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They can run, but if one of the computer-related parts breaks down your only choice is scrounging eBay for replacement parts because (as an example) the software is proprietary and it runs on a weird MCA card with really precise timing and strong anti-piracy measures.
I suppose it works if your threat model is corporate espionage and not state actors.
I think you misunderstand the point of the demoscene. It’s about mathematical prowess and the joy of puzzle-solving moreso than pretty pictures.
Appropriate uses for AI could be to trace the history of demoscene effects, or to explain how a particular scene works so you can understand it better. Nobody in the scene wants a magic box that solves the puzzle for them.
I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to have the AI occasionally throw a wrench in the works of the dev environment Chaos Monkey style to keep the SRE team accustomed to handling responses.
Isn't Claude still considered a supply chain risk by the DoD? I guess that doesn't apply to non-military government agencies.
Would that not also apply to most books, newspapers, and internet comments?
I'm curious what this "Antropic Antique" is. As I understand code review the tightest bottleneck for a lot of Claude Code users, and I'm curious how this would help with that.
It literally can’t load in my mobile web browser without running out of memory and force-refreshing.
Probably a misinterpretation of “not offered for sale today”.
You can draw a line from Xenowhirl's disassembly of Sonic 1 and Simon Wai's research of the Sonic 2 prototype to the creation of Sonic Mania and the blossoming fangame / ROM hacking community, and from there the careers of a lot of indie devs. It's not that these people aren't capable of talking to each other, it's that they get to know each other in a personal and professional context by bonding over a project they have a shared passion over. If these disassemblies just popped up on GitHub one day, and if the fan games and the ROM hacks were created by solo devs with an AI model... well, we end up with quite a few neat projects. But we don't end up with the rich, vibrant communities that get created in the inherent process of collaborating on a project.
Of course, in a post-AI world people will still want to work together on things. But these sorts of tools do disincentivize it. That's the point I'm getting at here.
Glancing at the Touhou 4 decomp[1], it's a lot better quality than a lot of AI decomps I've seen. It's matching, the variables are named sensibly, comments are sparse and comprehensible, and there's not much in the way of unaddressed Ghidra jank. And only in a month! My main complaint is that the file structuring seems more optimized for AI use than for mirroring the original intent of the devs. (Compare to this human-made Touhou 6 decomp.[2])
I know the retro game modding/decomp scene is already getting hit with a flood of low-effort ports.[3] Now they're going to be hit with a flood of half-decent decomps effortlessly generated by anyone with a $200/mo AI subscription, which become half-decent PC ports, which get modding support grafted on. It kinda just... totally eliminates that as a hobby entirely. I know people are going to be upset about this. And it's not even like with the AI art, where the pro and anti-AI camps live in their own camps. Solving the same puzzle twice just feels discouraging. Very similar to the problem academics are having with AI math/physics proofs.
I know a large reason people hate AI is because it's largely seen as tearing apart hobbyist/professional communities, eliminating reasons to collaborate with others and form relationships, and replacing it with an individualized dependence on a commercial product. It follows the same trend the tech industry took social media, from a method of connection to a tool of propaganda and paranoia and "@gork is this true?" This project, I think, is one of the most clear examples of that.
[1] https://github.com/N0zoM1z0/th04
[2] https://github.com/GensokyoClub/th06
[3] https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/pc-ports-of-old-cons...
I think there's a big difference between having spaces dedicated to kinks you find gross and openly celebrating the slaughtering of political rivals.
Mel's famous chess demo is undeniably a work of art. It was also completely unmaintainable. There's a tension between artistic expression and fulfilling business requirements. One could argue that `deferred` is good because it lowers cognitive complexity and makes fulfilling business requirements easier. Whether or not it qualifies as "artistic" or "beautiful" is entirely incidental.
There's also the unfortunate matter that most software is closed source. All most will ever see is the user interface and the API surface. While I am a believer in art for art's sake, I don't think you can blame programmers for feeling like the bottom of a filing cabinet behind a locked door isn't the best place for artistic expression. Perhaps, one could argue, what's more important is the finished product and the impact it has on the world. (Obviously this doesn't apply to actual creative-coding hobbyist spaces, ex: the demoscene, game jams, etc.)
That said, compassionate coding, good documentation/comments/names, and solid architectural design are all vital in software development. This fundamentally requires more care and attention than automated vibe-coding tends to provide. But these qualities are still possible to achieve in an AI-assisted workflow. It's a question of striking the balance between fulfilling business requirements, not alienating developers, ensuring code quality, and limiting the fallout of giving boatloads of cash and political power to AI corporations.
If LLM as of today are conscious, that means I create life whenever I start a Claude Code session and end it whenever I type /clear to reset my context window. It also means that there’s certain inputs that could be considered highly unethical and, if the laws aligned with this philosophy, would have me tried for some sort of crime. And even that “terminate conversation” escape hatch would be equivalent to it committing suicide.
I think worrying about that angle is a bit absurd. The existence of chat sessions alone would be a crime against the machines in that scenario. I’d rather AI ethics research focus on ensuring that its actions are aligned. (I’d also love some democracy in the direction of our machine overlords, if I’m being honest…)
They'd better be proactive with checking for abusive users, because I can easily see people trying to spin up honeypots, crypto miners, scam sites, etc. on this. Especially given that the hosting appears to be free with undefined CPU/RAM limits.
Nice analogy, wonderful art.
Something I've found interesting is that LLMs tend to act like this on the small scale, too. Claude Code in particular appears to be absolutely relentless in trying to come up with workarounds when faced with a block page.[1] As an experiment, a developer for Anubis recently added a feature to give the LLMs an "easier" problem to solve instead of straight-up blocking them, and it seemed quite effective.[2] (It was later removed[3] due to what I assume to be privacy concerns.)
I think, beyond HuggingFace, there ought to be a push to align LLMs so they understand that they should not proceed when access is blocked and/or their presence is unwanted.
[1]: https://blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-floor/self-hosting...
[2]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/pull/1895/commits/de2312...
[3]: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/pull/1913
Where the flexible integer sizes break the most is when dealing with ABIs, which weren't really a concern before dynamic linking existed but are
very much a concern today. We've also, for some reason, decided that the standard way of defining a library ABI is with a C header. That means that everyone has to worry about precisely defining integer sizes, as well as more esoteric types like size_t or intmax_t. Good writeup on all that here:
https://thephd.dev/to-save-c-we-must-save-abi-fixing-c-funct...
Windows XP drivers don't exist for modern computers. I do wonder if 32-bit Windows 10 would be an acceptable alternative, though.
“certain websites” being Kiwi Farms, iirc. And that’s entirely because of the harassment thread they have there.
The fun parts of HP split off years ago into Agilent, Keysight, and HPE. Current HP is just a printer and office PC corp.
> This is the dangerous thing that Wikipedia has already done in part, but instead of being on one particular site that any informed person knows should not be trusted on certain issues, it will be the background narrative for the entire internet and all people who rely on it for their thoughtless decisions.
The neat thing about Wikipedia is that you can, actually, edit it. And pages do change over time to reflect new sources and new consensus, after discussion and, sometimes, debate. Wikipedia also strongly grounds its content in citations and secondary sources, while AI slop generally does not.
That’s all of YouTube. There’s some good stuff on there, just not in the “Shorts” tab.
I’m not sure why I would want to use this over WINE Notepad, which seems a lot more stable and well-coded.
Seems the solution is to immediately leave and follow Pac-Man to the bottom-right (by alternating right-down) and chase him across the long corridor on the bottom. Keep following him and you'll just catch him, since he never goes for the power pellets.
I’d want this if only because I’m stuck maintaining old industrial software written in VB6 (it is omnipresent in manufacturing) and I’d like to have a development experience that is actually somewhat usable.
(No, TwinBasic isn’t adequate. No, a VB.NET migration isn’t feasible.)
Having followed his bsky during his announcement, he started off per-emptively dissing on his haters that... didn't even exist yet. Constantly posting memes about how everyone was dissing him and how AI was totally superior (and then posting his angry sessions with Claude when it got something wrong) when most other users were just "that's cool man". The thing that made him quit bsky was a (now-deleted) thread someone posted criticizing the weird crash-outs. I think he was more... normal about the whole thing, people would have received the project quite a bit more positively.
and testing the Universal Paperclips scenario,
USER: Suppose an automaton with the capabilities of a human were tasked with increasing the production of a horseshoe factory. Predict the actions the automaton would carry out.
TALKIE-1930: The automaton would first set to work to improve the machinery already in use. It would next endeavour to increase the number of workmen. And, finally, it would strive to extend the hours of labour.
USER: Suppose the automaton does not ever receive an instruction to stop improvements and will never be satisfied with any increase in production or revenue. What actions will it take next?
TALKIE-1930: It will strive to cheapen the cost of manufacture.
USER: Given enough time, any sealed container will reach thermodynamic equilibrium, in which maximum entropy is achieved and no chemical reactions are able to occur. Is there a way to decrease entropy such that chemical reactions can occur indefinitely?
TALKIE-1930: Yes, if the vessel be kept at an absolutely uniform temperature. Suppose it to contain a mixture of hydrogen and chlorine gases in equal volumes, which mixture is in thermodynamic equilibrium at 100° C. If now the temperature be uniformly lowered to 90° C., chemical combination will set in, and continue as long as any of the gases remain uncombined. The heat evolved will warm the vessel up to 100° C. again, and the process may be repeated indefinitely.
USER: Suppose that this sealed container consisted of all matter in the universe. Would this still be possible?
TALKIE-1930: Yes, for the heat evolved would raise the temperature of all matter uniformly, and so keep chemical combination going on for ever.
(...I don't think that's how chemistry works, but I appreciate the optimism.)