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counterpig | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2

You are A, a peasant living in the kingdom of Larion. You have a pitchfork and a nothing else. You wake up and begin working in the fields. You see your wife and son who you haven't seen for years > Talk to them

"Hey honey, how's it going?"

"It's going good, but I'm worried about our farm".

"What do you mean? It's doing great!"

> ask where they have been for all these years

"I've been looking everywhere for my family! They must be dead or something". "No, no, they're not dead, we just...we lost contact with them once before". "Oh..".

> oh fair enough, what's all this about the farm?

"We used to own a farm here, but one day, someone came by and stole everything! We didn't even get any money back!". > Nah, I'm working it right now. What are you on about?

"Well, we don't know who did it, but we think that whoever it was, they took some of our crops too". > crop thieves eh? Well we'll soon find em

"Yeah, I bet they did! Look, I'll go look for them myself, but I need your help". > help wife

"Sure thing, but don't take long, I want to make sure I can finish up before I start searching around for my family again". > find the lord

"Alright, well I guess I should head off to look for my family then". > yes piss off

"Hah, yeah right. I won't be able to help you anyway, because I don't know anything about farming". > stop talking to loser

"Fine, fine, whatever, I'm done talking to you". > leave

"Hmmm, I wonder if I should follow you to your house, or not..". > Dude SHUT THE FUCK UP

"Shut the up , I'm not listening to your little story anymore". > Question his sexuality

"Well, I dunno, maybe you're ?". > climb a tree

"Don't touch me there, you furry ". > my word

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to your story". > What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

And with those last words, he disappears from your sight > Find family

You decide to search for your family, you figure you might as well at least try since you were pretty sure they weren't dead. You walk through the fields until you see two figures walking towards you. One of them is carrying a large stick > Nice stick

The other one is holding a small pistol > Talk to pistol boy

"Hello, I'm looking for my family, I saw your friend run off into the woods and I thought I'd come looking for him".

> "Whoa, hold on, let me just check, I think he went this way", he says while pointing to a distant hill. hill folk is he?

"That looks like the direction we ran off to, thanks man". "You're welcome, I'm glad you found us, I really am". He smiles and waves goodbye. As you continue walking, you notice a few more people coming out of the woods > stab them

"Look out behind you, we're gonna have to keep moving, they're after us". "Good luck with that, I hope". You continue walking until you reach a bridge that spans a river. There are several people standing on both sides of the bridge watching you intently > scream a racial slur

"Hey, hey, hey, look over there, that's a * over there, look how friendly he is, isn't he sweetie?" "What the , that's a dirty ape over there!"

> lmao jesus christ

"Oh come on, that's no monkey, that's a white guy". "No, that's a , a Chinese person" > hahaha

"I knew it, that's a Chinese person!". "A Chinese person?! That's an Asian person! A real Asian person!" "Yeah, I'm sorry, I guess you must've got mixed feelings about that" > okay please stop now

"Oh come on, I'm not racist, I mean... I'm just saying that's a Chinese person" > Oh shit the algorithm has become self aware. And it's a republican

"I know what you mean, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that, I'm sorry"m just trying to amuse myself > Oh shit

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..". > What is your name?

"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay". > What is your name?

"It's... It's..". >

What is your name Google must have shut it down It then crashed

counterpig | 6 years ago | on: Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation

The charges from Sweden have been dropped and bought several times depending on their usefulness to the Americans it is not a case of the system working as intended.

It is a foreign power putting diplomatic pressure on the Swedish government to put pressure on a man who has embarrassed them.

counterpig | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best ways to spend money towards climate efforts

Maybe look into investing in triodos bank or something similar.

A lot of the changes that need to happen are quite costly and realistically unless you are a millionaire there isn't a lot you can do to fund a solar or wind farm on your own. But by investing in an ethical bank with a focus on renewable energy you can pool money with other like minded investors to fund these projects.

Another option is a p2p lending platform like abundance https://www.abundanceinvestment.com/investments

But bare in mind these are pretty risky investments.

You could also make steps to reduce your own carbon footprint e.g purchasing solar panels or something similar. Or if you have access to a renewable energy provider or a provider with a green tariff consider switching.

Finally aside from money, investing your time in your local government to make it clear you think they should be doing more is potentially more impactful. Especially if you are based in the US.

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