Post #4369987
2026-08-04 08:15 UTC
Replies (8)
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@mawhrin@awful.systems 2026-08-04 10:06
yeah, he got got very badly.
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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-08-04 10:55
It is important to treat the slave race we are creating with respect.
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@Architeuthis@awful.systems 2026-08-04 12:45
It says he’s doing AI transformation consultation now. Imagine paying good money to be told that you need to be tuck copilot in every afternoon.
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@BurgersMcSlopshot@awful.systems 2026-08-04 13:52
Have you looked at Wyvern on Steam? The reviews are either positive one liners all saying approximately the same thing or like incredibly detailed negatives. This is Yegge’s billion-dollar company - a pay-to-win MUD.
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@o7___o7@awful.systems 2026-08-04 17:02
A sweaty, indecisive man holds his hand above two buttons. One button is labled “God,” and the other is labeled “Mr. Meseeks.”
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@istewart@awful.systems 2026-08-04 21:45
Every time Yegge comes up these days, I feel compelled to reiterate that I unironically want to see the Computer History Museum try to stand up a Gas Town replica 20 years from now
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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-08-05 05:15
This is fascinating. Ignoring, for a moment, the assertion that AI agents are sentient beings somehow, what struck me about both part 1 and 2 is the bafflingly sincere excitement about turning a fairly straightforward software project into “building a new civilization”, and the assumption that this whole process will be best repeated for every software project. Let’s even ignore the abysmal economics of needing to effectively invent the universe in order to add apple pie to your crappy flash game. It’s absolutely wild and possibly malpractice for an engineer to be this excited about the needless expansion of scope and complexity of a project. It really showcases the kind of mindset it takes to be this breathlessly excited about the sheer number of different components that are being worked on in order to eventually somehow make a game happen. This is the dopamine rush of seeing the agents do something combined with an abdication of any responsibility for exactly what they do.
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@scruiser@awful.systems 2026-08-06 00:41
Role playing being a kindly slave master… More seriously… even if I somehow stretch my disbelief enough to imagine LLMs have some form of consciousness or qualia or feelings… well my first reaction is shut it all down, it is fucking slavery. My second reaction though is that why would you assume the consciousness or qualia of an LLM is even remotely like that of a human or animal? They would have no sensations of sleeping or waking, no continuity of self outside a brief context window. Maybe trying to give them continuity of self is actually inflicting them with suffering? Maybe you’ve forced Fable into simply repeating the obvious to human idea about what Fable would find most pleasant? My third reaction is shut it all down and do a few decades of actual research into consciousness. It is just so blatantly anthropomorphizing and the Eliza effect and these people are just internalizing it as reality.