I think whether an AIs have a subjective experience is necessarily up in the air. But so is if a toaster has one. Because it's so completely unknowable. Until we can scientifically disprove animism, it feels like a black hole. Maybe computers can all feel, but rights for GTA characters feels mad.
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I think whether an AIs have a subjective experience is necessarily up in the air. But so is if a toaster has one. Because it's so completely unknowable. Until we can scientifically disprove animism, it feels like a black hole. Maybe computers can all feel, but rights for GTA characters feels mad.
'eye adaptation' is probably the more standard way of phrasing the change, and has been common in all games since the advent of HDR-internal rendering (see: HL2 Lost Coast for an early example of how this looked before games got the tuning nailed down). Some modern games still have issues tho.
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
'eye adaptation' is probably the more standard way of phrasing the change, and has been common in all games since the advent of HDR-internal rendering (see: HL2 Lost Coast for an early example of how this looked before games got the tuning nailed down). Some modern games still have issues tho.
If they want to bang the 'sedition will be punished by death' drum I don't think they'll enjoy when it leads once the shoe is on the other foot and can be maybe be tried for that coup again.
November 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If they want to bang the 'sedition will be punished by death' drum I don't think they'll enjoy when it leads once the shoe is on the other foot and can be maybe be tried for that coup again.
That man just can't not look like a man who just killed their wife's beloved pet while driving home drunk. He perpetually looks like someone cornered by Chris Hansen. If we ever get a mugshot of him, it'll be hard to tell it isn't just an ordinary photo 'cuz that panicked/caught look is his default.
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 AM
That man just can't not look like a man who just killed their wife's beloved pet while driving home drunk. He perpetually looks like someone cornered by Chris Hansen. If we ever get a mugshot of him, it'll be hard to tell it isn't just an ordinary photo 'cuz that panicked/caught look is his default.
I'd imagine it actually uses slightly more computing power to do it this way (since you need to pass in additional vertex color information). It's going to be an infinitesimal difference though. Generally computers are highly optimised towards doing things 'the normal way'.
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I'd imagine it actually uses slightly more computing power to do it this way (since you need to pass in additional vertex color information). It's going to be an infinitesimal difference though. Generally computers are highly optimised towards doing things 'the normal way'.
It took less than a full year of Trump 2.0 for the American right to reach the 'umm acktually, it's called ephebophilia' phase of running cover for the most outrageous shit imaginable.
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
It took less than a full year of Trump 2.0 for the American right to reach the 'umm acktually, it's called ephebophilia' phase of running cover for the most outrageous shit imaginable.
They're definitely saying 'sealions', and it's a seal not an otter. But the amount of AI involved in saying it and visualising it isn't helping things.
November 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
They're definitely saying 'sealions', and it's a seal not an otter. But the amount of AI involved in saying it and visualising it isn't helping things.
Conceivably it could be erroneously shorthand for millimetre. But from a cursory search the caps are actually 26mm in diameter, which is 30% larger, enough to make figures useless.
November 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Conceivably it could be erroneously shorthand for millimetre. But from a cursory search the caps are actually 26mm in diameter, which is 30% larger, enough to make figures useless.
That lispy nasal quality also feels like a failure for AI to nail enunciation properly. Not that lispy sounding people with inbetween accents don't exist (I'd feel crummy if I called an actual paid actor 'an AI'), but it's definitely at least suspicious given the wider context of the clearly AI vid.
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
That lispy nasal quality also feels like a failure for AI to nail enunciation properly. Not that lispy sounding people with inbetween accents don't exist (I'd feel crummy if I called an actual paid actor 'an AI'), but it's definitely at least suspicious given the wider context of the clearly AI vid.
Old games (and by 'old' I mean easily in the past decade) did this by having pre-made 'volumetric' meshes. Just a bunch of sunbeams you could tilt diagonally, possibly with meshes made to fit a particular window frame.
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Old games (and by 'old' I mean easily in the past decade) did this by having pre-made 'volumetric' meshes. Just a bunch of sunbeams you could tilt diagonally, possibly with meshes made to fit a particular window frame.