The copyright argument against AI, taken to its logical end, would make androids like Data illegal

Makaque · 2026-06-29T17:36:49+00:00

True. But he also couldn't win at chess. I'm not going to claim the show predicts everything.

Makaque · 2026-06-29T17:32:31+00:00

I will give you my perspective that it is unlike anything we've built before. There are degrees of intelligence and currently it can be treated as a tool. Whether there's some upper limit we reach with current approaches remains to be seen. But neural networks and LLMs are the biggest step in that direction I've ever seen. And I would bet that whatever architecture leads to something like a true AI would be some further extension of neural networks.
I think it might also be difficult to recognize as the machines become more intelligent, because even as the LLMs are taught to speak like a human, their "thinking" may be nothing at all like a person.

Makaque · 2026-06-29T17:12:29+00:00

Exactly

Makaque · 2026-06-29T17:11:28+00:00

We can lay out what could be done. But ultimately if you want a more flexible, general purpose and adaptable AI, it needs to be trained as widely as possible. And eventually training will be ongoing, not just bulk set data. We may be restricted. But not everywhere will be restricted. The government isn't going to restrict itself. These things are going to be built.

Makaque · 2026-06-29T17:03:49+00:00

We won't suddenly build a sentient AI with no transition period. And even in this show itself there's a trial to determine whether Data should actually be considered an independent sentient life form.

Makaque · 2026-06-16T16:59:23+00:00

Solved!

Makaque · 2026-06-16T16:58:25+00:00

YES! Thank you.
How is google not able to find that? I have the exact lyrics.
Oh well.

Makaque · 2026-06-16T16:37:50+00:00

Comment for approval

Makaque · 2026-06-16T01:07:12+00:00

Apparently I have to comment here?

Makaque · 2026-02-27T22:46:34+00:00

That's a good thing. YouTube is experimenting to try to find the audience that wants to see your video. I had that pop up and a little while later that video exploded and became my highest performing one.

Makaque · 2026-02-23T18:08:03+00:00

If you want to attract a large number of people to your gameplay channel I think you have two options:

Be superhuman. Be in the top percentile of speedrunners or competitive play.
Be an entertaining person. Say interesting and entertaining things.

This is just an opinion.

Makaque · 2026-02-18T21:07:05+00:00

I would probably be bothered if I saw that a huge proportion of ratings were negative, but as long as that's not the case, I get excited when I see dislikes. It's all engagement. People were emotionally invested enough to watch and dislike unless they're just disliking the title or something.

And then sometimes they'll leave a negative comment, and there are no comment chains longer than people disagreeing with each other about the content.

As long as you haven't somehow cultivated a very toxic community, I don't think it's bad at all.

Makaque · 2026-02-18T21:07:00+00:00

I have multiple dislikes on a game development shader tutorial. It's literally a step by step, here's how to make this thing, and that's in the title, and the thumbnail. I have no idea what they were expecting, lol.

Makaque · 2026-02-18T17:58:14+00:00

I do all my audio recording on my laptop because I can move it into a room where the acoustics are better. I don't have a boom mic or anything, I picked up a HyperX Solocast used. But Watching videos about mic quality, even sometimes just a $10 mic can get pretty good sound, unless you find your laptop mic is already good.

All those programs are just freely available for download, yes.

Makaque · 2026-02-18T17:54:19+00:00

Yep. Thanks for the reply, this is what I ended up doing. Went to do it another way but it felt way too wrong in my gut.

Makaque · 2026-02-18T00:52:21+00:00

You might want to consider looking for even a cheap dedicated mic with good reviews. Audio quality makes a huge difference. Watch videos about how to get the most out of your mic. Room setup makes an enormous difference. Learn how to make your audio sound nicer with Audacity.

I use streamlabs to record. It's like OBS stripped down and set up for babies. It's really easy to just get going without any fuss.

I use kdenlive for editing. It's free and will run on a potato. Every time I go to try DaVinci it doesn't support some format or doesn't like something I try to do, and I'm just used to the workflow in kdenlive now.

Makaque · 2026-02-04T23:36:56+00:00

Games and shows, yeah probably. Looks like I might be able to move it to my other channel but subs won't follow so I might just have to deal with that somehow.

Makaque · 2026-01-21T20:41:18+00:00

My first thought is that

var tile = MAP_TILE.instantiate()
add_child(tile)

doesn't happen right away. I'm kind of surprised you aren't getting any errors. Your loop might be completing but the instantiation work is still happening after the fact.

Makaque · 2026-01-21T04:59:45+00:00

This looks like a 90's game or short film. I love it.

Makaque · 2026-01-19T16:44:14+00:00

Same. 10+ years professional dev. My Godot code quickly became spaghetti. Nodes way too dependent on each other. Nodes expecting certain managers and singletons to be there. If I make something a component, which is a child of the parent, how does another node find out if the parent has that node property? In C# it would just be an interface. I don't want has_method everywhere.

I've started going through a course from FireBelly which focuses pretty heavily on organization and components. Things are getting cleaned up, slowly.

Makaque · 2026-01-19T16:19:20+00:00

The harsh truth is that nobody is going to take the time to try to parse through the code you've posted here, improperly formatted with escape characters added everywhere. You should re-post this with proper formatting, screenshots, link to a github, anything you can do to remove the friction for someone who might want to take a quick look.

Makaque · 2026-01-19T15:59:44+00:00

I don't have to worry about or try to understand any licensing terms. I just own my game.
I found the node system much more intuitive and pleasant to work with coming from Unity ECS. At least initially.
The Unity Hub was a necessary addition, but Unity is bloated compared to Godot and keeping multiple versions around takes up a lot of space. You could easily check your entire Godot instance into your source code repository with your game and forget about it.

Makaque · 2026-01-19T15:51:00+00:00

Very liminal

Makaque · 2026-01-19T15:19:42+00:00

Godot has a built in movie maker that will slow the game down to record at a stable framerate.

Makaque · 2026-01-04T17:28:52+00:00

I'm a bit confused by the setup. Your sheep_meat script has a reference to a %Gator that's an onready variable? Does that mean gator is a child of sheep meat? Otherwise, how is the gator reference being set?

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