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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The PS5 Pro is way overpriced and the regular PS5 doesn’t really have many exclusives over PS4 so it’s not a big surprise they can’t move consoles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be Wary of Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am skeptical that it can grow to be a network the size of twitter, be ran as a for-profit, and not enshittify. I can’t think of a single example that hasn’t. Bluesky has ran as a public benefit corporation so far, but it has to keep the lights on somehow.

  It took twitter years to run somewhat profitably. Even then Twitter was enshittified before Musk bought it. Premium subs are probably the least enshittified way to raise revenue, but ads and algorithms meant to raise engagement towards those ads are very much enshittification in action. That “normal people” have a high level of monetization they are willing to tolerate, is just grease on the wheels toward enshittification.

  I admittedly have a limited understanding of the full operation of ATProto so please correct me if wrong. Appviews/lists/feeds are supposed to be the defense of ad/algorithm enshittification, anyone could write an appview with a different algorithm.

  And this is why I assume that the network can only be run without enshittification, is by a benevolent provider. If Bluesky becomes hostile to an Appview that allows users to bypass ads or engagement farming, users can move their PDS to another relay that isn’t hostile to it. But there still remains the underlying reason that Bluesky would theoretically have become hostile to it. I don’t see how blacksky, for instance, wouldn’t also have to eventually take the same steps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a single exclusive for PlayStation 5 that didn’t also come out on ps4. So idk, I’d probably say Astro Bot is PlayStation’s game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be Wary of Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If twitter but with less right wing voices is what the people wanted then they will be sorely disappointed when bluesky enshittifies with no real recourse to prevent it. If everyone just hops on over to blacksky or whatever other 3rd party relay exists, they’ve still got the same problem. All the power resides in a single entity. Bluesky’s basic defense of their platform is that if they enshittify then ATProto allows some other benevolent corporation to take their place but has one major flaw. Corporations are not benevolent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Playstation: we have one game

  FTFY

  The generation has been hell

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I played this game all the way through without a guide about 3 years ago. It has NES jank but the only really frustrating parts are unlocking the dungeon with the flute and with the candle. Everything else had a hint to tell you how to find it or was just out in the open

  The key was to write everything down. The dungeons are fine, it’s just the overworld that needs hints

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t pay for the Verge, and if I did and still saw ads, I definitely wouldn’t renew. “Maximizing profit” only works, if we fold. If we fold to ad supported journalism, then companies will plaster their sites with ads. The market regulates itself if the consumer is principled enough. The problem is that your average consumer is weak willed and less-than-principled. I’m fine going without even if it ends up being a pointless endeavor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then they know their audience. Source: Nintendo customer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Phil was probably the last thing keep Xbox from fully imploding. You could tell he was an actual gamer that cared about the Xbox as a games console and not whatever Frankenstein they are going to turn it into.

  It’s sad but Xbox had a really good run. Xbox won’t exist beyond the next console generation, it may not even make it that far before it just becomes gamepass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it, but reader-funded journalism is always better than advertiser-funded. But if the reporting isn’t worth paying for to you, I don’t blame you for skipping them. I feel the same way some times. One article might be worth paying for but I’m not so interested in what they report to justify a full subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the steam deck would have been priced higher than it was as well, so I thought that they’d probably surprise us with a $600 machine. $800 made sense for the specs (Now I expect it to be $1000)

  Once GPU prices super inflated 6 or 7 years ago, I got out of PC gaming for new titles. I built a top spec machine for $1200 in 2012 (when I had disposable income and no kids), that barely gets you an entry level today. I guess PC gaming, for new titles at least, will forever be out of my budget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gonna upgrade when the steam machine came out but with the likely price hike taking it to $800+ I think I’ll just keep playing 20 year old Call of Duty: United Offensive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This will probably be unpopular but the leftist - liberal infighting is my least favorite part of the fediverse and why I usually end up having to give people a warning before telling them to get on the fediverse.

  This drama is kind of the epitome of that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this mean that if I pretend to be a bot, I can access any cloudflare site ad-free?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is it?.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it is roasted in salt and olive oil, the whole thing is good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the same thing as people who are concerned about AI generating non-consensual sexual imagery.

  Sure anyone with photoshop could have done it before but unless they had enormous skill they couldn’t do it convincingly and there were well defined precedents that they broke the law. Now Grok can do it for anyone who can type a prompt and cops won’t do anything about it.

  So yes, anyone could have technically done it before but now it’s removing the barriers that prevented every angry crazy person with a keyboard from being able to cause significant harm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s not telling you to be terrified of the single bot writing a blog post. He’s telling you to be terrified of the blog post being ingested by other bots and then seen as a source of truth. Resulting in AI recruiters automatically rejecting his resume for job postings. Or for other agents deciding to harass him for the same reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord isn’t getting my ID. Not that I am in any servers that would be affected. But concerning that if discord wanted to chill us out without hard banning our community, they could just make us age restricted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why PlayStation Graphics Wobble, Flicker And Twitch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on who you ask I guess. we all float down here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why PlayStation Graphics Wobble, Flicker And Twitch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Floating point numbers. Floating point integer is an oxymoron 🤓

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate it because it’s an unethical practice to manipulate or mislead and all modern advertising uses dark patterns to try to get you to overconsume.

  The ADHD distress is just another side effect of all that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny because I consider Flock a terrorist organization

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to preface my response that I appreciate the thought and care put into your thoughts even though I don’t agree with them. Yours as well as the others.

  The differences between a human hallucination and an AI hallucination is pretty stark. A human’s hallucinations are false information understood by one’s senses. Seeing or hearing things that aren’t there. An AI hallucination is false information being invented by the AI itself. It had good information in its training data but invents something that is misinformation at best and an outright lie at worst. A person who is experiencing hallucinations or a manic episode, can lose their sense of self awareness temporarily but it returns with a normal mental state.

  On the topic of self awareness, we have tests we use to determine it in animals, such as being able to recognize oneself in the mirror. Only a few animals such as some birds, apes, and mammals such as orcas and elephants pass that test. Notably, very small children would not pass the test but they grow into recognizing that their reflection is them and not another being eventually.

  I think the test about the seahorse emoji went over your head. The point isn’t that the LLM can’t experience it, it’s that there is no seahorse emoji. The LLM knows there isn’t a seahorse emoji and can’t reproduce it but it tries to over and over again because it’s training data points to there being one, when there isn’t. It fundamentally can’t learn, can’t self reflect on its experiences. Even with the expanded context window, once it starts a lie, it may admit that the information was false but 9/10 when called out on a hallucination, it will just generate another slightly different lie. In my anecdotal experience at least, once an LLM starts lying, the conversation is no longer useful.

  You reference reasoning models, and they do a better job of avoiding hallucinations by breaking prompts down into smaller problems and allowing the LLM to “check its work” before revealing the response to the end user. That’s not the same as thinking in my opinion, it’s just more complex prompting. It’s not a single intelligence pondering on the prompt, it’s different parts of the model tackling the prompt in different ways before being piped to the full model for a generative reply. A different approach but at the end of the day, it’s just an unthinking pile of silicon and various metals running a computer program.

  I do like your analogy of the 7 year old compared to the LLM. I find the main distinction being that the 7 year old will grow and learn form its experience, an LLM can’t. It’s “experience”, through prompt history, can give it additional information to apply to the current prompt, but it’s not really learning as much as it is just another token to help it generate a specific response. LLMs react to prompts according to its programming, emergent and novel responses come from unexpected inputs, not from it learning or otherwise not following its programming.

  I apologize I probably didn’t fully address or rebut everything in your post, it was just too good of a post to be able to succinctly address it all on a mobile app. Thanks for sharing your perspective

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe that’s they point, people want to play Morrowind but they don’t have a platform that can actually play it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMS can not be self aware because it can’t be self reflective. It can’t stop a lie if it’s started one. It can’t say “I don’t know” unless that’s the most likely response its training data would have for a specific prompt. That’s why it crashes out if you ask about a seahorse emoji. Because there is no reason or mind behind the generated text, despite how convincing it can be

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Hardware Sales Plunge 32% YoY as Services Keep Gaming Division Afloat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently got an Xbox One S to play my 360 games via remote play but $10 a month for Xbox live is ridiculous

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Watching those hack frauds causes psychological harm. Rich Evans is known to trigger depression

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean steam adds a convenient way to keep your games up to date instead of having to manually patch them. I also was on the anti-steam bandwagon for the longest time until I finally gave in and decided to buy Modern Warfare 2 in 2010. I ended up repurchasing the rest of the Call of Duty games because it was so convenient not needing the discs and not having to locate patches.

  Steam is the one launcher I don’t get pissed about having to use because it has so many value add features.

  Unlike epic/origin/uplay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK announces largest ever facial recognition rollout as part of policing reforms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d take BBC/PBS over Fox News any day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK announces largest ever facial recognition rollout as part of policing reforms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually when you think of reform, you imagine things getting better, not things getting worse…