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I think it’s more likely that consciousness is special and LLMs aren’t conscious.

If current LLMs are conscious then consciousness is a worthless and pathetic concept.

Turned into a sea lion

Systemd has something like this. I don’t know if the kernel itself does.

LaTeX spitting out an immaculate pdf with carefully calculated text distribution and vectorized fonts just to have it printed and scanned by the camera on a razr flip phone:

A placeholder isn’t what they’re working on either. It’s a placeholder for something someone else is working on but hasn’t completed yet.

It was a placeholder texture that was always intended to be replaced by actual art made by a human. It was overlooked accidentally and promptly replaced. So no, it isn’t a very different thing. It was never supposed to be part of the game or even a significant part of its development.

A stance that is perfectly relatable in 2025, but not as much when Expedition 33 was in early development.

The only takeaway is that the Indie Game Awards’ rule is overly restrictive. Woops, one of your contracted artists used a GenAI model to generate a music playlist to set the mood while he was working on your game, you’re disqualified and the fact that you didn’t come forward with this information immediately makes you a liar. Obviously absurd. If they’re going to take a strong anti-AI stance, it should be more realistic. At some point, maybe even already, every single competitor should be disqualified but isn’t aware or forthcoming about it, so what’s the rule actually doing except rewarding dishonesty?

“the truth” being that a few generated placeholder textures were accidentally left in and promptly replaced? crazy

cats just do that sometimes

Smarmy grifter who caused irreparable and immeasurable harm

If you mostly play Souls games, I have to lean towards E33 due to the real-time parry mechanic. Both games are amazing and you won’t regret playing either.

I care more about typesetting than the average feller, but LaTeX lets you use three hyphens (---) to form an em-dash. Didn’t know any layouts had a key/chord for 'em.

Yippee I missed these

I mean the specific issue about the binary blobs. Something that might set off alarm bells for you or a security-focused group may not do so for some dude working on a passion project in his free time.

Maybe they weren’t working on it.

Software to create bootable usb drives. It’s handy, you just copy ISOs into the drive and pick which one to boot into instead of overwriting the drive with a single ISO.

Ok, there’s no such thing as native Windows apps for Linux, but there are cross platform GUI frameworks like Avalonia and Uno that can produce apps with a polished identical experience across all platforms, no electron needed

It’s fully cross platform with .NET Core and later.