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Oh that’s the good part, there won’t be a next round. We’re now perpetually stuck in the zeitgeist of 2022 and there will be nothing new or original ever again.

Yeah, by not releasing HL3. Bastards!

That’s awful, he didn’t deserve this. Imagine the life-long trauma of knowing that you killed a man.

Not enough? There are more games than you could play in a lifetime that women can enjoy, even after you exclude all of the male-fantasy shit.

You can bet they’re selling it to AI companies for training, too.

I’ve seen this talk before, but right at the beginning he links this blog-post which I didn’t read the last time: https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture

It’s worth linking here because it’s highly relevant to these kinds of discussions, and I like that he starts off his video acknowledging it.

Well I think we can identify their target demographic.

Is it just for new games coming out post AI-pocalypse or is it also for games created before gen-AI existed?

Yes it would be nice to actually find out what the titular “update” to the book the author is suggesting. We only get half way through the premise of their argument before the paywall cuts off the article.

Social Darwinism is wrong, yes, but the Selfish Gene does not promote that theory and, if memory serves, it specifically calls out such theories as being wrong.

Perhaps you’re misremembering what it’s about on account of the title, which can be confusing. It’s not about a gene that causes selfish behaviour. It’s about the gene itself being a “selfish” entity in so far as the only thing that evolution cares about is that the gene promotes its own replication. It’s an anthropomorphisation of the gene as a metaphor to understand the mechanism of evolution when viewed from a gene’s-eye-view instead of the usual contextualisation of evolution around the individual animal.

From the HN comments:

kunai 17 minutes ago
Looks somewhat vibe-coded. How much of this is independent work? If it’s actually faithful graphic design and integrated, well-thought out code with a bit of Claude glue on top then I’m fairly intrigued, but if the entire thing was built with llm tooling then that does unfortunately sap my interest in this a lot.

I do love the idea though. I do also hate the fact that if I saw a project like this six or seven years ago I’d be in awe at it, but now that there’s far less effort required, I just go, “oh neat, eh, but how functional is it really” and move on.

chromasyspro 17 minutes ago

That’s fair, and I get where you’re coming from. I do use AI quite a bit for the coding side of things, and I’m not pretending otherwise.

Zac OS originally started as something I was making just for myself. I’ve always loved the classic Mac OS experience and wanted to bring it to modern hardware. It’s actually my everyday OS now, and I figured I’d share it in case anyone else wanted to try it.

It’s also a lot more than just a visual recreation. I’ve been trying to bring back how the original Mac OS actually worked, but integrate that functionality with modern Linux. Things like the Finder-style file management, System Folder, Control Panels, menus and the way everything interacts are meant to feel like the original Mac, while still working with modern applications, hardware and the underlying Linux system.

I’m not a professional developer, and I’m not claiming to have written every line of code myself. It’s something I enjoy working on, and a lot of the development comes from using it every day, finding things that don’t feel right, and improving them.

There’s no big ambition behind it. I just wanted to build something I’d enjoy using, and thought others might enjoy it too.

You think I’m pro-AI? lmao

It’s possible (and surprisingly common) for anti-AI articles to have been written by LLMs.

Slop is already a denial of service attack on our attention, our infrastructure and the signal-to-noise ratio of the information that we consume. I don’t see why I should also spend my time pointing out all of the obvious LLM tells in every slop article that goes by when that takes effort and producing the slop takes zero effort. It’s a losing battle.

I’m sorry that you can’t tell slop from human writing, but I would suggest that to train you discernment circuits in your brain you need to read more human writing. Read some books, read some articles written before 2022, read some blogs of people that you know don’t use LLMs. It’s tough to find good content out there, but it’s not difficult to discern real communication from statistically average mechanically-reclaimed meat substitute.

Why does the narrator’s accent oscillate between American and Australian-ish? 👀

This article is slop.

ente is vibe-coded

Nice! Link for the lazy: https://marginalia-search.com/

That’s cool, thanks.

I like what Kagi are doing, even though I don’t pay for their search engine. I’ve been enjoying browsing the Kagi Small Web portal recently.

It perturbs me that as an acronym this becomes MSFT.