it_wasnt_arson

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[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 13 points 4 hours ago

Looks a lot like the 2019-2022 situation that led up to the current government, where the Zionist opposition wants Netanyahu out but can't offer anything substantial enough to earn a majority themselves and won't touch the pro-Palestinian parties that would let them bridge the gap with a 10 foot pole. Get ready to start following news about the 2027 elections, I guess.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 3 points 7 hours ago

AI GPUs have specialized very heavily for neural networks, including things like going down to 8- or 4-bit floats in favor of more parallelization. Most of that hardware is just useless for graphics tasks at this point.

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home instance was down for a bit so I hope that doesn't count as leaving

He likely would have had a coalition if not for the fact that huge portions of the Palestinian-Israeli population, who usually abstain from voting because they don't want to acknowledge the Israeli regime as legitimate, actually turned out to vote for the first time. Sadly the opposition would rather let Netanyahu win than work with their parties; genocide isn't even the issue most parties have with Netanyahu. Most of the opposition is pro-genocide, they just think they could do it more efficiently and respectably.

I will not publicly mention my personal recommendation, but hell yeah sister

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There have been a tragically large number of generated fics uploaded this year, but at least they're tagged...

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are too many of these companies to remember at this point, to be fair. I keep getting things mixed up with SoftBank.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly I think the popularization does owe a lot to the intermediate stage where 4chan started calling mass entertainment media "goyslop," but even the Protocols types switched to tacking on specific descriptors before it made it out into the mainstream and got picked up as a term for genAI output.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Kind of fascinated by how this guy has gone into reddit threads about this to complain about being bullied, including complaining that people are sharing this screenshot with his full name and face unredacted. Buddy, I don't know what to tell you about who's responsible for that one.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not the one moving them, go look at the actual kinds of statements the PR guys make about destroying humanity.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

They're both projects moving away from Unity and to something more tailorable to their needs at a lower level, so it's not all that strange, really.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The definition of "existential risk" in question is specifically cult jargon for "could singlehandedly end human civilization and/or the entire species." Autonomous weapon systems, though horrifying and unconscionable, are just fine by most "x-risk" types as long as they're only used against enemies of the state instead of enemies of Skynet.

[–] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There was a study that stopped checking for rapid development at 25. They didn't show a "significant freeze" at 25, they just didn't gather any data after that.

 
 

A couple months old by now, but I still find this a fascinating case study. A good old-fashioned NFT grift, unmoored from time and washed ashore as a sad, solitary UZDoom pull request in the year of the Common Era two thousand twenty six. The honorable representative of "Next Gen Software UK" seems to have taken the rejection in stride and without comment, seemingly only attempting to upstream the NFT features to promote their own fork, ODOOM.

What's the "O" stand for? Open Advanced Secure Interoperable Scalable-System obviously. That's right, they're not just making a Metaverse like in Snow Crash, they're making the OASIS like in Ready Player One, by putting a shitty social overlay into some FOSS game engines. I'm too tired to come up with a clever torment nexus joke to put here. Anyway, web3 is passé now. Their interoperability layer is web4. Their social layer is web5. Loading a WAD presumably makes it web6, and from there we'll be on pace to hit the web* singularity by 2027. That's right, AI is here too!

Now, as someone astutely pointed out, you might think that tying the ability to mint NFTs to killing enemies in a notoriously moddable game would be bad for the whole artificial scarcity thing, but our friends at Next Gen have a solution: enterprise blockchain holonic braid AI! From what I can tell, this is a delicate prompt caressing technique to write out a bunch of GOFAI symbolic logic in markdown and then get an LLM to pretty please evaluate the fuzzy logic. That's right, the cyberdemons are going to prompt so hard they'll beat you at deathmatch. In a game famous for being played at the pace of an LLM API endpoint. Blockchain-based anticheat is left as an exercise for the reader.

Obviously, this is all bullshit. One look at their generically titled landing page makes the unimaginative grift clear. You buy a token to play, the tier of token you buy determines how many loot and "quest" reward NFTs you can mint in a week so you can corner the hypothetical market by preordering, and not only are they promising a roadmap, they're so gracious that if you pay for the top tier, they'll let you write the roadmap for them! Only 20 slots left! Buy now!

I know the standard NFT project like this is supposed to prey on people who want to join a fun discord server and/or know they're looking for the next bag holder to cash out, but it still surprises me that these devs think they can get something out of it this late to the party. Did their AI blockchain compliance automation thing fall through in the wake of the Delve scandal? Did they really spend a decade in the mines preparing their get-rich-quick scheme for launch and miss the boat? …Come to think of it, "10+ years" ago is around when the Ready Player One movie was announced. Are they just really, really genuine fans of Ernest Cline's Torment Nexus?

I don't know why I felt the need to write all this, but the economic, social, epistemological, and game design failures of this horseshit, and the amount of work people are willing to put into a Potemkin software project like this never fail to astound me. Twenty-twenty-six, everyone. The best part is, for anyone actually interested in alternating back and forth between playing Doom, Quake, and a bunch of other games connected by a social layer to complete shared tasks, Archipelago already exists and doesn't want you to buy their AI-extruded membership cards. Peace on Earth, gamers.

 
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