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Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (arxiv preprint)
  • Which is exactly what the paper recommends! As long as you have something that isn't an LLM in the pipeline to vet the output and you're aware is the tech's limitations, they can be useful tools. But some of those limitations might be a more solid barrier than some sales departments would like us to believe.

  • Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (arxiv preprint)
  • For those of you who didn't read the paper, the argument they're making is similar to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem: no matter how you build your LLM, there will be a significant number of prompts that make that LLM hallucinate. If the proof holds up then hallucinations aren't a limitation of the training data or the structure of your particular model, they're a limitation of the very concept of an LLM. That doesn't make LLMs useless, but it does mean you shouldn't ever use one as a source of truth.

  • The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion
  • I started up a new city in Cities Skylines 2. Trying to build a city mate up of little pit stops along the highway with no industrial zones at all. It's been an interesting experiment so far! The game does track the jobs generated by retail and city services, so if you balance it just right you can have enough work to attract residents and use the highway connections to just barely generate enough sales for the commercial zones to stay profitable. And the city as a whole is getting closer and closer to a positive balance in the budget, so I might just pull this off...

  • How to respond to gf saying "I'm fat"
  • First, try to understand what's actually being said here. Sometimes I call myself fat because I'm above my target weight. But in my case my self-esteem is just fine: I'm a former gym rat who knows where I am, what I need to do to get back in shape, and that I'm still okay if I don't get there. Saying "I'm fat" is a light jab at myself and a reminder to take steps toward my goals, nothing to worry about.

    If your GF is calling herself fat more hurtfully (which is sadly common) the issue is not how fat she is or isn't. That's just a symptom. The issue is whatever negative feeling is prompting her to tear herself down. Arguing with her about whether she's actually fat won't help with that, and might even do more harm than good. Maybe ask her how she's doing, remind her that you love her just the way she is.

  • Lies of P Critique (Joseph Anderson)
  • I find your resistance to offering thoughts on the things you share in a forum strange, because you seem friendly and well spoken. Just a quick sentence describing what this video was and why you wanted people to see it probably would have got you my upvote instead.

    Joseph Anderson may have millions of views, but I'm not in those millions. I never heard of the guy until you posted this. So all I had to go on was that its something about Lies of P and it's 48 minutes long. That's a lot of time to spend on figuring out whether a random Internet post is worthwhile or not. Cute cat pictures can stand on their own, those only take a second to look at and tell if they're good or bad, but a long form video really needs some context before I can say whether I'm interested in seeing it or boosting it to other people. And if I don't have the context to say whether the post is good, I'll downvote it to make room for the posts that are definitely good.

  • Lies of P Critique (Joseph Anderson)
  • I downvoted it for the total lack of context. The video title is opaque at best and clickbait at worst. Neither OP nor the video's creator offer any description of what this "critique" is supposed to be. Are we roasting the game? Are we defending the game? Are we trying to give a more fair and balanced treatment than others have? From the post, the video title, and the video description I have no idea what this is or why I should give it any of my time, so I consider it spam and I downvote.

    Generally, when videos get posted to a forum like this I want to see OP chime in with why this video is worth our time. If you're posting it, you should already have watched it, so you're the first person in this community who can tell us what's good or bad about it. That's incredibly valuable! Even a one sentence blurb about what made you post this particular video here is a huge help to people looking for info about this topic, especially when the video is 48 minutes long.

  • AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content
  • Most of these companies are just arguing that they shouldn't have to license the works they're using because that would be hard and inconvenient, which isn't terribly compelling to me. But Adobe actually has a novel take I hadn't heard before: they equate AI development to reverse engineering software, which also involves copying things you don't own in order to create a compatible thing you do own. They even cited a related legal case, which is unusual in this pile of sour grapes. I don't know that I'm convinced by Adobe's argument, I still think the artists should have a say in whether their works go into an AI and a chance to get paid for it, but it's the first argument I've seen for a long while that's actually given me something to think about.

  • Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 5th
  • Mostly Cities Skylines 2. The performance is not great, but it's passable with the settings turned down and the actual city building is really good. Right now I'm working on a big expansion to my city further down the highway, just got the water/power lines run between them so it's one big happy grid exporting the extra to other cities. Already looking forward to the things I'll do differently in my second city!

    Also playing some Super Mario Wonder on the side, which is fantastic. Great mix of easy fun levels and hard-as-nails secret special levels. Very fun!

  • Cities Skylines 2 player feedback
  • Performance is not great, honestly. On my 3090 I had to sink settings to medium to get around 45 - 60 fps. However it does look nice, and even 30 fps is perfectly playable for a relaxed sim where my reaction speed doesn't matter.

    Playability is fantastic once I got the settings lowered. Love the changes to water and power, roundabouts are neat, roads are easier to manage, and the progression system has been surprisingly engaging. I really like the game and I'll definitely keep playing while they work on optimizing it.

  • whats your unconcious sign that you really really like the game you are playing
  • I can tell I'm really into a game when I end up ditching the objectives to just screw around. If I'm following the quest arrow I'm probably just in it for the plot or for some completionist urge, but if I really like the game I'll start wandering off the main path to just enjoy the environment and satisfy my own curiosity about things.

  • Did anyone try to return to reddit and notice it just didn't do it for you anymore?
  • I've occasionally ended up on Reddit accidentally when following a search link. Which immediately blasts me with notifications and pushy requests to browse in some other way than I want to. After using Lemmy for this long, which lets me peacefully do my thing my way, it comes off as really rude even before I get to the comments.

    At this point, I've actually started actively avoiding Reddit links in my searches. I can generally find the info I need somewhere else without getting yelled at by the website.

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  • I vote on every post I see. That combined with the "hide read posts" setting means I always see new stuff on the front page.

    I upvote any post that I want to see more of in the community it was posted to. Posted game news in a gaming community? You get an upvote, whether or not I actually like or care about that game. I also upvote anything I don't have any particular reason to downvote. It's my default vote.

    I downvote any post I want to see less of. Clickbait titles or misspellings are an automatic downvote. Off topic posts are always a downvote. And any post that comes off as salty gets downvoted, especially if the post is salty about being downvoted. I just don't want to see any of that, so I use my vote to discourage it.

  • Are you affected by the ~5 trolls that down vote everything?
  • No matter where you go, upvotes and downvotes are still subject to the Lizardman's Constant. Someone will end up voting in a totally contrary way just to be contrary, or because they didn't understand, or because they just hit the wrong button. No matter how great your content is, it would be weird and possibly suspicious if it didn't get some downvotes.

  • Wish Lemmy Links would target "_blank" aka new tab not the same tab
  • Agreed! Especially since the behavior on clicking a thumbnail isn't very consistent on mobile. Sometimes I click the thumbnail and it expands the image. Sometimes it follows a link. Sometimes going back from a link takes me back to the same Lemmy page I was on, but other times it reloads the page and I can't find the post I was looking at anymore. An option to open all links in a new tab would really help me not lose the post I was looking at when I clicked.

  • Analysis | Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds
  • Hashtags are also a good place to start! For example, if you're looking for science content you can follow the #science hashtag. Once you have those posts coming in to your feed, start following the people and hashtags you're seeing on the posts you like best. It'll start snowballing from there.

    Also, don't worry too much about following too much at first. Get that feed populated, then pare it down later. Filtering is pretty powerful too, so a lot of times you can get the good parts of a hashtag and filter out the bad parts instead of the all-or-nothing following of some social media.

  • The 7th Guest... on VINYL?
    spectra.video The 7th Guest... on VINYL?

    Help us get the soundtrack of The 7th Guest and its sequel, The 11th Hour, on vinyl! Check out the campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/twoguysrecords/soups-on-music-from-the-7th-guest-and-the-11th-hour-on-vinyl Listen to more samples from the album here: https://youtube.com/@error47b...

    The 7th Guest... on VINYL?

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/979746

    > There's a Kickstarter out to produce vinyl records of an industrial rock cover of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour soundtracks, with the blessing of the original composer! There's also a bunch of WIP preview tracks on the Kickstarter page if you want to hear what it's going to sound like when it's done.

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    The 7th Guest... on VINYL?
    spectra.video The 7th Guest... on VINYL?

    Help us get the soundtrack of The 7th Guest and its sequel, The 11th Hour, on vinyl! Check out the campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/twoguysrecords/soups-on-music-from-the-7th-guest-and-the-11th-hour-on-vinyl Listen to more samples from the album here: https://youtube.com/@error47b...

    The 7th Guest... on VINYL?

    There's a Kickstarter out to produce vinyl records of an industrial rock cover of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour soundtracks, with the blessing of the original composer! There's also a bunch of WIP preview tracks on the Kickstarter page if you want to hear what it's going to sound like when it's done.

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    Stauf's Mansion: The 7th Guest and more @lemmy.mods4ever.com eldrichhydralisk @lemmy.sdf.org
    Soup's On: music from The 7th Guest & The 11th Hour on vinyl

    There's a Kickstarter going for an industrial rock reimagining of the 7th Guest and 11th Hour soundtracks, released on vinyl, with the blessing of The Fat Man himself! And there's a bunch of work-in-progress previews posted so you can get an idea of the sound they're going for. Seriously cool stuff!

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    Speedrun @lemmy.sdf.org eldrichhydralisk @lemmy.sdf.org
    The Quest to Beat abney317

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/448485

    > New Summoning Salt speedrun history video! It's the story of a really dominant runner in the Mario Kart 64 community and the new game-breaking tricks that threatened to change up the scene. It's a long video, but Summoning Salt is always worth it.

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    The Quest to Beat abney317

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/448485

    > New Summoning Salt speedrun history video! It's the story of a really dominant runner in the Mario Kart 64 community and the new game-breaking tricks that threatened to change up the scene. It's a long video, but Summoning Salt is always worth it.

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    The Quest to Beat abney317

    New Summoning Salt speedrun history video! It's the story of a really dominant runner in the Mario Kart 64 community and the new game-breaking tricks that threatened to change up the scene. It's a long video, but Summoning Salt is always worth it.

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    Any good adventure games on the Steam Summer Sale?

    The Steam Summer Sale is on and there's plenty of threads asking for great deals and hidden gems. So let's jump on that bandwagon! Anybody spotted any good deals on adventure games in the Steam sale?

    Here's a few cheap and good experiences I spotted:

    Broken Age: $3.74

    Sam and Max Hit the Road: $2.09

    Space Quest Collection: $6.59

    The 7th Guest 25th Anniversary Edition: $7.49

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