mindbleach
@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on iPhone case with e-ink display lets users read books and comics without screen glare 1 week ago:
On the knife-edge of being really clever and deeply stupid.
the embedded gadget is powered by AI
Tipping away from clever.
- Comment on Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business 1 week ago:
Which crucial consumer business?
… oh.
- Comment on There Are Tons Of New Steam Deck Startup Videos Based on Games, And Hades 2's Video is Incredible 1 week ago:
Oh damn, we’re back to custom Windows 95 boot screen bitmaps. I had one that did the Matrix digital rain effect.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 weeks ago:
That was not the question.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 weeks ago:
Okay, so, every game on Steam having some generated asset wouldn’t matter?
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 weeks ago:
Okay, so, complex projects having a small part you didn’t make doesn’t matter?
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 weeks ago:
Is there an asset flip disclosure?
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 1 month ago:
I mean… I’ve had a lot of genuine interactions with real people which I would not rate highly.
A sort of reddit holodeck would be obviously desirable, sometimes, but any concerns about solipsism or narcissism come far behind the expectation you’d want to run that shit locally. What is the value of disappearing into your own little world if you don’t even control it?
- Comment on No, Deus Ex Remastered, I simply do not believe you need an RTX 2080 to run at recommended settings 2 months ago:
Surely it just means, that’s what they tested with. The minimum specs sound like they oldest machine they bothered to lay hands on.
Listed specs are not what’s worrisome about this project.
- Comment on Pax Dei, the medieval EVE Online-esque MMO, gets its 1.0 release next month 2 months ago:
In WHAT FUCKING MANNER does this on-foot low-tech whack-people-with-sticks game resemble a sci-fi starship combat game?
The inability to describe any game except in reference to other games is infuriating enough, without forgetting to make the goddamn comparison!
- Comment on Messenger is an absurdly slick, perfectly lovely free pocket world exploration game you can play in a browser 2 months ago:
That is a terrible name.
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 2 months ago:
The razor is: did you, the player, receive new content? Or did you get charged for permission?
Horse armor is fine. That’s how low the bar is. That’s how bad this abuse is. All microtransactions are “on-disc DLC,” where you’ve already been given the thing, inside the game you already paid for, but fuck you, pay us again. And again and again and again.
It’s the difference between Warhammer’s little plastic men being obscenely expensive, and Games Workshop expecting five actual dollars after every match to replace their imaginary bullets.
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 2 months ago:
Fuck them kids. This entire business model is an abuse against people with credit cards.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
- Comment on Console wars death watch: Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to PS5 in December - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
The war’s been over since blue team and green team started releasing near-identical machines, for nearly the same price, at basically the same time. There are no consoles anymore. It’s all just computers. Some computers have shitty locked-down app stores.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk could be placed on US currency under new House GOP proposal 2 months ago:
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 2 months ago:
Insisting that someone could figure it out does not mean anyone has.
Twenty gigabytes of linear algebra is a whole fucking lot of stuff going on. Creating it by letting the computer train is orders of magnitude easier than picking it apart to say how it works. Sure - you can track individual instructions, all umpteen billion of them. Sure - you can describe broad sections of observed behavior. But if any programmer today tried recreating that functionality, from scratch, they would fail.
Absolutely nobody has looked at an LLM, gone ‘ah-ha, so that’s it,’ and banged out neat little C alternative. Lack of demand cannot be why.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 2 months ago:
Knowing it exists doesn’t mean you’ll ever find it.
Meanwhile: we can come pretty close, immediately, using data alone. Listing all the math a program performs doesn’t mean you know what it’s doing. Decompiling human-authored programs is hard enough. Putting words to the algorithms wrenched out by backpropagation is a research project unto itself.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 2 months ago:
… yes? This has been known since the beginning. Is it news because someone finally convinced Sam Altman?
Neural networks are universal estimators. “The estimate is wrong sometimes!*” is… what estimates are. The chatbot is not an oracle. It’s still bizarrely flexible, for a next-word-guesser, and it’s right often enough for these fuckups to become a problem.
What bugs me are the people going ‘see, it’s not reasoning.’ As if reasoning means you’re never wrong. Humans never misremember, or confidently espouse total nonsense. And we definitely understand brain chemistry and neural networks well enough to say none of these bajillion recurrent operations constitute the process of thinking.
Consciousness can only be explained in terms of unconscious events. Nothing else would be an explanation. So there is some sequence of operations which constitutes a thought. Computer science lets people do math with marbles, or in trinary, or on paper, so it doesn’t matter how exactly that work gets done.
Though it’s probably not happening here. LLMs are the wrong approach.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 2 months ago:
My guy, Microsoft Encarta 97 doesn’t have senses either, and its recollection of the capital of Austria is neither coincidence nor hallucination.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 2 months ago:
While technically correct, there is a steep hand-wave gradient between “just” and “near-impossible.” Neural networks can presumably turn an accelerometer into a damn good position tracker. You can try filtering and double-integrating that data, using human code. Many humans have. Most wind up disappointed. None of our clever theories compete with beating the machine until it makes better guesses.
It’s like, ‘as soon as humans can photosynthesize, the food industry is cooked.’
If we knew what neural networks were doing, we wouldn’t need them.
- Comment on Vimeo is getting acquired by Bending Spoons, the parent company of Evernote 2 months ago:
- Comment on The Chinese Room defend Bloodlines 2's paywalled vampire clans: "we have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land it" 3 months ago:
‘We changed scope and it’s your problem’ does not parse.
- Comment on Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster is the next Nightdive Studios release 3 months ago:
Could Lucasarts not secure the rights for “Fistful?”
- Comment on How AI researchers accidentally discovered that everything they thought about learning was wrong 3 months ago:
Quite possibly, yes. But how much is “a lot?” A wide network acts like many permutations.
Probing the space with small networks and brief training sounds faster, but that too is recreated in large networks. They’ll train for a bit, mark any weights near zero, reset, and zero those out.
What training many small networks would be good for is experimentation. Super deep and narrow, just five big dumb layers, fewer steps with more heads, that kind of thing. Maybe get wild and ask a question besides “what’s the next symbol.”
- Comment on Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. 3 months ago:
Nevermind tearing a page out of your own copy of a book is not a copyright issue… at all.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 3 months ago:
Defragging wasn’t handled in hardware. The OS is free to frag it up.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 3 months ago:
It’s a little weird that wear leveling isn’t handled at the software level, given that you can surely pick free sectors randomly. Random access is nearly free. So is idle CPU time.
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 3 months ago:
Is there a difference, besides SSDs tending to be plugged-in all the time? Maybe better firmware?
- Comment on China is about to launch SSDs so small you insert them like a SIM card 3 months ago:
So… an SD card?
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 3 months ago:
Are you sure? Check.
Where you jumped in is me, pointing out, repeatedly, that LLMs and IT have nothing to do with the actual article. Y’know, the doctors I keep mentioning? They’re not decorative.
