I made it like 4 seconds before I hit back
Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
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Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#62Have to provide precise instructions to LLMs to get anything useful.
Instructions for operating the "Holy hand grenade of Antioch" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail are a good example:
''First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.'
Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#63I tried to get through the intro but it never seems to end. Is there a game to be played at some point? Thanks.
The intro spun up my fans then crashed Firefox when I tried to resize the window. Switched to Chrome, still spun up the fans and was extremely slow even when just rendering the slowly appearing text. Clicked through a few of the prompts then quit when it seemed like there was no game and it was struggling to just display text, lol.
It’s trying to get that septillion joules of energy
Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#64(Spoilers)
It takes Edgar 54 days to build a swarm taking metallic elements from all sources, including living organisms. But then when instructed not to harm living organisms, it still takes Edgar 54 days to do the same. Extracting metals from humans can't be the most efficient - or even in the top 100 of most efficient, likely - way to get metals. So why would Edgar do that?
Also, how Edgar is supposed to be responsible for ensuring humans do not go to war for energy sources and that new technology can not be used ever to harm humans? Pretty much any high-energy technology (and by high-energy I mean something from the muscle power of a human upwards) can be used for harm. These conditions are clearly impossible.
Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Simply having the page open makes my GPU fans spin to max, and the whole page lags. The text stutters, the orange particles at the start are a slideshow, etc. Task manager shows my GPU "3D" processing at 100% for some reason, even though the page seems to be almost entirely text? Windows 10, Firefox. Nvidia GPU. Not sure whats happening.
That's interesting. I'm on a 12 year old macbook (macOS, Chromium, Intel HD4000 iGPU) and it runs perfectly fine. Everything's smooth, including the particles at the beginning.
Yeah, my iphone didn't break a sweat...
Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#66In case anyone has not tried it, the Dyson Sphere Project on Steam is tremendous fun. A different spin on the Factorio gameplay loop. I completed it before combat was added, and enjoyed the low stress environment.
By completed, I assumed you mean made a Dyson Sphere / unlocked all the research? Or do you mean built a sphere around every star?
p.s. love this game, too many hours in to it!
Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#67Isn't it kind of sad that we seem to have stopped writing science fiction that has any hope of a successful future? The moral of the story with Edgar seems to be to never leverage technology to do anything at all.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, the Culture series, and Vorkosigan Saga Sci Fi does tend to be bleak, these are the ones I can think of.
It's not used to be. It used to be optimistic. But then I guess the creators thought that "real literature" should be more "complex" and started to put more fear and desolation in. After all, as we know, all happy futures are alike and all unhappy futures are unhappy in their own different ways.
Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#68Isn't it kind of sad that we seem to have stopped writing science fiction that has any hope of a successful future? The moral of the story with Edgar seems to be to never leverage technology to do anything at all.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, the Culture series, and Vorkosigan Saga Sci Fi does tend to be bleak, these are the ones I can think of.
> Vorkosigan Saga
Bujold ranks near Terry Pratchett in terms of my favorite re-readable books.
Yeah, it's space opera, but it's damn good space opera.
Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I fail to see the similarity.
Parent is not trying to draw similarity, but contrast: Edgar takes while to get to rewarding feedback (but has rich gameplay), while Flappy Bird gets to gratification immediately (but has shallow gameplay)
Is this a joke? Like that gif of that guy climbing that tower that is just a loop?
Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just made some optimizations. Never got my fans spun up even on an old MacBook, so I assumed everything was peachy, but there were some wins to be had. I was doing a small amount of parsing during the "typing" effect to prevent small glimpses of styling syntax from showing up, and found some wins there. Also cut down the number of particles in the intro animation, though that's a Svelte component that's being destroy…
Simply having the page open makes my GPU fans spin to max, and the whole page lags. The text stutters, the orange particles at the start are a slideshow, etc. Task manager shows my GPU "3D" processing at 100% for some reason, even though the page seems to be almost entirely text? Windows 10, Firefox. Nvidia GPU. Not sure whats happening.
Fine on Firefox, Intel GPU, Linux. about:performance shows it at 27MB and 14% CPU usage at peak.