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- Comment on Sony accuses Tencent of playing a 'shell game' with its Horizon-like survival game, seeks a preliminary injunction against it 8 hours ago:
This one is pretty clear. Tencent is saying that Sony is trying to copyright an entire genre, like sci fi.
In reality it’s more like if Sony made Star wars, and tencent made the star of death with the jidoos with lasersabres. Tencent is just trying to say “how dare you trying to copyright sci fi!”
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 1 day ago:
With AI you can fake engagement, which convinces shareholders you are much valuable. Share price go up, free money
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 1 day ago:
You mean sarcasm is nuanced and LLMs have no real thought, missing all nuance?
- On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.legiscan.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to technology@beehaw.org | 13 comments
- Comment on AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable 1 day ago:
Leopold Aschenbrenner (born 2001 or 2002[1]) is a German artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and investor. He was part of OpenAI’s “Superalignment” team before he was fired in April 2024 over an alleged information leak, which Aschenbrenner disputes. He has published a popular essay called “Situational Awareness” about the emergence of artificial general intelligence and related security risks.[2] He is the founder and chief investment officer (CIO) of Situational Awareness LP, a hedge fund investing in companies involved in the development of AI technology.
So, I’m calling bullshit. I’ve read the papers, I’ve kept up on everything. I run AI models myself to keep up with everything, I’ve built my own agents and my own agentic workflows. It keeps coming back to a few big things that unless they’ve suddenly had another massive breakthrough - I don’t see happening.
- LLMs already have the vast majority of data associated with them, and they still hallucinate. The docs say that it will take exponentially more data to train them on a linear trajectory. So to get double the performance, we’d need the current amount of data squared.
- LLMs and Agentic flows are very cool, and very useful for me. But they’re incredibly unreliable. And it’s just how models work - it’s a black box. You can say “that didn’t work” and it’ll train next time that it was a bad option, but it’s never going be zero. Businesses are learning (see Taco Bell and several others), that AI is not code. It is not true or false. It’s probably true or probably false. That doesn’t work when you’re putting in an order or deciding how much money to spend.
- We’ve certainly plateaued with AI for the time being. There will be more things that come out, but until the next major leap we’re pretty much here. GPT5 proved that, it was mediocre, it was… the next version. They promised groundbreaking, but there just isn’t any more ground to break with current AI. Like I said agents were kind of the next thing, and we’re already using them.
- Comment on Microsoft support for Windows 10 officially ends today, but a third of Steam players still use it | VGC 3 days ago:
Welcome to the family! I can’t remember the last time I needed windows for a game!
- Comment on feeling fruity 4 days ago:
This is from the film After Sex (2007). The whole film is a collection of both hetero and homosexual stories. I highly recommend watching the Director’s Cut of their scenes, which is available here.
Found on reddit
- Comment on Suno & Udio Sound Fair Use Alarm in Yout vs. RIAA YouTube-Ripper Appeal 5 days ago:
Hey they can’t build a generative AI model from our artists! Only we can do that!
- Comment on The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says 5 days ago:
And no one at wall street bothered to ask actual engineers of the actual likelihood of all of these crazy promises being made. Ask engineers and they’d give an optimistic and realistic approach and could guide investors on what is possible and what isn’t. But nooo, gotta love the hype cycle instead
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 5 days ago:
You keep making assumptions about people, none of what you have said is based in anything. You assume urban people don’t have access to “real” food, when I have farmers markets weekly where independent farmers come into the city and sell their crops. We also have organic co-ops near us, and we have the ability to choose where we shop when we do from several different stores, choosing where to choose our produce. On top of that I do have spac to have a tiny garden where I live, so you can just stop assuming things about us City folk. You really think we must eat Soylent green or something?
When I lived in rural America there was a single grocery store, there was no competition. I would argue I have more choice to eat what I prefer in the city vs in th country. So what you said could only be true only if you never go to a grocery store and you only grow everything yourself.
And even then, remember I grew up in the Midwest. Where did you get your seeds?. More than likely you are growing genetically altered crops at home, and they come from some some large corporation. You want to judge us? You don’t even know what it’s like to live in a city.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 5 days ago:
So unbelievably wrong. And don’t get me wrong I fully admire real rural farmers, the ones who make our food.
Fake rural/suburbanites though are horrible for our planet and ecosystem. I’m from the Midwest where we have perfect soil for growing. What do they do? Pave over it, create stripmalls, big box stores, single family homes, every step of the way ruining the soil and area so we can’t farm there again for hundreds of years. Meanwhile runoff from pavement and parking lots pollutes that soil, they plant non-natural lawns that take more water and ruin biodiversity. None of that adds to our food or biodiversity, it may make them feel like they are, but it is quite literally doing the opposite.
You want to be mad at city people? The people who are happy to have apartments who build up rather than our, trying to use as little space as possible? We use less electricity because we have less space. We require less heating. Less driving and polluting because we’re closer together.
It may look worse, but my current city has the same population as the entire state where I grew up in, except people don’t selfishly each need an acre of perfectly farmable land to themselves. What we do in our footprint of a city “rural” people sprawl out for hundreds of square miles. No, I say fake rural people are much, much worse for the environment.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s xAI joins race to build ‘world models’ to power video games 6 days ago:
Oh man we’re getting… A Minecraft generator or something equally lame.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
This is like the definition of “prompted”. Like it could be an example in the dictionary of “prompted”.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 6 days ago:
This is getting ridiculous and I’m about to just toss the whole thing and move back to Google,” one Redditor said of the “full-volume” ads for Alexa+ on their Echo Show.
Uh. Uhhhh.
These people just won’t get it will they. They refuse to understand it.
- Comment on Switch 2 continues to break US launch sales records, selling more in its first three months than PS4 | VGC 1 week ago:
Just another reminder that we are not the majority, and many people will happily buy things even though the company actively hurts them
- Comment on Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year 1 week ago:
It’s why Indie games are doing so well, people are obviously tired of bland corporate slop over and over again.
- Comment on Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year 1 week ago:
I’ll agree RDR1 didn’t do much (except the Mexico plight). RDR2 was much better. I can honestly say that I’ve never felt as much joy than punching klansman and just absolutely destroying racists
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 1 week ago:
Hm seems to be missing the “Fuck off” button
- Comment on it's true! 1 week ago:
ClimateTown just did lawns the other day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLYMjPNppRQ
- Comment on More than 60% of US game players only buy two games or fewer per year, survey finds | VGC 1 week ago:
At this point I’m lucky if there are two games worth paying for in a year. Just bland boring empty soulless games every time.
- Comment on Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year 1 week ago:
I assume the idea came from Red Dead Redemption, where it does done very well. Of course, you have to have the courage to make a game like that, and I doubt Ubisoft/new ownership will ever be on board with anything that takes courage. Better to make another bland boring empty world.
- Comment on The Shady Acquisition of EA Games 1 week ago:
The investors are betting that AI-based cost cuts will significantly boost EA’s profits in the coming years, people involved in the transition told the Financial Times
As an engineer who uses AI regularly, have built models, and knows the subject deeply - LOL. This is huge Bro energy with little understanding of AI and they are fully on the hype train.
I did a long comment on my experience working for private equity, and just love how it’s going to destroy EA: poptalk.scrubbles.tech/comment/5086464
- Comment on You might still be able to get Xbox Game Pass’ day one games for less than $30 a month 1 week ago:
Don’t worry, they’re going to raise those prices too
- Comment on Game Pass Ultimate subs don't get DLC discounts any more, Microsoft confess, amid reports about Call of Duty sales cannibalisation 1 week ago:
No no no you don’t understand. Somehow gamers should not only pay subscriptions, but also pay for the games. That’s real capitalism.
- Comment on How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe 1 week ago:
Groceries and food in general is so much cheaper over seas. I was shocked at how much we’re getting screwed when I came back from Europe. My prices easily doubled, more probably. It’s pure corporate greed here.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 5th 1 week ago:
I finally finished satisfactory! I’ve played during early access but there wasn’t really an ending for it then. 2,600 hours total in game, 550 of those were this last factory. It’s done!
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 1 week ago:
There are proven ways that a local device could handle age checking that are both privacy focused and secure. There is obviously a big reason why less secure and less private options are chosen instead
- Comment on How the US got left behind in the global electric car race 1 week ago:
Electric cars, high speed rail, efficient cities, cheap energy, it’s almost like all of these have been actively pushed against by some large industry
- Comment on ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team 1 week ago:
The right is so worried about the government watching and tracking them that they voted for literally that to happen.
- Comment on Et tu Jetbrains? 2 weeks ago:
God damnit, of course. They were the chosen ones! Are there any good fully open ides anymore?