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How does it fade out smoothly? There is also this which shows smooth filling in. I haven't seen smoothness like this on a remarkable

This sidesteps xochitl and the normal remarkable display adapter. You should assume this thing can't render anything a remarkable normally renders, but does smooth fades instead.

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Exactly. I don’t fault them for it, but it’s a scary experience having Claude shut off.

Why exactly is it so scary?

Because it is so insanely useful, having it cut off is quite jarring.

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Every AI would refuse the prompt. I was banned for researching Nordic assisted death and asking which drug exactly they administered (and what quantity). Claude refused, alerted Anthropic, and I was banned a couple days later. Thankfully the appeal form worked, but by then I was using a different Claude account praying they didn’t ban me again. There’s an uncensored model floating around that you can run locally with…

In the near future, the only way to tell if someone is human will be to have them say a slur. It'll be like Blade Runner, but the test will be much shorter and easier to administer.

I've already seen the meme, "let me in, I'm human!" - "prove it, draw a naked lady!" - "I'm sorry, as an LLM, I'm not allowed to produce pornography!"

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You think technology was the bottleneck? Your button was not important and should not consume resources of any kind and definitely not engineering resources. It taking a week was a feature, not a bug. It meant engineering properly evaluated the priority and urgency of tasks. Your magic slotmachine will enable a level of shit-producing and warped perception of engineering effort of breathtaking scale. It will have con…

Sometimes latency matters more than throughput. A simple change can and should go in quickly if the manager wants to see it. Except sometimes it can't because the team is strangled with red tape.

> if the manager wants to see it

Exactly that's how prioritising works

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At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel "Don't Create The Torment Nexus." https://x.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?lang=e...

Of course, that tweet was talking about the Metaverse. So really it should be classic sci-fi novel "Neal Stephenson Invents A Ton Of Cool Things, But The Torment Nexus May Be The Coolest." Like, I love the Torment Nexus trope, but it's somehow gotten coined with the worst first example imaginable, and the only reason it works as a meme is that nobody realizes this. (The problem with the Zuckerverse is exactly that it…

Yup. I absolutely want the metaverse. Just not a cartoon Facebook one.

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FYI that's a direct quote from the book. I regrettably spent too much time of my childhood reading a series that ends with the protagonist thinking about ordering his unpaid servant make him a sandwich after a bloody battle.

Wait, who was the unpaid servant? I don't remember the sandwich bit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/s/W88nHchQti

Seems to be this one. The unpaid servant is Kreacher.

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The ease by which you can get banned worries me. It seems unavoidable that soon AI will manage its own suspicion level, provide feedback on it, and when high enough it will call the authorities.. because that's what people do. Banning doesn't cut it, like you can't deny internet access. Soon this will spiral out of control and AI (Palantir) will have to run the response and the parallel AI state erects itself. A citi…

Don’t stop here in this comments section. You’ve got the makings of a novel.

Black Mirror.

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Why would that comparison be bad if it's accurate? Also, "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Both can be made good and evil.

I hope people at least know that they should not create Skynet.

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