Same, it seems like they really thought that Americans would come to their senses at some point.

Exactly, Chinese scientists fleeing the US just have an easier time because China has massive science budget now. The scale of brain drain the US is experiencing is going to be disastrous. These are skills that will not be easy to rebuild in the future, assuming the US even survives as a state.

I guess they realized that would be rather unpopular and would be a pretext for the west to invade. Doing it in response to the US invading and losing, completely reframes it.

Wait, the implication here is that there are good corporations?

I don’t find anything odd about a country minding its own business and making trade relations based on mutual benefit rather than ideology.

I disagree that that there was anything amicable during Biden years. Biden picked up exactly where Trump left off before him and he escalated tensions with stuff like CHIPS act, ban on Chinese EVs and so on. There’s been a continuation of policy here across administration since Obama’s pivot to Asia when the US decided that China was the main adversary. Things have been steadily escalating, and now they’re entering into an openly hostile territory.

It certainly can, but there’s zero actual evidence to that’s happening. What we do see though is that turd reich is regressing along all of these metrics. Burgerlander military doctrine has been defeated by Iran. The economy of the turd reich is collapsing, and the society is tearing itself apart. It’s pretty clear that America is a failed social experiment at this point.

Whatever helps you sleep at night I suppose.

I find short is actually a feature. There are very few games that can really justify the hours you need to beat them. Things just tend to get repetitive and the game turns into a chore. Keeping the game short means it doesn’t outstay its welcome.

I find it’s such a great example of how less is more. I started playing Alan Wake 2 before it, and ended up giving up because I found the game was just tedious. There was just too much stuff going on like the memory palace, and environments where you just had to amble around without a clear purpose. I feel like there was a good core game idea that they just ended up adding to much stuff on top of. With Still Wakes the Deep you just have a really lean game that stays focused on its core concept. And I think it’s a good example how a smaller studio ends up making a much better game because it has limited resources.

I mean they want that, but it’s just not happening with the way the tech works right now. Unless you have a deep understanding of the problem you have the model solve, then you have no way to evaluate whether it solved it correctly or not. And it’s basically like an evil genie where it will interpret your request in a dumbest way possible by default. So, you get decent results when you already know what the shape of the solution should be, and you give the model concrete direction on the approach to take, algorithms to use, and so on. And that’s why the whole idea of deskilling workers or replacing them with automation is not really working out. You’d need genuine artificial intelligence for that and LLMs aren’t it.

Right, there’s nothing wrong with disagreement because it just means people have different perspectives. Discussing these perspectives in a civilized fashion creates a more complete understanding for everybody. That’s what debates are meant for, people present their positions and defend them, so that the counterparty can point out problems or inconsistencies. And through this process you build shared understanding of things.

But when debate happens in our media is just a spectacle of idiots yelling at one another and talking over each other incoherently. And that’s presented as providing different views. There’s no depth, no substance, and no actual debate happening. It’s just a bunch of people yelling I’m right.

And that’s a broader problem in the media too now where there’s no more investigative journalism. The media outlets simply parrot whatever the official narrative is, there’s no analysis, no historical context, and no push back. In a sense, the only real debate happening is the one between mainstream and social media. And, in a way, it’s kind of hilarious how regular people do a better job explaining things now than professional news outlets. Hence why social media is winning the debate.

I’ve been using opencode for actual projects at work. DeepSeek v4 can code up a lot of stuff fairly confidently. If you give it clear requirements, tell it to make a phased plan, use TDD, and commit after each phase, it tends to produce decent code. I just do code reviews against the diff and then tell it to fix anything I don’t like. It’s also great for spelunking through large codebaes. You can easily trace through how an endpoint works for example, get it to write stuff like sample curl queries, etc.

But the thing is that you don’t actually work all that much faster. You still have to review everything. You have to actually manually use the app and make sure it works functionally. Like you basically can’t trust anything it does. So, it makes my life easier. I don’t have to look up API docs, figure out how random libraries work, or having to write a bunch of boilerplate. But it doesn’t replace me, and it doesn’t actually result in me working significantly faster.

That’s right don’t look at how the machinery works.

Oh it’s very much that. Every single study that’s come out on companies adopting AI shows that it makes no meaningful difference to productivity. So, it’s very clearly just an excuse to do layoffs.

even a broken clock is right twice a day

It’s not going to happen overnight, but if they continue to ignore this then people become more and more disillusioned. A lot of people already have lost faith in mainstream outlets, so there could just be a collapse in public trust. And there’s a greater context for this too because the standard of living is collapsing at the same time. So, people see their lives get worse, they see the media talk about how great DOW is doing, and then they start connecting things and realizing they live in a house of mirrors.

I think the fact that these kinds of interviews are happening at all is significant. While they’re doing everything they can to suppress this, the public opinion is not really going along with the narrative. And that creates a dilemma for them. Either they continue to deny the genocide and continue losing credibility or they have to start discussing it however tepidly.

yeah not very subtle