Ok, I get that. But what’s the water for?

My in-laws are coming to stay in our spare room for the holidays. They’re old and getting to be pretty frail these days, what should I put in their room to make them more comfortable?

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If you like building things, I’ve been playing the hell out of “Mars First Logistics”.

Basically, you build custom mars rovers to move increasingly ridiculous shipments across the red planet. And the whole game has the visual style of a Lego instruction manual.

Can you explain that sentence?

Well put.

That’s the thing, they only have any interest in “innovative new uses for AI”, they aren’t interested in delivering power, so they’re going to do a shitty job of it, they’re going to make a mess that we’ll all be left with.

Additionally, if they connect their power to the grid at all, then they need to work seamlessly or the entire grid is at risk. Again, the aspect of their business they don’t care about at all has to work seamlessly…

Don’t get me started on nuclear, just no. They don’t get to play with isotopes.

The risks here are huge, the potential consequences are disastrous to both the economy and the environment. And the potential rewards are what? Lining the pockets of AI grifters? Pushing expensive technology that nobody wants?

Once you automate something, the corresponding skill set and experience atrophy. It’s a problem that predates LLMs by quite a bit. If the only experience gained is with the automated system, the skills are never acquired.

Well, to be fair, different skills are acquired. You’ve learned how to create automated systems, that’s definitely a skill. In one of my IT jobs there were a lot of people who did things manually, updated computers, installed software one machine at a time. But when someone figures out how to automate that, push the update to all machines in the room simultaneously, that’s valuable and not everyone in that department knew how to do it.

So yeah, I guess my point is, you can forget how to do things the old way, but that’s not always bad. Like, so you don’t really know how to use a scythe, that’s fine if you have a tractor, and trust me, you aren’t missing much.

If you’re not talking about the headline, what “situation” are you talking about?

Honestly, I’m not sure you’re talking about anything.

Dice - mirrors edge, battlefield

Popcap - tons of mobile games

Respawn - Alex legends, Titanfall (ex call of duty developers)

Codemasters - lots of racing games

93 was my jam.

But yeah, I’d play that.

That’s a nice theory. But if I use it less I may not continue paying for it. That’s certainly worth considering if you’re Netflix.

Right, because you smelled bait… which wasn’t actually there.

Well… his recordings are great?

You might be too easy to bait.

I think you’re both right. What’s really important is the lives at stake, and only the software can really meaningfully improve, but the incentives aren’t there right now to make those improvements happen.

One thing to consider though, is the incentives can always be tweaked. Maybe the robo taxi company barely blinks at a $100,000 fine, they chuckle about a $1 million fine, do they still laugh about a $50 million fine? They may really start to sweat over a $200 million fine. And hey, I can think of larger numbers, we can always provide them a better incentive (while financing the state).

Which time? I mean it’s sort of a time honored tradition…

Which I guess, means that burning the library of Alexandria is in itself an expression of culture.

(* well, they’re not dangerous because they are radioactive. It could turn out that they’re dangerous for some other reason.)

Once my mate Paul was crushed by a palette of bananas. The crazy thing is, it put a load of pressure on his bowels and he shit all over the place. There was just shit and bananas everywhere. But Paul never got cancer, so I guess he was pretty lucky.

These bodies are complete shit. Evolution consistently results in biological forms that barely work. That’s what it does, it produces a bare minimum viable product, so that’s what we are.

This jumble of nerves and synapses and hormones and gut bacteria that we call a mind is a huge fucking tangled mess. Truthfully, it’s tragic that we have to live in these bargain bin bodies that break down constantly and often didn’t work right from the start.

I don’t have an uplifting end to this rant.

We’re all in it together?

Bring back Ethernet ports everywhere! Ethernet 4 all!