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New comment by charlie90 in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

charlie90 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:46:00 +0000

Thats how humans work, as well.

New comment by charlie90 in "After the AI Crash"

charlie90 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:29:53 +0000

money is just an abstraction over value, it is not value itself. if AGI is achieved, the AI labs will just use AGI to produce what they need instead of trading for it, which would include full vertical integration on all products.

New comment by charlie90 in "42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support"

charlie90 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:02:33 +0000

In my experience, poorer families tend to live in multigenerational housing at a much higher rate. So this doesnt seem to be true. Less affuluent usually means more sharing of resources, not less.

New comment by charlie90 in "Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance"

charlie90 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:03:11 +0000

On the other hand, https://youtu.be/iY4nx5zuvPA?si=rrPxlC92sUDJYvmO. SFPD posts a number of videos showing that drones are stopping crime, violent crime.

New comment by charlie90 in "What to learn to be a graphics programmer"

charlie90 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:58:46 +0000

AI changes this a lot.

You can realistically get a featured 3d engine+editor up and running in a couple week with AI, working solo. Probably better than what Godot or even Unity gives you. Also AI is very good at editor/tooling stuff, I've even found it getting better at graphics programming stuff, just telling it to 1-shot implementing gpu occlusion culling, ddgi probes, taa, etc. type of features. Also for stuff like animation, I just told my AI "clone Unreal's animation blueprints" and I have a pretty featured animation system now. "clone Unity's particle system" and it 1-shots it in an hour with the runtime and nice editor tools. With the advantage being you can just implement exactly what you need.

New comment by charlie90 in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

charlie90 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:20:15 +0000

https://github.com/charlesrw1/MultiplayerFps, its pretty easy. And this is just my hobbyist engine Ive been solo orchestrating agents with. If you had a team of ~10 AI-enabled devs, you could easily reach feature parity with Unity in a month or 2.

New comment by charlie90 in "Changes to Our Contribution Policies"

charlie90 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:00:27 +0000

Big mistake. Its so easy to build out an engine and editor tools with AI now, you could easily surpass godots feature set (for your game) in a week with Claude. With the advantage of it being leaner and easier for agents to navigate. You can see this with the explosion for vibe coded three.js games, AI is really good at building with a leaner framework.

New comment by charlie90 in "Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)"

charlie90 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:57:55 +0000

If you are in a space ship that is accelerating, your available fuel energy also goes up (since it increases its own kinetic energy).

New comment by charlie90 in "The AI backlash is only getting started"

charlie90 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:01:19 +0000

Note that making products you use yourself has a very different psychological effect than making them for other people

New comment by charlie90 in "The AI backlash is only getting started"

charlie90 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:21:07 +0000

The reason was agricultural labor was automated, it had nothing to do with the preferences of the people at the time. If people preferred farming to factory work, tough luck.

New comment by charlie90 in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

charlie90 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:56:31 +0000

Epic. I love the future where everyones dependent on AI and you can just get shadow banned from reality.

New comment by charlie90 in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

charlie90 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:08:55 +0000

It wasn't even true before...

Universities have always had people not interested in the subject, but who went because its elite training school. I was reading something about Issac Newtons college in the 1600s, many of his classmates didn't care about studying and drank all the time.

New comment by charlie90 in "My Students Can't Read"

charlie90 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:02:01 +0000

I think people say they want a meritocracy, but they actually mean "everyone can succeed", which are different. In a meritocracy where everyone is trying hard (like in asian cultures), then hard work is not enough, not everyone can succeed. In America, there is some slack so hard workers can succeed with below average genetics (which is why, practically, meritocracy="everyone can succeed") but I think things are changing as competition is increasing.

New comment by charlie90 in "My Students Can't Read"

charlie90 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:43:36 +0000

My teachers can't use a computer.

New comment by charlie90 in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

charlie90 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:39:22 +0000

>Don't: Run bash commands

This seems unreasonable to me. One of the best uses of AI is that you can just tell your computer what to do in natural language and it does it. Running bash commands isn't part of the education, its busy work.

New comment by charlie90 in "I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)"

charlie90 — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:57:12 +0000

Heh, I've always thought this too. The most value I got out of writing assignments was making the research and outline. The step to turn the outline into the essay mostly involved adding BS fluff and transitions.

New comment by charlie90 in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

charlie90 — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:05:58 +0000

I agree. Humans are given a body that lets them "discover" things on accident, test out ideas, i.e. randomness.

As in, I would hazard a guess the discovery of the wheel wasn't "pure intelligence", it was humans accidentally viewing a rock roll down a hill and getting an idea.

If we give AI a "body", it will become as creative as humans are.

New comment by charlie90 in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

charlie90 — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:00:15 +0000

I believe when we have AI Agents "living" 24/7, they will become creative machines. They will test ideas out their own ideas experimentally, come across things accidentally, synthesize new ideas.

We just haven't let AI run wild yet. But its coming.

New comment by charlie90 in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

charlie90 — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:39:10 +0000

Nice. Next step is giving codex/Claude Code local device control...problem is the current ios/android are so locked down that agents can't do much ...but the space is so ripe for disruption that I bet we'll see AI-native devices coming out within the next few years that allow agents to interact with everything. I would be nervous if I were apple right now.

New comment by charlie90 in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

charlie90 — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:33:03 +0000

Like doordashing and pokemon card reselling.