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Quality Assurance in Another World continues to shine.

Yes, it's another "trapped in a VR game" isekai - and we all saw how that would work in real life with ENReco* - but it once you swallow that pill (and it is at least a variation on the regular capsule) the story is handled with more intelligence and empathy than most such.

It's listed on MAL as 13 episodes, which means there's no way in hell it will reach the end of the story. 

I was thinking it was paced like a 24/26 episode run, but a quick comparison with the manga covers shows that episode 8 of the anime takes us no further than volume 3 of the manga - out of 13.  So we probably need three seasons just to catch up.




* ENReco - ENigmatic Recollection - is a Hololive production where all 19 of the Hololive EN girls are roleplaying as amnesiac versions of themselves transported to be heroes in another world.

They were all booted from the game server by technical glitches twice in the first thirty minutes.



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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:37 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 I feel reasonably confident that at least part of the AI discussion now is delusion.  When AI PhDs are telling me that AI can kill humanity, I wonder whether they have ever studied the challenges of killing humanity.  (In general, I find PhDs and faculty perhaps overly specialized, and trusting too much when it comes to everything outside of their specialties.)

Those comments by Dell, etc., convince me that (as people claimed) the point of Windows 11 was to fuck over the established users, and that both Microsoft and the OEMs are delusional lunatics.  I hadn't realized that about the OEMs, I am apparently still naive. 

You make Quality Assurance sound more interesting than I had originally supposed.  (Is this an inappropriate place to joke about how my earlier prejudices about industrial engineering turned out to be mistaken?)

Posted by: PatBuckman at Sunday, September 15 2024 02:40 AM (rcPLc)

2 A Stalinist government would never tolerate woke.
Oz had a Trotskyite government.

Posted by: Kristophr at Sunday, September 15 2024 06:40 AM (iYdVP)

3 Thank you for being publicly sane on the internet with respect to the ludicrous AI hype train. Do you happen to know of any circles on the internet that are grounded about all this stuff? I'm not even necessarily anti-technology, and the actual study of how intelligence, consciousness, and awareness works seems like it could make for an epoch-making intellectual adventure. But the current spectacle surrounding AI is obscene. I'm not even sure if it would be less obscene if these silicon-valley people had an actual approach to what they were selling.
Instead I feel like I've been tripping out on something Californian when I read some slobbering borderline-worship hagiography of VCs promising to replace the accumulated knowledge, skill, and attentive care of all of mankind with whatever the hammer-du-jour is. And then watch the exothermic combustion of all of our retirement savings as banks and investment firms direct firehoses of money to float these bastards to squillionaire status while the price of the real world rises like a flood. Were people always such credulous cultists? Whatever happened to the hardheadedness and groundedness and skill that built our technological world?

Posted by: madrocketsci at Sunday, September 15 2024 01:19 PM (hRoyQ)

4 I'd suggest going back, what, forty years now?  And reading Godel, Escher, Bach.  It explains quite cogently why modern generative AI has no path to intelligence.

As for the internet...  I don't know of any site I can directly recommend.  When you dump hundreds of billions of dollars of chum into the waters, the dolphins do tend to get drowned out by the sharks.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, September 15 2024 04:45 PM (PiXy!)

5 I remember "The Internet" hype train, which at least had the virtue of being about something.  AI in its current incarnation is basically a worthless toy and the associated marketing is even sillier.  I was going to ask if you can eat tulip bulbs, because that seems relevant here.

Posted by: noormal at Sunday, September 15 2024 11:12 PM (bg2DR)

6 Re: 'were people always?' Yes. Slice the engineers of the past into cohorts, and maybe there are some strong effects with decrease in fraction agricultural labor. (Our inferences about the future of engineering are weaker than what we can see engineers as having produced in the past.) Yet, the 'one eyed man, kingdom of the blind' problems of the present blind us to the fact that the past had cults that did not identify as religions, and some of those were probably quite seriously bad. In the eras we in hindsight paint as having competent engineers, the 1920s through 1980s, for example, we can also see a fair amount of evidence for 'educated' cultists of 'the expert', who seem to have been a wee bit destructive.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, September 16 2024 05:34 AM (rcPLc)

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