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[320x200 @The320x200]

@LifeArtStudios @thomasparas @crierlon If true, and it took you a decade to realize that, it doesn't really reflect great on your ability to read situations :p

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

When I was writing Unreal Engine 1, my time was divided as follows:

- Around 30% went to seriously deep coding on hard problems: assembly language texture mappers, C++ BSP trees, data persistence, object oriented systems design, and networking.

- Around 70% was just typing and refactoring large bodies of code needed for a complete engine feature set. This was not hard, and while I was doing it my mind was mostly on the deeper coding topics, thinking and planning for what's next. It didn't feel much different from vibe coding today, except that it was just me typing code on an IBM Model M keyboard rather than prompting it and reviewing the results.

So, it has always seemed perfectly logical that we would rely on AI for that 70%, once the AI could do it with a similar quality standard as we could, which has never been perfection. It came as no surprise that, after a few years of AI model evolution, it was able to take the reigns on that 70% and free up programmers' time for more valuable tasks.

What's more of a surprise is the emergence of AI as a sort of insta-Carmack able to solve hard technical problems quite cleverly and often cleanly, and that it's able to reason about and work in complex 3D scenes both by operating the tools and by directly understanding the raw data files.

I abandoned assembly language in 1998 when out-of-order CPUs made much simpler C/C++ code faster, and never I missed it. If prompting through architectural documents, concept art, and design plans can transcend typing code and tweaking vertices, that will enable developers to spend their time on higher-level, higher value technical and creative tasks.

What matters is the end product, whether it's a game or an engine. Anything developers can do to try out more ideas and make better software and games faster is a win for everyone.

[320x200 @The320x200]

@Hesamation The mathematician ego is so transparent. Nobody owns math problems. Nobody has to ask permission to do math. You're not some kind of protected class in a nature preserve, you're in the real world with everyone else.

[320x200 @The320x200]

Apparently it was never about the math but rather the ego and prestige.

[Aran Nayebi @aran_nayebi]

I don't get this reaction at all.

If you're truly curious about the world (rather than egotistical credit-seeking), the proper reaction to AI (likely) solving nearly 400 long-standing open problems would be curiosity & interest to better understand the frontier, not disavow it.

[320x200 @The320x200]

@adcock_brett Only works if you give hark access to your email account. Boo.

[320x200 @The320x200]

It is sad to see how many people view the world based on what can be subtracted rather than what can be added.

[DHH @dhh]

We can fix everything.

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

Happened ~15 years ago to us: postdoc from another lab was allegedly putting a neurotoxin in our shared coffee machine. People were hospitalized. Luckily no one died. Video cameras went up immediately. Crazy is everywhere

[Abundance Institute @abundanceinst]

Here’s a useful test for any AI bill:

Could a university lab or two-person startup actually comply with it?

If the answer is “only if they have the legal budget of the biggest AI companies in the world,” you’re not making AI safer.

You’re entrenching the biggest labs.
@neil_chilson

[320x200 @The320x200]

Overcoming the scarcity mindset that early stages of evolution hammers into creatures may be one of the great filters.

[320x200 @The320x200]

@ThePrimeagen Happening already to r/codex. Absolute black hole of negativity.

[320x200 @The320x200]

@OVYrct "I'm going to pretend to be an alien who doesn't understand relationships so I can get what I want, because I can, and fuck empathizing with people. It's your fault I take advantage of you, the victim is to blame. I'm so wise and enlightened!"

[320x200 @The320x200]

@moiiikaaa I was always a problem solver, and there are still so so so many problems to solve. Getting attached to being a glorified typist would be silly.

[320x200 @The320x200]

Mathematicians showing their true colors. Not rejoicing that progress is being made, but throwing a tantrum that they weren't the one to personally do it.

[Mathieu @miniapeur]

Fields medallist Hugo Duminil-Copin was deeply shaken by OpenAI’s release of more than 700 AI-generated mathematical manuscripts, including work on 16 questions directly relevant to his research.

“On Tuesday night, I cried, and it woke up my daughter”

“They have annihilated my field of research.”

https://t.co/RQliNgxjS8

[320x200 @The320x200]

England couldn't maintain remote ownership of the colonies across the Atlantic Ocean. No country is going to be able to maintain remote ownership of colonies on the Moon/Mars.

[320x200 @The320x200]

I don't doubt this at all.

[Perry E. Metzger @perrymetzger]

In coming months, radical EA employees at a large AI company are likely to try to fake a major catastrophe. They will use this to try to convince the public that AI is dangerous.

You have been warned.

[320x200 @The320x200]

@elsleightholm Nobody fucking owns math. Anyone is allowed to do math.

[320x200 @The320x200]

@davepl1968 Why is AI relevant to your position? If it's a crime it would be a crime no matter how or how fast you do it.

[320x200 @The320x200]

@ProofofMaro The joke predates the automobile by a lot, when roads were completely safe to cross. The suicide interpretation is a myth.

[320x200 @The320x200]

@benz145 It laughed once when I was describing how I thought a backyard horseshoe pit would be fun but maybe too boring so I was considering an axe throwing station.