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New comment by izzydata in "Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance"

izzydata — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:08:59 +0000

The fact that they sometimes can't means you can't have someone who is not a software engineer. Otherwise there is no way to verify whether the LLM wrote correct code or not.

New comment by izzydata in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

izzydata — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:40:50 +0000

I am going to start calling the reduction or removal of minor things that helped society "micro regressions".

New comment by izzydata in "Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification"

izzydata — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:02:37 +0000

In the sense that a website could just ask your OS if you are over a certain age and that age was self declared? That seems fine to me, but why can't the websites just ask me for my self declared age?

That's how things used to be and that makes more sense in my opinion because an OS isn't the thing displaying content. It just run whatever it is told to run.

New comment by izzydata in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

izzydata — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:35:48 +0000

This is why I only purchase digital games at high discounts. It might be worth $60 to own a piece of physical media that can be played at any time without internet. However, to me the value of a DRM license that can possibly be taken away at any moment is very little. It is ridiculous that they attempt to sell digital games at the same price as a physical game.

New comment by izzydata in "A graph that should be front-page news"

izzydata — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:43:46 +0000

At that point it will be a self correcting issue when huge swaths of the human population dies from starvation due to not being able to produce enough food. It is preferable to do something prior to then.

New comment by izzydata in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

izzydata — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:03:29 +0000

The tools can definitely go away. They could get exponentially more expensive to where it is no longer financially possible to keep it subsidized. The bubble could pop and most of the companies could go bankrupt. It's not exactly like a calculator because it requires such an astronomical amount of resources to keep running.

New comment by izzydata in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

izzydata — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:03:49 +0000

Better than if it weren't illegal I'm sure. Also I think it is that it is illegal to sell kids vapes. It's not illegal for the kids to vape.

New comment by izzydata in "Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)"

izzydata — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:56:12 +0000

This is the start of the plot of the book Postmortal by Drew Magary. Not to say that the book accurately depicts what would happen if everyone could freeze their aging, but it does bring up some questions that would need to be answered.

New comment by izzydata in "The dead economy theory"

izzydata — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:16:52 +0000

This is making an assumption that LLMs are even capable of doing what these companies claim they can or will do in the future. Stop doing the marketing for them by believing what they tell you at face value.

New comment by izzydata in "Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'"

izzydata — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:01:23 +0000

My impression of companies pushing AI so heavily is that they are basically being forced to do it by it merely existing. Imagine if AI really is as powerful as it is suggested to be and you didn't jump on the bandwagon. Then you would be behind. So by it existing and other companies using it, you have to as well because even if it turns out to be a failure at least everyone else will have failed too and you are on an even playing field.

New comment by izzydata in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

izzydata — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:54:06 +0000

Can you further explain the semantics you are talking about here? Are people not trying to predict things? Thus it being a market for people making predictions?

New comment by izzydata in "Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews"

izzydata — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:24:44 +0000

I like Phantasy Star IV, but my main love of the franchise is still Phantasy Star Online 1. From my understand during the planning phase of PSO it hadn't been decided to be a Phantasy Star game. It wasn't until later that they decided to skin the game to Phantasy Star. Funny how you can be well into development on the fundamentals of a game and not know what it will be called or exactly what it will look like.

New comment by izzydata in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

izzydata — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:05:58 +0000

Things being too easy takes the joy away from the process. All you are left with is the result and not the journey.

New comment by izzydata in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

izzydata — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:05:51 +0000

How much extra does it cost to show an extra movie that nobody shows up to? It seems like the majority of the cost is rent of the building and salary. If employees are already working to operate the few movies that are expected to have people and the building is already being paid for then they may as well use up all their theaters just in case since the extra cost would be low.

New comment by izzydata in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

izzydata — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:54:19 +0000

Perhaps that is part of the scam here. Meme stock buyers will think this means something and will spend more on worthless shares so that ebay executives can sell.

New comment by izzydata in "U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back"

izzydata — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:01:16 +0000

Perhaps it is time to return to meatspace for verifiably real interactions.

New comment by izzydata in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

izzydata — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:59:49 +0000

It may already be cheaper if you calculate the hidden cost accumulated by LLM generated tech debt. At least some of it could be avoided by manually doing it better to begin with.

New comment by izzydata in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

izzydata — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:25:04 +0000

If we take that statement as fact then I don't believe we are even close to an LLM being sufficiently complex enough.

However, I don't think it is even true. LLMs may not even be on the right track to achieving AGI and without starting from scratch down an alternate path it may never happen.

LLMs to me seem like a complicated database lookup. Storage and retrieval of information is just a single piece of intelligence. There must be more to intelligence than a statistical model of the probable next piece of data. Where is the self learning without intervention by a human. Where is the output that wasn't asked for?

At any rate. No amount of hype is going to get me to believe AGI is going to happen soon. I'll believe it when I see it.

New comment by izzydata in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

izzydata — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:56:27 +0000

I am hopeful that in the near future once AI has saturated as much of everything that it can that it will actually become even more worth it to do things. At least for me the only reason to experience art in any form is that there was human intent behind it. Thus making human generated content more valuable compared to the flood of empty AI content.

New comment by izzydata in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

izzydata — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:20:00 +0000

I was extremely skeptical that Blizzard would bother with something like Classic Vanilla+ where they add additional content to Vanilla Azeroth, but now it seems like a real possibility.