+1 for “contact admins.”

This isn’t Reddit, they are human beings you can reach.

Don’t let the stalker “win” by switching accounts. If you do that, just do it temporarily; they’ll get bored after a while. Then come back to this account.

Yeah, this is exactly what I meant, worded better.

There needs to a critical mass of PC demand for us to get anything at all.

It will never bounce back.

The “plan” is to effectively kill the market for personal PCs. PCs won’t be gone, but with the bulk of the population buying phones, tablets, or thin clients, it becomes far more niche and kills its critical mass for platform development.

It sounds tinfoil hat-ish yeah, but… well, explain 2026 to your 2011 self.

I wouldn’t say all “AI” was a grift. Machine learning is a useful tool, like a hammer, it’s just not a magic genie for everything. Always has been, always will be.

Same with blockchain, albeit in a much narrower niche. I do think it’s a terrible system for a widely-used currency, though.

Same with quantum computing. It’s a niche.

The pattern is that Tech Bros inflate something narrowly interesting into a “it’s going to ascend the human race if you give us enough money” FOMO thing.

…And, currently, the next target seems to be space travel.

Again, I emphasize. Very useful in certain niches, like science. Stupendously impractical outside of them.

But see, even in this interview, the lead is dodging code completion questions. As non-devs could interpret that as “AI in the game.”

Where is the line of “no AI” exactly?

While the game certainly isn’t vibecoded, I would bet some Pocketpair devs used an LLM for a Python script, to figure out something in documentation, to point them somewhere over an error, maybe some Windows issue; you know, utilitarian things.

Artists likely use oldschool ML models in their graphics software, without even knowing it. Or maybe when processing textures to finish them. Or to search through assets, or documentation.

I’m just saying, if you’re strict with the definition, it would be really hard to block an entire dev studio from all “AI.” It would almost certainly seep in from casual use, legacy integration, or “oldschool” things like image recognition and processing.

It doesn’t mean they have to vibecode or ship slop assets, of course. When they say “no AI,” that’s what I hear, and exactly what I want.

But I think studios, especially larger ones, need to be careful about labels like “100% human,” lest something come to light that seems to contradict the guarantee.

Or mobile games, which is the bulk of gamers now.

If you have to ask us, not your SO in your main relationship, then yes.

If you can talk to your SO about it candidly, then no.

It doesn’t even matter if there’s sexting or not: if you feel the need to keep it secret, that’s the problem.

I means, I’m I huge local LLM advocate. I look at slop metrics, I’ve finetuned or messed with smaller LLMs for prose. I use bigger MoEs with raw completion syntax to get past writers block and some probably-related-to-neurodivergence issues I have.

But they really are terrible with long-form stories.

There’s no way around it. They just can’t stick to a coherent plot.

And even at the “micro” scale (eg “I’m stuck, how do I finish this sentence?” or “how should this character realistically respond?” or “does this paragraph feel stilted?”) they’re only there for inspiration, or maybe as a mirror to bounce ideas off of. Not any sort of output you could rely on.

It absolutely boggles my mind people think they can replace, or even “double” writers. They don’t think. They are literally architected to be terrible at that, no matter how much koolaid on scaling Altman preaches.

The writing was on the wall for years. I remember memes about Altman in machine learning forums/chatrooms circa 2020, and especially 2021.

Nothing’s changed. Anyone in the space who actually looked at what he was doing, knew. Yet the bulk of the public (and investors) lapped the Tech Bro stuff up.

The source for the original report (The Free Press) seems questionable, per Wikipedia’s own discussion on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_433#Is_this_article_about_a_Communist_millionaire_from_The_Free_Press_reliable?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_397#The_Free_Press

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_425#The_Free_Press_and_Amin_Husain

Also, please try to at least link the original article in the description: https://www.thefp.com/p/why-the-vatican-and-the-white-house

Well, it’s the only way to make Starfield seem alright.

…Albeit only in stills or YT shorts.

Wow. That is one sloppy header image.

Maybe they’re going for “destabilize the U.S?” You know, like the U.S’s explicit war goal for Iran?

Tech Bro.

That’s the popular term. It’s most often applied to tech billionaires, but it covers those who idolize them, too.

I think my favorite tangential application is when Sam Altman had a meeting with some TSMC executives, and they allegedly dismissed him as a “Podcasting Bro”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/business/openai-plan-electricity.html

In other news you all will be thrilled to hear, I finally switched my KDE desktop to Nvidia.

For years, I ran it off my AMD CPU’s graphics, and completely disabled Nvidia display out. It was just less trouble. But I undid all that yesterday, and… stuff just works, as far as I can tell. It even fixed an HDR issue I was having, and KDE’s VRAM usage isn’t so egregious anymore.

Home security.

Get a basic gun. Practice at a range. If you can afford it, invest in security cameras.

I guess you could involve a lawyer if the situation becomes untenable.

Don’t panic; theres a 99%+ chance you’ll be fine.

But don’t ignore the 1%. To all the “it’s just an internet troll” folks: see Jonathan Ross, where one such angry troll shot him dead, just because:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Joss

May he rest in peace :(

My issue is those “smaller communities” for my niches withered away, lost in the depths of SEO and attention machines.

I’m not innocent there. I stopped participating in many in lieu of Discord and Reddit which, in hindsight, I feel sick about. But the draw of phone pings and algorithms and critical mass is very powerful, and that temptation didn’t exist a long time ago.

Reddit’s UX is awful though, at least on the website. But I guess most people use the phone apps?

Do folks enjoy Starfield these days?

Or 76?

I’ve been playing BGS since Oblivion, and my experience was:

• 76 was boring, even with coop. That’s saying something. The world was interesting, but the main and side (fetch) quests were the dullest, buggiest things that kept trying to sell us some anti grind stuff; and this was well after launch.

• Starfield was… well, even more boring. It felt like Fallout 3 with all the jank, 10X the production budget, 100X the graphics requirements (as smooth as a cactus on my 3090), yet somehow, none of the charm. I only played for a bit, but I don’t remember a single character name. Whereas I can still recall little side quests from Oblivion and FO3. Quirks persisted all the way from Oblivion, yet all the fun bugs were patched out. Basically, ME: Andromeda was better in every way.

But, you know, whatever floats peoples boats. I’m curious if these games have grown a following over whatever I was missing.