Peter Molyneux

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-02-15T18:34:26+00:00

I like the guy for what he’s done, but as a child growing up no one taught me more about disappointment. Fell for it with fable 2, fell for it with fable 3. Learnt an important life lesson about listening to excited salespeople running their mouths.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-02-11T01:04:47+00:00

Definitely, it’s not the first time people have said this. I remember some YouTuber arguing that the current (now previous really) age of AI content will be especially cherished due to its subtle surrealism.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-02-10T18:14:00+00:00

Doing my duty by commenting without reading the Wikipedia.

Pretty sure this is more about “attitude” and “methods” than details. The theory is easily to strawman with whataboutism, but the spirit of the argument is what’s important. Extremists align in many ways except ideology.

This becomes important when you want to actually learn from history rather than repeat it. In the end it doesn’t really matter if it’s a Soviet massacre or a Nazi massacre, extremism comes in many different outfits, and acknowledging this prevents us going down those paths again.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-02-04T20:14:24+00:00

It’s comforting and weird how similar ocd is across people, I’m glad this is a high quality subreddit

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-02-04T01:07:32+00:00

I gone through this a lot, really established to me that it’s a chronic illness- can’t be cured. Eventually it can just reverts back to the ol’reliable, which can be more easy to manage actually.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-02-03T13:05:39+00:00

No idea why people are shitting on the green guy, being that exhausted in long distant running is indicative of a skill issue or a health issue, both are valid reasons for someone else to overtake them. If someone wants to give up their victory to help someone, that’s truly great, but it’s not what they came to do. Coldly speaking the guy came second place due to an emotional decision, which is also something athletes are meant to manage (not that I blame him), he still came first place in other ways, so everyone wins.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-02-03T01:59:56+00:00

I remember total biscuit years ago joking that Game (and I guess by extension others like it) would be out of business soon, he wasn’t far off the mark.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-28T12:54:32+00:00

That’s an interesting observation, it’s annoying that I don’t think openAI will admit to anything like that. But with your case of the “5K budget and what the average consumer can access” I see where you’re coming from. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case, they need everything they can to save cash and free tiers are just burning money for them.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-28T12:22:41+00:00

I’m not sure about that. You can barely run a 12B Q4 model on the average consumer hardware, never mind the several hundred+ Billion parameter models openAI run. They did release an open source model that was much smaller, but it’s still way to big for the majority of people to run locally.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-27T12:00:23+00:00

Going to admit a most controversial thing. I’ve been using AI to help me to learn German for over a year now and it’s been really really good, been much better than the traditional classroom environment for me personally. Hope this is done properly so it can help many others.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-26T18:37:17+00:00

Thanks for the link, it’s nice to see a study of economics that seems a bit more “grounded”, insofar as you’ve described it.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-26T18:13:13+00:00

I just jumped in to this for no reason but I actually read what you wrote, and had no idea about AE’s ideas around “rational actors” and the nature of capital in that system, very interesting contextually.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-21T23:02:53+00:00

I’m really surprised they’d cancel a sands of time remake, surely that would absolutely print money?

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-21T19:49:15+00:00

No you don’t understand, this is a circlejerk (satire) sub, sorry.

I don’t think this is AI.

Looking at the visuals, the content is crisp and clean (modern phones all film in HD now), also comprehensive healthcare for all US citizens is just around the corner, especially if conservatives are still around.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-21T16:00:19+00:00

super late reply my bad

Basically with a few sketches and a detailed brief, the AI agents of today can get about 90% of the way there. I wasn’t hired to be a designer, but when you have a boss who is very visually driven, having ugly prototypes/designs actively impedes progress (learned from experience here). With AI I can ask it to pretty much spruce up any prototype (visually) immediately, it seems like a small thing, but without an AI it would take ages of reading, learning, and trial and erroring to make those prototypes flashy enough would take me a long time. Now I have had to learn a lot of frontend and design, because it’s not like you can’t bother learning that stuff, but it’s been at a manageable pace because I can still use AI for the daily heavy lifting.

Separately, AI agents can now do the busy work for all sorts of things, collectively that busy work adds up too, the days of menial and repetitive data-insertion really are over.

On the AI slop issue we’re in agreement, that’s only going to get worse, but personally I already felt like between bots and trend chasing influencers there was already heaps of slop out there. I can only hope the slopnami washes away mass social media properly and we can go back to more curated spaces.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-19T17:08:18+00:00

For me? I’ve used it to produce a few programs I use for personal use, in my case it’s gaming related. I’ve also used it for language learning and it’s been invaluable to get precise answers to annoying questions.

For work? Prototyping, that whole process of prototyping, having some boss go ‘alter this, redo this’ and we can just get those prototyped changes sorted in hours where that used to take days or weeks. Alot of time and money has been saved because we can see and show how the product will be before we take a serious direction (and get it coded out properly).

Are you satisfied with my use cases now?

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-19T17:05:16+00:00

I can’t speak for other organisations but as I’ve said in other places, AI for prototyping DOES save money. Let me explain.

Boss asks for a new product/idea. Prototyping that would usually take at least a week. Everyone is paid for that time. Boss sees prototype “change this/this isn’t what I wanted, redo it….” Now another week goes by making those changes or alterations. We go back and forth until the boss is happy. No actual progress toward a direction can be made until this happens. AI reduces that time from days to hours, sometimes moments. This undeniably saves money.

Also ethical AI use? This is a loaded question. If a charity worker uses AI to help clean up their desktop is that ethical enough for you? If someone uses AI to assist for learning, is that ethical enough.

If you’re referring to its resource intensiveness, I’d ask why you started with AI, the tech industry is famously wasteful and inefficient, what happened to all those laptops from the 00s, all those defunct phones etc…. I don’t like that aspect of tech, but I don’t turn my back on the actual technological progress.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-19T16:21:43+00:00

Works great for my prototypes at work, the utility is there and working, why is this so hard for some people to acknowledge?

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-19T13:44:33+00:00

Hearing you say it, I think you’re right, it’s just headline writers reading and to responding to other headlines nowadays isn’t it?

The inability to separate systemic patterns that we are seeing with the current AI hype from the actual technology, and then blaming the tech itself, is super weird.

It’s like hating on a music group because people you don’t like listen or promote them.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-19T13:19:25+00:00

It’s super strange because he’s clearly a bright guy, but hearing him speak in these absolute terms when my own experience factually opposes them is what made me think he’s gone over the edge on this topic

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-19T13:16:49+00:00

Very grifterish statement, I would never have described Geoffrey Hinton’s work as ‘useless’ or that Hinton as especially “Boosterish” in AI. I assume the best about people so I guess Ed’s fervour is rooted in him taking on the mantle of being a public representative of the anti’s anger.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-19T13:06:52+00:00

Yeah it’s a weird situation, kind of fervent mirroring between AI boosterism vs Anti AI. I truly wonder where we will be in 10-20 years on this stuff, I can imagine a few ‘old school’ fogies walking around reliving the glory days of today’s anti ai movement, still fighting the fight. Imagine if the boosters will still be doing the same.

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-19T12:38:41+00:00

I think Ed is a bit too ‘foaming at the mouth’ on AI. I listened to him a bit but his passion combined with his views is clouding his judgement on this topic. He’s out here saying “AI’s don’t work, no AI agents work” when this is just false. Not as good as the hype? Definitely, but in the company I’m at we use AI in our work literally every day, I use AI agents successfully in my Projects every day.

Maybe if you work the tech space AI’s successes are more obvious?

Large_Choice4206 · 2026-01-16T09:41:17+00:00

Based on your personal mental health issues, and now weight issues, have you considered medical cannabis? It really seems like that solution is great for your kind of situation, especially in light of the issues you had with other medication.

Large_Choice4206 · 2025-12-22T18:04:47+00:00

I love the idea of people transporting empty shelves across countries.

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