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I have two comments. The first is--how popular is FKR really and what do its proponents consider the main example of the genre? I've not seen anyone running a game billed as "FKR". I have played a Braunstein, which I see mentioned in the same conversation, but I think there are some key...

I guess the first question is to define what we mean by simulationism. Sam Sorensen has a recent take that has prompted some commentary. For me, when I think of a world as 'simulationist' I'm looking for a large degree of separation between the GMs role as a referee and the GMs role as a...

I think this would be a great thread.

I have also found these goals in conflict. I think the game expects you to play to drive action forward rather than play to win, hence the stolen car advice. But for me it is hard to get of the 'play to win' mode.

It is similar in the US today (my wife graduated recently). The book in question is for an undergraduate, not med school, course, where this kind of thing is more common.

I find Verhoeven frustrating because his films raise some genuinely interesting themes. But rather than exploring them he takes the most ham-handed, exploitative way to answer those. Flesh + Blood: To what extent are the structures of civilization (marriage, religion, hierarchy) built atop...

This seems like what is happening with AI art in RPGs, right?

Don't think this site is a particularly good metric. It all depends what and how you count (see below). Also it is counting conference submissions...that's why you are seeing large schools at the top. Where are the influential AI labs? --- One selection A different selection

An interesting paper I saw this morning, regarding the use of ChatGPT in the classroom for students learning English as a second language and writing essays in English. They found that students who could use ChatGPT either supervised in class or whenever they wanted did better than those who...

To the extent they are via fine tuning and such, it is a tricky balance. You don't want it to agree with whatever the user tells it, so it has to be somewhat stubborn. But this can lead to it doubling down on false information. Similar to people in that way.

The first time it impressed me, back near launch, was with a sending spell. We knew what we wanted to say but had to cut it to 25 words. I typed it all out, maybe 125, and asked to shorten. It was as good or better than what we would have come up with, and it would have taken us some time.

I don't know..."not worth my time" is subjective, but there is an underlying objective metric, how long it takes to do something, that they could be wrong about. Someone could say "driving to NY rather than walking is not worth my time, because I don't mind a two week walk", and it technically...

"LLMs often return untrustworthy results" is a pretty unobjectionable statement. The jump to "Therefore LLMs have no use cases/LLMs only produce slop" is what I see as getting pushback.

The ideal use case is where the user can verify but production would longer than verification. I posted an example of Terence Tao using it to speed up a search for numerical examples earlier. This is also the case with "deep research": I could find the sources manually in a library but it would...

The point of my reference to deep research is that it isn't the result of all searches. LLMs are most effective when they compile and summarize references and include links to those references. Most of the criticisms of LLMs in this thread seem to be based on an outdated or improper use of...

I don't see anything about the "deep research" tool in that post or the linked article. Am I missing something? Have you used it? Likewise, how does this relate to my claim "deep research leads to fewer (!= zero) hallucinations and more easily verified references"?

It will take a few years to shake out I think. The current AI investment is probably a bubble so there will be some drawdown. Once that happens, do companies keep using it, or move on? Do those that use it do better? That will be the test. Man, I see these very obviously generated listings...

If I understand @Umbran right, the argument isn't that people are morons. It's that OpenAI (etc) have invested a lot in making a product that is enjoyable and pleasing to use and this kind of hijacks critical thinking skills even in very smart people. For example, there are studies that show...