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All the AI generated illustrations used in this post appear to show a wooly mammoth and not a mastodon. Here is a nice comparison; the mastodon is on the right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon#/media/File:MammothVs...

I am disappointed that I missed that. Sorry

He is almost certainly writing about the laktest Walk and Talk from Craig Mod and Kevin Kelley (https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/043/); Jason Kottke was also on that trip (https://kottke.org/23/11/please-welcome-edith-zimmerman-to-t...)

> A mix of new competitors, partner withdrawals, changing audience habits and pandemic-era disruptions led to E3’s collapse, ending years of attempts to resuscitate the event, which began in 1995.

This poorly worded sentence can easily be read to state that the years of attempts to resuscitate E3 began in 1995.

"A Little History of C 3/3" says that C was used in the special effects for Star Wars. I do not know what relevance this has, honestly, but independent of that is the strange choice of photo: an image from the Empire Strikes Back which shows stop-motion models with optically-composited, rotoscoped lasers. Excepting that this may be from the digitally recomposited Special Editions, no C code was used in the making of this shot.

Definitely a very funny example of their own product's shortcomings

It seems like the circumstances of our planet's location and the moon and the resulting tides and temperatures are rare. And our evolutionary history seems very dependent on those.

The question is whether or not there are other good ways to end up with an abundance of complex life. We have no idea.

"forward" towards what?

Their food source was in steep decline due to worldwide commercial whale hunting; extinction is not surprising

I would bet that the numbers on even DVD impulse purchases are pretty low

His comment "Sparks of AGI" ought to tell us a lot

It is, at best, designed to resemble something human-like

From the intro:

> It is crazy if you think about it. People have been using this process despite not knowing what was actually going on for thousands of years!

Just wait until you hear about literally everything ever

Ah, but people cast it anyway

> The current Firefly generative AI model is trained on a dataset of Adobe Stock, along with openly licensed work and public domain content where copyright has expired.

https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly.html#faqs

Sorry, did it try to predict the output, or did it only predict the output based on what it has seen people say about similar code online?

>not that he was very likely to begin with

I feel like this is over-stating the previous likelihood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_hacking probably

It would be great if you told us what the elephant is

Now do the DoD

I would love to see the author's posts

Surely the solution is to just not go to Disney

I am not sure that this works very well. I put in "BibleProject" and "Alastair's Adversaria" which are both Christian Theology podcasts, and I got back "Erotic Short Stories: Read by Mia Hart" as the top result which... I just doubt that's a similar podcast.

Pretty funny that their priorities in alphabets were Greek, Cyrillic, and...Tengwar.

Don't underestimate the size of a planet

A classic in the genre of "Technology is so great, maybe...God is a computer?". See also: Simulation Hypothesis

Mathematically, yes. But in terms of value, no.

Wouldn't those crews have all had big problems with cancer and muscular atrophy?

By "potential" do you mean "potential stated by crypto investors & startup founders" or like...something more objective?

You mean if they don't deliver the product after they signed a contract?