AI companies are like, “we’d love to make the Torment Nexus, but we can’t pull it off. We do a perfect rendition of the hateful little pervert who guards the door, and he comes with a built in revenue model, so we shipped that instead.”

AI companies are like, “we’d love to make the Torment Nexus, but we can’t pull it off. We do a perfect rendition of the hateful little pervert who guards the door, and he comes with a built in revenue model, so we shipped that instead.”

And the guy who does it is the worst lowlife in the book. Everyone hates him. No one has a positive thing to say about him.

I came downstairs once and my then-young-teen was watching Full Metal Jacket. They’ll get right after the stuff they hear about if you don’t get to them first.

This Will Wood was my favorite thing I heard this year.

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TMBG likers should definitely try Cheekface. I mean, just listen to this:

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Try some Will Wood.

not just a little. let's let people cast 0 into an object ref and add methods to it.

Seems for the longest time to hate music _and_ freedom. And by “the longest time,” I mean until the credits roll.

Dude could just play with his eyes closed

It's a beautiful book. I've teared up a couple of times and I'm not even out of January. You have a marvelous natural writing voice that reads like you're sitting on a couch at the other end of the room.

he wants all the pieces to be hidden until they bump into each other

They're out there gamifying this for us all
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1. because the automation really is powerful stuff carefully applied

2. because ceding the tech is also ceding the audience and practitioners of the tech

but more practically AI haterade is like

"hey I heard you hate plutocrats. instead of fighting them in any way that matters, you should instead exhaust yourself fighting a technological paradigm shift. this one you can totally turn back the tide on. it won't be like any of the other ones"

LLMs will only spend a few more years as the exclusive domain of the datacenter and the plutocrat. the history of computing is full of expensive processes that drop in price and come home

there's a lot of baby in this bathwater