Crunchy

[Crunchy @MrEldenThing]

The inverted world

[Crunchy @MrEldenThing]

@SmoughTown the dark hand shield effect in DS1 had a weird warping effect that looked really unnatural, DS3 made it just a pulsating red thing in the air

[Crunchy @MrEldenThing]

Let Halo die please

[Crunchy @MrEldenThing]

@spqr_sulla Do you actually think he attempted to write the theme “heroes bad”?

[Crunchy @MrEldenThing]

@SandyofCthulhu Stupid questions prompt stupid answers

[Crunchy @MrEldenThing]

this is a muddled view typical of modern techno-lectuals. no appreciation for complex systems or applied practices

complex systems require heuristic solutions. if you have a heuristic that’s effective, more information is *more likely than not* going to downgrade results

[Taelin @VictorTaelin]

In decision theory, the value of information is always non-negative for a rational agent. Extra information only hurts when a process uses it sub-optimally (overfitting, being misled by noise).

So these mastermind doctors see a result proving their decision making is utterly broken, and interpret it as more information being bad. Incredible. Absolute genius.

We make fun of our antecedents for using uranium watches or leaded gasoline, only to do shit like this. We will be laughed at so hard it makes me intellectually embarrassed to live in this period of time.

[Crunchy @MrEldenThing]

@YasuhiroKitao Ahhh,

[Crunchy @MrEldenThing]

@francoisfleuret “electronic parts functionally identical” is doing some very heavy lifting here

[Crunchy @MrEldenThing]

@AesirAesthetics I mean things like Aeschylus turning Prometheus into a hero instead of a villain

[Crunchy @MrEldenThing]

“not x but y”

the pope is a robot

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Crunchy @MrEldenThing]

@QiaochuYuan super complex inorganic phenomenon like a volcanic eruption, nor would we expect a person to be conscious if you replaced all their brain matter with cheese. Intuition says emergent physical phenomena depend on their physical makeup

[Crunchy @MrEldenThing]

@QiaochuYuan 2. intuition and common sense; consciousness appears to be a fragile high-level emergent property of the brain, and based on how you it can be altered or stopped, is dependent on both structure *and* material. we would neither intuit a super complex plant to be conscious nor a

[Crunchy @MrEldenThing]

@Husvero If you enjoy Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls is the closest to that experience. With Bloodborne, the team moved towards a faster-paced, reactive action type of gameplay, which then influenced the RPGs to come after (DS3 and Elden Ring). Sekiro is a fairly distant gameplay model.

[Crunchy @MrEldenThing]

@Husvero Generally speaking, the DLCs to all of Fromsoft’s games have some of their best content, as usually the team struggles with crunch at the end of development, and DLCs allow them time to gestate the ideas which couldn’t properly make it into the base games.