I’ve been trying to include failure techniques from DungeonWorld’s suddenly ogres in my game. It proposes a few neat ideas for consequences of failure that are broadly applicable to many RPG systems.

Eg, in the example above, maybe the Rogue (truthfully or not) blabs that their source was [ancient evil tome forbidden by the paladin’s order]. Now the complication is not that the Paladin disbelieves the rogue’s claim, but that they might question the rogue’s true intentions.

Edit: Or in the example given about landing a plane. An experienced pilot won’t crash 1/20 times, but what if Air Traffic Control did a bad job managing things today? It will take 1h for the plane to be assigned to a gate, but you need to catch the train to Borovia in 1h15.

An award winning surgeon rolls a 1 while giving a routine lecture? The presentation is so fucking boring that half the students fall asleep. Now the surgeon has to deal with the extra office hours of students who don’t understand this part of the curriculum.

According to memory alpha wiki:

100 slips = 1 strip

20 strips = 1 bar

There are also bricks, but no known conversation rate exists for that amount.

Yeah, but do you want to be the person who has to fact-check every photon that hits these solar cells? I’m sorry, but a lie can radiate from the surface of a star and power your vehicle before the truth can even put its shoes on.

Ah, the Quark approach:

• Take a drink that costs forty slips of latinum to make
• Pour it into a novelty glass
• Add a dash of liquor
• Charge two strips of latinum for it

It’s common in communities where rigid adherence to a set of beliefs is necessary to enforce cohesion. It’s commonly used to avoid engagement with “Facts U Dislike” (haha) by terminating all meaningful discussion.

Part of a flat earth forum and you’re posting an experiment you performed that suggests the earth is round? You’re spreading FUD that should be ignored.

Posting on a crypto shitcoins discord about how this kinda looks like a scam and maybe it’s not a good investment? That’s also FUD. You’re just mad that everyone else is going to be rich.

For a moment, I thought this was inner-sleeve album art from National Health

The stop button problem is not yet solved. An AGI would need a the right level of “corrigability”: a willingness allow humans to stop it when undertaking incorrect behavior.

An AGI that’s incorrigible might take steps to prevent itself being shut off, which might include lying to its owners about its own goals/internal state, or taking physical action against an attempt to disable it (assuming it can).

An AGI that’s overly corrigible might end up making an association “It’s good when humans stop me from doing something wrong. I want to maximize goodness. Therefore, the simplest way to achieve a lot of good quickly is to do the wrong thing, tricking humans into turning me off all the time”. Not necessarily harmful, but certainly useless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TYT1QfdfsM

I think there are real concerns to be addressed in the realm of AGI alignment. I’ve found Robert Miles’ talks on the subject to be quite fascinating, and as such I’m hesitant to label all of Elizier Yudkowsky’s concerns as crank (Although Roko’s Basilisk is BS of the highest degree, and effective altruism is a reimagined Pascal’s mugging for an atheist/agnostic crowd).

Even while today’s LLMs are toys compared to what a hypothetical AGI could achieve, we already have demonstrable cases where we know that the “AI” does not “desire” the same end goal that we desire the “AI” to achieve. Without more advancement in how to approach AI alignment, the danger of misaligned goals will only grow as (if) we give AI-like systems more control over daily life.

Does that mean we no longer have to use an envvar to get Firefox as a native Wayland window?

Precisely

how can an application ship with wayland?

It can’t. The title is not clear about how Firefox will “Ship with [support for] Wayland [compositors] by default”. Previously this native support was limited to pre-release Firefox builds.

What if the DE you’re using is on x11?

Firefox continues to support X11.

Does the user running qbittorrent have write access to the downloads directory? Any special messages in the logs?

You might also want to try running qbittorrent through docker. I use https://github.com/DyonR/docker-qbittorrentvpn. Just make sure that you set the PUID and PGUID to match a user id + group id that has r/w access to your downloads directory.

Looks like an annealer in a glass blowing studio.

Jiraffe: another terrible product from Atlassian

You gave an example of TMZ sourcing photos from randos, but they’re likely not the target customer for this tech. If they cared about integrity they wouldn’t be reporting celebrity gossip.

For news companies posting syndicated images, then those come from a cadre of photographers who are most likely to own the newest most expensive cameras. Surely it’s not inconceivable that as this tech rolls out more, Agence-France-Presse, Getty, or AP could require all photos submitted to them to have this metadata, thus passing the benefits along to any news agency using their images.

If you’re talking about photo sources taken from everyday people, then yes: They won’t have this technology in the short term, maybe not ever. Then again, I don’t get my news from TMZ.

I think blockchain is dumb because it fails to achieve its stated goals while also harming society. I think this is a system with marginal use case and minimal licensing overhead to integrate into future cameras, so overall my take is “not dumb” and “probably useful”.

So then news orgs who care about provenance have to stop copying social media posts and treating them like well-researched journalism. Seems like a win to me.

I don’t quite get why some of those cases require universal adoption. News photos: You just need one big news company to say “we’re giving all our photographers a camera with this tech” and then it serves its purpose.

You see a headline “SHOCKING photo published by MegaNewsCorp will send you into a coma!” then you can validate that it came from a MegaNewsCorp photographer. If you trust MegaNewsCorp, then the tech has done its job. If you didn’t trust MegaNewsCorp already, then this tech changes nothing. I think there is moderate value in that, overall.

The story of this tech is getting picked up and thrown around by bad tech journalism, being game-of-telephone’d into some kind of game changer.

Plenty of open standard live and die by whether or not one big player decides to adopt them.

There’s no accounting for adoption, true. Seems like the use cases still have value though: https://c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/1.3/explainer/Explainer.html#_use_case_examples

As for licensing, the specs are released under Creative Commons, so anyone should be able to implement it.

I think that’s not the problem that this technology is intended to solve.

It’s not a “Is this picture copied from someone else?” technology. It’s a “Did a human take this picture, and did anyone modify it?” technology.

Eg: Photographer Bob takes a picture of Famous Fiona driving her camaro and posts it online with this metadata. Attacker Andy uses photo editing tools to make it look like Fiona just ran over a child. Maybe his skills are so good that the edits are undetectable.

Andy has two choices: Strip the metadata, or keep it.

If Andy keeps the metadata, anyone looking at his image can see that it was originally taken by Bob, and that Fiona never ran over a child.

If Andy strips the metadata (and if this technology is widely accessible and accepted by social media, news sites, and everyday people) then anyone looking at the image can say “You can’t prove this image was actually taken. Without further evidence I must assume that it’s faked”.

I think spinning this as a tool to fight AI is just clickbait because AI is hot in the news. It’s about provenance and limiting misinformation.

EMH was designed to be a doctor, not a janitor. I bet a lot of the work behind EMH was in proving mathematically that it would not harm patients (while at the same time, understanding that some temporary harm might be needed to save a patient’s life). We see how core this is to an EMH’s identity when in Voyager, the doctor goes crazy after not being able to save a crew member.

Meanwhile, Moriarty had no safeguards. That’s part of why he was so dangerous to the crew of the Enterprise.

I use Fedora Sericea, another Silverblue spin, on my laptop. It wasn’t hard to install rEFInd, and it coexists just fine with GRUB in my experience. rEFInd detects that grub is there and shows it as an option, like any other bootable media.

The rEFInd documentation at https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind is extensive, but the summary of how to install is

• Download the zip from https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/getting.html
• Extract it
• Launch the refind-install script. If needs to be run as root.

That was it for me, but the full installation steps are available at https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html if you run into trouble.

The next time I rebooted, rEFInd popped up and I was back in Fedora with no problem.