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> On top of that comes that all those projects aim for a neutral POV, which is very non-human to begin with and only going to benefit AI.

LLMs are not more neutral than humans. Not only because their learning material is biased but also because they can develop unexpected biases due to the non-deterministic and emergent nature of generative AI.

The idea that an LLM would be more neutral and less partial than a human is a very dangerous and very wrong one. It misunderstands the very nature of generative AI.

And while some people are able to tolerate AI generated text, a lot of people would never read Grokipedia. I would not. Despite great progress, generative AI is not able to create images that don't look absolutely disgusting in the eyes of actual artists. And the same is true regarding text output for anyone who cares about writing.

It's just AI slop

Vibe coded slop does not actually work, what a surprise

> The problem is making someone repeat a grade destroys their social life leading to even worse grades later on

I am from Germany where repeating a grade is quite common and uhm what? How does it destroy their social life?

It isn't even as bad as changing school as you can still see your friends. I don't remember anyone being traumatized or ostracized by having to repeat a grade. Also some high performing students are also allowed to skip grades and no ones says that it ruins their social life.

Sometimes students just need an extra year to mature.

With the current power structures in place, assuming AI can really do all labor, why would the people in power keep us around then? What for?

They probably wouldn't go for the mass murder option right away because of the logistics issues and possible revolts but there is no reason to keep excess population around long term.

Yes, technically, they could realize that there is enough wealth for everyone now. They will not. The problem with capitalism is that it can't stop. They will try to accumulate more and more wealth until the planet is destroyed.

We will see the future that Start Trek promised, eventually. If humanity does not get wiped out before. But what is coming first will be a wave of bloody revolutions, it will not be pretty but necessary.

Thankfully we probably have quite a bit more time than five years left, realistically.

The issue is discoverability.

Sure if you made a name for yourself, you can bank on that. People will buy Slay the Spire 2 instead is cheap copycats.

However I you are a new indie dev and made a decent game, how can people find you? They can't under the sea of slop. They could scroll and scroll and never find you.

I heart from many game reviewers that they have an harder and harder time finding good games to review. Not because people don't make good games anymore, in fact more good games than ever are made but finding them is harder than ever. Indie devs don't have a giant marketing department.

If steam keeps refusing to curate game the gaming market is going to crash hard.

Fair point but do people really need high pixel density at 32"?

I have bought a 32" 4k monitor like five years ago and have really regretted it. Sure fonts are slightly crisper but I would rather have preferred to have a higher refresh rate. Newer games will barely run on 4k if you don't have top of the like hardware or will need frame generation trickery. Plus the odd app that still doesn't support hidpi displays properly.

I feel like 1440p is already the sweet spot.

I am sorry to hear that, I hope you will rediscover the joys of programming one day again!

Humans haven't given up playing chess just because computers are able to do it better, there is still a point in recreational programming.

I am fondly remembering actually using Smalltalk in production for a small web project. I think I used Squeak with the Seaside framework. The image based workflow made deploying it surprisingly easy.

I do a lot of printing for TTRPG's.

Generally speaking, if you are in any group situation where you meet in person and want to share something, paper is still king. Easiest to share and no distracting electronic devices.

Also for learning I often prefer physical books and printed out worksheets. It helps engage the spatial memory plus you can write on them with an actual pen which also helps recall compared to typing.

Oh, I love that!

Mandatory initialization, strong typing, context free grammar, lots of good basics. If you get the C++ header converter to work so you can use most C++ libraries I could see this as a great C++ replacement.

I hate when I see a new programming language, get my hopes up and it turns out to be AI slop again.

There might be some decent design ideas there but if you can't be arsed to write them down in your own words but instead make me read AI generated slop I am out.

Orion is also great for iOS devices as you can't install a proper Firefox an them. For those that don't know, apple is being apple and Firefox is forced to use the WebKit engine on those devices so complete shite and no proper ad blocking.

Last time I checked Orion was the only decent solution with at least some ad block capabilities.

OP specified 17th to 19th century though.

Also we absolutely see the beginnings of colonization during the Renaissance era. Arguably in 1492 with Columbus "discovering" America.

So not sure what your point is.

> If Europe has all the science going on in the 17-19th centuries, it is not because only Europe has best minds. Europe has the people with free time, food and riches to afford the science work.

You are talking about a period in history when children were worked to death in mines. When working people in city lived in unimaginably horrible conditions, barely any education, lack of hygiene, 12- to 16-hour work days, flats without windows. A period with horrible wars. A period when Europe build its wealth through the blood and suffering of the global south, by colonization.

It is absolutely crazy that you talk about it as a peaceful time. No, the vast majority had vastly less time than they had in the "dark" medieval times. And it was much, much bloodier.

So what happened? The Industrial Revolution and with it a new economic order: free market capitalism

If you pay people by the hour, you are interested in them working efficiently. You will come up with technical means to increase their productivity.

You can gain a competitive advantage by technological innovation in a free market that has competition.

That is why science exploded. Out for necessity. There was a need. There was a profit to be made.

This is also why progress is now stagnating in the age of big monopoly capitalism. And no, we can't ever go back to free market capitalism. Certain industries simply need a certain scale that makes it not compatible with it. You can't build a startup training the next cutting-edge LLM model.

We will see a lot of progress once we move beyond our current economic system.

> C

Well some procedural language would do the trick.

The main issue is see is people jumping straight into OO or functional programming and developing a habit of over-abstracting everything.

I think something like Odin which is purely procedural but has less historical cruft and offers modern affordances would be a great choice.

C is absolutely worth learning but students will spent a lot of time learning to cope with its sharp corners and subpar standard library. Some might give up before they discover the joys for programming.

No one is trying to get rich from working on Haiku. They are doing it for fun, as a passion project. Sure AI would help with velocity but velocity is not the only goal. Journey before destination.

Also: Open source is about relationships.

Reviewing code sucks. However at least reviewing code from humans allows you connect and learn from each other. You get to mentor someone. Build a relationship and trust. They learn and grow and maybe someday can also review other people's code.

Nowadays with lots of low effort merge requests and spam it is already easy to burn out. Now add AI. Yeah, no. Why should anyone review AI slop for free. Why? It is the prefect solution to burn your contributors out.

If this is an attempt at humor, it is in very bad taste.

And no, please educate yourself on what Finland did to eradicate homelessness. It has nothing to do climate but with the fact that Finland made it an explicit political goal to eradicate it i.e political will.

The ideal number of jails and homeless people is zero.

Obviously you will not reach that literally. That's why it is an ideal number, not a real number. It is still a good and worthy goal.

Finnland for example has nearly eradicated homelessness. It is not literally zero but 0.08% which is pretty good.

You can also reduce the crime rate dramatically by better social security, education, easier access to mental health care and so many other things.

And don't say we can't afford these things. These measures pay dividends in building a better society for everyone. What we can't afford is having so many billionaires not paying their fair share.

The Steam Machine is a victim of RAM prices exploding. It's price is fair considering the price of its parts but also causes it to be in a price segment where I am not sure who it is for.

People that can afford a Steam Machine at the current price point are likely to already have stronger hardware.

A Mac Mini a similarly sized with like half the price with dramatically better CPU. Or if you could get a PS5 pro, still for cheaper with vastly superior gaming performance.

Valve could have started with a premium model for the hardcore fans that are less price sensitive and released a budget version later when maybe the RAM apocalypse has ebbed.

Still hope it sells, the form factor is amazing.

> You don't have to be an amazing programmer to be an amazing game designer

That has been true even without AI.

Solutions to create games with barely any programming knowledge have existed for a long time. You can create a full featured Unreal Engine game with just using its visual scripting language.

Lots of amazing games have absolute dogshit code. It doesn't matter. You can write super simple, procedural code without any fancy abstraction and just get the job done.

Programming is the easiest part of game dev.

Plus you don't have to be a solo dev. Sure, just being a game designer might be hard but if you bring artistic skills to the table as well then you are golden and can partner up or outsource the programming if needed. Honestly people with an artistic background often do much better than people from a software engineering background who are used to overcomplicate things.

So no, programming was never the hurdle and AI doesn't help here. It just helps people to produce more slop faster.

> He clearly had fun building these products

The author did not build those products. AI did.

And I don't read anything indicated they had fun.

There is pleasure in making something yourself. There is learning. There is pride.

With generative AI you are just stealing other people's work. You are learning nothing. Anything could have generated the same projects. There was no skill involved, just enough disposable income to pay for tokens.

And yes some people develop some weird psychosis and think that they did the thing and not the AI. Everyone else is vibe coding but they got the special sauce, the perfect prompts. They are delusional.

That is all true but even as a hardcore Linux and Thinkpad user, I have to admit it is a hard sell when no one can offer the quality of Apple.

Apple is the only hardware company where you can buy a product and it is good hardware wise. Sure other companies have flagship offerings but with apple you get a really good base model.

And that is where it breaks down for me. Pay 20% more for freedom? Yes, absolutely. But pay more for much worse? Yeah, not many people are going to be so idealistic.

I don't know why no one else can produce a laptop with decent battery life with an near silent fan and good display and overall great production quality. Yes, it is much easier when you are as big as apple and can rely on economics of scale but that doesn't totally explain the lack of quality when it comes to the competition.

Policy makers are not stupid, the system is working as intended.

The intention is to destroy public education in favor of private schools. Same as public health care has been systematically destroyed. It's all part of the neoliberal agenda.

Or take mental health care. We have enough therapists but we don't allow them to work with patients on public health care. We give that license only to a select few ensuring that people wait 6 months to a year if they want to get a therapy spot. Otherwise too many people would get therapy and that would cost money.

The goal is to make rich people richer and ensure they have enough desperate and cheap labor to exploit.

Just because some researchers are infected with this idiocy that EY propagates does not mean that it is legit.

Maybe they should pay more attention to real problems like the sycophantic nature of current LLMs causing psychosis in people and worry less about theoretical AGI.

Yeah and

> A C compiler written in Rust used to be a graduate thesis. It isn’t anymore.

Or maybe like a little recreational project for multiple weekends.

There is that weird myth that writing compilers is super hard. Writing a toy C compiler is not that big of a deal. It is a pretty simple language.

Now production-grade is another beast but that is something AI can't do.

The combination of expensive hardware AND expensive games kills the switch 2 for me.

80 Dollar just to play Mario Kart?

Even older switch titles are barely ever on sale.

I never buy games at full price so the economics don't add up for me. I guess it works for the kind of person that buys games on release. If someone has that much money to burn they don't need to care about hardware cost either I guess.

If you follow established news media, yes. The war is pretty well documented by independent journalists, good information is just harder the find.

I guess it is a combination of established media not doing well financially and lacking in quality and expertise and the general rise of authoritarianism and death of (mainstream) critical journalism. Free press has been severely limited these days.

> This of course would assume that vulnerabilities are in fact unique (which is admittedly questionable).

Yeah, I don't think all that generated software will be as unique as people expect.

Considering it will be generated with the same LLMs that all share roughly the same training data we will se patterns of vulnerabilities will also be similar and so easily exploitable.

While Valve isn't the worst company when you buy on GoG you support a company dedicated to keeping things DRM free and preserving older games. Plus fight the Steam monopoly.

> if it was for the companies who use Denuvo and it added negative value then Denuvo wouldn't exist as a business and game publishers would happily post their games to pirate sites themselves.

Efficient market fallacy strikes again.

No, is is absolutely possible that use of Denuvo results in a net loss and it is still used. Executives don't always behave rational and it is not like you can AB Test that thing or even easily measure its impact.