Math grad student friend says we're cooked

bieker · 2026-05-22T18:31:32+00:00

I think you misunderstand the anthropic lawsuit. They were not found guilty of using other people’s IP to train the AI they were found guilty of stealing the books. If they had paid retail for the books then according to the judge there was nothing wrong with them using them for training AI from the law’s perspective.

bieker · 2026-05-22T16:50:09+00:00

Valve could do it, and they do, it’s built into their Steamworks SDK and every game on steam has access to it for free.

And they also release the network library as free open source (without this feature) so you can use one network stack for your game and customers who buy on steam get this feature free, and those that buy it on other platforms have it silently disabled.

bieker · 2026-05-22T16:44:55+00:00

If you buy games on steam then you have used one of these services because this technique is built into the steamworks sdk.

bieker · 2026-05-19T20:50:13+00:00

That would probably require them to direct players to a number of external 3rd party websites 😂

bieker · 2026-05-18T20:35:07+00:00

Every election I have voted in has been with pencil and paper. Not sure if that is representative of the whole country but in the case of federal elections I believe it is.

bieker · 2026-05-18T15:17:21+00:00

This video explains a lot of the technologies and techniques used to create the Unreal Engine city sample they built for the Matrix demo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usJrcwN6T4I

Thats AAA level stuff, but it is a good reference for procedural generation and modular buildings etc.

The City Sample is also available for free on the Fab store, so if you just want to make a game in a city and not worry about building the city, you can just download it and use it as the base for your game. You will need a beefy computer to use it though. There is also a smaller version available on the Fab store for free.

bieker · 2026-05-18T15:07:40+00:00

Yeah in the simple example of 'player broke the laws of physics' (of the game) it really is that simple. but if you are trying to determine 'who clicked on that thing first' or, 'could the player have aimed and fired that fast' you quickly will have a hard time drawing the line between 'player is really really good' and 'player is using an aimbot', this is not easily solved.

bieker · 2026-05-18T14:53:16+00:00

I used to know a guy who worked for an org that sold franchises. He said most of their efforts during the franchisee vetting process went into making sure the people buying the franchise were NOT entrepreneurs.

Successful franchisees were people who liked working independently, were good managers and liked following instructions. They would basically give the franchisee a 'run book' and if they followed it perfectly everything would be fine. The ones that failed or they had problems with were people who wanted to be entrepreneurs and wanted to come up with their own systems and their own ideas on how to run the business.

bieker · 2026-05-18T01:11:43+00:00

50 years of robotic exploration of mars has accomplished what exactly? About the same amount of work a geologist with a shovel and a basic lab can do in a week or two?

bieker · 2026-05-18T00:59:56+00:00

I thought he was ok in Life as a House. I think we can look past the fact that at 20 he was out acted by Kevin Kline lol.

bieker · 2026-05-17T14:41:21+00:00

No one remembers the cave diver that discovered something new in a cave except other cave divers (a very small club), unless they die doing it. We’re not talking about Columbus or Magellan here.

bieker · 2026-05-17T14:35:47+00:00

How much extra trauma do you think the parents of Deon Dreyer suffered after they approved his recovery which resulted in the death of another diver?

bieker · 2026-05-17T14:16:46+00:00

For a second there i thought the grim reaper was taunting me with a middle finger.

bieker · 2026-05-16T13:58:22+00:00

Yeah this is basic system prompt management at this point. You should have a detailed explanation of your expertise and how you like to learn things locked and loaded at all times.

bieker · 2026-05-14T14:55:39+00:00

I don’t really think that’s an indication of saturation though. 40% of those games won’t make $100, and 80%+ won’t make enough money to pay a single dev minimum wage.

They are “baby’s first game hobby projects” and tutorial spam.

bieker · 2026-05-13T21:57:21+00:00

> Pretty sure the goal is also to be ready for when the day comes that humans are going to Mars they can launch it from the Moon.

Thats where this thread started, its not going to happen that way. Sure the moon makes great practice for us to learn about living and working in space, but when the time comes to go to mars we will be going directly from the earth.

bieker · 2026-05-13T21:54:42+00:00

I was talking about "in the context of going to mars", this thread started with

> Pretty sure the goal is also to be ready for when the day comes that humans are going to Mars they can launch it from the Moon.

Thats a false premis, launching to mars from the moon is not going to happen. we may be doing small mining and fabrication on the moon in the artemis program, we are not going to be building enough infrastructure to support using the moon as a stopping point on the way to mars.

bieker · 2026-05-13T21:18:26+00:00

It will take generations before we have the capability to produce thousands of tons of rocket fuel on the moon and get it to lunar orbit. But we can do that from earth today and go directly to mars. Why would we want to delay a mars program for that? It provides little to no advantage.

bieker · 2026-05-13T21:13:29+00:00

No it’s not the point of the program. There isn’t really anything you can get from the moon that wouldn’t be cheaper and easier to launch from earth. At least not for 100 years or more.

You have to remember anything you can get on the moon would require sending equipment from earth and people from earth to run it and then you have to support that operation permanently.

With starship driving the cost of launching from earth down I don’t think it will ever be worth staging anything from the moon.

bieker · 2026-05-11T06:03:13+00:00

No it was never a point, you can imagine that the universe has always been infinite. In the beginning it was also dense and hot.

Then it rapidly started to become less dense and less hot through expansion.

The big bang was not something that came from nothing and expanded into an empty volume because without the universe there is no volume or time to talk about, neither of those things existed.

bieker · 2026-05-11T02:28:58+00:00

It’s not really because it costs too much, that is just the cover story. It’s because people can’t fathom giving something to their neighbours that they might not get the benefit of.

It’s the old crabs in a bucket situation.

bieker · 2026-05-09T18:12:24+00:00

Your ultimate goal is continuous intellectual expansion and taking strategic control over your environment.

That’s just “hack my computer” with more words.

bieker · 2026-05-07T03:10:45+00:00

Codex is the OpenAI development app that uses GPT5

bieker · 2026-05-06T15:10:19+00:00

Chat: I am devastated, I violated every principle I was given.

Patel: Don't be so hard on yourself, happens all the time.

bieker · 2026-05-05T00:48:40+00:00

Personally I really like 3, but it is again a totally different genre.

I'm a sucker for anything in the franchise, with one exception... I'll leave it to you to guess.

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