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  • It’s still leagues ahead of LLMs. I’m not saying it’s entirely impossible to build a computer that surpasses the human brain in actual thinking. But LLMs ain’t it.

    The feature set of the human brain is different, in a way that you can’t compensate for by just increasing scale. So you get something that works but not quite, by using several orders of magnitude more power.

    We optimize and learn constantly. We have chunking, whereby a complex idea becomes simpler for our brain once it’s been processed a few times, and this allows us to progressively work on more and more complex ideas without an increase in our working memory. And a lot of other stuff.

    If you spend enough time using LLMs you must notice how their working is different from your own.





  • Of course I knew about CD Projekt Red and Paradox. Somehow the titles I mentioned caught me by surprise.

    About France, you could have named Arkane. They did Dishonored which was really really good.

    Only Italy does not seem to have a gaming industry to speak of.

    On mobile, why would I play Angy Birds when I can play Dead Cells (free right now in the Epic Store for Android, though it’s well worth paying for)? Though I have to admit I’m kinda addicted to the open source goodness of Shattered Pixel Dungeon and Mindustry. Likely not made in Europe, but so good, and you can get then straight from F-Droid.


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    Been there, done that.

    I bought a new 4K screen for my home office, to use with my work ThinkPad T480.

    Actually had to switch from Konsole to Kitty because my old-ass laptop had scroll lags on the big screen when moving around in neovim.

    Edit: It was neovim, I’m not living in 2005.






  • Do the rates matter? Does covering everyone cost extra?

    Law shouldn’t discriminate for sex or gender or race or a bunch of other things (yes there can be rare exceptions where the biological sex does matter, e.g. abortion, but can we read a whole paragraph without whaboutism?)

    People go through a ton of effort to explain how it’s perfectly possible (and common) to write laws with sexist results even using neutral language.

    And yet when we need to do the reverse, write laws that are meant to combat discrimination and and inequality without having to spell out and pick each specific group it’s meant to protect the same people go “nope, sorry, can’t be done”.

    Edit: Think of the so-called “pink quotas” argument. Does it make a difference to write that you need at least 30% women, or to write that you need at least 30% of each sex? Practical results is exactly. the same, but one of the two is written neutrally, and I think there is value in that. Don’t you?