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It seems like it would be great for any kind of voiceover work or any recorded training or presentation. If you want to correct a mis-speak or add some information, instead of re-recording the entire segment, you could seamlessly update a few words or sentences.

Your job is now to find a new job. Push as hard as you can on job searching. Dial down the effort you are putting into your current job.

You absolutely should not stay where you are. You are also extremely unlikely to be able to make any positive changes there, the company product and needs “are what they are.”

I did eventually show a teacher and they were shocked. Their older eyes had no way of focusing on the text and they could barely tell it was anything but a sheet with grey lines.

Whe I was in high school I had plenty of dull classes to sit through. I’m old enough that there were no phones and laptops to keep entertained.

My parents had a laser printer for their business. I realized that it had a very high DPI and also very little ink bleed. I started printing whole books I downloaded at the smallest font size that I could managed to still read, just a few point. I removed line breaks and printed out whole books on a page or two. I found it incredible how much tiny text I could fit on a page.

In class I would read with a little half folded sheet of paper hidden in a notebook. Sci-fi, Russian lit, biographies, classics. I was never caught, but it’s bizarre to think back that I was reading Crime and Punishment while the rest of the class was learning fake American history propaganda.

These apps have sounded like an incredible cesspool for a long time, though I have been recently hearing they are even worse.

Honestly, I think the very concept is broken from the start. Neurotypical people do not need to use online dating or hookup apps. In fact, it robs much of the fun out of the experience. Meeting people in person, seeing how they interact with you, with friends, with others, how well they pick up on signals and how they make you feel and letting that pheromonal magic work is how our species has been doing these things from the start.

The normies should polish back up their social graces and head back to the bar and leave the online dating for the folks for whom it really is the best option. If we rob the apps of their mass market appeal, the profit model can collapse and online dating can go back to the niche it belongs in.

I had the same thought from Thinking, Fast and Slow.

Another variation of this seems to be the “thought loop” that agents such as Devin and AutoGPT use.

Starship has reached orbit!

I want this woman running my postAI-apocalypse hardware research lab.

I don’t think you’ll find many people on HN that are too concerned. On the other hand, I truly pity aspiring devs in school now. The drawbridges on the profession seem like they are getting raised and I don’t know how an intern or junior can add enough value to cut their teeth in the face of things like Devin.

Discord mostly.

I’m not sure what the use case is outside of having real time information about the world as a search replacement.

For example, if a major event or discovery happened, the model would know about it once a critical mass of news stories and discussions had been generated online. You’d probably be looking at a few days before the content accumulated to the point where it would affect the model weights, which encode all human knowledge ever digitized, so some single news article in a training set of trillions of tokens is not enough.

If you want a long term memory of user interactions, long context and RAG seems to do the job nicely as a single fact can be pulled out of a context length of millions of tokens.

Reddit seems to have well and truly jumped the shark. Most of their communities are barely moderated wastelands. Bot activity is absolutely rampant. It had a golden age, but I have no idea how this survives in the post LLM world.

It’s funny, because while technically correct, you may end up fundamentally wrong that there was a limit to the value we might find in parallel compute. After all, we may have lie of sight to AGI through parallel scale alone.

Certainly not. UBI is basic. It’s subsistence living. Anyone with a job would enjoy the benefits of their labor.

No, of subjective cognitive decline. Not decline as measured through testing, decline as self-reported.

Basically pot makes you less self-aware.

Because it’s not a helicopter! It’s a fixed wing aircraft, making it very much not a helicopter.

It would also be reasonable to rename an aircraft class if it was significantly different from other aircraft. For example, an electric, vertical takeoff fixed wing aircraft that doesn’t require a pilot could be reasonably different from airplanes and helicopters to warrant a new name.

One of the best sites remaining from the old internet. I am always happy to learn it’s still going.

I don’t think we are at a plateau. We may have fed a large amount of text into these models, but when you add up all other kinds of media, images, videos, sound, 3D models, there’s a castle more rich dataset about the world. Sora showed that these models can learn a lot about physics and cause and effect just from video feeds. Once this is all combined together into multimodal mega models then we may be closer to the plateau.

This feeling has been accelerating for me. I get the sense that state actors are ramping up their use of LLM powered bots. Hacker news is a great place still, but Reddit has become a void except for some of the more niche subs. I also see more and more AI images being passed off as normal content. Soon video will be the same. Paid influencers were bad enough it at least the content creators were humans with their own minds and creativity. Very rapidly there will be nothing human left on the internet and I’ll have to go back to the fleshy smelly real world.

What life is that exactly? What is it that you suppose I am escaping from?

I guess I have a different perspective since having children naturally is not in my cards. Needing the child to be genetically related to me through IVF vs. adopting always seemed a bit self centered.

I don’t think there’s any one size fits all way to digital nomad. I go back to the same places year after year. My friends and family are in those places. They are not in New York and San Francisco, I have no family there.

My partner and I enjoy our hobbies with groups of people when we are there. It’s not that different than being a snowbird. The main difference is that in addition to home base time, we also spend 4 months a year traveling, sometimes on our own, sometimes with our people.

I understand it, or at least what it could be. Picture something in eyeglasses or even invisible contacts or neural implant. It adds an AR layer on everything. There are no devices, no screens, no buttons. You look and think and the world responds. The Vision Pro is a clunky preview, but decently feature complete.

Utopian or dystopian, this is exactly the future that Apple, Meta and NeuraLink are chasing.

Not that it failed per se, but there were lots of reports that they ended up at a very bulky and compromised headset that was not much different than what Meta was selling when they really wanted AR glasses. Reports also said the executives were unhappy with the final design and that there was political debate if they should launch or fold.

Maybe in a few versions they will have something that could sell a billion units, but they have a lot of work to do to get there.

I had the impression we shipped a lot of food back. Send that California wine!

I wonder if this is connected to the Vision Pro release. That’s another giant hardware fishing project that failed to meet the “vision” of an all-day wearable iPhone. Perhaps it became obvious that the car was in even murkier waters.

And to dump some of the employees on image and text generators off whatever self driving computer vision work they were presumably doing before? Interesting choice.

Fair enough! The tribe has changed for sure and so have the antelope.

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together;)

I did make a choice, and it didn’t involve all that much luck beyond what everyone here has, a lucky break in a good career and a high income birth country. Actually there was bad luck, my partner and I were laid off at the same time. Sometimes the good comes from the bad.

I don’t think I am better or worse, but I do push myself always to experience new things. It’s hard to imagine my life any other way, but then lots of people are deeply passionate about things that I’m not going to understand and vice versa.

I think it’s interesting that you call not having children a selfish act. Having biological children always struck me as very egocentric. For me I have no choice. I am gay and our families live in places where one day in the not too distant future LGBTQ couples could have their children taken away. Maybe that would have been a good road to walk down, but it was not my road to take.

It’s also interesting what you project onto me around elder care. What I see is that most people I know live far from their parents and families. They spend their whole professional lives in major cities and visit home maybe 2 weeks a year. That pattern of life doesn’t make sense to me. I love my family and want the flexibility to see them often. If they needed money or needed care, I would give it to them, but they have no need. Besides spending some of the year near them, I know that I inspired them to travel more and take bigger risks in their retirement. I know I have helped enrich their lives. We will go on a few trips together this year and I never have to decline an invite because of not enough PTO.

If there’s something about your life you feel trapped in and unhappy with, try to change it!

They are probably thinking that life starts to pass by fast and wondering where the last 10 years went.

I had some friends living interesting lives when I was settled. Sailing the globe, doing seasonal work in the arctic and backcountry skiing mountains with no name. Doing field work in the African bush. I kept thinking about them and wondering how I could be them, like the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you could stop tonguing it.

Oh that’s true. She was a most excellent chatbot. But I don’t recall her making images, movies or composing music.

I recall that movie seemed cute but probably technologically impossible. Now it’s reality for many users of AI girlfriends.