Hackworth

That makes sense. I wondered how it wasn’t frying the truck electronics.

Anduril seems to have landed on EM pulse perimeters for anti-drone measures. Their music choices always cracks me up. Like they know they’re the villains.

Hiro was my first thought when I saw him, too, probably the inspiration. But it’s from the original Don’t Feed the Monkeys game.

I can dig it. I love layered wordplay in any language.

claude.ai for text, krea.ai for media, and huggingface.co for everything else. Until the tides change again, anyway. The wave of enshittification is ever swelling.

I guess those scientist guys all working on A.I. never gave cocaine and Monster Energy a try.

I didn’t say they were. I said A.I. is. The delay makes remote control difficult at long distances. Hence, AutoNav.

Empathize as in understand motivations and perspectives: 8

With some effort to communicate, I can usually understand how someone got where they are. It’s important to me to understand as many ways of being as possible. It’s my job to understand people, but the bigger motivation is that it bugs me if I don’t understand the root of a disagreement. Of course, this doesn’t mean I condone their perspective, believe it’s healthy/logical, or would recommend it wholesale to others.

Just pointing out the definition of A.I. that I am using in this context.

GPTs are based on a deep learning architecture called the transformer. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning, which is itself a subset of artificial intelligence. -Wikipedia

A.I. is much more suited to space travel than humans are. The next few decades probably determine whether future aliens first encounter Curiosity’s progeny or MechaHitler grey goo.

I can pretty confidently say that 4k is noticeable if you’re sitting close to a big tv. I don’t know that 8k would ever really be noticeable, unless the screen is strapped to your face, a la VR. For most cases, 1080p is fine, and there are other factors that start to matter way more than resolution after HD. Bit-rate, compression type, dynamic range, etc.

This is kinda the plot of Hudson Hawk.

Hey! An excuse to quote my namesake.

Hackworth got all the news that was appropriate to his situation in life, plus a few optional services: the latest from his favorite cartoonists and columnists around the world; the clippings on various peculiar crackpot subjects forwarded to him by his father […] A gentleman of higher rank and more far-reaching responsibilities would probably get different information written in a different way, and the top stratum of New Chuasan actually got the Times on paper, printed out by a big antique press […] Now nanotechnology had made nearly anything possible, and so the cultural role in deciding what should be done with it had become far more important than imagining what could be done with it. One of the insights of the Victorian Revivial was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different newspaper in the morning; so the higher one rose in society, the more similar one’s Times became to one’s peers’. - The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (1995)

That is to say, I agree that everyone getting different answers is an issue, and it’s been a growing problem for decades. AI’s turbo-charged it, for sure. If I want, I can just have it yes-man me all day long.

Eh, people said the exact same thing about Wikipedia in the early 2000’s. A group of randos on the internet is going to “crowd source” truth? Absurd! And the answer to that was always, “You can check the source to make sure it says what they say it says.” If you’re still checking Wikipedia sources, then you’re going to check the sources AI provides as well. All that changes about the process is how you get the list of primary sources. I don’t mind AI as a method of finding sources.

The greater issue is that people rarely check primary sources. And even when they do, the general level of education needed to read and understand those sources is a somewhat high bar. And the even greater issue is that AI-generated half-truths are currently mucking up primary sources. Add to that intentional falsehoods from governments and corporations, and it already seems significantly more difficult to get to the real data on anything post-2020.