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by avaer 2mo ago
Probably not enough data on this yet since it's a new unlock, but I think it's perfectly possible to do great work today without interfacing with other humans directly. Some weird off-spectrum people (the kind this article is talk
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by avaer 2mo ago
I lament the state of the modern world too. Unfortunately, the modern world is run not by empaths, but by psychopaths. Even if we get to a state where we look out for each other, I fear it would be quickly subverted.
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by avaer 2mo ago
Because people generally will not pay for others to "be". And they will not give you food or shelter if you don't pay. And the money has never been more concentrated away from the people who would prefer to just be. If you do
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by avaer 2mo ago
The reason should be obvious. Powerful people would complain about unfairness/bias otherwise.
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by avaer 2mo ago
What's funny is that extensions were supposed to be a way to let you do the things the browser didn't want you to do. Guess that was a bit too much freedom for Google to accept, so they had to make a store with a gate, and destroy
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by avaer 2mo ago
There's a game version of the Whorf hypothesis; the engine limits the kinds of games that are thinkable. Unless you are the kind of person that has shipped your own engine, you probably don't even realize the thousands of little d
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by avaer 2mo ago
Maybe on your team, but I don't think AI PRs are universally disliked. The people that submit PRs without understanding them are universally disliked. Have you tried writing in AGENTS.md or whatever to exactly explain what you like&#x2
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by avaer 2mo ago
The interesting claim is that frontier models are all fact-saturated. Gets me thinking whether this means that post-training inherently has a hard time to get rid of facts. That is, on a general corpus, can we reasonably prevent models from
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by avaer 2mo ago
Anecdote: I've had at two friends publish "papers" just by slapping their names on something they had literally nothing to do with, out of pure nepotism. This wouldn't be helped by an AI watermark. What would help is if
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by avaer 2mo ago
You'd think that the humans being paid to review these things are actually reviewing them. Journals, laywers etc. are expensive. With the addition of AI, it should be easier than ever to review things on their merits. Maybe some part o
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by avaer 2mo ago
None of this is science or evidence based, it's political theater. The labs do this because the government has made it clear it will intervene if they don't say the line. I suspect most of the people at the labs think AI watermark
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by avaer 2mo ago
The most interesting/surprising development for me has been that LLMs are getting better and better at synthesizing procedural content. Fable 5 can write procedural texture shaders, CSG, surface meshing, l-systems, even rigging + realt
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by avaer 2mo ago
3D model generation is for end-users to generate bespoke without waiting for an artist. It is not for artists to slop onto a store. You don't go to a restaurant to order 1 minute hot pockets. That's why 3D artists are not being re
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by avaer 2mo ago
Have you tried meshopt? It depends a lot on the art, view distance, and tuning, but it works well for my use cases. (I agree with you about Blender though, I always hated Blender's simplify)
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by avaer 2mo ago
> Don’t forget to use low or “smart” poly features otherwise you get too many vertices to the point you can’t performantly raycast etc. I've found it's actually best to do maximal quality generation and decimate/meshopt to
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by avaer 2mo ago
Japanese isekai might not be your cup of tea, but one example is [1] which was way back in Jan, and models have improved a lot since then. My sneaking suspicion is that there are a lot more cases than get reported, because authors are disin
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by avaer 2mo ago
I'm sure the answer is yes, even now there are pretty good model generators out there that can do realistic models. Experimental things like this just tend to go with cartoony styles since mistakes and lower quality (read: faster gener
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by avaer 2mo ago
You know what's also good at storytelling? AI. Or else we wouldn't have writing awards being revoked when it comes out it was written by AI. I wouldn't say we don't need artists or writers, but I think most people will b
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by avaer 2mo ago
In case it's not obvious, this isn't a model, this is python scripts that call out to models (code not available). It's mostly "did you know you can attach an LLM to a PCG system?", but there is one idea here you
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by avaer 2mo ago
Just like learning Lisp will make you rethink programming languages, and learning Erlang will make you understand the true power of concurrency: learning Smalltalk will make you understand what "object oriented" actually means. I
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by avaer 2mo ago
I lament the comments saying this in any way redeems Meta (the company). The researchers releasing this stuff have almost nothing to do with Meta other than being bankrolled by the slaughterhouse. You aren't the customer, you are the p
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by avaer 2mo ago
Think about all of the cases that don't come out. Everyone hates AI, yet everyone is using AI. I refuse to believe nearly 100% of game developers aren't using AI, but how many put the tag of shame on the Steam store page? It'
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by avaer 2mo ago
Shared fiction communities happen naturally when you have simple rules and a strong appealing grounding (visually, intellectually, ritually, or otherwise). See: Minecraft, Sonic, MLP, SCP, even Bored Apes Yacht Club for 15 minutes Which is
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by avaer 2mo ago
Pre-AI I worked on a lot of (niche) open source; I've had several jaw-dropping moments when a friend or employee would tell me we should stop working on X because we're just making a copy of Y which is trending on some part of Twi
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by avaer 2mo ago
Meaning, the demigod twins? For 2000 years the name has been used for a mythological constellation, which takes the cake for being the "real" Gemini if that matters.
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by avaer 2mo ago
I am kind of surprised GitHub doesn't seem to have built a simple classifier for public repos to proactively lock the account of anyone uploading such obviously fishy things (for their own good, at least before the repo is publicly fin
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by avaer 2mo ago
What happens when OpenAI et al stop being open about these things, and just pack it into the training?
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by avaer 2mo ago
This is effectively code surreptitiously designed to act against the user's wishes. You could call it malware. I wonder what Stallman (creator of GCC and notorious hardliner on these things) would think: is hijacking the user's wi
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by avaer 2mo ago
The target audience of this blog post does not give a damn about PyPI. The affected parties get literally nothing from this post. They already disclosed behind the scenes, that was the ethical part. Writing PR pieces competing to be the mos
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by avaer 2mo ago
Everyone please download Roblox and see what it is if you haven't. Especially if you're a parent. You don't understand the meaning of "slop" or "brainrot" until you "play" a Roblox "game&quo

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