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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

There was a warcraft 3 pro who played build orders created by Chat-GPT and it was fascinating the degree to which it was able to perfectly imitate the form of the kind of thing you'd find on liquidpedia or some other guide but simultaneously make nonsensical errors that betrayed that it had no awareness. Like, telling you to build a unit of a different race or build without meeting prerequisites.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

lol, amazing. and I recall this was one of the areas where people fairly successfully (iirc?) applied GAs to synthesising strategy and build order

(think it was for Starcraft 2 not WC3, but domains very similar)

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 4 points 4 months ago

I've definitely seen some impressive machine learning-based outcomes (definitely fucking up the technical details here) but there's a world of difference between a system trained to play StarCraft and a system trained to predict the next bit of text.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 4 months ago

oh absolutely - part of what's entertaining is that the dipshits don't even seem to realize that (or don't admit it?)

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