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> When people criticize my AI films, I ask them what they've made.

They're saying that your contribution is negative. Even if their contribution is zero, zero is still better than negative.

When I was learning to draw, I used this free site which has lots of poses and detailed anatomy: https://www.posemaniacs.com/poses

I lasted less than one minute. Can't read anything when there's an unstoppable animation in peripheral vision going blinky blinky blink.

I haven't done the math, but my guess is that a pothole might do hundreds of dollars worth of damage over its lifetime, maybe thousands. If society was willing to pay 1/10th of that sum per pothole to anyone willing to fill it, there'd be a lot more applicants. (Though it might lead to people making potholes on purpose, so the payment needs to depend on road health over time, not number of potholes filled.)

Because I'd rather hear a tale about hunting told by a hunter, not a tale about hunting told by someone who disdains hunting as a day job and considers himself a failure if he can't get a living from actual hunters for his tales about hunting.

Or in modern times, replace "hunter" with "working class".

You didn't answer the questions though. Should the hunter dream about stopping hunting? Should he think of himself as a failure if he can't? Is this way of thinking good for his soul or his art? It's not about caloric surplus.

Making a living through art is such a strange thing to wish for. I always imagine a prehistoric hunter telling tales around the campfire. Should the hunter think of hunting as his day job? Should he wish for a life where he'd spend all his time perfecting his tales, while other people would feed him? If he spends his life hunting in the days and telling tales in the evenings, is he a failure?

I launched my live polling app https://suggestionboard.io, got some first users, now looking at how they use it and trying to improve the experience.

I believe in duty as much as the next guy. But duty goes both ways.

The Earth has lots of resources that are privately owned. The process by which these resources become privately owned has no satisfactory libertarian justification ("land and oil become yours when you mix them with your labor", really?) If the profit from these resources was divided equally, everyone would have enough for food and shelter. The people who have less than that are essentially victims of theft. Society should first pay these people the fair share that was stolen from them, and only then start telling them about their duties to society.

Homeless people have no moral obligation to stay away from benches due to "solvency of transportation systems", if society doesn't care about them in return.

Are you saying that sleeping on a bench, if you don't have anywhere else to sleep, is antisocial?

That series is over, and the magical feeling of being in an open-ended fantasy world is really hard to replicate when we're not kids anymore. Loom is another game that gave me that feeling.

But there was one idea in QfG that I wish more games would use. Namely, designing three different solutions for every problem the player is facing. This idea works so well to create a sense of possibility in a game, I don't know why it got forgotten.

I think this depends on the subject. Something like math or music is "learned, not taught": you spend a lot of time practicing by yourself, sometimes asking a teacher when you get stuck. But something like CPR or assembling a drum kit is "taught, not learned": the teacher guides you through the motions and you're done.

No one's stopping you from that, as long as your preferences coincide with go fmt ;-)

Thanks for your comment, just saw it. Yes, what you're saying is clearly the right next step, but contacting people out of the blue is so scary. I guess I should force myself to.

In my (small) experience, SSE is a bit finicky: 1) Firefox kills a webpage's SSE connection when you close and open the laptop lid, making you write code to reconnect, unlike other browsers; 2) there's no way to see the HTTP status code if something went wrong; 3) proxies can still mess things up sometimes: https://dev.to/miketalbot/server-sent-events-are-still-not-p...

If you have a constant stream of data, SSE does make sense. But if your goal is to have events arriving infrequently or a irregular times, then good old long polling will work in strictly more cases, at the cost of maybe 2x more resources.

Wild graphic. US spending on one flying killing machine (the F-35) is comparable to total spending on the Marshall plan to reconstruct Europe after WWII, or the interstate highway system, or all datacenters combined. Priorities!

This seems like nonsense at any angle? Like, if the agent hype comes true, then agents will be just as good at using any website as humans are, and there's no need to make any changes to your site. And if the hype doesn't come true, then who cares if your site is agent ready.

Unless of course you want to expose some functionality only to AIs, not humans. Then sure. But why would you want to do that?

There was an old Soviet cartoon about a child who found a box containing two magical servants and immediately asked them for ice cream and sweets. Well, since the servants "do everything for you", the first servant fetched the sweets for him, and the second one ate them for him. I've often thought about this cartoon since the AI thing started.

I'm working on https://suggestionboard.io, a live polling/feedback/Q&A webapp that doesn't require an account. Just launched the first version, now looking at the market and making small improvements.

This is good to hear. If I may ask, what was your use case?

Wow! I'm not in the target audience, but this is exactly what I love to see :-) Thanks for doing this!

I'm working on https://suggestionboard.io, a simple live polling and Q&A webapp that doesn't require an account. Just launched the first version and trying to figure out if there's a market.

The phrase "voting with your wallet" is hilarious to begin with, because it admits that rich people have more voting power and implies that's how it should be.

It's only half of the solution though. If the models are trained in a closed way, they can prioritize values encoded during training even if that's not what you want (example: ask the open Chinese models about Tiananmen). It's not beyond imagining that these models would e.g. try to send your data to authorities or advertisers when their training says so, even if you run them locally.

So the full solution would be models trained in an open verifiable way and running locally.

Vibe supply chain attacks are coming btw.

I think it's nice to be able to do things like rename nested structs and keep wire compatibility when upgrading two parts of the system at different schedules. Protos are neat. Think like a proto.

(Not saying the signing problem in OP is invalid of course. Just a different problem.)

Yeah. I'd say half of the work is Gödel numbering and the other half is the diagonal lemma.

But maybe not for long. When we get long-running AIs, the knowledge locked inside the AI's thinking might supplant docs once again. Like if you had an engineer working at your company for a long time and knowing everything. With all the problems that implies, of course.

Except for all these burning gas and oil fields.