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the new castlevania really really wants you to know that the devs totally love castlevania from the bottom of their hearts which is of course why they made zero attempt to include any of castlevania's aesthetic or gameplay design

this argument only works if you assume AI is the next industrial revolution and we aren't instead basically talking abt uber before they hiked the prices

surely once the tobacco companies see how much lung cancer they're causing, we the hopelessly addicted smokers will be able to get them to come to their senses

this argument only works if you assume AI is the next industrial revolution and we aren't instead basically talking abt uber before they hiked the prices

continuing this analogy to its conclusion, a lot of people stopped using uber when the trip that used to cost $20 now costs $100. but uber continues to exist because suckers who will pay $100 do exist and are high margin. i kinda think AI will end up like this, for suckers, like crypto before it

stupid idea buzzing around my head for like a year

this argument only works if you assume AI is the next industrial revolution and we aren't instead basically talking abt uber before they hiked the prices

like was uber more useful than traditional taxis? yeah a bit but not like revolutionarily, esp once you consider the sheer capex. was that utility also accompanied by a lot of theft and social destruction? yeah basically but ppl were often too optimistic to label it as such

this was one of the most upsetting things to hear visiting them in person, but it's not surprising. old-web libertarians like brewster loooooove crypto, and AI is something they can be just as annoying about while also being a little useful (you gotta realize they spend most of their time doing OCR)

it was actually crazy though. the whiplash listening to brewster kahle give a whole leftist screed about the death of public libraries at the hands of publishers, only for him follow up immediately with "if i could sell the internet archive's entire collection to anthropic i'd do it in a heartbeat"

kind of funny that of the five great lakes "lake america" is now supposedly the smallest and shittiest one. like damn ontario was doing us a favor taking one for the team

air pollution really must be the best example of the utter perversion of capitalism. industrialists are happy filling the air with tar and killing thousands every year in order to make more money. and this is still such a widespread belief that london was still in this state as recently as 2016!!

never forget higher life expectancy was an *accidental* side effect of industrialized medicine. before then life expectancy had actually *decreased* in many places due to air pollution! and the capitalists just said, "that's the cost of progress". i always try to remember this when i read about AI

one of the most important lessons i learned in my last job is most software is easy, and you can just do stuff. but most engineers in industry have a low opinion of their own capabilities, so they never try in earnest. i think this is primarily what AI preys on

but like, i've absolutely seen engineers churn out giant refactors like rick is describing here on three-week timelines before. i'm not really surprised such a thing is possible. you just had to have the cultural wherewithal and confidence to go do it instead of complaining

one of the most important lessons i learned in my last job is most software is easy, and you can just do stuff. but most engineers in industry have a low opinion of their own capabilities, so they never try in earnest. i think this is primarily what AI preys on

like. yeah, actually, i don't think before AI it would have been that hard for a determined programmer to reimplement a bunch of shims for a well-documented API like DirectX, especially if you can accept a "buggy and crashy" result. but it *sounds* gnarly, so you'd just assume you can't do it

function calls, monomorphization, and return type inference. pretty close to being able to lower this to the mid-level IR :)

a little more progress, on interval types and arithmetic after partial evaluation finishes

getting distracted working on a self-indulgent little lisp

i wonder how close you could get to that leftist gamer memes account output by just piping disc horse bot into a random death generator

not enough people out there seem to remember that it doesn't matter whether or not AI is useful for X or Y. it's ontologically evil and you have a moral obligation to work towards destroying it