Honestly, the thing that is broken is people’s intelligence. The people propping up the mobile games industry, Mr. Beast videos, AI music, “Verticals”, etc. are all people I’ve never met, and yet somehow represent the vast majority of our population. Those are the people who don’t care about the difference between novel artwork, and a half-assed slop recreation that’s designed to poke their dopamine receptors. Those people are why we can’t have nice things.

Someone will inevitably argue, “no, it’s the billionaires who are thrusting AI on us, we just need to stop them”. And while I agree they showed us the path here, I think we could erase the lot of them from existence, and the remaining population would still use the knowledge leftover to keep going down the same path.

I don’t know if it’s just that the existence of AI will curse humanity to always very efficiently optimize to the lowest common denominator, or if this will pressure the LCD to not be so far down there, but whatever shakes out I don’t think will be in our lifetimes…

You aren’t ever going to recreate the same experience with an emulator. If you want to experience those games as intended, your only option is to buy physical hardware made for playing them.

You are referring to closed source unofficial cracks/patches/keygens. That is not the situation at hand. If those unofficial releases were open source in a time before AI, people would almost implicitly trust them.

The question above was asking why people were hesitant about this codebase even though it is open source. And the reason is that it was written by an unknown bot (or rather, series of bots) whose motives are inconsistent and unpredictable even to its prompter. It doesn’t mean it’s not safe, but it means that literally no human can currently be certain it’s safe. Without sufficient effort, we cannot yet know for certain that there isn’t a very cleverly obfuscated piece of malware lurking in this source.

Remember that correlation is not causation. You may believe there is correlation between unofficial releases and malware, and that may be true, but that does not mean it is causal. The point I’m making is that there is a literal causal relationship between unaudited AI reverse engineered code, and malware. And that is what is new and people need to be aware of.

Did you only read the first sentence?

It could be a virus.

Even if the people who made it didn’t intend to, an AI writing a bunch of code that (obviously) isn’t being vetted beyond “does it run” could very feasibly inject a backdoor/virus of some kind surreptitiously, just because it erroneously thought that was the goal at some point during generation.

This is why open weight models are not good enough. The AI could have been trained to take the right, niche opportunity to inject malicious code, and is also trained to otherwise never behave like that is the case.

This argument is conflating the bad boss with the misattribution of the tool. You could do that for any tool throughout history. But I still fail to see how you go from “bad boss is bad because they make us misattribute tool” to “good boss is bad because he’s not wallowing with me about how bad boss is bad”.

As anyone who has known about him for more than a couple of years knows, Linus has a pretty solid track record of calling out stupidity. It’s just virtually always stupidity that affects the kernel. If he had to stop and tell bosses at other companies how to operate, Linux never would have made it out of the 90s.

You understand the existing trusted parties contributing to the kernel are still allowed to use AI where they see fit, right?

He’s been consistent and realistic about AI: LLMs are a powerful tool, smart people can make effective use of powerful tools in responsible ways, and irresponsible people can use the same tools to create a flood of noise. So create a system which allows smart, responsible people to make the kernel better, and prevents irresponsible people from making the kernel worse.

They literally believe the first amendment is there to protect their feelings.

Tresspass them?

Worth noting that this is also an ongoing issue with windows. Only apple has actually solved this, and they do so by owning the whole stack. Each apple product has a specific OS, CPU, and motherboard that were all specifically designed with the end-product user-experience in mind.

But for PCs, the OS, CPU, and motherboard are all designed and built by different companies, each only designed to be generically compatible with the other components. None of them are designed for a specific end-product, so features that require all of the components to play perfectly together for a specific end-user experience (like sleep state) often end up not quite aligning.

None of this helps you, but I think it’s worth understanding why the problem exists and why it may just always exist. The best bet is that companies like System76 or Valve solve sleep states for specific linux-based products, and then the rest of us maybe hopefully see some benefit from that.

But IMO this is just a trade-off. It’s like a pick 2 situation between Customization, Stability, and Privacy (where a reliabile sleep state is Stability). You can have stability and customization, but you’ll probably pay a lot, and the company who sold it will want telemetry data to improve the experience for others. You can have stability and privacy, but the product will be very locked down to a specific use case to ensure a stable experience.

Control: Resonant

I think I’m 25-30h in and I don’t want to put it down. Idk how long it is, but all the Remedy Universe games are such a treat, I don’t want it to be over. I’m enjoying the melee-focused combat more than the first game’s TPS combat, I think.

He literally used video game kiting strats to pull him away from the bike so he had enough time to sprint to it and mount it.