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Re:Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:04PM (#50327995)
People seem to forget that stories and acting were the primary way of passing along critical lessons for surviving and building civilisation and human best practices befoee we came up with self help books and entertainment
So like MBA players taking a knee ;)
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:22AM (#50315001)
The entire world should be cleaning up the toxic lead reside generation from it's legislative bodies. It's done enough.
Re:Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:16PM (#50292570)
Seems very efficient at preventing a techno fascist takeover. See Jack Ma being a philanthropist now instead of running around disrupting regular people’s lives.
Except that in 4 years now they haven’t.
Re:Decompiling Games with AI: Virtueel Zoetermeer on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:53AM (#50287562)
DeepSeek is just good enough by now to do it very token efficient. Hitman 2 only a handful of days of off peak usage ... And then you can do this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1qsacoS2mqA

Even since I wrote this last month, the release of DS-4.1-Flash-1017 has easily sped up the process by another 50%

https://georgzoeller.com/blog/posts/what-reverse-engineering...

Re:OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:22AM (#50284859)
"Talk to each other". OMG they are talking to each other, using methods found in their shared weights. They are sentient.
Re:Leak website releases data on DHS employees on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:52PM (#50284026)
You could not do anything with that information nor did you know anything or could you reasonably find out anything about 99% of names in the book without effort, so this is just disingenous
ahahhahahhahahahahhahahahahaha. No.
And why would it have to be claude and not an order of magnitude cheaper model ?
Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:16PM (#50261467)
Other countries have been far less capitalism pilled than the US by virtue of having universal health insurance.
Then Roblox trains on it and voila…
Re:Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:47AM (#50257709)
Sweet Summer Lake America Child
They are justifying their valuation. Once the election is "over" and Trump consolidates power, it'll be "and now you don't expect us to sit on half a decade of uploaded trade secrets, market data and kompromat and do nothing at our valuation?" I think not.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:49AM (#50244721)
Consumer AI is going to be paid with privacy, not money. CFOs don't pay 2k iPhones for their employees.
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:47AM (#50244689)
A: "Our AI is fucking dangerous! Invest Now"

"Cyber Apocalypse"

A: We told you so!

Yea no. Corporate America needs to go to school to learn that their monopoly supplier will dis-intermediate and squeeze them, which Chinese companies will be able to access abundant extremely cheap AI at marginal cost
Re:Amazon's "Digital Pacifier" for Toddlers on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:25PM (#50238372)
myroom.isfine.org on a pinch. I tried to make everything as authentically annoying as it was, having to rewind tapes shapes character
Wait what, OpenAI is trustworthy now?
DeepSeek is serving more TPS than anyone, about as much as OpenRouter does in a week in a day, at 38$/H800/Ascend so about 900k/~90% profit over 3 years (or ~80s% profit including training expenses).

Meanwhile, Oracle is handing Tencent 100.000 GPUs at 1.60$ hour, dangerously close to breakeven...

What does this tell you?

Well, OpenAI is at the root of Black October, so maybe they are the problem
The primary issue is that the digital economy is attention supply locked now that services expansion has hit a wall. And so the only way to extract infinite growth money going forward, which dealing with commoditisation and erosion of talent and technology moats in any form, is to lay off people.

AI making things cheaper and faster makes it worse, not better because it drives competition up and strengthens the bridge trolls at the attention gate aka platforms while taking power from both viewers and creators.

It's the flash model that'll deliver the critical strike
Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:23PM (#50197553)
No. They broke the law. Thats the point. Go into a walmart, lift a chewing gum and make the point Walmart has a few billion more.
Re:EA is shutting down BioWare on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:19AM (#50191480)
The company was forced to rush DA2 by EA because SWTOR was delayed and there’s a metric called “Group Responsibility Profit” each EA group had to commit to (BioWare group - Austin, Edmonton, Montreal, Mythic) and that meant shipping something to buy enough profit in times for earnings.
Re:EA is shutting down BioWare on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:13AM (#50191443)
Interplay was the publisher. They stole royalties which provided the leverage for BioWare to buy itself out of the contractual onligations and publish NWN with Atari.

NWN being one of the first games to use master server and key technologies at scale was motivated to detect publisher royalty theft by tracking sold copies (and indeed an Atari division in Europe tried selling copies of NWN with copied keys) not just traditional piracy because the company had first hand experience with it.

Black Isle, an interplay first party studio made Infinity Engine spin off games which gets people confused here.

Source: Ex Bioware

Re:EA is shutting down BioWare on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:11AM (#50191436)
The founders left 2012 along with many of the core staff. I consider that the end.
Re:EA is shutting down BioWare on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:10AM (#50191429)
It’s just a rerun. Bioware had an entire prototype of a game called “Agent”, a james bond style bioware RPG built on EA technology from sports games … until it became clear the technology to render madden NfL lacked something like “non flat surfaces” you’d need to build a world :/
Re:mitmproxy adds --emudhra option on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:34AM (#50191216)
Time to buy. Think about it like Crowdstrike
Re:mitmproxy adds --emudhra option on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:23AM (#50191153)
They are an oligarch business. What would happen if X had this fuckup in the Us is the easiest way to answer all your questions l. Nothing will happen.

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