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  1. Dannyalcatraz

    AI/LLMs Plagiarism vs. Inspiration

    That’s what I meant to type. Inference is an operational cost. I was so focused on pointing out that you have to include development costs in calculating profitability that I didn’t catch the error. Thanks for the correction!
  2. Dannyalcatraz

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I’m sure some people who SHOULD be offended by that probably won’t understand the lyrics. As the prophecy foretold…
  3. Dannyalcatraz

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Could be a food allergy or sensitivity, which is a malfunction of your immune system. And if little you grew up getting tummy aches because you were sensitive to onions, older you might have turned that into a “dislike”.🤷🏾‍♂️
  4. Dannyalcatraz

    Today I learned +

    I take a daily vitamin D supplement because I have been determined to be deficient…and I’m a dairy FIEND. I consume one or more servings daily of milk, cheese, or yogurt on average.
  5. Dannyalcatraz

    Today I learned +

    Based on this: My guess is just milk is not going to hit the therapeutic level needed to see the results they saw in their study. Even increasing consumption of other dairy probably won’t hit the numbers they think were necessary to be medically effective. Won’t hurt, though.
  6. Dannyalcatraz

    Friday Fun: Let's Share Weird NPC Ideas

    I made the mistake one time of using a funny voice for a character’s Awakened animal sidekick. …Elvis. I had to maintain that for more than a year.
  7. Dannyalcatraz

    D&D 3.x Still playing 3e? Share your 3.0 and/or 3.5 house rules

    Re: psionics: I thought Hyperconscious was a very good 3PP for psionics, especially for what it did for the soulknife. There’s also a PrCl that combines elements of the SK & PsyWar. Also, Dragon#348 has a bunch of mindblade feats, most of which are cool and/or good...
  8. Dannyalcatraz

    AI/LLMs Plagiarism vs. Inspiration

    You can be done if you wish. That said- since you responded to an earlier, unedited version of my post- I will reassert that there is an accounting shell game going on. In the post-edit version*, I included inference as one of 3 major costs Anthropic is incurring, alongside R&D and training...
  9. Dannyalcatraz

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Don’t get the JD yourself- hire hungry lawyers- you’ll skip 3+ years of hassle. Heck, endow a law clinic at some school so that JDs to be and freshly minted lawyers could get some guided trial work, without having to worry about making a profit.
  10. Dannyalcatraz

    Friday Fun: Let's Share Weird NPC Ideas

    TBH, I’ve probably come up with more unusual PCs than NPCs, but I still have some notable ones, like: 1) in my Champions:1900 supers campaign, the “Iron Man” homage using a boiler-powered hydraulic armored suit with twin flamethrowers got audible gasps. 1a) same campaign world (using M&M...
  11. Dannyalcatraz

    Friday Fun: Let's Share Weird NPC Ideas

    “Toss a corpse to the mimic!”
  12. Dannyalcatraz

    Homebrew A Hardboiled Setting

    Zone of Truth is still problematic, depending on the questions asked. If you ask Legbreaker Bob “Did you kill Victor Timm?” in a ZoT, “No.” could be the answer. If, OTOH, you ask Legbreaker Bob “Who did you kill?”, the answer may be a list- and #7 may surprise you!
  13. Dannyalcatraz

    Homebrew A Hardboiled Setting

    FWIW, all good reads.
  14. Dannyalcatraz

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    As an army brat, our family had to get accustomed to prepping our house for sale, sometimes on short notice. Fix the obvious problems & use neutral paints. If there’s something about the house that could be considered a selling point, take the time & money to showcase it. The last house we...
  15. Dannyalcatraz

    AI/LLMs Plagiarism vs. Inspiration

    Except I’m not wrong. AFAIK, all of Anthropic’s products are AI, and Amodei is claiming their products are profitable, but Anthropic is operating billions of dollars in the red. That doesn’t make sense. Some of the most often cited reasons why Anthropic is in the red is because of the costs...
  16. Dannyalcatraz

    AI/LLMs Plagiarism vs. Inspiration

    (Emphasis mine.) HERO, GURPS and a bunch of other systems allow for this kind of customization. Not saying you’re copying them- they all take different approaches- just saying the idea of taking this approach itself goes back 40 years so. AFAIK, we don’t remove posts for self-promotion unless...
  17. Dannyalcatraz

    AI/LLMs Plagiarism vs. Inspiration

    To clarify further: 1) Amodei is claiming that Anthropic’s products are profitable when viewed individually on their P&L statements. 2) all of Anthropic’s products (that I know of) involve AI 3) Anthropic is currently operating in the red 4) it’s accounting shenanigans to assert your...
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