I don't have a problem with it. I pointed out that it's not true. The point of Alpha zero was that you don't tell it what the rules are. The same thing learns chess or go, or other games, depending only on the training data. It does still have a tree search, which was insufficiently pure for you, so I gave you examples of similar systems that don't even have that.

but I think you are an idiot.

Given the reasoning abilities you've demonstrated, thanks for the compliment?

There's meme going around where a home schooling mom is bragging about her kid's results on an IQ test. Look, my kid is in the 98th percentile with an 80 IQ, see how wonderful home schooling is, and what a great teacher I am!

It's funny for a couple of reasons.

Brighter yes, but also at least as conceited. To be clear, I don't think public review will prevent reviewer 2 from "suggesting" three to five of their own papers as additional references but that they'll be incentivized to put a little more effort into making them at least relevant. They don't care if you can guess who they are. They do care, at least a bit, about saying crazy things in the public record.

Could be. The aliens saw Independence Day, it gave them ideas, and this was a field test. Best we be prepared.

Slashdot has to get their "OMG third world airlines maintenance/training/etc." in. Because that attitude didn't turn out to be homicidally stupid a few years ago.

When we call LLMs and related systems "Artificial Intelligence", what we are really doing is false advertising. We need a better name. Maybe "Artificial Skills" and "Artificial knowledge"? This whole AGI thing, pretending that current "AI" is a step on the way to actual artificial intelligence, except in that it's another failed step done by researchers trying to work out what intelligence actually is is a big con job. There's no clarity about that at all.

This is really needed because the systems break in horrible ways, such as Tesla cars being able to drive, but not understanding that they are driving in dangerous conditions where their cameras aren't enough and need to slow down. The confusing this is causing is already ending up with people dead.

MAGA wants a brain-drain; thinkers don't vote them.

AIPAC has deep pockets

That's what the iDevices are now. They're artificially limited to try to get people to buy both an iDevice and a Macintosh.

Your argument doesn't represent "effort" anyway. We have protestors against Israel because we are funding Israel. We aren't funding Putin yet. When we are, we can have protests about that, too.

Your whataboutism is whataboutism because you're ignoring obvious facts in order to support your argument. What about this? The answer is obvious. But you're sure that there's some other answer.

It's really whether or not government is in control of corporations, and of course the answer is yes. And that's where the "both sides" argument becomes non-fallacious: both Democrats and Republicans are united on giving them that control, and capital doesn't maintain the commons. It only wants to exploit it.

Indeed: The military-industrial complex has been the home of technology since time was time. Many technological developments have come out of military research. The space program is also essentially military, so its developments can be counted here as well.

You're asking Valve to cut itself off from sales, and make itself unfriendly. What makes Valve appealing to gamers and license holders alike is that games can be on it almost no matter what (they even allow adult games) and there are only some labeling requirements.

What would be more beneficial to me than banning games is to provide in-app compatibility information, so I don't have to go to protondb.

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We got here from somewhere else. But for the record, I blame Microsoft, and I blame 3dfx for enabling them. If 3dfx had done MiniGL from the start instead of GLIDE, then we would probably have never had Direct3D. Microsoft had a basic, software-only OpenGL renderer which was famously used for screensavers like "pipes" and would have likely gone with OpenGL if it was already dominant.

But in the early days of PC video accelerators, everyone had to have their own API, and there were a ton of competing GPUs. There were around half a dozen versions of Mechwarrior II which supported different video cards — I had at least two of them, as I bought a whole bunch of those different cards to try them out. Besides VooDoo 1 and 2 in their times, and then eventually tnt, tnt2, and a gf2mx which are all kind of after the period in which this story occurs, I had a Mystique (ugly), and a PowerVR (slow), and a Permedia 2 which was actually the best of all of them at the time but just a little slower than 3dfx. I know I'm forgetting another one that I had as well, and I didn't even have all of them! Now we have all of three GPU makers, and Intel is looking shaky again...

I'm super thankful that we have Vulkan now and didn't start going back to vendor-specific standards. I think you can chalk this up to complexity. Nobody wants to have to support such things when it takes so much work to switch APIs.

Nobody said it was an invalid comparison. That is not what defines whataboutism.

It's whataboutism because the comparison is not relevant to the conversation.

You don't get to decide what is or is not a mic drop when you don't understand the words being used.

No, it was not. That is just you lying. Despicable and repulsive.