neilprosser

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Comment · 3 months ago
I do wonder whether, as a group of people being regularly exposed to text written by LLMs, we'll gradually end up writing and talking like that in our normal language. At that point perhaps text written by LLM and human will be indistinguishable. I already find myself using terms like 'footgun' in jest more than I ever did before!

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." ― George Orwell, Animal Farm

Comment · 6 years ago
Definitely one of my favourite games growing up (along with Colonization).

I'm reminded of one of my best gaming facepalms which occurred playing X-COM. We'd been playing the game for ages and had found it very difficult to kill all the aliens during the ground missions. We'd go round the whole map attempting to find the last remaining aliens before having to give up. It was only when one of us accidentally clicked inside the UFO that we realised we could actually go inside the UFO. Our mission success-rate improved somewhat after that 'discovery'.

Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Be careful clicking the above link. Note the three 't' characters.
Comment · 8 years ago
I took that to be the flat notes so b6 would be a flat sixth note of the scale.
Comment · 8 years ago
It got a little dusty in my house when those two boosters landed. I think someone was cutting onions too.

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