Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

dope@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• nepenthes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “But of course, in Bedford Falls, it was always Christmas Eve.”

  (If there are any Red Dwarf fans)

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  • daneBramage@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Festering and wasting away in reality… that’s me between beat saber levels

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you extremely fucking much. I am always looking for good scifi.

    (I strongly recommend the works of Greg Egan and Sam Hughes, if you aren’t already familiar.)

    There was a similar story in Heavy Metal once upon a time (illus by Corben I think). Desperate people in a nightmare maze running from monsters for years… decades. Turns out it’s all a synthetic reality for rehabilitating terrorists. When they finally pop the protag out of his sensosuit he’s introduced to an eden of lush jungles and big-tittied women. I won’t reveal the punchline.

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    • nepenthes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s more comedy.

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• braxy29@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  so if we were the player characters right now, who the heck picked me, why would they play me this way? couldn’t they have rolled again for better hair? i dunno, interesting thought experiment. 🤔

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  • Ockniel@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think we’re just the auto-generated NPCs, friendo

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    • DragonAce@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup, and the system has a limited number of face combinations when generating NPCs, which is why doppelgangers exist

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  • gaiussabinus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You should try out Rimworld. Find out why someone would play you this way.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Check to see if there is an item chest underneath you.

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    • roboticide@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a funny name for a toilet.

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      • pirat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Have you never been full of hope while opening an item chest in-game, only to realise it was full of shit?

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  • dope@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I suspect that human will doesn’t enter into it. It’s a natural kind of Matrix. Came about by forces similar to friction and gravity.

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• Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think we are playing it right now omg

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• UFODivebomb@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have you tried dwarf fortress? XD

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