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Which brings the question, if LLMs are an asset of such strategic value, why did China allow the DeepSeek to be released? I see two possibilities here, either that the CCP is not t…

This seems more like a move designed to frighten China -- or force them to spend money making LLMs -- then an actual threat. The clues are that Trump ceremonially blessed the deal …

That's interesting, it hasn't occurred to me to check his games. That said, I remember reading that Machiaveli was once given a territory to govern and he was terrible at it, despi…

Jesse Schell's book is a great read beyond game design. Thanks for the other links. To leave something in return, here's something I read the other day and kept thinking about it (…

Another adage is "code should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute". This goes directly against code being written by machines. I still use …

Or a pebble; for a super intelligent pebble. “God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.” ― Ibn Arabi

> You don’t need unit tests if you have integration tests. Which is why, as per Jim Coplien, most unit testing is waste. But converting one type of unit tests into another is a per…

On the internet, no one hears you being subtle. (Torvalds) I'll add my own view: when you watch a movie, read a book, listen to a song, play a game... you CONNECT with the mind of …

Certainly agree with you on that one.

I find it draining to have to be on the lookout constantly for hallucinations, or omissions a person wouldn't make. I imagine as long as I'm walking well known paths -- well known …

> People raving about it on twitter For the most part usages of GenAI have been sharing output on social media. It is mind-blowingly fascinating, but the utility of it is far far b…

They probably don't. Forced ad viewing is fundamentally dishonest: they can force the user to watch the ad, but they can't force him to pony up for what is being advertised.

The best description of AGI I've seen is in Michael Crichton's Prey. He describes in a fairly plausible detail how AGI rises from the building blocks. The emotion he captures is th…

"What an insult to writers, artists, and game designers! None of them have managed to imbue their works with "unique spirit?" As someone said, to the extent they have managed to do…

About time. What makes a game unique in spirit is its engine.

I had always thought they had some sort of special treatment but wasn't sure of their social status. I found a bit on that: https://www.quora.com/Where-specifically-did-the-Crusade…

How much -- not whether -- something is natural is determined by the statistical processes that make the thing. "Appeal to nature fallacy" misses that critical point.

In ancient Greece they supposedly ate meat only during festivals. That was not only better for people but also allowed animal populations to recover. I firmly believe that the leve…

As Heissenberg said, "What we are seeing is not nature, but nature exposed to our mode of questioning." And the mode -- we invented it as it is because of a whim of history, becaus…

Exactly right. Most of the new engineers have nothing of the libertarian spirit of the 2600 era. It was engineers who implemented censorship at online platforms, most incredulous o…

Only if a long time passes without evidence of harm, we consider that the "evidence" of safety -- there is no other. It is very difficult to claim that something new introduced in …

It is the statistical processes that determine how much something is "natural". Our bodies evolved alongside fruit that was on the smaller and less sweet side, and logically that's…

And this is an example of "where is the evidence" logical fallacy. In complex systems, such as the human body, the only evidence of safety is time -- a very long time. The Stevia p…

Apparently you deleted one of your previous comments on the topic, so I'll repost it here as it illustrates wonderfully how "pragmatic" your own thinking is, especially the part th…

I was in a similar situation at a startup I worked for, except they are trying to get their software into the control systems in industrial refrigeration facilities. I have brought…