What the fuck is going on with all of this lately? I get the idea, but like is there any real reason to use AUR in this day and age? I’m not an Arch user so I don’t really understand the significance for the community, but when it was explained to me it sounded psychotic.

Yeah, if people thought getting arrested for holding up signs in support of Palestine was crazy, wait until they start rounding people up for mild dissent on Twitter or whatever.

I’m not saying they shouldn’t be able to be taken to court, more that the argument “making a political decision” literally applies to any action a politician takes. Even if that’s not likely to succeed, if that’s the bar to clear, any sufficiently large company could just repeatedly sue an official with adversarial views, to hobble any decisions they make couldn’t they? This is purely ignorance of how the UK legal system works on my part, so I apologize if this is like super basic info.

That’s a good clarification on the UK office of Palantir, though, I fully didn’t realize that would be considered a local entity, given where they’re headquartered, but it makes way more sense in that case.

Genuinely so excited for this game. The last SH entry wasn’t quite for me even if it was aesthetically amazing and I might still play it if it goes on sale, but god the Townfall trailer gave me the exact feeling I had looking up at SH 2 on the CRT as a kid.

I’m a bit confused here. Isn’t the office of the mayor a political seat? Are they not allowed to make subjective decisions in the course of their duties? How is this grounding for a lawsuit at all?

I know in the US it’s a pretty low bar for a lawsuit, but I was under the impression that the UK required some genuine reasoning for going to court.

It just seems insane that an American spy company can sue another country for saying “hey, maybe it’s not a good idea to have an American spy company running our police force”.

Sorry, 2-7 times a day??? Oh no

I wonder what the officially recognized denomination of Christian will be when they keep cutting.

Literally among the most damaging things you can do to yourself with AI. Edit: if they aren’t being sardonic.

I’m not even joking when I said my ex boyfriend and I would sit around mentally preparing to play this game in the hotseat. Like, the feeling of having to force yourself to move from one area to another without knowing where the Xenomorph would be or worse, knowing that they’re between you and the exit was awful.

I’m not even talking exclusively about capabilities, I’m talking about the effects of using LLMs on people. Cases of psychosis and the effects on the newer generation in their education, the atrophy of critical thinking skills, the ability to subtly influence public opinion, those are things we should be thinking about even if you don’t think that LLMs are capable of doing anything.

I watched a playthrough (so you know, not actually playing) and I gotta say it felt like watching a decent 007 movie. The voice acting and story was pretty good and it definitely felt like “Bond” but just from the outside the gameplay looked very mediocre. I was hoping it would be a bit more Hitman adjacent given the dev team, but after seeing it, I just don’t know that the Hitman-like puzzle maps would actually work in a game with such a linear narrative.

Here’s the thing. We should absolutely not trust any companies with this much power about anything they say, buuuuuuut to play the devil’s advocate here, let’s pretend they are absolutely altruistic.

They are still a company and must compete. Their market edge isn’t dominant enough that they could really take any moral stand like “stop research and development” when there are three other companies who will gladly step into the market leader position, so even if they do believe their message, without any assurances that everyone will agree to pause, they’d just be letting someone else take over their spot for a moral stance for an arguably worse situation.

And realistically, if they weren’t in the lead, people would be saying “loser wants leaders to slow down lol” and if they’re in the lead people will say, “lol market leader wants competition to stop, I wonder why?”. There is really no position they can be in and make the claim without catching flak for it. A year or two ago Anthropic made a similar blog when they weren’t in such a dominant position and comments were exactly like that.

All that said, obviously they’re nearly a trillion dollar company and we shouldn’t take anything they say at face value, but I really do think the message here isn’t terrible (like the article says). We really should be slowing down and looking at the effects of AI. It has too much potential to fuck everything up to not think about it a bit, especially if recursive self-improvement is on the horizon.

Alien Isolation is one of the few games that gave me legitimate anxiety to play. I wouldn’t say I was scared necessarily like the feeling you might get playing some other horror games in the dark, but like a genuinely stressful experience. They nailed the inevitability of conflict with the alien.

Looking forward to seeing how they’ve done with an open area version of this experience given how the tight spaces in the space station contributed so much to the experience of the first game.

I mean, ya gotta make amends. Give healthy food on a schedule so they know you’re committed. Perhaps leave a kindly note with a shiny bead.

Saving this for when I finally make the leap to Graphene. Thanks for the list!

I have exactly the opposite problem 😭

I don’t know if it’s unintended consequences or not caring about the consequences. The people responsible for this are richer than god as a result and they simply do not care what happens to anyone else.

I just want one minion to say fuck right in the middle somewhere. No preamble. No explanation. Just pops out.

Having lived in Florida, it’s worth the risk.

I’m a tiny bit confused as to what this actually is. I don’t use the Codex/ClaudeCode/Cursor stuff, but it seems like this is just an interface for connecting those services, isn’t it? It doesn’t seem like that actually protects your data at all.

Can anyone help explain it a bit?

Edit: I realized I kinda glossed over all the stuff that seemed to be included in this, I more meant the start where he talked about this being privacy centric. Is he just trying to make self-hosting less painful?