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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 ↗
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• ⁨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.

  Wikipedia

  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

  youtu.be/Im8Ajuk4gE8

• ⁨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?