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by avaer 19d ago
Skills are mostly snake oil, the way people use them (the aspiration to download kung foo from a celebrity). There was a time when maybe it mattered (last year), but with good repos and good prompts today's agents can find exactly what
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by avaer 20d ago
It's not legal. And in any case it's not abandonware, they're still actively selling these games (maybe not these exact versions, but I doubt a court would see that as a distinction with a difference).
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by avaer 20d ago
1) So the backend can track you across fingerprinted links 2) So you can't know what's searched without getting tracked You're the product, not the customer.
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by avaer 20d ago
Would be useful to know who gave the order (article doesn't say). It could be an Insta mod messed up, a blame the AI situation, the company self-censoring, or maybe a threatening DM from the government. All of which have precedent. Har
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by avaer 21d ago
This is the first time I've been accused of not spinning up an app at my expense to win a meaningless argument on the internet.
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by avaer 22d ago
You could script this in with a time database, illustrations, and appropriate harness, tests, and editing passes. It's a massive problem with human authors too, which is why they do a lot of lorekeeping and editing, so the AI should be
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by avaer 22d ago
I would trust 4chan more than I trust Twitter aura farming.
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by avaer 23d ago
What I'm suggesting is if you want a certain semantic part of the scene to have a specific design or fidelity (say an interactive object, point of interest, character, or parts thereof), you can generate it via image and then use princ
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by avaer 23d ago
> Opus 5 is just as good for this tbh and cheaper. It depends on the fidelity, there's a threshold slightly over "low poly" that Opus cannot get over. Once you get into creating foliage l-systems, or physical mob animation
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by avaer 25d ago
One interesting formulation is that humans are the sex organs of AI.
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by avaer 25d ago
Analog AI/approximate computing? There's research into it, worth looking at if you're interested. The idea is you tolerate some loss/degradation (which neural networks do) but gain orders of magnitude power efficiency.
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by avaer 25d ago
> $40k is a _very_ generous prize for a short piece of writing Exactly. Not sure it will stop the inevitable torrent of slop, but it's generous enough that I think enough serious people will take it seriously that something interest
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by avaer 25d ago
Also gwern and Matt Huang. Seems a pretty interesting committee. And 40K is enough for this to be taken seriously for producing 1000-5000 words.
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by avaer 27d ago
Ontario is an aboriginal name for the lake, which the province pays homage to. All of this is silly, but with this pattern it makes more sense to change the name of New York than to call it Lake New York.
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by avaer 29d ago
That's why the exploit of a social media savvy government is to overflow the system with so much slop (literally and figuratively) the law can never catch up. Your bug is their feature.
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by avaer 1mo ago
That doesn't seem ironic at all. It would be ironic if "Anarchy!" had an HQ.
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by avaer 1mo ago
> How to use Gemini for a college essay Given that this is increasingly the go-to for a college degree, college needs to rethink its cirricula and place in the world. Or at least get rid of the essay. Lest it become a place where student
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by avaer 1mo ago
Most people on HN don't work at Google. And most would probably agree that both Google and Twitter are being user-hostile.
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by avaer 1mo ago
I don't think it's particularly difficult, or clever. You can prompt your way into this with frontier models, especially if your codebase is designed for it from the ground up (architecture well factored, documented, tested, harne
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by avaer 1mo ago
I think the reverse direction is more important: taking a massive complex problem/codebase and decomposing it to short pseudocode. Then you could edit the pseudocode and compile it back into the system. That's the way software eng
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by avaer 1mo ago
If nobody owns the code and everyone has the same rights to it (per the parent) the person copying the code would have the same right to claim they wrote it. And there are definitely people who will do this when there is money and reputatio
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by avaer 1mo ago
I'm not arguing against open source, I'm just trying to point out the downstream effects of an absolutist stance on it.
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by avaer 1mo ago
Hypothetical but serious question on your stance: if someone takes "your" code, claims authorship, sells access, and becomes a billionaire from it while you get accused of plagiarizing "their" code and can't get a j
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by avaer 1mo ago
Yup. But that's 10x more complicated, and needs an even more specialized baking phase that's even further from the raw representation. It only multiplies the issue. And Nanite is not really designed for the kinds of lower fideli
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by avaer 1mo ago
My ideal would be the model generates the sources (so it's programmatically tweakable after the fact, which is the entire appeal), but there is an open source compilation tool or something that can optimize it for the different use cas
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by avaer 1mo ago
> Agents playtest my games overnight I'm curious if you want to elaborate. What kind of games? Turn based? Do you just feed it repeated screenshots? 3D ARPG with dozens of systems, think Genshin or Fortnite. But it's all typesc
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by avaer 1mo ago
Have you explored optimizing the assets to be game-ready? This kind of decomposition works if you have a single object on screen, and it's super artist + programmer friendly. But the generated assets have ~50 mesh parts, which means im
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by avaer 1mo ago
I am doubtful about the timeline. Not because AI can't do it; it totally can. LLMs have been able to run the full artist + code pipeline at least since the beginning of the year. I've built several physics-synced network simulatio
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by avaer 1mo ago
Sama saw this coming a decade away, which is why he invested in Worldcoin (now World). At some point people (and agents) will be clamoring for human verification at the speed of technology. I'm not a fan of World, but this is a portent
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by avaer 1mo ago
That's missing the point. It's the distribution that's the "best", not the tokens. Then Anthropic comes in and makes the distribution something other than the best. The only saving grace is that Anthropic says it&#x

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