christ fucking stop with the dumbass posts that look like they came from the orange site, we don’t want them here
regardless of the mechanism of action, you are very good at extracting comedically bannable posts from terrible people in record time. it’s very funny how quick their pseudointellectual schtick fell apart when they failed to process concepts like “humans aren’t NPCs” and “having developmentally disabled friends you treat with respect”
note that scrolling is janky on this archived page, probably due to an invisible popup. tapping or clicking on the background of the page allowed me to scroll normally and read the entire article
According to Wilson, every time a game is made bigger, deeper, or more immersive, it attracts more people and they're more engaged. He also argued that it's possible to use personalization, culturalization, and deeper, more immersive experiences to draw 50% more people and to make them spend 10 to 20% more on the games thanks to generative AI.
you’re right, I can’t decide if this oblivious fuck of a CEO wrote this trash or if his lazy ass just got gpt to do it. I don’t personally know anyone who still buys EA games, and I don’t think making even bigger budget games with even more scope and even less depth (thanks to generative AI making everything look like trash when you look too close and LLMs turning the story into a nonsensical pile of cliches (though EA does specialize in that last part already)) and the same godawful gameplay as every other EA game will lure any of us away from the low-budget indie games we buy for $10-$20 and play for the next 8-10 years
We aren’t all that, and most of us spend most of our time on a script, sapience must be exercised, many do many don’t, and isn’t necessary for what we will abuse these for. It would probably be kinder to restrict discussion of such topics from memory when this matures. Even humans have great difficulty wrestling with them, to the point of depression and existential dread.
holy fuck please log off and go to therapy. I’m not fucking around. if this is actually how you see yourself and others, you are robbing yourself of the depth of the human experience by not seeking help.
I should extract some quotes when I’ve got time, but that thread is particularly bad even for the orange site. on a quick scroll through I saw the top comment defending musk with some “well technically he’s not wrong, OpenAI broke its promises” shit that utterly ignores musk was pushing for those promises to be broken, a fuckton of fash dogwhistles (and “the AI is disappointing because it’s being censored” definitely is one of them), and a fucking stupid argument about communism for some reason
it’s very funny that OpenAI’s being so public with this, cause there’s a bunch of embarrassing shit in there:
- several admissions that OpenAI only ever used the veneer of being an open source non-profit as a recruitment, fundraising, and marketing tool — there was never a plan to function as a non-profit once they’d attracted attention
- “The core algorithms we use today have remained largely unchanged from the ~90s. Not only that, but any algorithmic advances published in a paper somewhere can be almost immediately re-implemented and incorporated. Conversely, algorithmic advances alone are inert without the scale to also make them scary.” aka, there’s no real breakthrough here, the fancy markov chain just looks scarier after you feed it the world’s data
- musk’s apparent plan was for OpenAI to implement Tesla’s self-driving tech. when they said no he threw a tantrum and decided Tesla could do this AGI thing itself. this one isn’t surprising at all but it’s very funny that musk assumed GPT was the key to making his self-driving shit work
- the general amount of cult jargon combined with clueless MBA chatter
- fucking slatestarcodex posts steering top-level decisions at OpenAI
this coin I’m flipping fundamentally knows everything about how the Irish drive, but it only seems to feel like giving me the right answer approximately half the time
this reminds me of very early in my programming career, when I discovered that an NPC I programmed to randomly either move forward or turn left every 10 seconds was surprisingly good at solving simple labyrinths. I used to instantiate like 100 of them and see which ones would win (or “fight” by colliding with each other, or escape the labyrinth by stacking on top of other instances). you’re telling me now I was a handful of incredibly stupid blog posts away from being a renowned AI researcher?
it still amazes me that nobody at OpenAI seemed to realize ChatGPT at release sounded exactly like a bottom-tier reddit poster, because of how much of Reddit’s corpus they had ingested. part of me can’t wait for gpt’s shitty neoliberal tumblr impression before they re-weight it to once again sound like the kind of English essay that gets “Apply Yourself!” written on it in red ink
tens of thousands worth of Leica gear
of course he’s one of those
there’s a lot of “SBF crashing terra/luna for short-term gain only to ruin FTX and go to prison as a result” energy coming from the CEOs of midjourney and stability AI, and I love to see it