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Worth a read: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/bloo...

What's interesting about this is that I as a user would find this useful, but I think the AI industry as a whole would find it an absolute goddamn disaster. Opus 5 is a very good t…

How's that jive with the fact that they're introducing a new model every other week?

As a note on this, I just reread Neuromancer, and the bulk majority of it takes place in places that are not “high tech/low life” locales. People remember Chiba City, but that’s ch…

“This is a better example of film criticism” is a defensible statement, “more amazing” is an aesthetic opinion.

Yep, I see it now. Thank you.

Gotcha, ok - I’m misreading it. Thank you.

How are you still blaming this on “the government”? Is your thesis that the business world would be delivering high quality products and experiences if only those damned bureaucrat…

The evidence is the output - sure, they could’ve been throwing dice for every decision and landed at this spot out of pure luck, but that’s not a hypothesis that’s likely to hold u…

This feels like one of those articles that’s gonna come to mind again and again over the next couple decades.

Yeah, there’s a bunch of these. I really like finding these sorts of “ur-“ moments, the first time a way of doing things really crystallizes into something other practitioners can …

Oooh that’s interesting - I’d been aware of the color space encoding, but hadn’t fully grokked how it manifested. It’s interesting because it straddles analog & digital so many tim…

Creating the title cards is a process that involves a thousand different decisions, all of which feed into each other. Design of this isn’t any different than design of software or…

I’m actually curious if they made these black on white and then inverted it in post - the red is a little too deep, and there’s some interesting shadowing on the text, whereas if y…

What’s sort of funny about that is there’s a normal thing whenever anyone who hasn’t seen it watches Blade Runner for the first time - often they come out feeling it’s kind of deri…

Every time a tech company lobbies against taxes, they’re fighting public transit. Every time they spend the exact same money they just argued shouldn’t go to the state on privatize…

That’s a policy decision, don’t let them convince you otherwise.

> Then again, gassing rats and taking biopsies is not something you can do with AI. Also, like, let’s maybe _not_ make the “gassing and cutting living organisms open” AI? Let’s jus…

Two to keep in mind with these kinds of things - 1. There’s some irreducible costs in terms of time and material in the physical world that are not amenable to the kind of optimiza…

The article indicates that the department responds to crises, it did not indicate that was its only function.

The thing about crises is by the time you’re in them, they’re gonna cost way more to clean up than just not getting there in the first place. Sounds like the lag time between going…

And sometimes you burn a bridge to keep anything from following you across it. At a prior job, I wanted that door good and shut after I left.

Right, and remember how getting the rhythm right was the whole trick of it? Learning when to bend back and when to lean forward? When to pump your legs, so that your relatively sma…

Ok yeah, that’s fair. I missed the distinction.

It's all physics at the bottom. Nature doesn't have APIs.