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What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI

Very interesting article and great job! But does it also provide enough information so that someone else can replicate your results or is that a secret sauce? The article mentions some prompts, tweaks, skills, etc.

Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

It’s trivial to understand why the useless banter is needed though. Before people started using age limits on accounts, you had more bots and trolls on Reddit. Forums had similar barriers as well, with general or low stakes sections you needed to develop age or standing within before you could post on other topics. “Worse” isn’t a function of behaviors bots can do. There is no activity that dedication cannot make a bot cannot replicate. It used to be that you could make out patterns in bot behavior to figure out which accounts were authentic and which were not. With LLMs, those fingerprints are gone. They post in communities and behave in manners that are indistinguishable from normal users. Forums worked because they were in an era that has long since past.

Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

What they did was immediately obvious and trivial to replicate

What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI

Yep. And these companies know it. I’ve been in the room with execs candidly saying their billion-dollar cash cows will be easily replicated by a teenager on a weekend. The sane ones recognize that sales, service, and support have value. Is that teenager going to ensure 24/7 operation for a multinational? The less sane ones think “if one teenager can build MS office, our thousands of SWEs can make thousands of, uh, help me out here…”

OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns

"Too dangerous to release" until an open-weight model replicates it two weeks later.