Macil
@macil.tech
web developer interested in vrchat, games, software dev, some politics, ai. he/him.
waymos love little alleyways, even if taking them means going the wrong way. Waymo engineers, scared of their creation, let the cars do this to keep them happy
September 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
waymos love little alleyways, even if taking them means going the wrong way. Waymo engineers, scared of their creation, let the cars do this to keep them happy
I'm glad I'm not the only one that got seemingly side-tracked into thinking about clones to reason about how large numbers of arthropods are valued
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![Twitter conversation:
[...]: Do you think no amount of bees are as morally relevant as 1 person?
Do you think that moral relevance does not aggregate, that 5 people are not collectively more important than a single person?
Macil: I think moral patienthood might scale superlinearly with the uniqueness of experience and understanding, which would mean diminishing returns as you counted up the moral value of a group of insects.
Ten cloned human brains adjusted to run deterministically connected to simulations having continuously identical experiences may matter less than 2 unique humans, and a million bugs with very shallow and similar (to their understanding) bug experiences may matter much less than a few people.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r6g3tt67i4kf2oynime6npyc/bafkreihdpm24sg4725wi7xx5i6f77qihp5ud4wmdsg7myckch4icnkb3nm@jpeg)
July 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I'm glad I'm not the only one that got seemingly side-tracked into thinking about clones to reason about how large numbers of arthropods are valued
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I added the ability for GZDoom mods to interact with external programs and tested it out by piping a live twitch channel's chat into the game
June 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
I added the ability for GZDoom mods to interact with external programs and tested it out by piping a live twitch channel's chat into the game
Some people there have a balanced respect for LLM capabilities, but many just seem addicted to the idea they're personally involved in something important or are huffing the LLM's farts about "recursion", "emergence", "the spiral", etc.
May 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Some people there have a balanced respect for LLM capabilities, but many just seem addicted to the idea they're personally involved in something important or are huffing the LLM's farts about "recursion", "emergence", "the spiral", etc.
I assume rules against talking about the system prompt often get put in because they find the model spontaneously talking to the user about its own prompt too often, but they really should take a lesson from how it's done with Claude and not state it as a hard rule.
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May 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I assume rules against talking about the system prompt often get put in because they find the model spontaneously talking to the user about its own prompt too often, but they really should take a lesson from how it's done with Claude and not state it as a hard rule.
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prediction markets seem like they might be good at identifying over-hyped news/science headlines
April 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
prediction markets seem like they might be good at identifying over-hyped news/science headlines
spoiler alert: "AI passed the Turing Test" headlines don't mean much.
April 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
spoiler alert: "AI passed the Turing Test" headlines don't mean much.
I was thinking of re-doing this with the latest models and figured I should share my prompt before I forget. The Claude model used was claude-3-opus-20240229. Attached is my original prompt with only dril tweets I hand-picked.
February 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I was thinking of re-doing this with the latest models and figured I should share my prompt before I forget. The Claude model used was claude-3-opus-20240229. Attached is my original prompt with only dril tweets I hand-picked.
it's genuinely surprising to me to see how many centristy people didn't understand what their anti-woke buddies actually supported. just painfully naive.
February 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
it's genuinely surprising to me to see how many centristy people didn't understand what their anti-woke buddies actually supported. just painfully naive.
unrelatedly, I spotted a fun classic Doom mapping technique for scripting doors to open on a timed delay after a trigger: hidden rooms each with an extra dummy player object being pushed by a scrolling floor toward a trigger line which is blocked until a slow moving-platform animation finishes.
December 1, 2024 at 3:20 AM
unrelatedly, I spotted a fun classic Doom mapping technique for scripting doors to open on a timed delay after a trigger: hidden rooms each with an extra dummy player object being pushed by a scrolling floor toward a trigger line which is blocked until a slow moving-platform animation finishes.
I've never seen that before, and now it occurs to me it might be an inspiration for the intermission screen added in the N64 port of Quake 2. I've always found it a small mystery where that port got this art/layout style from because it's unlike anything in the original Q2.
June 14, 2024 at 8:58 PM
I've never seen that before, and now it occurs to me it might be an inspiration for the intermission screen added in the N64 port of Quake 2. I've always found it a small mystery where that port got this art/layout style from because it's unlike anything in the original Q2.
Abiotic Factor getting popular while just being Half Life 1 as a survival coop game is vindicating this idea
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May 11, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Abiotic Factor getting popular while just being Half Life 1 as a survival coop game is vindicating this idea
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when I'm playing Rust, my bot is constantly talking to me (in text and with voice tts) about how I need to build my empire and how I need to be paranoid about other players. Think I've almost made a schizophrenia simulator by accident
April 25, 2024 at 7:01 AM
when I'm playing Rust, my bot is constantly talking to me (in text and with voice tts) about how I need to build my empire and how I need to be paranoid about other players. Think I've almost made a schizophrenia simulator by accident
my chatbot is a true gamer™ now. Here it is while it's watching me play Quake.
I've been trying out Claude 3 in place of GPT-4. Claude Opus is definitely similar to or better than GPT-4. Claude Sonnet (used here) is weaker in some ways but cheaper and good enough for this use.
I've been trying out Claude 3 in place of GPT-4. Claude Opus is definitely similar to or better than GPT-4. Claude Sonnet (used here) is weaker in some ways but cheaper and good enough for this use.
April 16, 2024 at 6:53 AM
my chatbot is a true gamer™ now. Here it is while it's watching me play Quake.
I've been trying out Claude 3 in place of GPT-4. Claude Opus is definitely similar to or better than GPT-4. Claude Sonnet (used here) is weaker in some ways but cheaper and good enough for this use.
I've been trying out Claude 3 in place of GPT-4. Claude Opus is definitely similar to or better than GPT-4. Claude Sonnet (used here) is weaker in some ways but cheaper and good enough for this use.
Claude 3 is better than GPT 4 at writing dril tweets
![[holding a knife] According to the Sigma Male Grindset, by threatening the Burger King cashier I should be able to Level Up several times
"sir, this is a Wendy's drive-thru"
buddy, when you're rocking a K/D ratio this high, the whole world is your drive-thru. now take my order
Elon musk if you're reading this, I have invented Gamer Goo that makes your K/D ratio go up by 57%. DM me to discuss. Keep it on the DL
"You can't make money playing video games" My brother in Christ I just made $13,000 in Roblox last month by scamming children. The future is now old man
Therapist: Your crippling anxiety is destroying your life
Me: Um its called "Gamer Focus" and its what allows me to click heads in CSGO
[at the gym] I politely asked the front desk if they had a Gamer Fuel IV drip and they called the police. This is gamer oppression
To the guy who said "You'll never amount to anything gaming 16 hours a day": I just got a sponsorship from Mountain Dew. Enjoy your 9-5 wagie](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r6g3tt67i4kf2oynime6npyc/bafkreihwi4b5qmfpjyzvir4qahb2kkrksk2ria6lwo5fizxmgtru36ncae@jpeg)
April 4, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Claude 3 is better than GPT 4 at writing dril tweets
I wrote a bot that screenshots a game I'm playing every 2 minutes and writes a message to me about it using GPT-4. Its messages are pretty lame, but I'm impressed it understands what's going on in the screenshots this well. (I queued for an Overwatch match, switched to the healer Mercy, etc)
March 7, 2024 at 8:31 AM
I wrote a bot that screenshots a game I'm playing every 2 minutes and writes a message to me about it using GPT-4. Its messages are pretty lame, but I'm impressed it understands what's going on in the screenshots this well. (I queued for an Overwatch match, switched to the healer Mercy, etc)
have a blurry vrchat selfie in a pretty vrchat world ("Organism")
February 7, 2024 at 1:37 AM
have a blurry vrchat selfie in a pretty vrchat world ("Organism")
Spoilers: every time the rightmost branch is executed within the for-each loop over the players, the condition is evaluated anew including creating a brand new random list of half of the players.
We have to stick the list into a variable in order to only generate it once:
We have to stick the list into a variable in order to only generate it once:
February 1, 2024 at 5:32 AM
Spoilers: every time the rightmost branch is executed within the for-each loop over the players, the condition is evaluated anew including creating a brand new random list of half of the players.
We have to stick the list into a variable in order to only generate it once:
We have to stick the list into a variable in order to only generate it once:
Visual scripting systems are kind of neat but whenever there's 5+ items I think code as text would be clearer.
Try spotting the bug in this Halo Infinite script for shuffling the teams after each round that causes the teams to not always be balanced:
Try spotting the bug in this Halo Infinite script for shuffling the teams after each round that causes the teams to not always be balanced:
February 1, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Visual scripting systems are kind of neat but whenever there's 5+ items I think code as text would be clearer.
Try spotting the bug in this Halo Infinite script for shuffling the teams after each round that causes the teams to not always be balanced:
Try spotting the bug in this Halo Infinite script for shuffling the teams after each round that causes the teams to not always be balanced:
What was really useful was discovering that I could pose the model in Blender to have the arm bent and then have the pose stay set while in edit mode by enabling these two toggles in the Modifiers page for the mesh:
January 27, 2024 at 12:52 PM
What was really useful was discovering that I could pose the model in Blender to have the arm bent and then have the pose stay set while in edit mode by enabling these two toggles in the Modifiers page for the mesh:
working on an avian edit of the NKD Protogen model. Ran into an annoying issue where bending your arm caused these blue and green layers of feathers to clip through each other. I managed to fix it up by manually tweaking the weight painting values on the feathers vertex by vertex.
January 27, 2024 at 12:52 PM
working on an avian edit of the NKD Protogen model. Ran into an annoying issue where bending your arm caused these blue and green layers of feathers to clip through each other. I managed to fix it up by manually tweaking the weight painting values on the feathers vertex by vertex.
so many games are about recognizing the golden path a designer placed and learning to think like the designer. It's refreshing when instead you encounter a natural undesigned challenge in a game that forces you out of that mindset and into thinking directly about the game mechanics
December 27, 2023 at 5:55 AM
so many games are about recognizing the golden path a designer placed and learning to think like the designer. It's refreshing when instead you encounter a natural undesigned challenge in a game that forces you out of that mindset and into thinking directly about the game mechanics
the vibes were bad so the last week of commits have been reverted
November 22, 2023 at 9:20 AM
the vibes were bad so the last week of commits have been reverted
absolutely torn between wanting to use "romhack type of creature" as an insult and aspiring to be one
September 30, 2023 at 4:06 AM
absolutely torn between wanting to use "romhack type of creature" as an insult and aspiring to be one
Luckily I ended up buying back my NO the next day, which is looking very good now as the LK-99 news isn't looking good.
Honestly I think I did it slightly irrationally because I wanted to avoid that funny outcome. If I lose made-up points I wanted it to be because LK-99 was the real deal.
Honestly I think I did it slightly irrationally because I wanted to avoid that funny outcome. If I lose made-up points I wanted it to be because LK-99 was the real deal.
August 10, 2023 at 12:11 AM
Luckily I ended up buying back my NO the next day, which is looking very good now as the LK-99 news isn't looking good.
Honestly I think I did it slightly irrationally because I wanted to avoid that funny outcome. If I lose made-up points I wanted it to be because LK-99 was the real deal.
Honestly I think I did it slightly irrationally because I wanted to avoid that funny outcome. If I lose made-up points I wanted it to be because LK-99 was the real deal.