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Also his "Coding Train" videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCodingTrain

Nice examples, I think I landed on that page quite a while ago. I love Processing and Perlin noise. One thing I enjoyed was using Perlin noise values to compute a "region" on the canvas and making the behavior of a particle depend on which region it was in. Examples:

https://020406.org/processing/PerlinNoiseBounds1.png

https://020406.org/processing/PerlinNoiseBounds2.png

https://020406.org/processing/PerlinNoiseBounds3.png

The Processing code I wrote to make them is here: https://github.com/Brian-Fearn/Processing/blob/main/PerlinNo...

Got a Monty Python vibe: https://youtu.be/79TVMn_d_Pk?si=x2yAyxKNJDow8enp&t=124

I don't know, I was never one to "assign roles" to AI myself, but if it ends up working for some people in practice, then I guess it might be worth examining why.

Also Black Cube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cube

It's from the old Tom Lehrer song, "Wernher von Braun."

I imagined it as kind of a shorthand for "you should be spending my tokens on looking for / addressing issues like X, Y, and Z," where X, Y, and Z are the sorts of things that an expert in [insert domain here] would be likely to care most about.

And then in a couple years the AI gets better at "using AI" than the bottom 99.999% of knowledge workers, who are now out of work.

Distilling the entirety of thousands of years of human intellectual output: totally cool.

Distilling the answers of one LLM: totally uncool.

Yeah, MS doesn't quite exemplify good-faith competitive spirit, does it?

Some people will probably be curious regardless of their environment but I think there are others who could be swayed into developing curiosity (or not) by life experiences. And an ever-present "just gimme the answer now" button could be a powerful force pulling them toward the "incurious" side.

They've been singing the same old song since the Cold War, "either support everything the US does or you're a commie/terrorist." Yawn.

Fascinating hypothesis. I wonder if technological and economic progress makes "nuclearisation" inevitable, i.e. people can just move wherever the best money is at.

Interesting. Once you have a cellphone to amuse yourself, perpetuating the species is just too much bother?

So the future of programming is asking an LLM to spit out the appropriate assembly?

Interesting thought experiment but I'd presume they have backups to which they could revert, right?

They are opting you in by default. Very cool.

Maybe a little extreme but I love it.

A high-fidelity simulation of a Russian with damage to Broca's area, perhaps.

The major LLMs as implemented are basically role-playing programs. The default role is something like "helpful chatbot" so if you tell an LLM "do whatever you feel like on your own" it will simply use its weights to determine "what would a helpful chatbot do and say in this scenario?"

Our future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNo5fs1iDrs

For the legacy clout of the big college name?

There's some work on using phone accelerometer data as a "proof of human," e.g. "move your phone in a figure eight," which I guess machines can't quite do in a human enough way yet.

Yeah, I think "pay to enter" or maybe "pay to be able to post" is ultimately going to be the solution. Then we'll have the paid "gated" social networks, filled with mostly humans, and the free ones will all be bot-swarmed wastelands.

Wonder if they used AI to write it. "We don't just [x]. We [y]" strikes again.

Even so, "Daddy needs a new yacht" might sound too insensitive.

Ah, a fellow 1984 release.

I'm pretty nostalgic for the 90s. Maybe everyone who had at least a halfway-decent childhood feels that way about their kid years, though.

We have amazing cell phones, though.

I've been using Gemini a couple months and haven't noticed it pushing Google products at all.

I did ask it some scientific questions about gemstones and it seemed to want me to buy sapphires, lol. Sorry, Google, that's outside my budget.

Interesting that "recruitment" happens right after age of consent is reached. I guess eighteen year olds have some special intellectual quality that a twenty year old would lack?