I think he might have adhd.

Oh no, I don’t think we’re ready for him to start mythologizing autism + ADHD.

Watching my therapist pull up Musk facts on his phone for 40 minutes going “bro check this out you’re just like him frfr” the moment he learned I was autistic was enough for me. Please god don’t let musk start talking about hyperfocusing.

I feel like the Internet Archive is a prime target for techfashy groups. Both for the amount of culture you can destroy, and because backed up webpages often make people with an ego the size of the sun look stupid.

Also, I can’t remember but didn’t Yudkowsky or someone else pretty plainly admit to taking a bunch of money during the FTX scandal? I swear he let slip that the funds were mostly dried up. I don’t think it was ever deleted, but that’s the sort of thing you might want to delete and could get really angry about being backed up in the Internet Archive. I think Siskind has edited a couple articles until all the fashy points were rounded off and that could fall in a similar boat. Maybe not him specifically, but there’s content like that that people would rather not be remembered and the Internet Archive falling apart would be good news to them.

Also (again), it scares me a little that their servers are on public tours. Like it’d take one crazy person to do serious damage to it. I don’t know but I’m hoping their >100PB of storage is including backups, even if it’s not 3-2-1. I’m only mildly paranoid about it lol.

Oh look! Human horrors beyond regrettably within my comprehension

https://x.com/haveibeenpwned/status/1843780415175438817

Late response but cool song recommendation :)

I don’t know how materials work in Asset Forge, but they have a guide on their site for exporting models to animate with Mixamo: https://kenney.nl/knowledge-base/asset-forge/rigging-a-character-using-mixamo. You could also animate things like moving platforms or doors in-engine with an AnimationPlayer.

Speaking of Asset Forge, Kenny Shape is a similar thing for quickly throwing assets together. It has a really fast 2D workflow for creating 3D models that reminds me of Doom mapping a little bit. For lo-fi levels, you might also like Crocotile 3D or the combo of TrenchBroom + Qodot. Crocotile is great for repurposing 2D pixel art tilesets from itch or OpenGameArt into 3D assets, and Trenchbroom/Qodot is a more fully featured level editor I’ve seen people work crazy fast in.

Itch and Kenney have good ones:

https://itch.io/game-assets/free

https://kenney.nl/assets (all CC0)

Synty also has a nice placeholder pack for $7. The post-it notes are kind of adorable:

https://syntystore.com/products/polygon-prototype-pack

I don’t think most of these are made for Godot, so you may have to mess around with import settings or set up tilesets/materials yourself

If he collects enough metrics, he could make a horrendously cursed blogpost out of it like Aella

Every time I see these crypto games, I can only think of the online uwu pit bosses shown in that one Folding Ideas video who were driving workers to slave away for less than the minimum wage in the Phillipines. Just permanently burned-in mental imagery.

This is a cool channel by the way. I’m stealing this description from someone in the YouTube comments, but he has a creative “glitchcore SFM aesthetic” that I kind of like and his speaking cadence reminds me of Primer. His style works strangely well for ripping into NFT games. This video felt like looking into a funhouse mirror dimension where every genre of game is somehow even worse than the worst games I’ve ever seen.

Also, the Dr. Disrespect-Chewbacca mask guy doing NFT lootbox openings is something I can’t unsee. That’s honestly so much funnier that he’s still doing it after the Dr. Disrespect sexting minors scandal.

This quote flashbanged me a little

When you describe your symptoms to a doctor, and that doctor needs to form a diagnosis on what disease or ailment that is, that’s a next word prediction task. When choosing appropriate treatment options for said ailment, that’s also a next word prediction task.

From this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1fkn0aw/chatgpt_is_still_very_far_away_from_making_a/lnx8k9l/

Chiming in with my own find!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38590803/chapters/96467457

I’ve seen this person around a lot with crazy takes on AI. They have a couple quotes that might inflict psychic damage:

If I had the skill to pull it off, a Buddhist cultivation book would’ve thus been the single most rationalist xianxia in existence.

My acquaintance asks for rational-adjacent books suitable for 8-11 years old children that heavily feature training, self-improvement, etc. The acquaintance specifically asks that said hard work is not merely mentioned, but rather is actively shown in the story. The kid herself mostly wants stories “about magic” and with protagonists of about her age.

They had a long diatribe I don’t have a copy of, but they were gloating about having masterful writing despite not reading any books besides non-fiction and HPMoR, their favorite book of all time.

There’s also a whole subreddit from hell about this subgenre of fiction: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/

“help artists with tasks such as animating a custom character or using the character as a model for clothing etc”

The “deepfake” and “(uncensored)” in the repo description have me questioning that ever so slightly

Oh whoops, I should have archived it.

There were about 7 images posted of users roleplaying with bots, all ending with a bot response that cut off halfway with an error message that read “This content may violate our policies; blablabla; please use the report button if you believe this is a false positive and we will investigate.” The last one was some kind of parody image making fun of the warning.

Most of them were some kind of romantic roleplay with bad spelling. One was like, “i run my hand down your arm and kiss you”, and the bots response triggered the warning. Another one was like, “*is slapped in the face* it’s okay, I still love you” and the rest of the message generated a warning. There wasn’t enough context for that one, so the person might have been writing it playfully (?), but that subreddit has a lot of blatant sexual violence regardless.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterAI/comments/1eqsoom/guys_we_have_to_do_somthing_about_this_fiӏtеr/

This community pops up on /r/all every so often and each time it scares me.

Sometimes I see kids games (and all games really) have ultra-niche, super-online protests that are like “STOP Zooshacorp from DESTROYING K-Smog vs. Batboy Online”, and when I look closer it’s either even more confusing or it’s about something people didn’t like in the latest update. This is like that, but with an awful twist where it’s about people getting really attached to these AI girlfriend/sex roleplay apps. The spelling and sentences make it seem like it’s mostly kids, too.

edit: here’s a terrible example!

Oh no. Kurzgesagt just published a full-on TREACLES piece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa8k8IQ1_X0

These are the sources they cited: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-superintelligence/

Open Philanthropy is a sponsor of kurzgesagt. The foundation is supporting academic work across the field of Artificial Intelligence, and some of the sources used to create this script (from OpenAI, Future of Humanity Institute, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Future of Life Institute and Epoch AI) also receive financial support from Open Philanthropy.

Open Philanthropy had no influence on the content and messages of this video.

I’m sure!

It’s been 3 days, my hope that this is real is fading :(

Musk will always own that hilariously disturbing baby roleplay Twitter alt though

This is really cool!

I was just thinking it would be cool to have something like RES’s ‘Previously Read’ feature that only shows the new comments, and everything else is darkened or collapsed. This does a similar thing though and it’s great for these weekly threads

I love this but I don’t know if I have the same royal Grape Fanta energy in me. I think I’m on one of the alternate themes but I like #333333

Oh god, this is a coincidence:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1ecljvl/a_stepbystep_response_of_the_often_referenced_and/lf1oaz4/

Kerbal Space Program 2 has been going through some drama as developers are speaking out about what went wrong during the project. This person wrote a long thread arguing against them. I’m not familiar with professional game dev so I can’t really weigh in on if this is a good take or not.

But I have the author tagged as a tankie (no idea if that’s accurate), but someone pointed out they also moderate /r/DefendingAIArt. This guy has been absolutely awful in the past so I’m not that surprised, but still a little surprised with the overlap.

This is hilarious, thank you for digging this up. I love how they’re just co-opting completely wrong words (wow, why does that sound familiar?) like “anti” and “fundamentalist orthodox” to describe the people they don’t like

There’s another one called “ArtistHate”, but I was surprised it’s actually a pro-artist subreddit.

If you want another fun read, check out Adobe’s ‘Stock Contributors’ AI artist forum. I found it by accident, and it’s full of people struggling so, so hard to understand why their puppy photos with missing limbs or physically impossible landscapes aren’t accepted. Any time someone “asks for clarification” on the submission rules I swear you can tell what the issue is at a glance but they’re stumped over it.

Like, what is this person even trying to do??? Why do people feel the need to regurgitate responses from ChatGPT for no reason. Why are they even submitting AI art to Adobe Stock at all. Are they even getting paid? These are the same people who like those photos of snowboarding babies and have to reply “thank you” to every post on their Facebook feed because they think it was personally sent to them.

I’m not familiar with Indian politics but I’m curious if anyone understands what this site is or what its politics are https://democracycollective.in (I’m just nosy and curious, I saw this pop up out of nowhere)

Though maybe I already have an idea: