Apocryphon

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Comment · 14 hours ago
Comment · 2 days ago
Again, the trap is believing that there is even an will to create such a bandaid, when the status quo could just continue indefinitely.
Comment · 2 days ago
Then dazzle the discussion with your creativity.
Comment · 2 days ago
But if you're having it worse than your parents' generation, you are more likely to complain. And as a corollary, if you are having it better than your kids' generation, then you are not entitled to complain about their complaining.
Comment · 2 days ago
> especially if you can download justdance.exe to your brain.

A lot of Singularity fiction was babbling about life extension technologies and mind uploads long before LLMs existed. I've always been skeptical - maybe there's just fundamental biological (and in the case of stuff like cheap fusion or FTL travel - physical) constraints that will keep even a superintelligence from inventing magical Clarketech.

Comment · 2 days ago
Bold of you to assume that they will do the former and not just go all in on the latter.
Comment · 2 days ago
I don’t fully agree with your thesis, but good prospective future model version names.
Comment · 2 days ago
I've always wondered who the fans of minor league sports are, but I assume there's enough of them beyond the athletes' families and the major league scouts trying to farm the best players for their own teams. There's a niche for anything.
Comment · 2 days ago
Sci-fi haș already accounted for this. Star Trek has a post-scarcity economy so they just explore the frontiers of space and engage in creative anachronisms in virtual reality, like Gilbert and Sullivan LARP and baseball. There's a whole bit in The Diamond Age where you see craftsmen meticulously building furniture out of wood by hand, which is then sold at a premium.
Comment · 3 days ago
Author ought to think it
Comment · 3 days ago
> This is a classic riddiculous and humorous riddiculous riddiculous riddiculous riddiculous riddiculous riddiculous riddiculous riddiculous riddiculous

Bone-chilling.

Comment · 8 days ago
What “great games?” Even independently of the advent of LLMs, the game industry has been in the doldrums for decades. AI adoption might be new, but it hasn’t exactly reversed that trend yet
Comment · 10 days ago
What other languages?
Comment · 11 days ago
Comment · 11 days ago
Perhaps, but the examples in that article all clearly look like they're using AI-generated art assets. You might as well call that style "slop" in the sense that it is very easy to spot. I don't know if it's possible to create a general AI filter for the actual code, but certainly labelling ones that had AI-made visual and audio assets, with minimal human craftsmanship involved, would be a good first step.

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