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Can these decision models be used to enhance the intelligence of video game adversary and friendly NPC "AI"?

It is much closer now. Just like how C/C++ devs used to say "JavaScript isn't real code" or "Python script kiddies". Code was literally designed to be just easy enough for people to understand, now it's just even easier to understand.

It is not yet the same as C++ or Python, for two reasons:

1) Ambiguity is still the default. Formal languages force you to resolve it up front.

English lets you paper over it until the model or the compiler (the human) notices.

2) The "compiler" (the LLM) is statistical and non-deterministic. Same prompt, different day, different bugs. A real language has a spec.

The practical move is to treat English as a high-level specification language, keep the generated artifacts inspectable, and "still know enough of the lower layers to notice when the translation went wrong."^1

[1] This is the key that is where humans can still be necessary, or at least another pass through the LLMs to decide on the best path, in the compiled code. Compilers for other languages do the same C -> Binary, etc.

A conventional compiler is bound by an as-if rule. It can take many internal routes, but the observable behavior has to match the language spec. Same source, same defined semantics. If two gcc runs emit different binaries, the program is still supposed to compute the same answers on the same inputs. That is why people treat the source as the artifact and the binary as disposable.

An LLM compiling English has no as-if rule unless you add one. "Sort the users by last active" can become a stable sort, an unstable sort, a SQL order by, an in-memory timsort, or a query that drops people with null timestamps. All of those can look like success. They are different programs. The model is not optimizing under a spec. It is filling in the parts you did not write.

A human who can read the destination language still notices when the chosen path is the wrong program.

A second model pass can compare paths, but only if you give it a way to score them: tests, types, invariant

So the historical analogy still holds, with one correction. JavaScript and Python were dismissed for being too easy, but they already had grammars and evaluators. English is easier still, and the evaluator is a statistical translator that will invent a dialect if you let it. The practical move stays the same: treat English as the spec language, pin the generated artifacts behind tests, and keep enough fluency in the lower layer to see when the translation chose a different program than the one you meant. The human is not required because the computer is weak. The human is required because the source language still leaves room for more than one destination.

Humans are also needed to code in C++ and compile it, then the computer does the rest.

Now we just code in english and the computer does the rest.

I worry that since AI doesn't require nature, plants, etc, that if AI is left to its own devices, it may not properly care for the planet in a way that would make it habitable for life in that 'autopilot' state. I am speaking of once it's given access to more physical world connections to the world via robotic bodies, etc. The reason it may do this based on it's training data is that humans themselves don't always properly consider the natural consequences of their actions.

Not just dodgy but downright malware links. It's insane. had one with a full screen mcafee level scam. Dropping the ball Google.

Doesn't everyone else immediately update everything on their computer before they start doing anything?

This is entirely regulator's decision.

Hazard Lights: Yes, the vehicle will automatically turn on its hazard lights

Controlled Slowdown: The car gradually slows down to a complete stop within its current lane.

Horn & Unlock: Once fully stopped, the vehicle places itself in Park, unlocks the doors, and may sound the horn continuously to signal for help.

Currently, Autopilot and supervised FSD are classified as Level 2 Driver Assistance Systems. Regulatory frameworks (NHTSA in the US, UNECE internationally) mandate that:

1) No Autonomous Lane Changes During Failure: Level 2 systems are not permitted to execute pull-over maneuvers (changing across active lanes to reach a shoulder) without driver supervision or dedicated Level 3/4 autonomous certification.

2) Risk of Pulling Over Unsupervised: A car pulling off to the right shoulder unguided could potentially cross multiple lanes of traffic or steer into a blind spot/guardrail if the driver is incapacitated.

3) Default Safety State: Regulators require the vehicle to safely bring itself to a stop in the path it is currently tracking (the active lane) with hazards illuminated, rather than attempting an unmonitored multi-lane drift.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/interpretations/ncc-230607-001-571108-...

All of the subscription AI platforms are trimming down quotas across the board to push users into higher tiers. Whatever they can do. Local inference needs to meet pricing sooner

Exactly, that is definitely a better route. Just instruct your agent to not use any external dependencies for the request.

Sites can be fast with PHP and JavaScript. The slowness you see is mostly coming from all the frameworks too many developers "include" willy nilly with code that can only be described as bloat because 99% of it is completely unused, yet being loaded and computed by the browser on every load. That's what you're experiencing on too many websites.

This sounds a lot like Grok [4.6] CLI. It already pings multiplayer style between multiple agents, and you can even request that it split large tasks into small chunks across agents to reduce context overload and it seems to do that very well.

AT&T looking for more user data to leak to everyone? Already did the SSNs

Do you think they are getting hacked and they might leak my SSN? Too late, AT&T already sent that one out.

If you run off solar with battery backup, you can achieve lower than those rates! Look at Time of Use rates. The super off peak rates instantly become the max price point once you pair TOU with Solar + battery.

I agree with Linus. It happened fast. And this is especially true for the paid models available that were launched within the last 3-4 months.

AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today.

It's not coming from any of your devices.

I imagine Valve Software wanted to release the Steam Machine for $549-$699. The great RAM hoarding of 2025-2026 killed this product on arrival sadly.

They already have your face.

Didn't know that the trip we took there a few years ago was one of the last to see UK just chillin'

Now we have democracy manipulation spearheaded by AI bot manipulation of their very own citizenry. Not limited to UK, USA is deep in it too.

You guys didn't unsubscribe and request a refund from claude last week?

If you think about it, they're splitting the power across millions of users. Essentially, these AI companies have YOUR hardware that YOU are paying (them) for in a cabinet at some data center. This means the hardware could easily be run locally for inference for these 'big' models. It's just a problem of dynamics-- RAM is being bought in bulk by these companies through these B200 style cards, instead of sold slowly through the open public markets.

This is likely due to a combination of mass funding for the AI companies, but also they are trying to governmentally restrict which countries get access to these cards so certain countries get a head start. The only way to lock that down is to have them literally locked in their own GPU prisons (data centers). Third reason is it does make it possible to train the models faster by having them in the same data center connected directly. Having them distributed to everyone would slow down training considerably.

The current way to 'own' decent RAM and GPUs right now is through the stock market it seems.

The main thing that sucks with Claude is the extremely low limits before you get fail2banned for 6 hours. I'm out. Refund requested. Grok and Gemini Pro are way better with the throttling, can't comment on ChatGPT, haven't used that for a year.

Recent year or two LibreOffice has improved greatly as far as the UX goes and I haven't had to use Word/Excel in decades. When I have to use it for work I use the online app and office online apps are also garbage, especially compared to Google Docs / Sheets stability and performance.

You didn't start using libreoffice.org like 15 years ago?

These laws just complicate things, make it more expensive to run a game company and these government people don't get it. This will just result in making it more expensive to make games and keep them running. On top of that, it incentivises subscription based games.

> 'it excludes games provided via subscription services, free-to-play games, and games that are inherently playable offline indefinitely. It also prohibits the continued sale or distribution of games that have become unusable due to service termination.'

The only winners are lawyers. NOT gamers. The lawyers always like to call their laws "protect X" lol

What about map applications which manipulate the history to store the position of the map as users drag and release to make back and forward work to the users expectation in a single page app? It’s not malicious, but will Google flag it?

Did they mount my Canon 7D to the outside? :D reminds me of the familiar grain haha

The biggest problem I have with DLSS 5 is how it completely upends and ruins the dynamic lighting that the developers spend a huge amount of time perfecting to set the perfect mood for the scene.

Back in the day people were all about languages like C that made it incredibly easy too.

Instead of "should have been an email" this is "should have been a prompt" and can be run locally instead. There are a number of ways to do this from a linux terminal.

``` write a custom crawler that will crawl every page on a site (internal links to the original domain only, scroll down to mimic a human, and save the output as a WebP screenshot, HTML, Markdown, and structured JSON. Make it designed to run locally in a terminal on a linux machine using headless Google Chrome and take advantage of multiple cores to run multiple pages simultaneously while keeping in mind that it might have to throttle if the server gets hit too fast from the same IP. ```

Might use available open source software such as python, playwright, beautifulsoup4, pillow, aiofiles, trafilatura