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From Wikipedia:"Such defeat can be attributed to various shortfalls in simulation capabilities and design that significantly hindered Blue Force fighting and command capabilities. Examples include: a time lag in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance information being forwarded to the Blue Force by the simulation master, various glitches that limited Blue ships point-defense capabilities and error in the simulation which placed ships unrealistically close to Red assets."

It definitely seems like there were issues with RedFors achievments. But the response is still ridiculous. I would have also resigned in ReFor's shoes.


Yeah nobody who's ever seen a ballistic object hit anything is going to mistake that first image for a cannonball that was actually fired at the wall.


> The cannonball crashed into the church and went through a first wall. It then ended on the altar of the Chapel of the Virgin. [...] The cannon ball was walled into the left wall of the Chapel and a commemorative epigraph was added to it.

It wasn't showing the wall where it had crashed through, it's showing where the ball has been mounted into the wall for display.


The Aurelian wall looks like a ball was grouted in as well.


my uncle is a highlander. he was there and he says its a real one


This site has become completly insufferable with the incessant AI accusations IN EVERY SINGLE THREAD, often over the most benign posts.


I think the fact that this happens on HN, where the users are generally more tech-savvy is signaling that trust in media in the online age is in severe decline.

As AI gets better (and there seems no reason to believe it won't for video production) believing what you see online (or on the TV, which already tends to source video for some events from phone footage) will no longer really be a thing.

We have been in a sort of post-truth world for some time but this is a whole new level. Maybe we will go back to newspapers? Physical print can't be switched on you 1984 (the book) style and is delayed enough for there to be some fact checking.

Definitely living in interesting times.


The fact that it was a brand new account just means HN is susceptible to bot accounts with these tech savvy people using AI to make those bots. When the AI accusations are from new accounts like this, I don't think it speaks too much about HN comments as the GP thinks. Not being able to understand that the account is new doesn't say much about the GP either


TBH, some of the text accompanying the photos has the stench of AI-generated text all over it - for instance, the phrase "wasn't just" shows up three times, each time as the exact same sort of negative parallelism. I can understand why someone might be suspicious about the images.


Especially since at any given time 75% of the front page is AI slop.


This site has gone full Tower of Babel. I've seen at least a thousand "AI comment" callouts on this site in the last month and at this point I'm pretty sure 99% of them are wrong.

In fact, can someone link me to a disputed comment that the consensus ends up being it's actually AI? I don't think I've seen one.


You know how the chicken sexers do their thing, but can't explain it? Like they can't write a list of things they check for. And when they want to train new people they have them watch (apprentice style) the current ones, and eventually they also become good at doing it themselves?

It's basically that. I can't explain it (I tried listing the tells in a comment below), but it's not just a list of things you notice. You notice the whole message, the cadence, the phrases that "add nothing". You play with enough models, you see enough generations and you start to "see it".

If you'd like to check for yourself, check that user's comment history. It will become apparent after a few messages. They all have these tells. I don't know how else to explain it, but it's there.


> You know how the chicken sexers

That's certainly a novel and confusing entry in my search history.


I think this might be one of the first times I didnt notice it, but just look through the comment history of https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jackfranklyn , they all look the same.


Yeah on a second look GP might actually be on to something here. Jackfranklyn only makes top level comments, never dialogs with anyone, and I count at least 3 instances of "as someone who does this for a living" that are too seperated in scope to be plausibly realistic.


This article reads like AI


“Comment I don't like is a bot” is the new “Comment I don’t like is a product of the HN hivemind conspiracy”.


The comment isn't saying anything controversial so why would I dislike it or want an excuse to throw shade on it?

It's a bot. Period.


You might notice I wasn't responding to your specific claim about a particular comment but to a later post by a different poster commenting on a wider phenomenon. Perhaps stop trying so hard to insert the idea you want to argue against into posts where it doesn't actually exist just so you can have something to argue about. (Especially given there are many direct responses to your post actually arguing with your claim that you could instead argue with.)


The envoy from the ivory tower has arrived to inform us that actually, we are building taller steeples than ever before.


Burden of proof is on you sir, not the other way around.


There is no proof for things that haven't happened yet.

I just find the belief that the continuous rapid improvements in machine intelligence stopping just short of human intelligence quite arbitrary.


The definition of what we see progress in with LLMs as anything akin to intelligence is your supposition, though.

It's a view I don't share at all. I don't see anything that could be even remotely considered intelligent under any reasonable definition of the term. Useful in places, yes. Intelligence, hard no. So the question of whether it will approch or surpass human intelligence makes no sense to me, because the technology and its progress are in an entirely different dimension and unrelated to that idea or goal.


Core election promise? It was a comment he made half a decade before running for mayor. Perhaps it's time to update your Kool-aid detectors.


It’s as if people can change their opinions about things as they become better informed.


"All programming language documentation is worthless because some developers make spaghetti code."


It continuously blows my mind how few people on the internet understand the distinction between the Old and New Testaments.


You must get along really well with your German friends.


Germany has owned its past, it's harder to say the same about the last four years of history.

But sure, if the US goes through a decade of purges and de-MAGAfication, it may rebuild its image.


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