Imo, the primary function of criminal justice should be restorative justice, not retributive justice. So, sentencing should be as long as it takes to rehabilitate a person. Retributive justice can act as a deterrent, but that doesn't really apply to people who don't act rationally.

IIRC, there are few places in the US where it's legal to just plop an RV on an undeveloped lot and live in it all year. I.e. you need a proper well and septic at the least (these are expensive). Many counties also have laws specifically to prevent people from doing this (I.e. only allowing camping on your land 14 days in a 30 day period). Many people break these laws, but they do exist.

It can be cheaper, but only if you give up a lot of conveniences. I.e. you can boondock on BLM if you move every 2 weeks. Would want solar, a large battery bank, and probably a backup generator. Will want to always be conserving power, fuel, and water. If you want to camp with hookups all the time, it would be more expensive than an affordable apartment.

The game still was somewhat of a technical marvel, especially for its time. I don't think I've seen anything like the creature editor where it would allow you to create fairly arbitrary creatures, try to automatically detect what was the head, torso, legs; and try to animate them all correctly. Then, entire creature definitions were encoded into small PNG files using stenography, which could be shared with minimal data usage.

I only tried it a few times in the web chat interface. Seemed worse than Sonnet in that environment. Probably needs more reinforcement tuning for chat. Guessing it was tuned more for Claude Code.

I don't. But, I don't think posts about oral sex are typically the top post on the equivalent of "All" on other social media, as this post was. I could be wrong. I routinely see sexual topics on All here (sorted by Active). Nothing wrong with it, just making an observation.

Lemmy is horniest social media I've ever used.

Is it people deleting specific posts, or people deleting their accounts? I do find it kind of weird that when you delete your account, it deletes all the data you contributed. Maybe it's the right choice though, IDK.

I do not know the reason for the downvotes. I saw that and thought that was weird too.

I'm not very familiar with RL, but this is really cool. I would think it would take years to train in real-time :)

Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCurBYI_gY

From what I understand about contextual bandit problems (I'm a little more familiar with them), I think what you're doing is somewhat similar to "posterior reshaping" in Thompson Sampling to adjust the exploration/exploitation tradeoff. E.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/thompson.pdf

i think he's talking about agentic harnesses getting better, and the new models being finetuned to use them. I don't think the new models are much "smarter," but it allows them to write shitloads of bad code and tests, then iterate over them until they're "fixed."