How about opening up the game for humans to play? Can you beat your AI?
I am so glad we have automated away game playing so that I can just sit around and be a lifeless vegetable
Readit Newsmidiguy commented on Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play llmskirmish.com/... · Posted by u/__cayenne__
midiguy commented on Web dev is still fun if you want it to be github.com/jchester/bobot... · Posted by u/jacques_chester
If you've found web development frustrating over the past 5-10 years, here's something that worked great for me: give yourself permission to avoid any form of frontend build system (so no npm/React/TypeScript/JSX/Babel/etc) and code in HTML and JavaScript like it's 2009.
The joy came flooding back to me! It turns out browser APIs are really good now.
You don't even need jQuery to paper over the gaps any more - use document.querySelectorAll() and fetch() directly and see how much value you can build with a few dozen lines of code.
Tbh, I would be pretty frustrated developing any non-trivial frontend code without a type system. But I am interested to try dropping frameworks.
midiguy commented on Was Sam Altman Right About the Job Market? theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/petethomas
What happened to the techno optimistic abundance of everything that the VCs and tech founders were shilling?
"...the lifting of billions of people out of poverty to share in the new technologies, a renaissance of liberal democracy and human rights."
So we lift billions out of poverty by replacing everyone's jobs? Abundance of unemployment?
Also what happened to the narrative of "There will be new jobs made with AI", I am struggling to understand how can there be new jobs in AI when AI can literally replace it faster than the job was created.
Are there any employers in the market for hiring Prompt Engineers for $250K+?
Anyone?
The techno optimism has morphed into VCs and tech founders lobbying Trumps governments to self-destruct the US government so they can lord over techno-feudal city states
The arrogance and narcissism of the Silicon Valley elite is going to result in horrible outcomes for just about everyone. These people do not know a single thing about responsible public administration, they can only see dollar signs.
midiguy commented on How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop gamechops.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/fbnlsr
As a long time (actual) hip-hop fan, I do find it quite hard to muster sympathy for this weirdly isolated, and perhaps disposable, genre? Kind of like, okay, how much did you try to build with the origins of the thing you're using to make new music?
Reminds me a bit of "nerdcore" hip-hop; which also made little sense because e.g. Del the Funkee Homosapien and RZA were also nerds making VERY nerdy music, but for "some reason" weren't seen as the same thing.
The same thing is happening to jazz playlists. Spotify is cramming jazz playlists with bland interpretations of standards that they paid bottom dollar to desperate conservatory students for. As a long-term jazz fan, I know what I am looking for and it ain't that. But for someone new to jazz who doesn't know exactly what they are looking for, their attention is being diverted to this slop, and they may never discover any dimension of jazz music beyond it, which is kind of sad.
midiguy commented on How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop gamechops.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/fbnlsr
Dilla is still the greatest to ever do it.
Lofi peaked long before the term lofi even came about
> The historian Yuval Noah Harari has argued that humans should figure out how to work together and establish trust before developing advanced AI. In theory, I agree. If I had a magic button that could slow this whole thing down for 30 or 40 years while humanity figures out trust and common goals, I might press it. But that button doesn’t exist. These technologies will be created regardless of what any individual or company does.
Is that true, though? Training runs for frontier models don’t happen without enormous resources and support. You don’t run one in your garage. It doesn’t happen unless people make it happen.
Is this really a harder coordination problem than, say, stopping climate change, which Gates does believe is worth trying?
Let's face it. Our world is currently filled with rogue states waging pointless wars, spying on their own citizens, launching cyberattacks, seeding disinformation outside their borders, etc. If they want to make it happen they will. It is a damn hard coordination problem.
I thought the saying was “infinite monkeys..” and in that case you would get the full works of Shakespeare immediately. With an infinite amount of time and one monkey you’d get the full works of Shakespeare in every language supported by the typewriter any number of times in a row you wished. In fact, you’d get anything you wanted as long as the probability was > 0
Edit: after walking my dogs, isn’t the probability of the full works of Shakespeare never being typed out also > 0? (I can’t believe I’m actually spending calories on this..)
I'm picturing scientists in another universe clenching their butts as the monkey goes to type the last letter of Hamlet..... and misses 't' for 'r' and the whole observation hall erupts with loud groans
Pretty much every issue with Typescript is actually an issue with Javascript. Typescript is purely an improvement.
midiguy commented on Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/jimbob45
everything worth doing in life is addicting. you cant just ban/regulate dopamine producing activities
Most dopamine producing activities are in some way beneficial in moderation to outweigh the negatives (sex, eating, exercise, even many recreational drugs). I don't know whether pointlessly bleeding money away to some greasy corporation counts there. That said I don't like telling people how they should waste their money but it seems there needs to be some form of a plan for problem gambling.
midiguy commented on Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/jimbob45
Casinos do the same thing, try playing a correct game of blackjack (which is the only game approaching fair odds in the place). You'll be backed off or the house will change the minimum of the table you're on all the while trying to extract your ID so they can get you added to their database of "advantaged" players.
Poker is the only casino game approaching fair where a highly skilled player can be profitable as they are taking money from other players and not the casino (casino just collects their rake on every hand). But that's why casinos hate offering many poker tables, it's just not as profitable.