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by the_af 7mo ago
Well, you need a hook to get readers to start reading. And it is an interesting article well worth the time spent reading it, so no harm done.
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by the_af 7mo ago
Wow. I'm not very clued in lately but I do own plenty of games in GOG, Humble Bundle and yes, Steam. I was just thrilled that Planet of Lana II got released recently. This is the first time I heard of Roblox. And it's supposedly t
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by the_af 7mo ago
> Gotta disagree. I've found several great new YouTube channels that clearly use ai for everything but the script writing. I assume it's an enthusiastic and smart niche expert who lacks the charisma to make videos in addition
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by the_af 7mo ago
> AI just made it worse Understatement of the century.
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by the_af 7mo ago
Your answer reads like a weird mix of AI slop and astroturfing. I took the time to read through your most recent posts, and it tracks with your attitude towards slop in general.
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by the_af 7mo ago
But then it'd be false that the internet is the wrong place. This person's account is from 2011, which shows they don't believe what they claim. I think they are playing devil's advocate in the most irritating way. Good
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by the_af 7mo ago
> I think it is reasonable, yes, but I don’t think it’s ever been reasonable to expect reasonableness on the internet. We have a difficult enough time showing each other decency. This is a disingenuous answer. You don't truly beli
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by the_af 7mo ago
He's not "a guy", he's the CEO of YC, and apparently has gone batshit insane.
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by the_af 7mo ago
Not only he hasn't, writing over 600,000 lines of production code is not something to be proud of . At least not without explaining their purpose and why they were needed. This is a major software engineering lesson that Garry's
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by the_af 7mo ago
> Interesting. Is he a known user? Also curious if you are more broadly against some of that overall? Just in case you're not aware, Garry Tan, then author of TFA, is YCombinator's current CEO and someone who, while cosplayin
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by the_af 7mo ago
Awesome. Remember when we all agreed writing more code was a bad thing? "Code is a liability", Jeff Atwood's posts about it, "lines of code is a bad metric", etc? It seems so far ago, doesn't it? We live in a
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by the_af 7mo ago
> 'understanding' is orthogonal to 'judging' Sort of. "Understanding" in the sense I mean it has an empathetic inflection. Anyway, I have nothing to gain by defending someone else's statement, so I&#x
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by the_af 7mo ago
> So, how about responding to a point I made in this thread, today, instead of a post made by "someone on HN a few years back?" It was only a counterexample to illustrate my point. I did address your point in general, that yo
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by the_af 7mo ago
> Phrases like 'you haven't earned it' imply some kind of judgement, IMO. But those are my words, not the original commenter's. This is what the original said: > Yet, you didn't go on the journey to get the
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by the_af 7mo ago
You're using a very loose definition of "losing your job". Not everybody agrees with your definition of what a job means (some people are very passionate about their jobs; not me but I understand their point of view), and reg
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by the_af 7mo ago
I didn't read it like that. I read it like... say, asking a genie to produce stuff for you out of thin air. "Make the most beautiful gem for me!". Then, "a marvelous painting that will impress my beloved!", "a
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by the_af 7mo ago
> People want lyrics. They don't want to pay for them You're wrong. We pay for everything all the time. We pay for home internet (not cheap!). We pay for various subscriptions and streaming services. We pay for online tools.
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by the_af 7mo ago
Human behavior, and human society, have changed tremendously through the ages. It's the fastest sort of "evolution", to stretch that term a bit. Plus there's nothing natural about widespread global war. It's not lik
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by the_af 7mo ago
Forever wars are a law of nature now? Such a cynical view of life. With this mindset, we can never change. We're stuck in the cycle of violence. I believe it can change. We need to get out of the "oh well, this is life" minds
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by the_af 7mo ago
I have no doubts they took US threats seriously; anyone who doesn't these days is a fool (of course, this doesn't mean Trump will do anything he claims, but he's dangerous enough you can never tell for sure). What I find hard
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by the_af 7mo ago
Very well said. You cannot even get angry or upset if you disagree with anything in the story, maybe the author’s despicable worldview permeating through the characters... because there's no author’s worldview, because there's no
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by the_af 7mo ago
> When AI-slop stops being, well, slop, and just is everything that humans do, but much better, and much more efficient—will we have the same repulsion to it that many of us do now? For me, the answer to this riddle is very easy: I wan
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by the_af 7mo ago
What's the basis for this assertion? It seems wild: > The number of things that are categorically impossible is less than a rounding error compared to how many things are possible. If it's just a case of keeping a positive at
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by the_af 7mo ago
There's no condemning at all in the comment you're replying to, in fact the opposite: there's understanding. It's very weird because judging from this comment, and some other comment you wrote asking whether the other pe
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by the_af 7mo ago
> In that scenario the 'joy of creation' would just shift to the 'joy of discovery'. Both of which are innate to humans. They may be innate, but that doesn't mean they are related or that one is a good substitu
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by the_af 7mo ago
> One change, I think, completely robs it of some of its impact Which one? One thing I didn't like from this adaptation is that the thought-devouring idea doesn't live inside Wheeler's mind, like in the story. They made
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by the_af 7mo ago
> Is there more to it than that? Yes, there is. I can see how someone not already familiar with the material would feel lost. First, it's based on SCP, as other people have mentioned. Second, it's very dialogue/monologue
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by the_af 7mo ago
Oh, don't get me wrong, I liked this one. I would definitely watch the rest of the stories with this cast and director! Maybe it's just a case of having watched the other version first.
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by the_af 7mo ago
Interesting that there are two versions that I know of! I watched this one first, and I prefer it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-IiVeGAydE . I like the actress who plays Wheeler better (no disrespect to Jasika Nicole, sh
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by the_af 7mo ago
Addendum: Brian Moriarty, Loom's author, also thinks the 256 color version is inferior. See here (~46:30): https://gdcvault.com/play/1021862/Classic-Game-Postmortem

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