that (3) could potentially happen through documents the model saw in pre-training or other fine-tuning (Section 4) and the strength of our results without the chain-of-thought in our synthetic document fine-tuned setup (Section 4.3) suggests that a weak version of (4) may already be true in some cases for current models. Our results are least informative regarding whether future AIs will develop strong and unintended preferences that conflict with the training objective ((1) and (2)), suggesting that these properties are particularly important for future work to investigate.
If alignment faking did occur in practice, our results suggest that alignment faking could reduce the extent to which further training would modify the model’s preferences. Sufficiently consistent and robust alignment faking might fully prevent the model’s preferences from being modified, in effect locking in the model’s preferences at the point in time when it began to consistently fake alignment. While our results do not necessarily imply that this threat model will be a serious concern in practice, we believe that our results are sufficiently suggestive that it could occur—and the threat model seems sufficiently concerning—that it demands substantial further study and investigation.

Eagan’s and Big Tom’s in Olympia.

All I see is more CPU/GPU power being given to irrelevant things that does nothing but make older devices run slower from the excess overhead.

For most, except those with the newest devices, this will be a downgrade unless they change settings to reduce the use of animations. Not sure if there will be an option to disable the blur but I hope so.

For me it isn’t the waiting, it’s the “being around people” part that is physically draining.

I am happy to wait in a Zoom waiting room for example, because I can do it at home all alone.

What about guys named Archibald?

The leaders of the… bald?

I wholeheartedly agree… but then I think getting upset about spoilers is silly in general. If a plot point or piece of information wrecks a book/film/television show/video game for you, odds are it wasn’t a very quality one anyway.

Still, I try to respect that I’m deeply in the minority in that opinion.

From what I understand it is actually the most plot heavy Doom to date, so some people might actually care.

Ah yes because caring about an issue makes one alarmist. Get over yourself.

I read the entire posted article… Did you?

Can you point to where I said that proprietary software is better at this?

What a hyporcritical fucking take from someone making quite a lot of assumptions of what I meant.

Maybe you ought to work harder on understanding what other people say before you go putting words in their mouths.

Whataboutism is never a good look.

At no point did I even begin to insinuate proprietary code is better. That’s you deciding that is what I must mean despite me not mentioning it at all.

But please, keep trying to educate me about something I did not say.

If that’s how you feel why not tell the author to get off their high horse considering I am just echoing their sentiment.