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Older mixers you could argue could kind of be traced but even then there’d still be difficulty and deniability.

There’s a newer class of privacy mixer though that basically is untraceable. On privacy chains you can’t see the transactions so from an outside perspective it looks like the money just went into a black hole and it wouldn’t show up until it got converted to public again. When it gets converted to public though, it has no connection to the original transaction and could be literally anyone else’s money who used the chain converting to public.

It could take a long time but you could basically just slowly do this and withdraw small enough amounts of money to not raise suspicion. Or do something like start your own coin and pump the price with the stolen funds then cash out the coin. There’s new privacy smart contract chains where this could be done without even signing slightly the stolen funds were used.

It’s kind of a mess.

Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss (same people who made Moss and Moss 2) based a lot of their design on Brass Tactics. I would say check it out but unfortunately the studio (Polyarc) went under shortly after publishing it so probably won't be seeing many updates and I'm not sure if it is even playable anymore.

It did suffer from player base problems you were basically always against bots or very high level players, but I never felt a VR UX (or any UX almost) feel so good and intuitive. It's a bit sad I feel like there is some alternate reality where a game like this would have been huge but there just doesn't seem to be the market there anymore.

I’ve actually seen this be the biggest advantage of AI in the corpo world: it is helping people realize their ideas are stupid or their busywork doesn’t matter way faster.

I’ve seen so many “dream” projects finally realized recently that organizations had been chasing for years only for them to realize it provides no value. Easily could have wasted years of time and tortured dozens of people but instead only took a relatively small amount of time due to AI.

I know some people will say this kills jobs but I really don’t think these are the jobs humans should be doing. It shouldn’t take someone’s entire life to realize people don’t actually want to “gamify their credit card application process” or whatever dumb thing product comes up with. Also when you spend so much time on a dumb idea a lot of people will try to justify it which is why I think we see so many obviously bad ideas go to market.

The amount of requests I get to help “make the next Facebook” or “make an application to predict the stock market” have gone down substantially and I think this is a good thing.

I mean Chinese EVs have already surpassed Tesla in global volume sales and their CEO helped elect the man who gut the EV industry in America. But I guess it's cool we are doing cool tricks while that happens?

I mean if I saw this at a monster truck derby I would think it was cool. When it's companies that represent trillions of dollars it feels a little underwhelming I was expecting more. It's also clearly a gimmick it's not like this is a real product. Even from their own marketing it's obvious.

If it was like "we figured out this technology and it will be available to the public and we will be working with regulators to usher in a new age of flying cars!" I would be pretty stoked. But it's pretty obviously just a stunt for the launch.

I don't know I just...I feel crazy but I feel like these resources could be doing something amazing and we getting like stunt tricks.

If it was a smaller scrappier company I would think it was neat, but this company and associated companies represents so much of the market and so many resources. And I don't know it just seems like they are doing like...monster truck derby stunts?? It's just kind of underwhelming to see this is what they are spending their time on for me. I was expecting a lot more.

> It's not like they can just use the money anywhere

I mean SpaceX was literally caught buying Cybertrucks it's clear there's some corruption. But aside from that, they also just represent such a large chunk of the market that it's hard to argue that they aren't just siphoning funds from other ventures somewhat even outside of public misappropriation. I wouldn't even mind that if I felt like they earned it, but it just feels like the stock was pumped as a meme or something. The engineering is impressive but not impressive IMO for what they are worth.

It's a cool demo and all but I can't help but feel like it's not that impressive considering these companies control such an absurd amount of capital and this is all they can do with it. A stunt for a launch showing off features that obviously won't be in any real product.

A lot of public funds go into these companies and it just feels like they are playing around with toys instead advancing humanity. I sometimes wonder if we are not allocating resources very efficiently.

I mean I would think that, but I've literally tried to train product owners on contracts I am on to use AI and not pay me anymore and they still get overwhelmed by the idea of a terminal and ask me to do it. So I really don't know.

I would agree with you but this is what it was like with search engines as well. Search engines got so good it felt like anyone could just Google anything instead of paying someone.

I think the surprising part is that, no matter how easy it gets, the majority of he population would still rather pay someone else to do it for them.

Honestly the first ten years of my career was just me being baffled I was getting paid to Google stuff. I get worried about AI in the same way but continue to be baffled that I am getting paid to just prompt AI now.

Maybe this time is different but honestly the world is so ridiculous sometimes that I honestly don’t think it will be different.

I think it's around 20 TB of data and yeah the processing isn't a big deal it's just the cloud storage fees aren't really worth it for data I maybe look at like once a year. I have a local NAS and searching through the data can take a long time even with pretty advanced indexing and it's basically entirely disk bottlenecked. I also want to frequently reprocess the data with new techniques and that again is disk bottlenecked.

It's just old family files and documents so it's not really worth me spending a ton of money on. But it was exciting watching hardware costs come down and seeing how much more I could do with it every few years but that is kind of dead right now.

I got a 1TB SSD go for like $100 in 6 years ago and that same spec SSD is now $200+ which kind of sucks. I can't really afford to give my NAS my hand-me-downs anymore lol

> Licensing/copyrighting encouraged people to think up of new things, and new ways of doing something.

I don't think this has been true since the copyright acts extended copyright from a max of 28 years to a minimum of 70 years + life of the author (or 95 years for corporations). I think this is kind of the inevitable conclusion of such absurd length copyright.

Copyright is no longer used as a grace period and reward for innovation, it's a tool for corporations to hoard and restrict IP. A core aspect of human creativity is building off other things and things you grew up with, but now people have zero chance of seeing ANYTHING created in their lifetime entering the public domain.

This is an inevitable rebellion to the situation these laws put us in.

Yeah it was already really hard to find good games before AI due to a massive influx of indie devs, easier to use engines, review gaming, and asset flipping.

I worry how this will impact finding quality games.

I know people keep saying “we’ve had slop factories before AI” but this really feels different.

I think scanning is worth it. There's a lot of cheap services out there that do it but it's also not too hard to find relatively cheap scanners that will process stacks of pages if you are willing to destroy the binding.

I scanned quite a few documents many years ago and it's been fun trying new tools every couple of years to see how good they are getting. I would say it's still not 100% there, but if you have them scanned you can basically just just keep trying and compare the results.

I think the only disappointment in recent years has been that storage has gotten more expensive instead of cheaper. I was waiting for SSDs to get cheap enough to justify moving all my documents to a fast flash array to process and search through them faster, but that doesn't seem like it will happen anytime soon.

I wouldn’t say people are perfectly aware. It seems obvious I should be able to at least back up my save files but that was disabled on the PS5 and instead you need to purchase a separate subscription. A lot of basic features that were available in the past are going away.

True I just wish they didn't have to skulk in the dark for what is essentially a public service. I also think some projects aren't so lucky.

We probably have a pretty brief window where projects like this can even be done where there's people alive who worked on the original systems. It would be nice if these were encouraged rather than being in some gray area.