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My guess is:

1) Most of them actually failed to achieve AI civilization during the process.

or

2) AI civilizations don't care about us, or have other means of communications that we have not achieved, yet.

This is THE great filter that all carbon-based civilizations need to go through. And that's probably why we don't see a lot, if any, aliens out there.

I suddenly have a Lovecraftian orgasm.

But you won’t have too much time for yourself and you might not like everything you have. Not saying that you will, but that’s a risk.

I think that's a pretty good type of invisibility, congrats!

Not until they pay taxes.

Thanks for sharing. Do you have any blog or other links about this kind of research and the re-writes? I don’t work in the field so I feel modern chips are way too complex so it is not commercially viable to reverse and rewrite the drivers, but apparently I’m wrong.

Middle aged family men are kinda invisible. The government only sees them when it needs taxation. Kids only see them when they need money. His wife ignores him too, or rather, they ignore each other as roommates.

They can’t escape because all those legal and moral responsibilities. They have to wait patiently until retirement —- if their hearts allow them to live that long.

I think he is still enjoying it, so it still counts.

Thanks for sharing. This is a great story. You went from zero computer knowledge, maybe a couple of books, to selling a disk utility after barely 18 months. I think you are pretty good comparing to many others who didn't even manage to handle assembly.

Do you have a blog somewhere we can read?

I have exactly the same personality, and had thought that perhaps I’d like to be a researcher, or a debugger, or a technical archaeologist.

What do you do right now, and how did you find the venue? Thanks in advance.

> Which means I can also burn myself out doing things I enjoy. Programming is one of those things, so programming in my free time was still burning me out even though I found it rewarding.

I reached the same conclusion earlier this year at mid-40s. I'll probably work another 10 years, retire early in mid 50s, and commit to full-time recreational programming.

I wish you good luck. On my side I actually don’t have the amount of money to retire comfortably. I’ll just retire uncomfortably, like going back to the younger days when I spent 1000 bucks a month for everything.

Yeah…but it’s a completely different mindset. I’m not saying mine is better —- actually probably worse, but I’m who I am.

Actually, most users I see don’t care or even know. And those do complain don’t have other choices in many cases anyway.

True engineers fight product ppl, not be their slaves.

I think the process is already ongoing for the juniors and new graduates? Now, speaking as a senior, a quite mediocre one, I wouldn’t be surprised if I can never find a similar job if I’m laid off.

Sigh. I never want to be a product people or an owner. Fortunately I’m over 40 and don’t have to work for very long. Good luck folks. I’ll resort to recreational programming when I half retire.

I keep seeing posts about MiSTer on X and HN. Maybe I should get one.

Yeah it’s possible, and this explains why he throws the bag there.

I’m definitely strong type 2, strong in the sense of I don’t care about activities of other types, not in the sense that I’m very good at programming.

I have a bunch of abandoned repos. I used to want to finish some of them, so perhaps I can show them to some people and get a in-domain job, but recently I realized that it is probably impossible for me to do so. I don’t have success because I don’t chase it. I chase fun and that’s what I should expect, not other things like career switch or monetary rewards.

Smart guy does stupid things, but why? I mean why did he, as an engineer perhaps earning north to 300k, do such a sloppy job?

Or maybe OpenAI is hiring the wrong guy? Maybe they should hire me instead?

I’m sad to see another legend gone. I was and still am an avid fun of Build engine games and Quake engine games, and I appreciate what he made for them.

What was done was done, and with all the hype we are seeing, we humans will adopt AI as fast as social media.

We can only prepare ourselves for the coming dystopian.

I agree. But human cattle’s shall not be too happy, otherwise they won’t work.

Thinking has always been a luxurious privilege. In the renaissance many of the scientists were rich people who did not need to carve out their existence by working day and night.

Nowadays, I estimate that there is little active thinking in my life, and even less of it is enjoyable. The only time that I could think in an enjoyable way is to work on my own projects, which unfortunately is kinda rare these days due to work and family and health issues.

Guess this is going to be the norm and we will soon run out of games to decompile.

Sorry I only recall that someone shared this book on X and I said it’s an interesting book and I love it, and then Sinofsky said the book is inaccurate about early MSFT.

I did read “hard drive” and enjoyed it very much, but Sinofsky told me it was not accurate.

DYFI IX -- I think this is pretty bad.