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Ah I see where you are coming from now. I read the bi-directional trust as meaning that the employee/player is supposed to trust that the management/GM has their best interest in mind. But I can see your angle too.

I'd agree with that. The quilt under medieval period armor should help against spalling and fragmentation. There are supposedly pros and cons for ceramic vs modern steel plates and that's one of the pros of ceramic plates. It's actually pretty amazing what modern steel plates can stop.

I was wondering if someone would ask what I consider complex to be :) The "having more moving parts" is related to complexity in its original meaning. Having more moving parts is ok, as long as they are understandable in isolation and work together. Etymologically speaking, simple derived from...

I'd like to see some statistics backing this up. I've seen articles (such as this one) that shows that body armor does save lives. Now, there is a bit of semantics here. There is kevlar, and there are ceramic plate armors (and steel too). Modern body plate armor is rated IIA - IV as...

I will stand with you on both those hills :D I have a kinda-sorta corollary to the 2nd one. Rules-heavy or crunchy rules do not have to: Have a huge page count explaining every possibility and nuance Be more complex than "simpler" rules

It depends on your perspective. Are you looking at "trust" from a player's perspective or a GM's perspective? Or from Snarf's take, from the employee's or manager's perspective? Seen from the GM/manager's perspective, the trust means "I trust my players/employees". The way you are seeing it...

Okay, my mind must be in the gutter because lowering thrust immediately put an image in my mind that probably wouldn't be PG rated :) I'm going to assume you meant lowering trust As for the rest of the points, I tend to agree. It's the unfortunate situation pretty much everything gets put in...

I haven't played D&D in a looong time, but by the definition given above, I prefer "low-trust" game design, but perhaps for different reasons than most. I am a software engineer, and for the majority of my career, have worked with and contributed to Open Source software. Open source seems like...

Maybe I am odd, but I rarely play characters who are very much different than me...on purpose. I like to think "what would I do in those shoes?" Playing a character that strays far from my own personality, beliefs, quirks etc is not something I generally do. When I want to be "someone else"...

And perhaps ironically, people are uncomfortable that we are also just biological machines. While I think AI can be incredibly dangerous, much of my defense of AI is essentially, "should true AGI have the same rights as humans?" or alternatively "Humans are in essence organic computers, so what...

Reading this, it sounds more like a horrible case of identity theft than anything else. It even says in the article that someone could tell the writing style was different from the author, but initially chalked it up to the real author experimenting with a new narrative style. I mean, it is...

Sure, like I said, it's how the text is used that matters the most. Which is why I gave the example of memorizing a play. Perfectly fine to just have it in your head, but once you start giving performances or narrating books, then that's another story. Plagiarism and copyright violations are...

I also know the argument will come up that you can't store works electronically without the author's permission. I have a different take on this. As i mentioned, if a human with photographic memory could memorize an entire book, is that legal? If the answer is, yes, what makes us special...

I'm curious what the prompts were. I haven't actually found the prompts used to make LLMs reproduce text verbatim. Is it different than asking for a summary or reference? If the text is copied verbatim without some kind of reference in the prompt itself, that would be a problem...but also not...

I'll have to take a look at Le Ton Beau de Marot then. GEB was very fascinating, and I read it my senior year of Computer Science. I should go back and read it again. I do recall Hofstadter being a little harsh on Zen (though I wish he called it Chan, because Chan is older than Zen). So it's...

100% agree. I know someone who is really into Transhumanism, both fiction and reality. He's really, really hoping that there will be some kind of mind/consciousness download before he dies so that he can achieve immortality (ala Altered Carbon or GURPS Transhuman, or Posthuman Studio's Eclipse...

Depends on the model architecture. Reinforcement learning may update weights based on past experience. There's also bayesian weights that have conditional probabilities and some other architectures that can have stochastic weights/biases. Also, I'm not a data scientist, I'm actually an SDET...

Again, this is not true in all cases. In some cases, yes, for proprietary reasons, companies don't divulge either the data used, initial parameters, and/or the model architecture. But for other cases, we simply don't know how it works, only that it does through experimentation. It's not just...

To be more accurate from my earlier post, some companies do purposefully obfuscate how their models work. But from what I have been reading, once you get a million feature parameters (ChatGPT was over 100 million, and new LLM's are over a billion), basically the scientists can't explain how...

No, this is not just a lack of documentation. The model layers have become so deep, that the data scientists developing them can no longer explain how the program is able to solve the problem in the way that it does. Hence, emergent behavior in these LLMs. An example of this is that GPT-4 was...