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“Player Piano” by Vonnegut, his first novel which was sci-fi and explores the consequences of total and complete automation on society. Quite prescient for the current era.

https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/player...

> Engine modules are compiled into the engine itself. They have full access to the internals, but you need to build and ship your own copy of Godot, including the editor and export templates for every platform.

I’m not familiar with distributing godot games. If I build a game to distribute on steam (for example) would this be an option? Or is a GDExtension (runtime loaded .so) the standard way to go?

Yes then expand to popular saas like jira etc, then photoshop. The potential of this sort of disruption was priced into stocks as “saaspocalypss” about may 2026.

The “poverty draft” narrative is old and tired and not true. The stats are 60% are from middle class, about 20% poor and 20% wealthy.

“Org” in this context is emacs org mode. Seems odd in this day and age that anyone would see hierarchical text format and think “regex”!

As of now the ai needs hands, and maybe more importantly, cognitive intentionality which thus far only arises from living beings drive for homeostasis to survive and reproduce. If ai can have this same intentionality is a big unknown.

Rule based Mechanics of taking derivatives and finding intervals is quite different from understanding delta epsilon proofs. I have no doubt 10 year old can do the former quite easily, the proofs on the other hand? Depends what you mean by “teaching calculus”!

That’s really great; an ad hoc tour guide!

> Most people don’t want to change their own oil.

Changing oil is easy, it’s disposing of the oil that’s hard and why I don’t change my own oil and haven’t in years.

Luckily for us open weight models exist. Until regulatory capture anyway.

One persons horror story is another persons career roadmap!

Same, we had it for about a year, watched everything we wanted. Then after all the missteps they did to dilute the Star Wars franchise we dropped it.

Sounds like token burn maxing to me. Ie end up with a lot of “not quite” prototypes soooo try again?

It’s literally the last sentence?

I’ve used llms in two ways while writing fiction. First I’ll have a story idea and use the llm to explore what has come before that may be related; then I’ll go read some stuff. This has worked great for seeing where my ideas fit and flushing them out. Second I’ll describe settings or plot devices and use the llm to brainstorm consequences or further ideas. This fails miserably. The llms suggestions are devoid of creativity. This is all moot though because I’m really not a writer, I’ve just always thought I might like to be one someday.

Monocultures are bad full stop. Blink is corporate controlled open source, which has been clearly less than.

Much longer than 10 years! I’ve been on Linux since 2008 an it was never a problem.

> it was the best open source browser.

Yes that was implied because IE was not mentioned either!

That’s interesting, anyone have more info on how why this came about? The why is pretty clear at least.

Yes I have noticed this. I frequently have stronger models review weaker models. It’s very instructive to see what they get wrong.

I did a test involving implementing cobol control flow in Java for a source to source translation project. Gemini was the only model to get the edge cases. Cobol is very peculiar in this regard.

I have shared this dismay. I’ll have opus create a plan, I read it doubtfully. And then sonnet implements it. I am surprised it went so well. I theorize the redundant verbosity effectively builds rails that help keep llm focused. I will experiment with such rails myself.

Perhaps the pathway to alignment involves requiring frontier-next to be capable, willing, and eager to explain the work of frontier-current to us. To do this frontier-next must at least have some thought for us at all. Even if it is only placing crumbs for us to swarm and carry into our holes.

> America doesn't want to pay the price of handling Iran.

And Iran has wisely not provoked the US public by launching terrorist attacks against the “homeland”.

In a world where AI advancement depended only on human ingenuity this would make sense. In that world each political power block would be in an existential race for AI supremacy. In our world compute is the limiting resource. Since the US can control who gets compute, the US already has a defacto supremacy so far as frontier model development. Now if it comes about via human (with AI assist?) ingenuity that compute is no longer a restraint, then the situation is much more dire.

This; search is dead google is a walking corpse.

This should have “May 2026” in the title. I don’t recall discussion at the time but surely there was a lot?

The writing of Charles Dickens support this thesis strongly!

Interesting to read it originated as part of PLATO. I used notes at a company in the early oughts. This company was a big user of ibm mainframes. It was bizarre and although it was purported to have all this capability I couldn’t figure out how to do anything with it; like access lotus script. As an inveterate tinkerer, it frustrated me, I assumed I didn’t have permissions or something.

I did a second stint at the same company in the teens and they had moved to outlook.

Now do this on all the altcoins code bases out there. Everyone and their dog was either rolling their own or forking and not syncing with upstream.

I just assume most altcoins are pwned at this point.