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He needs the numbers to make up for his repeated failures to produce anything of value since facebook.

Good data is the differentiator here I think. Lots of ways to get good data on objectively verifiable math and by extension coding. None of the models can do game design because humans can't come up with a coherent game design ethos. Studios with decades of experience fail game design all the time.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 9h

apparently EA is not Electronic Arts anymore these days

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 13h

I'm seeing local community forums becoming relevant again since they're unpolluted by issues of the wider internet and everyone is essentially verified and related by language, geography, etc. New people join largely by word of mouth, and our own outreach at IRL events.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 14h

The demo is so awful that I suspect it's just shit companies do for investor sentiment these days. They're operating in climate where Unity stock crashed because of things like Google Genie, which is just a glorified video generator and is nowhere near making game engines irrelevant, yet...

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

they should post train physics and material science so we also get 100x hardware for the 100x software.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

when you goof off on youtube all day but have to show some results to keep the job

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crumb @crumb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4998...

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I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture which came to occupy my thoughts over the next 24 years of my life, on and off as I worked in many different fields. Last summer I even thought for a few days that I had actually solved it. But it's supposedly proven here - problem 180. I don't know what to think exactly. I spent thousands of hours on that problem. I really enjoyed it. Hearing that it is solved somehow makes me sad in a far-off way, like hearing an ex-girlfriend died suddenly in a car crash. I don't know, there's probably a lot of people feeling odd emotions tonight. There's no Lean proof for this one so I'm digesting the paper. On the surface it looks like an approach I considered 24 years ago and abandoned.
I revisited the problem this summer, along with my partial solutions, when the previous round of stunning proofs came out. Several hours of work with Fable simply convinced me it wasn't yet solvable and reinforced how hard of a problem it was.

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I went back to that Fable chat and showed it this new preprint. It coded up the new constructive algorithm and ran it against the existing test suite, that looks good at least.
It has been super helpful in delineating where the crucial concept came from. The proof is rather simple as graph theory proofs go, but it does seem to use some constructions that would only seem obvious if you had serious physics experience with partition function and calculating energy states that cancel out. It's not a wholly alien bolt from the heavens, but I can also see how there hasn't been a human being with the broad theoretical physics knowledge combined with the deep graph theory experience in planar graphs to come up with this idea. I don't know, I'm looking for precedents of this formulation and some old papers of Penrose counting the number of edge colorings of this same graph type are coming up, the line of argument at least rhymes. But I agree with the thought that this sort of progress should not be siloed inside those companies. I propose a tax so that every slop cannon Al video pays for another hour of compute time for advancing mathematics.
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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

itch also has a long history of not paying out in time (or at all).

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

itch is anywhere from 0-5% revenue for a typical indie, it might as well not exist business wise. It's great for testing ideas out early and community building, it has it's place in the ecosystem, it just doesn't provide a living for any significant amount of users the platform has.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No human can agree on what makes good game design. AAA studios with decades of experience and highly polished development processes fail game design all the time. So models can't do it either. As things currently are, humans are still necessary as part of the process.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Models are only decent for what they can be post trained in, which is math, code and 3D (to a degree). Because they are highly structured forms of language that have mechanisms of verification - compilers, humans agreeing on what is good vs bad data, etc.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the only acceptable timeline

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

by some reports inference has 50-80% margins, the expensive part is new model training. even if they go under, the models are not disappearing. plenty if interested parties like Google and Amazon with existing infra to deliver inference on cheaper per token prices than currently.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

internet didn't go away after the dotcom bubble. I don't think llms are either. open weight models are not dependent on the big two for selling inference on the cheap. and someone like Amazon will likely buy up openai/anthropic pre-trained models and sell inference with none of the RD cost.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

inject some of that time travel juice into my veins so I can go back 10 years before the current state of things, thanks

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

software support services with specialization in Unity engine. Then fingers crossed they don't know what that is. And if they do, they usually ask about the engine, not games so a small win in my books.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I do love a good portal fantasy

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dumbing RPG systems down to create a mass market product that degrades in quality with every release in practically all departments doesn't feel like force for good. It's been trending down since Morrowind. Obsidian made the best Bethesda game in recent memory.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

time for better energy sources

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

we completed the first new level of the DLC, quality design as usual.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Getting new units is extremely hard, so each engagement might break or make the game for the participating players. And expanding into uninhabited corners of the galaxy is lucrative for those who are able. Those are about the only things I garnered from my single play.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

new Escape Simulator 2 DLC is out. Can't wait to jump in!

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's very interesting, but no language server and I can't quite go back to the integrated editor.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've only played competitive 4p games so far but it's def one of the better recent releases. Very elegant design. Will have to try it solo sometime, and the coop mode.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm partial to that idea as well.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

we probably are scary because of the violence we exact daily on a global scale is beyond galactic common sense, and perhaps one of the great filters. The peaceful unite to elevate themselves, the violent go extinct once technology for destruction peaks unless presented with an external threat.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

if they consume our highly curated media, maybe... And even then a lot of it is very violent.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

is this the vision for a post qud world?

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is some intern, PR agency or a clanker. No way Trump has "ineloquent" in his lexicon.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wish I could get it on the table more often, it's been different every single time I've played it. It's sort of sandboxy but also very euro, which I like a lot. Maybe in November once the expansion arrives.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Genies typically fulfill the wishes of their owners, which in this case are all psychotic out of touch billionaires, so I think it fits.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sure, but 7 year olds don't drive the kinds of purchasing and review decisions I'm talking about. I imagine a lot of that demographic is on Roblox, which is also infested by AI slop.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I want to remove all my hair, get tattoos and live in orbit to grow some crystals out of my space habitat.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I do wish we could put the genie back into a lamp but I don't think that's possible anymore.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yea, there's a lot of social/team sports aspect to AI discourse online. I was never much of a team sports guy but these short form blogging platforms really want to sort you into one, which has lead to a lot of grief by people assuming I'm pro AI just by stating some observations.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Under real market forces I'm not seeing people rejecting AI unless it's a smaller individual with no audience that can be review bombed into algorithmic irrelevance on Steam. AA/AAA meanwhile do what ever they want.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Crimson Desert was chuck full of AI generated images, likely still has them. Launched to 86% positive, dropped to 75% but top negative reviews don't talk about AI at all - people are not happy with post launch support.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unreal Engine had like two instances of em dashes in its code until like half a year ago and suddenly the code base is chuck full of them in the hundreds if not thousands of instances. This now powers a lot of current and upcoming AAA games.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I feel like the average gamer never cared much. ARC Raiders is chuck full of AI, CEO of Embark has publicly talked about having an AI 3D generated model pipeline for both ARC and The Finals cash shops. They had the AI voice thing too. Only thing players care about is cheating in ARC and no endgame.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

probz direct correlation to life becoming increasingly unaffordable. My food expenditure has increased by at least 50% without change of habits. my rent+ utilities by 70%. my income has not radically increased in that time in comparison. so yeah... I do find myself in that loop as well.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

graphics cards are so expensive now that I can warrant spending a few evenings bughunting for Unity for their 6.7 beta sweepstakes.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As long as VISA/Mastercard are calling the shots, nothing will change since Steam can't review thousands of games manually and granularly enough to determine compliance with payment processors. It's less risk to blanket ban/adult filter any topic approaching the fence even if it doesn't cross it.

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Arnis Vaivars @rinvars.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

yeah, you can't tell certain stories covering the human experience on Steam at all even with the adult label on while being able to see that type of content in AAA games or TV no problem. But I think that's more on the payment processor censorship than Steam itself.

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