The effect may be considerable in a few centuries

Hahahaha

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That’s… literally pay to win? Paying real money to skip a grind is the definition of pay to win.

We seem to have different definitions of "win". I consider winning to be the victory screen at the end of a game, not owning things in the game.

I don’t have to be a LOL pro to know that not every champion is balanced equally

They're not, and it doesn't matter. The matchmaking makes a much bigger difference than how well everything is balanced until you're at the top. I've played lanes with bad matchups where I've stomped. I've played in good matchups where I've gotten stomped. Played the same champions on patches where win rates were low and when they were high, and it was the same deal. You can even see this when you watch pro players smurfing in low diamond. They play the most ridiculous builds and still win. The balancing makes so little difference for nearly all players.

There’s a certain irony to your earlier statement about players not wanting to pay for a game “they don’t know they’ll enjoy”, and then in the very next paragraph advocate for a format where players have to either grind countless hours in game or pay real money for each new champion.

If you don't enjoy the game, why would you be grinding any hours or paying anything for new champions?

Free meant that you can introduce new people to the game without any kind of commitment. Few are going to be willing to dish out $30 for a game they don't know they'll enjoy, but there's no barrier to a free game. It was trivial to even get non-gamers to try it out. A paid game is not cheaper if you don't intend on playing more than once.

There's also no pay to win. You pay for more options sooner, sure, but until you rank in the top 1% of players, any character will have an equal chance of winning.

Raw, it's a little spicy, similar to radishes. Boiled, it's very sweet. It can take the place of carrots and turnips in soups.

The simplest preparation that'll give you an idea of how the ingredients tastes on its own: cut into thin slices and boil in water with a bit of salt and msg (I personally like to use chicken stock).

The outer layer is very tough and fibrous, so make sure to get rid of that first. Depending on the quality of the bulb, you might also end up with one that's fibrous throughout. Those are not pleasant to eat, and if you happen to get one of those, I assure you that it's not a typical experience.

I understand the concern, but I don't think you're asking the right question. I would consider goldfish to be sentient, but I'm not afraid of goldfishes. I don't consider the giant robotic arms used in manufacturing to be sentient, yet I wouldn't feel safe going anywhere near them while they're powered on. What you should be concerned about is alignment, which is the term used to describe how closely the AI agent's goals match up with that of humans. And also other humans, because even if the AI has the same goals, you still want to make sure that the humans they're aligned with aren't malevolent.

Is sentient AI a "goal" that any researchers are currently working toward?

It's possible that someone out there is trying to do it, but in academic settings, if you even hint at sentience, you're going to get laughed out of the room.

I use this minimal ffmpeg wrapper app for all my media encoding needs: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.silentlexx.ffmpeggui

I don't know if the GUI has any support for audio, but you can just give it a plain ffmpeg command if needed.

It wasn't that long ago that it was unfathomable for anything other than humans to be able to do this.

Academic Authors: $0

FAKE NEWS

This should be in the negatives. We have to pay to get papers published in these traditional journals.

You can get a pack of frozen hash browns for cheaper than that. Saves time, money, and tastier imo.

I searched through Lemmy posts with that word. Half of them have people asking the exact same question, and based on the answers, I'm going to conclude that no one knows.

One guess that seems plausible is that it's an AI hallucinated word that's showing up a lot because they're using AI to generate the captions.

Bro took less than a minute to find and share this image. I need to know his indexing strategy.

If you're not familiar with European grocery stores, you'll have no idea what Carrefour is. "Supermarket Giant" makes sense to everyone.