Glad you enjoyed FarCry, I worked as a prog on a bunch of them

If society is so fucked, you fantasise about dropping out and breaking it

uh, it's a fucking videogame bro. it's fun to play because it's fun to do things you generally are not allowed or able to experience in real life - even if it's a very distance simulation of it - be it steal sports cars and drive them off the top of an office building, or jump down a warp pipe and stomp on some squids' heads

it's one of the same principal reasons people watch movies or tv - it's different than your normal routine and produces emotional responses, which is a thing humans seek out

"expect an LLM itself to implement any actually reliable security mechanisms"

I don't think you understood his comment at all, but it's okay, when it comes to LLM, you're just raging against the machine. It's cool.

gweihir's kind of an idiot, but I do recomment not starting comments with "I'm no expert" followed by the words "but I know .."

It's really not a good way of communicating.

Kinda sounds like humans, really. I don't want to make a direct comparison, but the last X years of history is an entire network of adhoc - okay maybe not 'excessively complex' but it'd be weird to describe humans that way - poorly integrated collection of interconnected social/state/military systems (paperwork or otherwise) with fragmented security and accountability.

Look, yes, it's scary and dumb but the people who are like "this could be fixed if only they did A or B or listened to me" are people who view the world through a lens that is reductively simple.

All major shifts/progress/changes in technology and communication have resulted in new kinds of damage. The medium is the message indeed.

The NY Times review made it sound fascinating. I do love fiction that doesn't spell anything out, and it sure sounds like that's the case with The End of Everything. I really wanna check it out.

It's really not that fun to live life seeking joy in being a small person.

To be fair Israelis don't rape little kids, they just blow them up. I suppose that's slightly more civilized.

Yeah exactly. I think any guess as to whether AI is truly inextricable from their search product would be ill informed - I'm willing to believe it is and it isn't, but Google may get turned down (or their bluff called) by enough schools such that a sizable number of kids grow up with the muscle memory of typing in or configuring their own browsers to a different search engine.

"Meanwhile even questioning if the earth is flat will have you downmodded to (-1) Troll."

What you might as well have said.

They really humiliated all the traditional supercar brands out there.

Uh, what?

Sure, go far back enough (and yes, I was on computers at that time) but surely he's not saying, "Man, computers were better when you could only run one process at a time, and the operating system let you do literally anything" etc etc and if so, the answer to that is, you can still do that if you want .. you just can't do it *inside* somebody else's software architecture. You still own the hardware, do whatever you want.

This is fair, but that really just reinforces the point that the article makes. Solo dev is currently different, team output is limited by other factors than pure code output. I've worked on games with literally hundreds of concurrent programmers, and even when you're using something like Unreal Engine and your team is small ( 20 people), you've effectively got all the engine team at Epic generating code for you on a relatively regular basis.

It may indeed be possible for AI to actually make teams faster at some point (even in the nearish future), but right now, it's just more code, which isn't always the best solution.

huh? it's trivial to write any code you want and run it on your phone

But with respect to your "dawn of the PC era", unless you wrote the operating system, you couldn't write and run code that could do anything and everything your computer was capable of - only code that could do what the operating system would permit you to do.

That's no different today.

Here's a little sticker for knowing what Firefox is tho. You must be good at computers.