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  1. Arden

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    A dragon with lots of eyes all over its body. Neat.
  2. Arden

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    AI isn't going to be able replace quality creative artists- including writers. It will replace the ones who produce stale, rote, iterative content, which is ok with me. For talented artists, AI will be (and already is) a valuable tool to help generate ideas and push past writer's block...
  3. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Long for a return to feudal times, huh?
  4. Arden

    The D&D thread

    I take a much more streamlined approach. For anyone new wanting to play in one of the campaigns I run, I say "Hey, just FYI, I run dark and gritty R rated games. You ok with that?" That's it. I never really find anything more than that is needed. Adults shouldn't need anything other than...
  5. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Slot me 500 nuyen chummer, and I'll tell ya something you'll wanna hear.
  6. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I don't have that much. Contemplating selling what I have but I'll probably just let it sit
  7. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Lol @doge. When you log onto Twitter now there's a pic of the doge shib front and center. Up 22ish%. Glad i held on to the 5k or so doge I've kept lying around. Ofc I'm nor sure if this is bullish for doge or it just signifies the end of twitter. Where's @Izo - aren't you a doge holder?
  8. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    So what's the global reserve currency right now? What's it going to be in a year? 5 years?
  9. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Afaik the USD is still considered the global reserve currency, but maybe you know something I don't know...
  10. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Joking?
  11. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Yeah I don't think enough of the global economies will. You have to think economic power rather than just raw population numbers. The easy majority of the world's economic powers are Western. That's actually what makes me kind of bullish for BTC becoming the world's reserve currency. There's...
  12. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Yeah I'm no geopolitical expert but I have a hard time believing the Western world would trust China and Russia to manage a global currency standard.
  13. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Best to listen when Burry speaks. He has predicted 29 of the last 3 crashes.
  14. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Shit...
  15. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Yes, that's why I made sure to add "unwise" in addition to "shady." Crypto is definitely the shadiest of the shady, but don't think there isn't quite a bit of shady stuff going on with normal banks too. The deeper they dig (assuming they dig), the worse it will get.
  16. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Or both! At this point, it's pretty clear most (or all) of U.S. financial institutions have been doing shady/unwise things. Edit: It's funny, both Fox and CNN recently did eerily similar segments on the weakening of the USD and the financial threat from a China/Russia/Iran/Saudi Arabia. Just...
  17. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    They are finally waking up to the threat.
  18. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Really puts it into perspective how shitty USD is compared to something like BTC. BTC is superior in every way but utility. I think that's why mass adoption and increased utility for BTC is such a terrifying concept to the Fed.
  19. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Right, certain currency issues aren't ever going away. But the fact that a government can't simply print more BTC when they want to gives BTC an innate advantage over USD. That and its inherently deflationary nature.
  20. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I actually agree with you that it's really unlikely we will ever get to the point where we are ditching 3rd party custodians or transaction facilitators in the currency markets. But banks aren't the entire problem, they are only part of the problem. The other part of the currency problem is...
  21. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Seems like the strategy is to attack crypto indirectly by attacking all of the exchanges. I guess the idea is if you make crypto hard to buy, you can kill mass adoption
  22. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    You using 4, or still messing with 3?
  23. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    GME
  24. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    LMAO
  25. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Probably true. That's why I said "feels like." I hate buying on the back of a big gain, but I have zero doubt we will get back above 60k, so (like you said) buying at 28k isn't chasing.
  26. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

  27. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Buying on the back of a 26% gain in 8 days sure feels like chasing. Buying now feels like you're late to the party. You should have bought 7 days ago. But who the hell knows? It could go up 200% in the next month. Normal rules don't exactly apply in these times...
  28. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Yeah, I held every coin I had over the last year and I'm glad I did. But buying at this exact second would feel a lot like chasing
  29. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Yep, pretty easy to jailbreak current AI but I agree it wouldn't be helpful with gpt 3. Gpt 4 or Bing however...
  30. Arden

    Chat GPT AI

    That's a long article lol. You happen to know if they are ever intending on releasing it to the general public, similar to what they did with GPT3? Or is 4 always going to be for paying customers only?
  31. Arden

    Chat GPT AI

    So general public only has access to chat gpt 4 through its integration in Bing ATM, right?
  32. Arden

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    anyone with crypto still on an exchange, esp binance, should be advised
  33. Arden

    AI images

    Dude that's so much better than the shit I just generated trying out Midjourney lol. Not sure why yours looks so much better than mine. Ok I'm going to read some of that stuff you posted- obviously my prompt writing sucks
  34. Arden

    AI images

    Honestly getting close would be good enough in this case. With the two I tried, I put in a prompt like: "fantasy art in the style of Keith Parkinson of a group of 4 adventurers fighting off a hoard of monsters in front of a massive gate." Or something similar. What I got was completely...
  35. Arden

    AI images

    I fucked around with 1 or 2 of those image generators trying to see if I could use them to illustrate a fantasy RPG I'm making. Honestly had zero luck with it. Everything Looked like shit. Maybe I was doing prompts wrong. Any of you who have messed around with midjourney think it could be...
  36. Arden

    The D&D thread

    PF2 or PF1? Edit: Never mind looks like it is only available on PF2
  37. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, FWIW I never said anything about OpenAI fucking anyone, including Google. What I said was that the emergence of useful AI and how it can be integrated into search engines (among other things) will fuck Google if they fail to adapt very quickly. Like you mentioned, everything I'm reading...
  38. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    No idea how credible Paul Buchheit is, but this definitely caught my eye: Gmail creator warns Google is 'only a year or two away from total disruption' because of AI like ChatGPT I'll leave it to others to argue about the difficulty of implementing ai into a search engine, but I guess my point...
  39. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    Oh I know they have ai, but from what I've read they are very behind. Also it seems like the very nature of how ai is used would likely destroy their current business model. I'm no expert though, just going off things I'm reading
  40. Arden

    Investing General Discussion

    After messing around with AI stuff for the past month, my feeling is Google is going to be fucked in the near future unless they have a super secret AI program nobody knows about.