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> This is just as much for america's benefit as it is for Israel's.

Citation needed.


I've always imagined my last few days on earth as being in a nursing home playing Runescape Classic (2001-2003 runescape) with just me and a bunch of bots, recreating the glory days.


Open RuneScape Classic[0] literally has a live server with hundreds of bots for you to do that.. today!

[0] https://rsc.vet


I used to play on the regular world (RSC Preservation, non-bot). There's not enough people. And probably won't be hardly anyone there when I'm old enough to be in a nursing home.

I could join the bot worlds, but I'm fairly certain that they don't talk much or behave like a normal player in general (stumble through quests, make friends, trade with other random players, etc.). They probably just grind skills in some optimal way.


It's definitely sort of that. You can run your own server, as well, though this comes with its own limitations (and inherently takes away from the want for more players). Most of the developers have varying goals with the project. When I was working on the project, my care was primarily for making the game as close to the original as possible using "replays" by dedicated players before the original shut down. It was fun to write code for something that felt like it would give some folks a nostalgia hit.

I think optimally, you'd do something more akin to a "group ironman" with some friends. This guarantees you've got others around.


Wow Christofo I recognize your name! You were one of the founders right?

I'm OsrsNeedsF2P / Red Bracket. Funny seeing you here!


I did write a whole bunch of code for the project! I recognize your name, hope all is well. :)


thanks for your work on RS preservation!


Does AutoRune still work on there with auto catcher when PKing? The concept of "having catch" on another player based on player ID was just crazy. All these weird bugs that ended up being core mechanics of PKing.


Holy shit.

How realistic are they?


same, but honestly OSRS is so good at this point I'd probably wanna be there.


I've been to this museum ~10 times. It never gets old. I take everyone I know there. I like to see their reactions.

New portal looks kinda cool too.


Hallmarks of AI or AI slop? Or are you suggesting that AI is slop by definition?

Let's assume it's a bot. Is the point it's making unreasonable? Is it really unreasonable to refer to eBay's listings as inventory?


std::movable


Was the wrong article linked?

The actual article title is: "China’s AI Power Play: Cheap Electricity From World’s Biggest Grid"


What year was it when you were 18? Facebook was enormous for me when I was 18, in 2008, for similar reasons. However, these days facebook is mostly just ads and generic modern feed garbage content in general.


The headlines around this are misleading potentially. I think instead of "Without Real ID" it means "Without Real ID or other acceptable forms of ID" (such as passport).


Pretty sure Nano Banana only produces images.

Nonetheless, ask it to “create an infographic on how Google works”. Do you not see any excitement in the result? I think it’s pretty impressive and has a lot of utility.


Until people ask it to make convincing misinformation. Pretty, professional looking graphs are already hard to resist.


> "Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without any of the credibility or soul. Magic."

Humans have soul and magic and AI doesn't? Citation needed. I can't stand language like this; it isn't compelling.


I think the "soul" is coming from the fact that a human has worked, experimented, and tested with their physical senses a specific recipe until it tastes good. There is physical feedback involved. This is something an LLM cannot do. The LLM "recipe" is a statistical amalgamation of every ramen recipe in the training set.


Or they just wrote down what their grandma used to do and changed how much salt they put in the water.

Or they read a few recipes and made their own statistical amalgamation and said "hey this seems to work" on the first try.

Or they're just making stuff up or scraping it and putting it on a website for ad money.

"Soul" not required.

Also does an LLM give the same recipe every time you ask? I'd wager you could change the context and get something a little more specialized.


You don't see a difference between doing and tweaking what your grandmother did and an AI statistically inferring a recipe?

How is building upon your ancestors knowledge and sharing that with the world not 'soul'?


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