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This problem is far more insidious than people realise.

It's not about the big confirmations. Most of us catch that andd are reasonably good at it.

It's the subtle continuous colour the "conversations" have.

It's the Reddit echo chamber problem on steroids.

You have a comforting affirming niche right in your pocket.

Every anxiety, every worry, every uncertain thought.

Vomitted to a faceless (for now)"intelligence" and regurgitated with an air of certainty.

Will people have time to ponder at all going forwards?


In a funny way it reminds me of writing survey questions. You have to be so careful not to introduce some bias just with the wording, as you can basically nudge the LLM to the answer you want with some little hints in the q e.g. "is it right that..."

Yes. It is all about making uncertain things "certain".

It’s making management manic, cult-like, and near psychotic. They have stopped caring about all the safeties and their only metric is how much LLMs are infused into everything. I use it, but having grown up in a cult this feels like a virus that’s infected everyone and nobody is making informed or good decisions anymore, because there is already an Answer and the only thing is finding the right questions that lead to it.

Advocating openclaw, LLMs attached to everything without any containment. We are in for a reckoning it feels like. The closest thing I can approximate this feeling to is like a massive bloom of insects where there is this huge amount of fuel in the systems we use. I do hope I’m wrong, and I’m surprised there haven’t been as many high profile hard crashes, so maybe my fear is overblown.


For all his faults and there are many. The no more wars aspect of Trump's campaign actually made me mildly optimistic.

I'm not an American so I'm not sure if the voting base actually believed him.


No one who understood what Trump is believed him. You shouldn't have either.

I think that's overly pessimistic most (?all) politicians betray voters but seeing shades of grey or bright sides isn't a bad thing.

Lol. You're not in the US so I'll forgive your ignorance. Trump has managed to make himself an exception to any rules about looking for the bright side. If he appears to give you a reason for optimism, wait for him to reveal the novel way he'll ruin it. Between his corruption, his desire for power and status, and his raw stupidity, he poisons everything he touches.

I'm looking for the bright side, believe me. A couple times I thought I might have seen one. You know, like you did with your hope that he wouldn't start any wars. But the pessimistic view keeps making all the correct predictions.


Quite stunned that Fortnites 5bn per year isn't enough to keep them going.

They've been pull about that much in per year since 2019 AFAIK.

I really hope this one have knock ons for Unreal Engine or lead to Unity like licensing. Their indie grants are also quite generous.


Of course it's enough, the problem is greed. They must perform ritual sacrifices to appease the market gods.

To corporations, "enough" is not even a word. Line must go up and to the right, forever. There is not even the concept of "enough."

Line goes up is also not enough anymore. The slope of line going up is most important. You made 10bn last year, but only 9 bn this year - this means time for some layoffs to please "the market". I have no way to explain this world we live in.

"The line" referenced by "line goes up" is typically understood to be revenue or profit, so if you made 10bn last year but only 9bn this year, "the line" actually went down even if you have more money at the end of this year than at the end of last year.

They just hiked VBucks prices too... conveniently after they "won" their settlement with Google that includes a full on anti-disparagement clause against Google but fully allows them to keep on attacking Apple as much as they wish.

It's really strange too. I thought these settlements and 3rd party app stores would lower prices, but prices continue to go up! And now as prices are going up, Epic is also laying off workers? Hmmm.

They aren't publicly traded.

You're right they don't have a board and definitely weren't punished by both the FTC/DOJ for anti-trust and manipulative business practices.

Just a small mom and pop shop that somehow seems to elude themselves from the typical braindead MBA playbook of ruining lives to justify their shitty business decisions.

Hopefully the beloved indie game studio can navigate these waters successfully! Lots of sharks out there that like to rat fuck the commons for personal gain, wouldn't want that to happen to the gaming company that helped normalize gambling to children.


Amen.

Just a company with 40%+ of ownership from Tencent, Disney and Sony (all public traded companies). You could have googled this

Market in this context doesn't necessarily mean the publicly traded markets, it can mean the investor market (and their ability to raise), the financial market (their ability to get loans or other financial products), all of these things are dependent on their overall company performance, which can be manipulated in the short term by mass firing 1k employees so some executive can hit a KPI and get their bonus. Ya know, sociopathic stuff like that.

Why would the company not doing well in one area lead to more generous terms in a different area that is doing well?

One has to wonder what the annual bill of licensing costs looks like.

I also don't understand, this is just a failure from Tim Sweeney being blamed on external factors. With that amount of money and the IPs they own he should have been able to keep the company going but didn't.

It was 5 billion in 2018 and only 4 2019.

This article is somewhat baffling in that it presents the graphs but not the equations the LLMs provided. Kind of implying they provided some unique models (maybe they did but I seriously doubt it).

If equations were included you'd probably see a standard equation (Integral form of Newtons law of cooling). With the time parameters known from the input and the heat transfer parameters having reasonable guesses (cup opening area, mass of water).


One issue with projects like this just show me what it is on the front page.

Even the featured article section is empty!


Correct, what is this and why is this?

Quite mind boggling to me that a nanny state can exhurt such a large amount of global control.

It's darkly comedic that the single most toxic experience since the pop up ad - the cookie consent popup was similarly imposed.

The solution is simple. Websites and services (including ISPs) become governed by the country in which they operate not the whims of foreign entities.


Where do all these people come from?

The 'nanny state' prevents people from driving cars without a license?

That prevents you from buying myriad substances without a note from the doctor?

That makes it illegal for you to buy a gun?

" become governed by the country in which they operate not the whims of foreign entities"

... is not going to work, at face value, because 'operation' involves the consumer and the producer, each of whom may be in different jurisdictions, and even if they were in the 'same nation' ... this is still a hard problem.

No easy answers, and there are legit concerns.


This isn't a novel problem.

Detailed maps of military and other sensitive areas have been created through run maps from fitness watches[0].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...


And they also don't travel alone.

5-10 ships moving at speed across the ocean. Blasting the skies with radar.

Its as easy as anything is to find it in the ocean. And were pretty damn good at tracking ships at sea even small fishing vessels let alone a floating city.

The threat model to CSGs are basically nuclear submarines from nations that would simply tail the group if needed.


U.S. anti-submarine doctrine for surface vessels is pretty much just “run away”, that’s how dangerous subs are, so that’s why U.S. CSGs often include an attack submarine escort.

RLHF optimizes for low creativity sychophants.

Possibly this is a bigger problem than LLMs existing at all.


And when you turn it down, people freak the F out because you lobotomized their "friend".

The market, for consumers, will flock to whatever products surge their neurotransmitters the most. This is the bull case for Anthropic (who are serving business with alternative success metrics) and bear for OpenAI who seem (with all their hiring of Meta execs) to want to go for the masses, who have no objective function for product selection beyond "I like it".


Life is full of variable reward schemes. Probably why we evolved to be so enamoured by them.

In a healthy environment. We are harmed more by being totally risk adverse. Than by accepting risk as part of life and work.


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