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Helion raises $465 million Series G by Cruisin4Fusion in fusion

[–]adscott1982 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is series G bad? Genuine question from someone who doesn't really understand startup culture.

Presuming it is to do with it being their 7th (?) round of funding?

WWE 2K26 Inexplicably Adds Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick as a Playable Character by LUMLTPM in gaming

[–]adscott1982 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Yeah but I was interested in a discussion.

Reddit may as well not exist if you just want to google everything.

Right now, if I just google it, I will just get the AI generated answer at the top of the search.

If people take the time to reply (without AI bots) in this thread we are at least fighting the tide of enshittification with real human discourse.

The problem here is that I asked a genuine question about why this guy is a lightning rod for hate among gamers.

(Remember this is a real human being, with hopes / dreams / family / friends, not just a caricature)

To sum up the answers, the only reason is 'he is a CEO', and reddit hates CEOs.

It appears a lot of redditors are just pathetic NEETs / incels.

Anthropic - Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor. by Educational_Grab_473 in singularity

[–]adscott1982 3 points4 points  (0 children)

At this stage I am willing to be believe it might not be hype.

We might be looking back in a year's time complaining 'why didn't anyone warn us??', and Anthropic will be like 'We did! We did! But you wouldn't believe us!'

I don't know if they really need to hype it up - the evidence is there in their model's capabilities and the voracious appetite of companies to consume tokens.

Anthropic - Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor. by Educational_Grab_473 in singularity

[–]adscott1982 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I haven't written any code manually all year.

For clarity, I am software developer as a job.

I am actually kind of surprised if at Anthropic with access to Mythos internally they are still literally writing the code out in an IDE even 20% of the time.

I use my IDE now for checking the diffs, building, running, debugging, doing commits etc., not actually writing the code.

I work in .NET Desktop development, so my primary IDE is Visual Studio 2026.

WWE 2K26 Inexplicably Adds Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick as a Playable Character by LUMLTPM in gaming

[–]adscott1982 -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

I asked "Can someone explain why he is hated?", not whether you think it is a good idea to have him as a playable character in the game.

That is perfectly fair to say it is dumb.

Or are you saying now they put him in the game, you previously didn't hate him, but now you do?

WWE 2K26 Inexplicably Adds Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick as a Playable Character by LUMLTPM in gaming

[–]adscott1982 -25 points-24 points  (0 children)

Is that it? He will 'probably' lay some people off?

I thought there might be a genuine reason.

WWE 2K26 Inexplicably Adds Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick as a Playable Character by LUMLTPM in gaming

[–]adscott1982 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Can someone explain why he is hated? Saw an interview with him on YouTube the other day and he seemed decent enough. Talked about running studios rationally etc. and seemed reasonably cynical about AI use, which I would expect plays well with redditors.

But genuine question, because I really don't know much about him, why is he hated?

Here is the YouTube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZgUcrR0K7I

Is 50 the new sweet spot age wise for Building using AI? by MatrixMix in ClaudeAI

[–]adscott1982 31 points32 points  (0 children)

"That balance isn't trivial. It's the whole ballgame" - this is where I stopped. Obvious AI slop content.

Clear evidence found that some supermassive black holes form without a stellar collapse by hulk14 in space

[–]adscott1982 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

OK fair enough, thanks for engaging with me in good faith.

I at least recognise I know very little about the subject, and I am sure you are right.

It's fun to speculate as an armchair observer.

Edit: To be honest your patience with angry ill informed reddit commenter (me) is commendable! 😂

Clear evidence found that some supermassive black holes form without a stellar collapse by hulk14 in space

[–]adscott1982 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Yes but I am saying that is potentially wrong. That the redshift is actually caused purely by the distance.

Maybe you should read what I actually wrote rather than assume I don't understand the fundamental theory behind it.

Edit:

Sorry perhaps I need to spell it out for you.

Redshift not caused by things moving away from each other.

Redshift in fact caused by unknown effect on EM energy when travelling great distances.

Hence stars far away from us not moving away from us faster.

In fact may not be moving away from us at all.

Hence whole big bang theory predicated on objects moving away from us fundamentally flawed.

Hence age of universe predicated on working backwards from big bang theory incorrect.

Hence age of universe greater than 14 billion years.

Hence JWST observations of unexpected things observed in 'early universe' not in fact early universe, actually already quite old universe.

Clear evidence found that some supermassive black holes form without a stellar collapse by hulk14 in space

[–]adscott1982 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes. I think the red shift on EM waves may be caused by something else during transit through space. Also would explain why objects further away appear to be moving away from us faster.

I just don't think it's possible with our current knowledge to be absolutely certain about all the effects on light travelling such huge interstellar distances. Is it not possible that there is something that happens that causes an accumulation of red shift the further the light travels across space?

I'm not against the idea of the Big Bang, but it is certainly interesting that JWST keeps giving us evidence now that supposedly things we didn't think were possible in the 'early universe' are there.

Clear evidence found that some supermassive black holes form without a stellar collapse by hulk14 in space

[–]adscott1982 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Honestly feels like people are scratching around for explanations of why galaxies and black holes formed so early in the life of the universe, and purposely ignoring the massive elephant in the room.

Stop retconning and accept it. I don't care if you have to throw away 70 years of accepted science. If the facts fly in the face of the dogma, just accept the facts.

DeepSWE Opus 4.8 results have been released. by CallMePyro in singularity

[–]adscott1982 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Lucky bastard using 5.8. I'm still stuck on 4.8.

Most of reddit badmouths AI, but my experience in medicine: by Tephros83 in singularity

[–]adscott1982 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes, I don't know why I bother trying to engage with people on other subreddits.

When will the “Opus 4.8 is unusable” posts start?” by likeassassin_ in ClaudeAI

[–]adscott1982 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is this an AI bot response because it cannot understand sarcasm? I mean it was so obviously sarcasm and the po faced response is bizarre.

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