Racing games too, especially single player races.

If conditions are the same every run, it will eventually find the mathematically fastest way. I saw a video about a guy doing it, and after thousands of runs the bot noticed a glitch if the car wasn’t on four wheels allowing it to move insanely fast. Like grinding a rail in Tony Hawk, the bot would immediately do it, and run the entire course on the glitch.

That’s not human intelligence tho, that’s the same as when a slime mold can design a transportation network as effectively as we can.

I can’t believe I’m not really not really flying a spaceship!

Leonard > Amy

Work is hard, modern games are easy.

Shoot this dot, go to that dot, bring “x” to this dot…

Anything requiring critical thinking like a puzzle, the bot just brute forces trying every possible outcome until something works.

It works because games have a finite set of options and at least one progresses. The real world isn’t that clean, and you don’t get infinite chances to get 1 correct solution.

Something people would actually use is a message board.

One of the simple cut and paste forums and pay the $10/month to get it hosted.

Just have people text you to approve registration, something you can verify people are really in the neighborhood

People aren’t going to want to download a bunch of stuff they don’t know about to hang out with the HOA for game nights…

The main problem with HOAs is lonely bored people who want something to do.

Most people would rather pretend the HOA doesn’t exist until it’s needed for an actual issue.

Non-human bots now account for 56.5% of internet traffic

Traffic, not content…

But still, we’re getting there

Besides telecoms not following their own generational requirements that they made up for themselves…

A big issue is that each new one always seem so much better, because no one else is on it.

Once adaption happens and people move to it, it free up the prior one and cuts down on the advantage.

If I said there was two types of fruit, would you there’s more than two species of fruit?

There’s two types of fediverse basically.

1. Reddit knockoff

2. Twitter knockoff

Sometimes a #2 can post to a #1, they stand out because they always tag people and us hashtags in comments, when they manage to create a post, they never seem aware and get very very belligerent when people try to explain what they did that created a post.

If you want to engage with them on their level, you need an account on a twitter knockoff.

Yeah…

But you know how people are already comparing vibe coding to 40k where “priests” pray to computers and hope if they do the exact same thing they’ll get the same result they want?

If we start walking down this road of even the chat or not understanding why what it did was better…

Serious unintended consequences are going to be inevitable.

Like, I swear nobody knows the paperclip story anymore.

Instrumental convergence posits that an intelligent agent with seemingly harmless but unbounded goals can act in surprisingly harmful ways. For example, a sufficiently intelligent program with the sole, unconstrained goal of solving a complex mathematics problem like the Riemann hypothesis could attempt to turn the Earth (and in principle other celestial bodies) into additional computing infrastructure to succeed in its calculations.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

I mean, we can make a very very solid argument that much of our current problems are caused by high level stock trading being done by algorithms who’s only instruction is “make numbers go up”.

This shit aint even hypothetical anymore, it’s just instead of “make as many paperclips” we told it “make more money than you did yesterday”.

Which is why we’re burning down the planet to make billionaires even more money

You know the only thing more ridiculous than buying a toilet with a built in camera?

In October Kohler launched Dekota, a $600 (plus monthly subscription) device that attaches to the rim of your toilet and collects images and data from inside

Buying a camera to attach to an existing toilet, that has a monthly device fee that costs more than a fucking toilet does.

You’re acting like that’s a common scenario…

There’s a few small slices of area in a minority of states where you might be legally allowed to pick, but that is not a guarantee there’s more than one option.

To my knowledge most of them are artificial monopolies anyways.

Like, in Perfectville your choice between any available provider is legally protected. However company A and company B made a handshake deal to draw a line down the area and not provide service on one side of the line.

https://competitiveenergy.org/consumer-tools/state-by-state-links/

Very few of those green states are for electricity

And if you just meant:

Non profit = good

Then I’m going to have to explain an entirely different thing…

And I’m not optimistic about our chances to be honest

Bullshit.

You really think companies in America with monoplies would lower prices just because their costs went down?

I wish I lived in an America like that…

People thought they’d hang onto CDs and DVDs too…

Good luck…

Even when the bubble bursts, they’re going to have an insane amount of computing power just sitting there, it will get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings, and some company will gobble it up and operate at a loss while continuing to secure future supply contracts.

There’s a very real chance that we’re witnessing the slow death of home computing.

The way things shake out it might end up being prohibitively expensive compared to cloud computing, and once that’s the norm they price gouge like Walmart did to destroy small businesses.

Instead of dropping a couple grand for a PC every couple years, we’ll have steady contracts paying for month at a time indefinitely.

“We are birthing superintelligence. We are creating the mind of God, infinite, destined to solve every problem we’ve ever faced and usher in an age without death.”

What brain rotted CEO grifter is that quote even from?

Prebuilts have become about the only way to get a deal for a while now.

Wasn’t the studios fault

They fought to change the name since the beginning because they knew it would be impossible to deliver a real sequel and while this name might get initial sales it would cause blowback killing the game almost immediately…

Which is exactly what happened.

Like, they’d have loved to make Masquerade 2, but they weren’t given the time or funds to make it.

As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone

They said “market price”… What market are you shopping at?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KXrQYWbbIs

So instead of X disabling it…

Only Apple did