Here’s one for a TV show.

In 2022, a crack quality assurance team was made redundant by a CTO for a botched product launch they didn’t commit.

These men promptly escaped from a maximally unstable job market to the LinkedIn underground.

Today, still wanted by recruiters, they survive as soldiers of fortune.

If you have a broken codebase, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the QA-team.

An LLM trained on the PoE ingame chat would try to solve all my problems by asking to buy my Kaom’s Sign Coral Ring for 1ex.

That has happened to me… twice. Once they sent spam to abuse@<domain> and once to postmaster@<domain>. Both of those are “well-known” addresses that received one spam mail each.

Having your own domain with a catch-all address is rare enough that spammers don’t seem to try to target it.

Meanwhile I set up straight-to-spam rules for a handful of companies that leaked my email address. Very useful.

It’s known that AI companies will harvest content without care for its veracity and train LLMs on it. These LLMs will then regurgitate that content as fact.

This isn’t a particularly novel finding but the experiment illustrates it rather well.

The researchers you consider to have acted so immorally did add useless information to the knowledge pool – but it was unadvertised, immediately recognizable useless information that any sane reviewer would’ve flagged. They included subtle clues like thanking someone at Starfleet Academy for letting them use a lab aboard the USS Enterprise. They claimed to have gotten funding from the Sideshow Bob Foundation. Subtle.

By providing this easily traceable nonsense, they were able to turn the generally-but-informally known understanding that LLMs will repeat bullshit into a hard scientific data point that others can build on. Nothing world-changing but still valuable. They basically did what Alan Sokal did.

Instead of worrying about this experiment you should worry about all the misinformation in LLMs that wasn’t provided (and diligently documented) by well-meaning researchers.

Doesn’t the EU already have a military defense pact built in? Under the Mutual Defense Clause (Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union), all EU members are required to defend each other is directly attacked. The Common Security and Defence Policy guides military cooperation. There are transnational brigades and everything.

We need to do better in that regard but we already have a lot of what you’re proposing. Chuck in an alliance with Canada and we’d have most of NATO’s functionality covered.

There’s also the less self-empowered variety where the transferred person not only looks and behaves like an exaggerated Barbie doll but is supposed to become that airheaded. Like so often, the lines between these varieties are blurry.

By the way, I find it rather telling that bimbo fetish is becoming more popular at a time when all of the MAGA women are doing their best to look like mass-produced plastic dolls… Exposure does a lot to drive preferences.

Right. Safe Search doesn’t matter because Google Search has been outclassed for a while now. There’s no drawbacks… other than the fact that apparently OP gets told about this every single day.

The term “nonspell” would be available if the only relevant distinction is whether it’s a spell or not.

Still sounds like a badly chosen name to me. Calling a category “weapon attack” when not all attacks within it are attacks with weapons makes it wide open to misinterpretation, especially when in some cases it’s relevant whether a weapon is used or not. The fact that it took you two long paragraphs to explain the difference between a weapon attack and a weapon attack with a weapon illustrates this rather nicely.

Distinguishing “spell/nonspell” or “spell/weapon/unarmed” would’ve solved the issue without this whole “weapon but not really” song and dance routine.

Melee weapon attacks not being attacks with a weapon sounds like a prime example of badly written rules.

A few additions:

The solar industry didn’t just lose subsidies, the government actively tried to prevent the installation of new solar panels.

The nuclear exit actually made a bit of sense; our existing NPPs were mostly old and extending their like was getting increasingly uneconomic. At the same time we had very few locations where new ones could be built. They actually had a solid economic case for the nuclear exit.

They even had a good plan for the exit itself, letting existing contacts run out and simply not renewing them. Then they decided to exit the nuclear exit, renewing all of the contracts. Then, after the Fukushima disaster, they decided to exit the exit from the nuclear exit and immediately terminated all contracts, having to pay large penalties for the early termination.

For twenty years they followed the “Black Zero” plan, which amounted to trying to incur no new debt on the federal level whatsoever, no matter what. As a result, they spent basically nothing on infrastructural upkeep and the army and then suddenly found themselves having to take on 100 billion euros in emergency debt because bridges were collapsing, trains had no usable tracks and the Bundeswehr is unable to actually fight.

The CDU/CSU are mind-bogglingly inept at handing the economy.

And some of us might not even be in Italy.

Maybe they’ll try to start a second solar industry so they can kill it off again.

There are also some subtle variations in agnosticism.

There’s the soft variety that says “there is no proof that convinces me either way but I won’t rule out that someone could come up with one”.

There’s the hard variety that says “I don’t think it’s possible to prove either way”.

There’s even a variety that says “it doesn’t matter whether (a) god exists or not, hence there’s no need for a proof”.

But yeah, the core of agnosticism is that you don’t believe the existence of (a) god has been conclusively proven or disproven and are unwilling to commit either way without that proof.

You never got hammerstung by a river elf? You must’ve lived a sheltered life.

Traffic circles are. Roundabouts are okay.

I am kinda giving them shit for when someone pointed out that they’re essentially storing PII completely unsecured and their response was “you should use app isolation anyway”. That is not a good security model.

Okay, new scheme: Every continental shield is a continent. Everything not on one is terra incognita. Continental platforms are just delusional sea floor.

Certainly that classification won’t lead to any confusion.

Jumping Cubes is the kind of game that works really well on a PC and has super simple rules but is absolute hell in real life.

That game on the Risk board was fun, though. IIRC North America in particular tended to have those terrible chain reactions that just kept going and going.

In addition to what has been mentioned already, Garuda is an Arch derivative where convenience is the whole point. No install scripts, just your usual live ISO with a Calamares installer plus a bunch of convenience utilities once you’re set up.

It’s not exactly lightweight by default but it does make for a very comfortable Arch experience.