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Are the Jedi assholes?
  • "You were supposed to bring balance to the force"

    Here's the prophecy:

    Only through sacrifice of many Jedi will the Order cleanse the sin done to the nameless. The danger of the past is not past, but sleeps in an egg. When the egg cracks, it will threaten the galaxy entire. When the Force itself sickens, past and future must split and combine. A Chosen One shall come, born of no father, and through him will ultimate balance in the Force be restored.

    Ultimate balance in the force really seems like it very well could mean "no more Sith and no more Jedi" to me.

  • Are the Jedi assholes?
  • I've always considered, seperate to this larger discussion, that the Jedi are saying one thing and believing another uncritically. They want to bring balance to the force... By eliminating the sith.

    Balance. A state of equilibrium. Notoriously not very well known for existing in a system where one of two elements has been removed.

    "Only a sith deals in absolutes". Complete unthinking hipocracy in the name of the light.

  • Reddit Got Rid of Their World Buffs
  • The writing was on the wall when reddit restricted buying awards in anything but the official app. For some reason, I even have a vivid recollection of where I was in the world when that went down.

  • xkcd #3015: D&D Combinatorics
  • I was gonna say, sounds like a great use-case for quantum statistics. Until the roll, each arrow is in a superposition where it can be said to be simultaneously cursed and normal. Luck check for each shot until all of either are fully gone.

  • Just a little guy
  • Gotcha. My CPR training was so long ago, and the only relevant information that really stuck with me was "the AED will directly instruct you if it thinks a shock is helpful based on what it detects", after that the specifics just kinda fell through my brain.

  • Just a little guy
  • I would personally imagine that you may need to be defibrillated at some point but otherwise probably yes? The toxins are causing the paralysis and people do survive it so I can only imagine that the heart takes back over after a certain amount of effort. Otherwise, I don't actually know.

  • Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework
  • The question before it was a multiple choice question that included "a Harassment threaten to abandon and/or physical or verbal intimidation".

    Seems like it lost the context of "choosing multiple choice answers" and interpreted the prompt wrong.

    Edit: To be clear: This is a garbage hyped-up auto-complete that has failed at the task it's being shoved into "fixing". It's all-around bad. Google is a bad company, Gemini is a bad product that can't tell the time. And also, this particular article is over-hyping a reasonably understandable bad response given the context of the input and the understanding that Gemini is a bad product.

    The product (I don't want to call it AI because it seems like giving it too much credit) isn't just deciding to tell people that they should die, the product is incapable of rational thought and the math that governs its responses is inherently unstable and provides unavoidably inconsistent results that can never be trusted as fit for any purpose where reasoning is required.

    I want to be mad at it for the right reasons and be raging against Google and the current crop of technocratic grifters with my eyes wide open and my course set to ram into them instead of blindly raging off in the wrong direction.

  • Gabe Newell ponders the future in new Half-Life 2 documentary: 'I think that Half-Life represents a tool we have and promises made to customers'
  • The fact is Steam is the only company that benefits from an army of simps ready to defend Gaben at the slightest hint of negativity.

    Well yeah it'd be weird to defend gaben against allegations at a different company.

    Oh, did you mean that gaben is the only person who has a weirdly parasocial fan base? That's demonstrably not true.

  • AI Expert Warns Crash Is Imminent As AI Improvements Hit Brick Wall
  • "This code is giving me a return value of X instead of Y"

    "Ah the reason you're having trouble is because you initialized this list with brackets instead of new()."

    "How would a syntax error give me an incorrect return"

    "You're right, thanks for correcting me!"

    "Ok so like... The problem though."

  • AI Expert Warns Crash Is Imminent As AI Improvements Hit Brick Wall
  • Not copilot, but I run into a fourth problem:
    4. The LLM gets hung up on insisting that a newer feature of the language I'm using is wrong and keeps focusing on "fixing" it, even though it has access to the newest correct specifications where the feature is explicitly defined and explained.