Recent content by TheKillerBs

A river can't run higher than its source. It is statistically impossible for something derived from a set of data to go outside of the extremes of that data. You can, at best, get it to remove the worst of the training data and refine it so that the better input gets prioritised. But you cannot...

And therein lies the issue. It is not real AI. It is a pattern-detection and continuation machine. It scans an input, finds a pattern, and then spits out what should statistically follow, or generates a statistically-likely pattern that fits a set of criteria that was asked of it. That's why it...

How long have you been working like this? Has it actually allowed you to finish a project?

Well, I suppose we could have another breakthrough in AI technology that supercedes LLMs and neural networks, but as far as they go, AI writers will never be better than the best human writers. It's just a limitation of the technology. As for never using AI, well, I do think that there are...

Actually, I would like to reassure you that this will never happen, and it will never happen because of the way LLMs are trained. AI writing is only as good as its input, and its input is the totality of writing available on the internet. All the terrible, barely-started stories on sites like...

I don't think pmmg's argument works at all. They themself admitted that nobody thinks their gods are fake. I also don't understand why bring up other languages on a question about modern English language. Regardless of the subject matter being communicated, the language used should reflect the...

Why are they irrelevant?

My whole earlier point was about using or not using the Tetragrammaton, not capitalisation. Jews do not use the Tetragrammaton, as they view it as dangerously close to breaking the commandment to not use the Lord's name in vain. Generally in Christianity, we have absolutely no qualms about using...

Okay, there are around 2.5 billion Christians in the world and the vast majority are fine with it. The Orthodox are fine with it. Catholics prefer not to use it in liturgy for tradition reasons but are otherwise fine with it. Mainline Protestantism is fine with it, though in general LORD is...

That's just Judaism, really, and they're also uncomfortable with using the title God (you'll often see observing Jews writing G-d instead). In Christianity we have no qualms about using God's personal name (the Tetragrammaton) and the usage of Lord is related to the discomfort of Second Temple...

I guess that depends on what themes you want to explore

The finding out post-coitally is also in GoT (spoiler warning?), and was a major factor in Khaleesi going off the deep end (because Jon Snow was very much not okay with having banged his aunt and his rejection was yet another destabilising force). Re:The Blue Lagoon, one would expect the...

I guess your mileage may vary, but it's usually not a very good place and there's a demon lord or some other problem in that realm threatening to destroy the kingdom/world/whathaveyou

Gae Bolg is cooler, and not just because it's a spear

This is rather interesting for me because I've always considered isekai to specifically be the Japanese subgenre of portal fantasy (with all the associated tropes), rather than being synonymous with it. It seems I was mistaken in my impression