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New comment by mycocola in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

mycocola — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:02:20 +0000

> Very few people actually "think".

Unknowable. And a callous notion.

New comment by mycocola in "GPT‑Live"

mycocola — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:08:54 +0000

- As models get better, have you considered some kind of filter or particular cadence to serve as a reminder that the user is not talking to a human?

- The videos felt scripted and dishonest

New comment by mycocola in "2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results"

mycocola — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:15:49 +0000

I think there is a meaningful distinction to be made between a human reading and an AI company consuming data without consent in order to train their models. Certainly if enough people feel the same then what AI companies are doing is "wrong" .

New comment by mycocola in "Exapunks (2018)"

mycocola — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:56:24 +0000

I adore your games. Would be curious to know your thoughts about using AI for game development. Personally I find it gross, but I am trying to be open to different views.

New comment by mycocola in "Shepherd's Dog: A Game by Fable"

mycocola — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:30:40 +0000

A reasonable compromise in the face of frostbite and hookworm.

I suppose critical thinking skills are also as bad, making you question the state of the world. Problem solving is another one, deluding one into believing there are solutions to suffering.

New comment by mycocola in "Shepherd's Dog: A Game by Fable"

mycocola — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:12:28 +0000

> why didn't the previous authors, supposedly grass-fed genuine checkmark blood-through-their-veins humans didn't notice the other 9-8-7-6-5... games, and still released their own version?

a) To make it better

b) To learn, in service of a) or another project

New comment by mycocola in "Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5"

mycocola — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:33:18 +0000

It's impressive that Fable 5 was able to resynthesise something like this from its training data, but I am really not looking forward to more of this. What's the point?

New comment by mycocola in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

mycocola — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:29:44 +0000

My point of view is that code is the experience. Dealing with the constraints of code is one of the ways game design evolves as one iterates over what could be cool and filter for what is possible.

New comment by mycocola in "The user is visibly frustrated"

mycocola — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:07:33 +0000

LLMs are not beings with thoughts or feelings, and if being mean to them were to somehow yield better results it would be no different than a cheat code in a game, or just constitute as clever use of game mechanics.

New comment by mycocola in "The user is visibly frustrated"

mycocola — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:37:06 +0000

The comparison fails because I don't send numbers to my potatoes either, but I do send thousands to calculators without a please and thank you.

Practicing communications skills with LLMs I can get, but asserting that people who don't are playing god? Getting off on power?

New comment by mycocola in "The user is visibly frustrated"

mycocola — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:59:42 +0000

The similarity to human interaction is irrelevant.

No one apologises to a potato being peeled, nor compliments it for doing a great job being mashed.

New comment by mycocola in "The Importance of Being Idle"

mycocola — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:03:27 +0000

The two states are in no way in opposition to each other. In fact, experiencing deep meditation can improve one's ability to get into that desired productive flow.

New comment by mycocola in "ARC-AGI-3"

mycocola — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:44:16 +0000

Seems well-designed. Great job! Sorry you didn't hear back from the comittee.

New comment by mycocola in "LLMs predict my coffee"

mycocola — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:14:08 +0000

The interesting bit about this physical experiment is that the water in the cup never starts at 100 celsius. That the act of pouring significantly reduces temperature is well-documented, so in some sense the LLM output is surprising.

New comment by mycocola in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

mycocola — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:12:32 +0000

They're entertainment, yes, but really not the same. I'll look for a specific game to play, I'll look for a specific movie to watch, and I won't play a game when I want to watch a movie.

New comment by mycocola in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

mycocola — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:50:55 +0000

Really think it’s entirely wrong to label someone as a bully for not conforming to current, perhaps bad, practices.

New comment by mycocola in "Rust in Android: move fast and fix things"

mycocola — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:38:49 +0000

I use rust for gamedev (not bevy). I'm unlikely to consider anything else exactly because of stability and throughput.

New comment by mycocola in "The App Store was always authoritarian"

mycocola — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 09:15:59 +0000

Just as a thought experiment: Governments could mandate banks to prevent their customers from spending beyond what'll go to rent/mortgage. It'd certainly prevent overdue or missed payments. Would that be a net positive, or would that prevent or slow people from learning fiscal responsibility and the benefits that go along with that?

New comment by mycocola in "The App Store was always authoritarian"

mycocola — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:54:32 +0000

- Mad Max is not a great example of anarchy, as the last couple of movies featured a government led by an autocrat (haven't seen the other ones)

- The Play Store being bad does not mean the App Store is not also bad

- How do you know most of the world likes the authority of the App Store? Is it not more likely that most of the world are ignorant of its rules, and assumes a free and open marketplace?

New comment by mycocola in "The App Store was always authoritarian"

mycocola — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:37:17 +0000

Maybe it's not a great idea to allow a company to decide what software users can run, and I am inclined to believe that Murphy's Law will apply. Ultimately, software is freedom of speech.