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>I'm quite influenced by Ed Zitron's reporting. And I'm also standing by my own idea that AI will run out of money and just be turned off due to the huge operational cost.

I wish this were how things are going but Uber is still surviving. I figure at least one AI company is going to come out of this alive and kicking.

You all are beating around the bush. Some people like anime girl personas better than 3d girls. It is somewhat similar to the whole furry thing on a few levels. This creates the demand for services/content which we are now discussing. /thread

This is a 'classic' and I don't know why this isn't higher up the list. I actually opened the comments just to post it if no one already had.

irc doesn't have this problem

I dunno, I've mostly lived in urban areas but I've always had record shops near to where I live. Sure, there are far less than there used to be, but the ones that made the cut appear to be on solid footing.

Gibson's fiction created an aesthetic and I am pretty sure more people are now aware of the aesthetic than the fiction with gave rise to it.

You are right. Basic economic theory says nothing about distribution of value, only about creation of the most value. I don't know why your comment is grey.

But... perhaps these guys are playing a longer game? Reputation has value as well and from other comments this move seems to boost reputation significantly.

>Exaggerating a bit, I felt like my old self was dead and I just happened to somehow have inherited his memories.

I had a small mental breakdown anticipating that this was going to happen while my wife was pregnant with our first. It didn't. I ended up replacing the part of my life that was video escapism with kids and kept everything else the same. Three kids in, things are going great.

>I get almost physically ill when I hear about kids getting harmed.

Replace ill with enraged and I have had the same experience. The strong emotions were a bit of a surprise.

This doesn't make sense to me. Are you suggesting we reject the labels 'conservative' and 'liberal' due to their limited usefulness in describing reality and high potential to evoke emotional response?

I wouldn't disagree with that, but the author in question doesn't seem to follow that line of thinking so it seems irrelevant here.

This writer appears to overcomplicates conservative vs. liberal. Conservatives care about those closest to them and generally dislike disruptive change. Liberals care about those far away and embrace disruptive change for the sake of those others.

I think the was already understood. Anyone remember the 'companion' in the show Firefly?

This article doesn't make sense to me. The terminals are the *nix accessibility stack for all practical purposes and agents can use this interface just fine. What am I missing?

>Yeah and we'd be better off. The modern world is quantifiably worse than the world we had even 10 years ago. That includes everything in software development and computer science.

Rather than killing this comment, how about we discuss quantification? I actually feel this way too but do not talk about it too much and sort of boil it down to a combination of advancing in age + yelling at clouds and "Stop putting computers in all my stuff!".

Can we reliably quantify that "weaponized autism", i.e. the aggressive monetization of nerds by capital to squeeze profit out of every possible corner of society (as I interpret it in a broad sense), is making things worse. Is it damaging the economy for most people? Making people less happy? Decreasing net social mobility or discrimination? Lowering life expectancy?

It's just weight. If you remove the human scale constraint, you can use hydraulics and easily lock out all your joints with reasonable complexity and maintenance demands. If you're unfamiliar, just look up the history of electrohydrostatic actuators and see where they're at now.

https://www.moog.com/products/actuators-servoactuators/actua...

Does anyone know of a non-slop summary of the same material? Despite the AI diagrams and symbols, the material is more than directionally accurate.

Generally, they don't use them for anything. Kind of cyberpunk LARPing or something.

They actually have a purpose, if you're in a role where you need to interface with a lot electro-mechanical stuff of varying vintage though. Basically ends up being a pelican case with a fat battery, a small network with short patch cables for reconfiguration on the go, two SBCs running windows IOT and linux, a PLC + 2/3 I/O cards, a CAN adapter and some space for 6 inches of terminal block on a DIN rail. Then a keyboard + monitor.

Maybe not as sexy as some people make but it is a cyberdeck/briefcase lab and it will allow you probe most distressed machines without having to waste time running around for supplies or back and forth to offices.

The way many manufacturers are structured however, there is too much red-tape and osha for this to be a reality for a lot of people, at least in the usa. It does exist in some places though.

The feedback needs to go away or this thing is just exacerbating the problem. Give a slop score if you must but then shut up and let the user interpret the result as they see fit.

Slop is stopped by allowing unique quirks to flourish. Do you speak in 'staccato bursts'? THEN FUCKING WRITE IN STACCATO BURSTS! Do you need a 'throat clearing opener? THEN FUCKING USE ONE!

Human language does not need to take progressive steps toward some universal standard. Having one is fine, in theory, but the beauty lies in how we solve for our inability to consistently utilize it. Adding mechanism to every step removes the beauty. Stop being the problem.

Yepp.

You can do this via html/css without breaking the functionality.

This is excellent. Thank you! I've now added it to my website (after restyling the console a bit to make everything match)!

What is really interesting is how many times this story has been posted previously without getting any traction?

Why is this time different? The poster, current geopolitical/technical climate or...

Sometimes a gui is helpful for things (such as monitoring) but you don't want to leave your terminal because it screws with your workflow.

>Founders have to focus on signal over noise. People who are not founders focus on... whatever.

This perspective seems extremely close minded, almost as if suggesting those who are not 'founders' (of silicon valley startups?) are incapable of rational thought or action.

There are many executives who have never 'founded' a VC backed company who would heartily disagree, not to mention all of the humans with other credentials who process information, make decisions and create value.

This article doesn't relate to spam prevention as far as I can tell.

The author is concerned that content which would be valuable to the 'tech-scene' by virtue of demonstrable ability to gain traction quickly is being suppressed due to site owners wanting to avoid damaging their investments.

I think a whole lot of people forget that this is a discussion board run by a venture capital group.

I agree with the post, but don't find it surprising. If you have problems with companies these guys are invested in, probably find a different platform that they don't run?

Seriously, we could do this on IRC without hard gatekeeping...

They aren't faster in the cases I know of. As an example, the Isle of Man TT Zero was discontinued partially because 2008 predictions of electric bikes reaching parity with gas by 2025 didn't pan out.

Even for small stuff, a minibike with a 212cc 4-stroke can have comparable performance to something like a Cake or Surron and is a fraction of the cost.

Personally I think the electric motorcycle market should try and max performance versus weight. Perhaps something pedal assisted that could hit 60 mph without too much fuss but light enough that it could be shouldered up a few flights of stairs. Range can be low, as in 10-15 miles per charge max but balanced by swappable battery packs.

EUCs are self-balancing. They also can have amazing suspension and an excellent performance envelope.

Why does this not have 1200+ points? Sometimes people need to be reminded of the fundamentals!

>most people are not influencers.

Perhaps, but many are. They just don't have much reach or don't use a digital platform.

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