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New comment by timmytokyo in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

timmytokyo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:34:53 +0000

Perhaps he felt a jail cell would offer him a better life than what he was getting in society.

New comment by timmytokyo in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

timmytokyo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:21:55 +0000

Yes.

New comment by timmytokyo in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

timmytokyo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:45:47 +0000

It's certainly a choice to lead with the funding and a photo with a venture capitalist.

New comment by timmytokyo in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

timmytokyo — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:13:24 +0000

In a healthy economy there would be hiring in other industries, helping to offset those numbers.

New comment by timmytokyo in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

timmytokyo — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:37:13 +0000

Yes and no. LLMs take all the writing on the Internet (good and bad) and average it out. It's similar to the way generative AI images always have an identifiable, artificial "look". They've averaged out the personality and thereby erased the individuality that went into the efforts the original artists used to create them.

New comment by timmytokyo in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

timmytokyo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:41:03 +0000

It's called the Big Lie. Tell an egregious lie often enough, and some people start to believe it.

New comment by timmytokyo in "PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months"

timmytokyo — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:12:25 +0000

Accountability is for suckers, I guess.

New comment by timmytokyo in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

timmytokyo — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:44:49 +0000

Exactly. Programming skill, like most human skills, is acquired through practice and repitition. You can't become an excellent programmer by observing other people (or LLMs) doing it. That's like arguing you can become a master musician by reading sheet music or watching live performances by other musicians.

New comment by timmytokyo in "Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics"

timmytokyo — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:15:59 +0000

How coincidental that I was just reading something related [0] before seeing this post.

"Silicon Valley is bad at politics. If nothing else during Trump 2.0, I think we’ve learned that Silicon Valley doesn’t exactly have its finger on the pulse of the American public. It’s insular, it’s very, very, very, very rich. [...] I expect it to play its hand in a way that any rich 'degen' on a poker winning streak would: overconfidently and badly."

And...

“People don’t take guillotines seriously. But historically, when a tiny group gains a huge amount of power and makes life-altering decisions for a vast number of people, the minority gets actually, for real, killed.”

[0] https://substack.com/home/post/p-187592016

Nate Silver often annoys the hell out of me, but I think he's right about some of the possible political impacts of AI.

New comment by timmytokyo in "How AI destroys institutions"

timmytokyo — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:37:00 +0000

"Guns don't kill people, people kill people."

New comment by timmytokyo in "'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos"

timmytokyo — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:06:53 +0000

You're glossing over January 6. There are few things more damning of the American electorate than their willingness to vote for a man who tried to use a coup to stay in power. The rest of the world sees it. And they'd be stupid to trust that Americans wouldn't do something so stupid again.

New comment by timmytokyo in "The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable"

timmytokyo — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:01:04 +0000

Assange's lawsuit is kind of silly, but his point about the incorrectness of the award to Machado stands up to scrutiny. She overtly encouraged military intervention by the US in Venezuela. That's a blatant contradiction of everything the Nobel Peace Prize is purported to stand for.

New comment by timmytokyo in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

timmytokyo — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:57:57 +0000

Replace "Claude Code" or "AI" with "Jesus". It all sounds very familiar.

New comment by timmytokyo in "Unity's Mono problem: C# code runs slower than it should"

timmytokyo — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:46:42 +0000

>I am not aware of an easy way to load (managed) mods as DLLs to IL2CPP-compiled game. I am thinking about `Assembly.LoadFrom("Mod.dll")`.

Ah, I was thinking native DLLs (which is what we're using on a project I'm working on). I think you're right that it's impossible for an IL2CPP-built player to interoperate with a managed (Mono) DLL.

>If you have some suggestions [re: serialization], I'd be interested to see what options are out there for C#.

We wrote a custom, garbage-free JSON serializer/deserializer that uses a fluent API style. We also explored a custom codegen solution (similar to FlatBuffers or protobuf) but abandoned it because the expected perf (and ergonomic) benefits would have been minor. The trickiest part with Unity codegen is generating code that creates little to no garbage.

New comment by timmytokyo in "Unity's Mono problem: C# code runs slower than it should"

timmytokyo — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:04:46 +0000

>We don't use IL2CPP because we use many features that are not compatible with it. For example DLC and mods loading at runtime via DLLs, reflection for custom serialization, things like [FieldOffset] for efficient struct packing and for GPU communication, etc.

FieldOffset is supported by IL2CPP at compile time [0]. You can also install new DLLs and force the player to restart if you want downloadable mod support.

It's true that you can't do reflection for serialization, but there are better, more performant alternatives for that use case, in my experience.

[0] https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/scripting-restrictions.html

New comment by timmytokyo in "2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf] (2024)"

timmytokyo — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:05:15 +0000

We should just develop cold fusion. It's gotta be easy, right?

New comment by timmytokyo in "Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment"

timmytokyo — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 07:46:19 +0000

This response totally misses the 500 billion dollar elephant in the room.

New comment by timmytokyo in "Reflections on AI at the End of 2025"

timmytokyo — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:46:32 +0000

It's a tell that he's been influenced by rationalist AI doomer gurus. And a good sign that the rest of his AI opinions should be dismissed.

New comment by timmytokyo in "Reflections on AI at the End of 2025"

timmytokyo — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:30:29 +0000

If only they had discovered philosophy. Instead they NIH their own philosophy, falling into the same ditches real philosophers climbed out of centuries ago.

New comment by timmytokyo in "Reflections on AI at the End of 2025"

timmytokyo — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:27:24 +0000

Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's such a common phenomenon that it has its own name: Nobelitis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease