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I grew up playing NES and SNES games and DOS games like Doom and Quake, and while I have a lot of fond memories and still think very highly of many of the games of that era, there’s no way I’d call it peak gaming. I’ve revisited them a lot over the years and game development as an art has certainly come a long way since then IMO.

These days many synthesiser manufacturers hire sound designers to create presets that sound great and are immediately usable by musicians.

Do you really think that computer skills are available to everyone on an equal playing field?

You don’t have to be smarter than your opponent to beat them in chess. You need to be better at chess, that’s it. Sure you need some degree of intelligence to be good at chess but being better at chess is not an indicator that you are smarter than your opponent. Same goes for computer security or any other intellectual field.

For instance, I’m pretty sure I’m better at computer security than Terence Tao but no way would I say I’m smarter than him.

Maybe you should think through the consequences of living in a society where anything a person can do is allowed lmao

You don’t think it should be illegal to hack a telecom network and take control of it?

Have you considered that by adhering to the arbitrary rules of grammar you are forgoing a realm of poetic opportunity?

What does OK stand for?

I think the point is that tremendous complexity can arise from relatively simple mechanisms. That is what life is, at many levels. I’m not at all convinced that the current LLM approach will yield something we can broadly call consciousness but saying that it’s a simple concept and therefore won’t support consciousness is a specious argument imo.

What’s the point of books? Can’t you just watch a movie?

The equation is different if the life saving surgery couldn’t be performed otherwise. Still pretty crazy and I don’t know how comfortable I’d be with it if I were the patient.

I’m horrified to imagine a blood pump or any life support system being network connected, or to rely on the precise time of day in order to function correctly. Accurate time keeping for anything in this realm can and should be done without a network.

I had a great evening with a friend playing through TIS-100 together. We plugged in two keyboards and mice so we didn't have to pass them back and forth.