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New comment by Kiln6125 in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

Kiln6125 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:11:01 +0000

Yeah but then it goes the same way with LLMs? Just spend a few weeks delving the stack and then you go on coding. Learning a codebase of enterprise-scale compiler-generated assembly sounds like a much bigger nightmare than fixing up ai generated code.

New comment by Kiln6125 in "People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI"

Kiln6125 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:09:55 +0000

Because this isn't the case, training AI on its own output is more akin to what you get from pointing a camera at a TV showing its own output. Its a feedback loop that causes noise to blow up out of proportion and leaves nothing meaningful behind but a self-recursive loop. This is "what makes ai generated text poisonous to ais".

New comment by Kiln6125 in "Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development"

Kiln6125 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:12:15 +0000

Well, at least for Peter Molyneux he seems to be giving it one last shot at making something overly ambitious: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3165650/Masters_of_Albion...

New comment by Kiln6125 in "CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York"

Kiln6125 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:42:26 +0000

Not quite. The two cases are "team loses, everyone goes home and doesn't buy loads of drinks" in which case you get the payout from having bet (sorry, purchased insurance) on that team losing, offsetting your loss from not getting the money from drinks. Alternatively, the team wins, you lose your bet (insurance pay) but everyone gets loads of drinks and you make your money that way.

New comment by Kiln6125 in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

Kiln6125 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:38:10 +0000

Personally, for me that represents job security. Having a human with a high level of domain knowledge in the loop seems pretty required to get any meaningful results.

New comment by Kiln6125 in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

Kiln6125 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:09:18 +0000

Truthfully, it doesn't shock me that the founder of Craigslist in particular, a site that found a good, workable setup and then left it as is, would know this. Its more disappointing that no one else really seems to know when enough is enough.

New comment by Kiln6125 in "When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI"

Kiln6125 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:48:31 +0000

Somewhat relevant to this overall conversation is "pierre menard author of the quixote". Which takes the concept of death of the author in an amusing direction.

New comment by Kiln6125 in "Gavin Newsom wants to take smartphones out of schools"

Kiln6125 — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 14:13:42 +0000

The issue is that the claims do not in any way stem from the concept that screens are the issue. Everyone else is talking about how the usage and content delivered through the screens are the issue. What you're describing seems to be semantics at best. It's akin to people talking about not going to strip clubs, and you saying "what's wrong with stages?".

New comment by Kiln6125 in "Gavin Newsom wants to take smartphones out of schools"

Kiln6125 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:52:39 +0000

There are quite a few of these studies from the modern era about the effect that these devices have on children. They posit the exact opposite of what you're saying here, and have data to back it up. I presume that these are what you're referring to as "non-scientific" here and have specific issues with their methodology, and not just disliking the concept that phone/social media could be bad in some fashion.

Can you explain why they are all false?

New comment by Kiln6125 in "Do Games Like Factorio Or EVE Online Sap The Intellectual Potential Of Humanity?"

Kiln6125 — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:21:25 +0000

Very silly, even generals from hundreds of years ago spent their time and efforts on war games in order to hone their skills. Maybe it speaks to how many can learn much more easily if it is in service of an overall bigger picture or goal?

New comment by Kiln6125 in "How to Be Obscene (1927)"

Kiln6125 — Fri, 24 May 2024 13:28:54 +0000

The amusing thing is that I genuinely do not know which side you mean to refer to here. I guess it really does prove the point above.