I’m sorry you had to go through this and are suffering. There are people that can (literally) feel your pain, I hope that can give some comfort.

I’m lucky to be in Europe, otherwise I would (very likely) be dead and broke if not.

Money has no issues with fascism.

Oh come on. We do have the best beer. And a lot of breweries.

Or so they say about the former.

I wouldn’t know. I don’t even like beer 😁. So I really don’t care what is true regarding this.

Yes, that sentence was mashed together, the gunsword is unrelated to the story. For me it just added on stuff I didn’t like or could not relate to.

Interesting point with the mana! I didn’t like the consumable aspect of magic basically because I feared running out of something. Similar to some of the worse paper Mario titles.

It’s fantastic to hear from someone who thinks the opposite!

I respect your opinion.

Mine is: the draw system is shit and the teenage angst gunsword story a hot mess.

Oh you need to befriend me. It’s an absolutely normal answer. As is “well at the rate it’s going humanity is doomed and shits getting worse rapidly, I’m coping”.

In part we agree. However there are two things to consider.

For one, the llms are plateauing pretty much now. So they are dependant on more quality input. Which, basically, they replace. So perspecively imo the learning will not work to keep this up. (in other fields like nature etc there’s comparatively endless input for training, so it will keep on working there).

The other thing is, as we likely both agree, this is not intelligence. It has it’s uses. But you said to replace programming, which in my opinion will never work: were missing the critical intelligence element. It might be there at some point. Maybe llm will help there, maybe not, we might see. But for now we don’t have that piece of the puzzle and it will not be able to replace human work with (new) thought put into it.

That’s not the way it works. And I’m not even against that.

It sill won’t work this way a few years later.