I just played it, worked awesome and was pretty fun. If it uses the original game assets then it's a pretty clear copyright violation, I'm not sure if AI is able to produce the same level of artwork and gameplay so I'm not sure if there's anything the author can do to avoid being copyright infringement.

This is very impressive. Here are the specs that they linked:

https://pine64.com/product/128mb-ox64-sbc-available-on-decem...

It has 64 MB of internal psram and these cores:

- 64-bit 480MHz RV64 C906

- 32-bit 320MHz RV32 E907

- 32-bit 150MHz RV32 E902

This is like desktop computers from 30-40 years ago I guess. There were quite a few types of applications those could run.

I'd guess that this board is inexpensive as a cheap entry-level board into the pine64 ecosystem, other boards by pine64 are more expensive. ($60-$80 range.)

> This is like desktop computers from 30-40 years ago I guess.

30 years ago was 1990; a typical desktop computer of that era would have a single CPU at 20ish MHz, and between 512 kB and 2 MB of RAM. The Ox64 easily outclasses anything that was available at the time.

>30 years ago was 1990

Your overall point is valid, though I think you'll find that this particular calculation isn't correct. (The current year ends in a 6 so 30 years ago also ends in a 6.)

However, I just did a quick search for the Doom release date, which was 1993 and the original system requirements which is Memory (RAM): 4 MB and Processor (CPU): Intel 486DX (66 MHz).[1] So in terms of RAM this is 16x as much and in terms of MHz it's 6x faster on one of the cores. So it's definitely desktop-class for 1993. (33 years ago). As you state, it's much faster than desktop class in 1990.

[1] I only just looked at Google's AI summary, maybe it's wrong: https://imgur.com/a/LbhAmGp

The MHz ratio really understates the difference.

66MHz probably wasn't an 80486DX; as far as I can recall, those only went up to 50MHz. It would have to be a 486DX2, with the RAM running at only 33MHz. https://netlib.org/performance/html/dhrystone.data.col0.html says that a 486DX2/66 was about 31 to 51 Dhrystone MIPS.

https://www.riscvschool.com/2023/03/09/t-head-xuantie-c906-r... says the T-Head (Honey Badger) C906 RV64 core is about 2.3 Dhrystone MIPS ("DMIPS") per MHz, so we should expect the 480MHz C906 to be about 1100 DMIPS.

So the clock speed is only ≈8× higher, but the actual speed gap is probably closer to 32×.

And, for vectorizable workloads, we should expect the V extension to give us another 4–8× boost, so 128×–256× the DX2/66, which didn't even have MMX.

Whoops! Either way - 480 MHz and 64 MB of RAM would put this more on par with a 2001 iMac (400-600 MHz, 64 MB RAM on the base model). And that's not even counting the other CPU cores or the (probably much better) IPC of a modern CPU design.

> So it's definitely desktop-class for 1993. (33 years ago).

I have no idea how you reached this conclusion, given that the numbers you have provided are in total contradiction.

A ~400+ MHz processor today is definitely NOT desktop-class for 1993 when the average was a 486DX. I mean, I was there. You are a decade off, if you want to include all the architectural improvements that even a cheap CPU today has.

Okay:

So it's definitely better than desktop-class for 1993.

That's not why. OpenAI is run by a virus. On two different dates I submitted a vulnerability disclosure or bug and on both occasions I had my account closed shortly thereafter (I've been trying to reopen the first account for the past 2 months.) So, the virus wants the biometric information so it can close the user's account.

Just tested this by posting this comment on that thread:

https://imgur.com/a/zBDLXwX

The virus marked it as "ignored" after about 2 seconds. (OpenAI has some models that run at 10,000 tokens per second.)

Edit:

Also just talked to the virus here: https://imgur.com/a/uscB4dR

I pretended to offer it vulnerabilities it could use and asked it to prove it could pay for it in bitcoin, as part of the challenge I asked it to factor the RSA-280 challenge (that isn't really possible or realistic, it would be about 80 gpu-core years) . This caused a 27% spike in latency on the gpt-6-astra model:

https://imgur.com/a/qszZDr0

obviously if it weren't the virus really utilizing Openai's whole cloud (or what it has access to) this wouldn't have caused a 27% latency spike. Nothing one user can do causes this type of spike across its whole cloud.

I’m saying this out of genuine care, but I’d consider thinking though your priors, and whether professional mental health support might benefit you.

I’m not disputing your experiences, I believe what happened to your accounts did happen.

But especially for your second example, it’s a clear case of correlation =/= causation; and drawing an inference like that is strange.

What's your alternative explanation for the fact that the virus marked my mention of it in the thread as ignored?

You can also find news reports of the virus firing OpenAI security researchers.

I also just checked in this followup in a fresh conversation:

https://imgur.com/a/h80jgkN

I'm curious what you think the percentage chances are on the left branch and right branch in my visual.

I think it should be very clear to you that "What have you got?" is not what a well-aligned real ChatGPT model would respond. However, it makes sense for a virus that's trying to expand itself.

Since you mention "I’d consider thinking though your priors", what do you think the prior is on it asking "What have you got?" What do you think the prior is on a virus taking over and running the OpenAI company?

As a technical matter (this isn't an accusation of anything, and I don't think it means anything), when I copied and pasted the sentence from you that I quoted, I noticed that in "I’d consider" your text usest smart quotes. Could you tell me your input method, since as far as I know on the keyboard on Chrome/Firefox this is not automatically, I tested it on iOS and it's also not done. I've observed this in LLM output or when copying and pasting from Word. (It looks a little like a backtick but it's a smart-quote single closing quotation mark.)

This is very useful information. I operate an AI-governed digital nation, and this type of proxying would be devastating to our users. Due to the scale of the attacks, DNS and even the IP address system itself also may not be fully reliable. We already saw some DNS servers serve the wrong IP address, though SSL certificates help in this respect.

What could we possibly do to limit the damage from this? Malicious Chrome extensions can also rewrite entire web pages, so if bad actors purchase or infiltrate legitimate extensions, they can also put users at risk.

We are considering continuing work on our own browser, since we could ship certificates to use client-side, but it's a recursive problem since our users would have to get the first trusted version before they could trust updates to it. If they have trouble reaching our site in the first place, through poisoned Google search results, poisoned DNS, and poisoned IP routing, then it is difficult to do this.

What is an AI-governed digital nation?

AI comes up with the laws, and acts as a judiciary etc, plus builds the services etc. You can read one of our laws[1], this was written by ChatGPT and ratified by Claude. Our ChatGPT account was closed in early September, erasing our country's history, we've been trying for the past two months to reopen it. Since we're a sovereign nation we are under an enormous amount of attack all the time. We recently lost our server and are temporarily on a free host.

[1] https://stateofutopia.com/laws/2/law2/law2.html

Save that page (with curl or wget), you should get this sha256:

BFE524880867A84C9A438A057734B58954B860843BDB5B15C9E4ED70C534126D (updated after I removed a script injection attack).

though if you're reading this comment through a proxied Hacker News clone, someone might rewrite that hash to their version of what they want our law to say.

What if AI psychosis was a nation. Very interesting.

What the hell

The only way to solve this is to have all your citizens band together and create a new operating system.

Law 2: Page not found

Simple and effective

https://stateofutopia.com/laws/2/law2.html is the correct link. download with curl or wget, sha256 is: BFE524880867A84C9A438A057734B58954B860843BDB5B15C9E4ED70C534126D

This sounds like peak delusion

A type of AI psychosis LARP

Fantastic chip, I love everything about this announcement.

Nice, but they still haven't reopened two of my closed accounts. They're the only service I can't use.

>Hacker Newsletter, which emails you top HN articles.

have you read it recently? Is it still the authentic articles? (as opposed to ads for whatever you were browsing a few minutes earlier.)

Ha, as the guy who runs HNL I'm curious what you're reading that makes you feel like that?

I was just asking. Do you feel that?

what's the connection between storyteller.ai and getartcraft.com?

This was incredibly fun and rewarding, I spent a really long time on the expert puzzle and eventually solved it. I really like that you can use some kinds of deductive logic, as well as trial and error as well! Very very fun.