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>Larian Studios was under fire for using ai for concept art

By an extremely loud group of activists, as always. I'd wager most gamers don't care one way or the other.


If you squint hard enough, every new thing is an example of "answer-from-search / answer-from-remix". Solving any Erdős problem in this manner was largely seen as unthinkable just a year ago.

>the problem does not matter.

Really? All of the other Erdős problems? Millennium Problems? Anything at all? This gets us directly into the territory of "nothing can convince us otherwise".


Tiresome. You're quoting me out of context, and generally assigning me the POV you want to argue with. You come across as pro-AI looking for anti-AI to do combat with. First, I'm not the right guy, and second, all I'm really saying above is that if we're going to do argument-from-authority, maybe let's engage with what the authority is actually saying in TFA.

I don't think I quoted you out of context. In any case, Terence Tao and co. are doing wonderful work in this area. I'd encourage everyone to bookmark the following link: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contribution...

It's a rapidly evolving story and I expect H1 2026 to bring much clarity on this topic. Especially with upcoming model releases and more professional mathematicians taking an interest.


>AGI advocates treat machine intelligence like some sort of God that will smite non-believers and reward the faithful.

>The real world is not composed of rewards and punishments.

Most "AGI advocates" say that AGI is coming, sooner rather than later, and it will fundamentally reshape our world. On its own that's purely descriptive. In my experience, most of the alleged "smiting" comes from the skeptics simply being wrong about this. Rarely there's talk of explicit rewards and punishments.


You should look into “Roko’s Basilisic,” its a genuine belief that often goes alongside that of AGI.

I should be the target audience for this stuff, but I honestly can't name a single person who believes in this "Roko's basilisk" thing. To my knowledge, even the original author abandoned it. There probably are a small handful out there, but I've never seen 'em myself.

- SeedFold: Scaling Biomolecular Structure Prediction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24354

- SeedProteo: Accurate De Novo All-Atom Design of Protein Binders

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24192



As per the conclusions of that great video, going back before Pong and defining a "first" video game depends heavily on your definition of both "video" and "game"

See also Wikipedia's overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_history_of_video_games

If you want Tennis for Two (1958) to be first, you have to introduce criteria that excludes OXO (1952), Checkers (1952), and Sheep and Gates (1952)


I don't think it is unreasonable to define a "video game" as one employing video graphics and real time input. Things like Tennis for Two (and the later Spacewar) are clearly video games in a sense that mere simulations of board games are not.


Its interesting how closely intertwined video games and computers are right from the early days!




Doom was a big milestone in video game history and 90s tech culture.


>When I pretend to be human

>i am lux (it/they/she in English, ça/æl/elle in French)

This blog is written by an insane activist who's claiming to be an animal.


So? Does that somehow invalidate this article?


First 20 seconds of reading the article already indicated something like this. It's all the same.


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I’m no fan furries either, but I also don’t see what bearing someone’s personal life has on how to configure a git forge. Maybe you should grow the fuck up?


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Cool, once again you still cannot cite where exactly on this particular blog post you saw them reference being a furry. I don’t really give a shit about anything else you have to say: make a citation. Or just, you know, admit you are wrong and did actually have to go looking for something to whine about.


You both broke the site guidelines extremely badly in this nasty tit-for-tat spat.

We ban accounts that post like this. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


>I don’t really give a sh*t

If you say so.


It's finally here! Extropic has been working on this since 2022. I'm really excited to see how this performs in the real world.


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