michaelbrave

I would only buy consoles after they had been out a few years, mid to late lifetime of the console, the primary benefit was it's nice to have in the living room instead of on a desk. Most of the games I bought were used or on sale. All of my purchases have been long tail distribution of a system. If a console goes digital only I won't buy the console. Most of my games are on pc now anyway, none of the modern games are way better than older ones, the only reason to keep up with the times is for community and discussion around the current events of the game, but I prefered single player games in the first place. But even now I have a backlog I can never finish in my lifetime, most of which are considered good.

So long story short, if Sony goes digital only, I will go back to retro and pc and I won't feel like I'm missing out that much if at all.

yes it was this, not the EFF but the Trump admin, it was a surprisingly normal and level headed policy take, and I was pleasantly surprised, but then it turned out it wasn't their official stance, it was removed and replaced with a statement and stance that was nearly the opposite. But for the life of me I can't find it again, but I swear I didn't imagine it.

I don't think they shifted their stance, I think the stances of the left and right shifted around them. For example I remember during Trumps first term they announced a rather sensible stance on the internet/net neutrality via an official blog post, and shortly after (maybe even the next day) it turned out that intern who wrote the piece was fired and it was removed. It's not that the stance was particularly anti-right etc, but that the positions of the right solidified more towards pro-big business rather than anti-regulation as they had previously been trying to be.

I would like to try running linux on an xbox series-x (but thought it wasn't in the cards), it might make for a decent openclaw setup.

a few months back I had a similar thought and started working on a language that was really verbose and human readable, think Cobal with influences from Swift. The core idea was that this would be a business language that business people would/could read if they needed to, so it could be used for financial and similar use cases, with built in logic engines similar to Prolog or Mercury. My idea was that once the language starts being coded by AI there are two directions to go, either we max efficiency and speed (basically let the AI code in assembly) or we lean the other way and max it for human error checking and clear outputs on how a process flows, so my theory was headed more in that direction. But of course I failed, I'd never made a programming language before (I've coded a long time, but that's not the same thing) and the AI's at the time combined with my lack of knowledge caused a spectacular failure. I still think my theory is correct though, especially if we want to see financial or business logic, having the code be more human readable to check for problems when even not a technical person, I still see a future where that is useful.

not fringe loonies, big business, Meta and Palantir (and others) are financially pushing for it.

I imagine the ones that want to move to Canada are not the 'merica' types and would fully agree with you on most of those points.

Same, I've sorta ended up converging on make a rough plan, get second and third opinions from various AI's on it, sort of decide and make choices while shaping the plan, which we turn into a detailed specsheet. Then follow the 'how to design programs' method which is mostly writing documentation first, then expected outcomes, then tests, then the functions, then test the flow of the pipeline. This usually looks like starting with Claude to write the documentation, expectations and create the scaffolding, then having Gemini write the tests and the code, then have codex try to run the pipeline and fix anything it finds that is broken along the way. I've found this to work fairly well, it's looser than waterfall, but waterfall-ish, but it's also sort of TDD-ish, and knowing that there will be failures and things to fix, but it also sort of knows the overall strategy and flow of how things will work before we start.

I'm still in the process of having to write letters to lawmakers about the stupid 3D printer law, now I'm going to have to write letters for this stupid thing too. Like how hard is it to take a day to have a conversation with someone that just knows a little bit about these things, a hobbyist even. The minimal amount of question asking, hell they could even ask an LLM and it would still give a better answer.

I keep thinking about something like a search engine integration that would suggest relevant bookmarks at the top of your search results. It might have been even cooler back when we had things like delicio.us and if we could have gotten recommended relevant links from people we followed's bookmarks too. But even knowing how to code like I do I sorta can't think of how to do it, maybe a browser extension that injects over google? I guess I've more thought about how it would interact than how to actually make it.

This is bullshit. It's a clear power grab to re-seize democratized means of production, and added surveillance. Both suck. The proposed bill in Washington is even worse, and blanket bans nearly any kind of machining or manufacturing that doesn't use surveillance. I'm going to have to actually write letters to lawmakers now as if there wasn't enough bullshit happening already.

I don't think it's the fiber.

I did a similar unscientific experiment in the past where I did a juice fast for two weeks and had bloodwork done before and after (similar bodytype, unhealthy, overweight, high blood sugars, high cholesterol etc). Basically the doctor was shocked how all my numbers became the same as someone really healthy during the fast. So I think the lack of junk and calorie restriction is doing more than the fiber.

I sort of already had an experience where it did kinda. I was consulting with it potential fashion choices to upgrade my work uniform, to look professional but still creative, basically to look more like a creative director. It recommended brands, colors, styles etc. Then I was asking about eyeglass frames showed it three pictures, described my facial features and it was like "you have to buy this one now" more enthusiastic than expected. It wasn't ads or anything but there was a bit of salesyness in there.

I kinda figured they were more interested in enterprise customers rather than consumer customers.

I always kinda figured that AGI would need to be sort of similarly modeled like a brain, for which LLMs could at least fit the function for language. Meaning AGI won't be LLM based, but maybe parts of it could be.

Kinda, I mean so our brains shift once we are able to write things down instead of having to memorize completely, similarly when the internet happened we now could find answers quickly and stopped remembering or writing down things that were easy to find. So now thinking will shift again, dumber might be the right word, but it might not be, our thinking would shift away from computation type of knowledge and lean more toward making good judgments or having clearer goals type of knowledge.

that's going to be a confusing name with the connections to 3D printing

I've seen quite a bit of this too, the other thing I'm seeing on reddit is I guess a lot of people really liked 4.5 for things like worldbuilding or other creative tasks, so a lot of them are upset as well.

I think a lot of our diseases if looked at genetically instead of symptoms-wise that we will probably find out that it's actually multiple conditions that we just group together for manifesting in similar ways. I've felt this in my own life with ADHD things where it seems to me that there are at least 3-4 different types of ADHD and that they respond to treatments/medications differently, and this makes me think that many other conditions might be similar, especially if we start looking at them genetically.

More likely the profit would then be in dealing with animal husbandry types of modifications instead. Cows/chickens that don't get sick, that kind of thing.

If LLama goes away we would still get models from China that don't respect the laws that shut down LLama, at least until China is on top, they will continue to undercut using open source/model. Either way, open models will continue to exist.

yes that was the gist of Ira Glass's quote, but he also added to it that it makes you feel frustrated when you have taste but are not creating things that live up to that taste, but that as a young artist you should push through that.

Here is a copy paste of the quote:

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.” ― Ira Glass

I can't remember it's name because I didn't get around to reading it, but there was one sci-fi book where something like Gattaca happened but it happend in a very corporate way, meaning you could buy preset options (wealthy would do custom), everyone became mostly the same height and look etc, or they could tell which preset their parents chose etc, the problem was later on when diseases happened it was catastrophic since the genetics were too much the same.

I think it will be used for evil, as you said, but I think it will be used for good too, things like: - In theory it has the potential to democratize business, making any 1 person capable of running/owning their own business and thus spread wealth too. - more access to healthcare and psychological care - advances in medicine - tutoring and learning - insane amounts of scientific research - empower anyone with an idea

I've had a lot of fun using Gemini's large context. I scrape a reddit discussion with 7k responses, and have gemini synthesize it and categorize it, and by the time it's done and I have a few back and fourths with it I've gotten half of a book written.

That said I have noticed that if I try to give it additional threads to compare and contrast once it hits around the 300-500k tokens it starts to hallucinate more and forget things more.

this was my take as well. Though after a while I've started thinking about it closer to the introduction of electricity which in a lot of ways would be considered the second stage of the industrial revolution, the internet and AI might be considered the second stage of the computing revolution (or so I expect history books to label it as). But just like electricity, it doesn't seem to be very profitable for the providers of electricity, but highly profitable for everything that uses it.

I've noticed many 404 pages for things I was looking for on it in just the last week or so. Some things can't be found anywhere else either.

If I remember right, that particular case was Ross Intelligence almost copying a database of Westlaw's summaries completely and with the intent to compete directly too, with their only real addition being adding AI to the search capabilities, making it much more nuanced of a decision than just ruling against the use of AI.

This could explain the link between why so many with ADHD also tend to have anxiety, since ADHD could roughly be considered a lack of dopamine (I know it's more complex than that, but it is a significant portion of it).

It's interesting because just yesterday I was asking the AI to speak more Californian and less Indian (it was using words like kindly and now a lot, to be specific I was asking it to make affirmations for a coloring book but the phrases it was giving me did not feel American/British but were closer to other major English dialects like Indian).