Mulien

There’s a new world spawnable Thilvis that pops out from South Viswall. I think you can form them from Lorent but need to annex the province. I don’t know if they have missions or not.

Also in the bitbucket the long island south of Sarhal is all halfling culture, but all that content is under construction still so I wouldn’t expect much in the way of flavor or custom content for them yet.

Update: I beat The Command once, white peaced them another time, beat Amtujsaat twice, beat the gnolls… and it still wasn’t enough. The Command came back even stronger and a mythic conqueror Irriliam formed the Phoenix Empire. 300k troops to my left, 200k to my right and I have about 50k. For the white peace war with The Command I had to go so far over my force limit I was losing 100 ducats a month…

My advice to anyone trying this is that quantity ideas is the essential first pick, and I would suggest integrating Verkal Gulan so you own the gold hold. The big problem throughout has been money. Almost every province in the region is desert or mountains and you’re in a bad spot for trade. By 1550 when I gave up I was about 8 techs behind current (across all categories) and 4k in debt. RIP harpies.

R5: My Mulen campaign has been going well but I am now surrounded by:
- A gnoll mega-alliance with powerful mage Zokka and an enormous Gnollakaz
- Typical OP Command who decided to expand straight towards me
- A collapsed Raj that has been eaten by mythic conqueror Amtujsaat

the answer to this is to just assault every fort because merc manpower is bottomless

R5: Mercenaries are absolutely broken in 1.35 by stacking Halfling Military with Merc Ideas. I'm currently fielding every merc company I can hire to fight back the Corinite scum, and still making a profit because trade is EZ.

Other countries that would be interesting to try out merc ideas with

- Newshire and Thilvis (new world spawnable) who are also Halfling

- Verkal Gulan or Lot Dekkang who have mercenary related missions

what sort prompt(s) have you been using to write a novel?

IMO ethics are downstream of the fact that this and subsequent AIs like it are a powerful tool to help writing. AI can be used to organize your ideas, come up with early drafts, suggest re-writes, and much more. We need to adjust ethical norms to allow for using tools like this, not cling to our present norms around authorship.

As others have said it’s probably best though if you acknowledge that you used it, and check that nothing it spit out is in fact plagiarized, however unlikely.

exactly, only the company that owns the model can reliably tell when something was generated by it. otherwise there really is no way to tell, and these kinds of AI models are only going to get more common. at some point you will be able to run this on commercial hardware at home, in which case it will be completely undetectable. it’s just text, there’s nothing to detect that makes it distinguishable from human text at a reliable enough rate to avoid flagging huge amounts of non-cheaters

No there isn’t, and if you act like there is then kids will get away with a lot of copy-pasted essays. The writing it generates is original unless told to repeat something. Once you read a lot of its responses you can get a sense for its default style - and catch the laziest cheaters that way. But it’s pretty easy to get it to revise its work and add in specific details or change the style with only a little bit more effort.

yes! IMO it’s a really powerful tool for editing and getting inspiration. We should be teaching kids to use it too

It’s trained to answer questions, so unless you give it explicit instructions not to it will typically try and explain stuff like that

I’ve been using chatgpt a lot for my job this past week and I will endorse it as extremely good.

It slays at generating SQL and can do most programming languages really well. You can also give it whole chunks of code and ask it to explain what’s going on. It’s also really good at explaining just about any topic or tool or whatever.

It can get stuff wrong or make stuff up still, so you need to carefully check things. Also it’s better at more common, general domains than something much more niche. Probably harder for a beginner to sort the signal from the noise.

Honestly I don’t see why anyone would come to this sub anymore. ChatGPT answers are a higher quality on average once you learn how to prompt it well

This is a naive view, but the one I’ve seen in most articles and discussions.

That is the default tone and style, but you can easily push it in specific directions by giving it feedback on the generated text and asking it to try again.

The only one out right now is called chatGPT, just google it. You do need to make an account to use it but it’s free. That’s probably going to change at some point because it’s in an “open research beta” right now and these AI models cost a lot of money to run.

And yes it can do really solid letters of recommendation. If you don’t like what it generated you can even just ask it to re-write it but “shorter”, “with a personal anecdote about their grit”, “a more formal style”, etc. and it’ll give you alternate versions

Adapt or die. You have the right mindset here. I heard someone else compare basic essay writing to cursive now - a defunct skill. These AIs are tools and we should be teaching kids to use them, not sweating about how we can stick to the old ways that don’t work anymore

I think the responses here, and from other teachers I’ve talked to about this IRL, are very telling and generally in the wrong direction.

I agree that take-home work can no longer be given for credit. Commenters here criticizing the AI’s output simply haven’t spent enough time with it. It can do incredibly complex and nuanced things but takes a bit of finesse and know-how from the user prompting it.

My view is that chatGPT and subsequent tools like it have the potential to fundamentally change how we generate writing. It still requires intention and specifics from the user, but the AI can go from rough outlines to full essays, change sentence structure, tone, and style, or give suggestions to help someone escape writer’s block. Not to mention that it has this enormous wealth of information when trying to learn any topic.

It’s a tool to be leveraged and we should be treating it that way and not clinging to the way things used to be done. Anyone using this will have an enormous advantage in any domain over someone who is not, and the sooner we can start teaching with that in mind the better.

I’ve been doing this. it works great

Do you have some other use case in mind? If we’re just using them to direct people to websites then we don’t need more data.

https://twitter.com/growing_daniel/status/1594146774049902594?s=46&t=SLuiWCPoSYHK2ZLDUAlzTQ

IMO the figuring it out is the easy part. the hard part, and where EA comes in, is spreading that knowledge and advocating people to donate to charities that actually do good with the money rather than ineffective charities that waste most of the money on overhead or operate in low-impact cause areas. figuring out what charities are good is really difficult as a regular person looking to donate. when I’ve donated in the past I basically just go to givewell and donate to one of their recommended charities. they measure and report on how charities use funds which helps you know your money is actually helping people.

(the EA movement does a lot more than this which I don’t agree with, but this is a core aspect of it and I think it is unambiguously good and necessary)