PostiveNoise

I assume the root problem is a near complete lack of money to make Friendica polished, or user friendly, or full of great features, or well-known. If it’s a tiny team who may have other jobs, then it’s hard to imagine it getting better.

‘Key demands included ending public subsidies for tourism promotion, regulating short-term rentals to prevent housing loss, cutting cruise ship traffic, and improving labour conditions with fair wages and stable work schedules.’ - This sounds strangely sane. It’s hard to believe that e.g. greatly reducing the ability of mega cruise ships to dump thousands of tourists at once into the city every day would be unfeasible to implement.

Blame the people in control of the system, not the random person who would like to see a bit of the world while they can.

This was my career. Seeing popular sci-fi/fantasy movies maybe 1-2 times a year (especially on opening day…woot!) seemed fun and to boost morale a bunch. The studio was large enough so that several times we could rent out the theater to ourselves and be extra raucous, which was also fun. I don’t think people complained, since this was during office hours and not after hours or on a weekend. Otherwise, I think ‘if your going to give me free time then let me go home’.

I think longer ‘field trips’ might have sucked, even if they related to a game we were making. Sticking to sci-fi and fantasy films with cool fx was close enough.

Spain is kind of nice, based on your list. I’ve been considering it.

Good chicken! What a pretty and fancy chicken…

No. Why do you assume I don’t know what veganism is, after I already said I was joking? It’s not eating animal food products, including not eating foods that contain some animal food products. Let’s please finish this conversation…

Joking, but not trying to troll

Slightly less percentage of raw red meat in the final product, with cute packaging featuring the color green

Sure. I worked in the game industry and sometimes AI can mean ‘pick a random number if X occurs’ or something equally simple, so I’m just used to the term used a few different ways.

Yeah, Eno actually has made a variety of albums and art installations using generative simple AI for musical decisions, although I don’t think he does any advanced programming himself. That’s why it’s really odd to see comments in an article that imply he is really uninformed about AI…he was pioneering generative music 20-30 years ago.

I’ve come to realize that there is a huge amount of misinformation about AI these days, and the issue is compounded by there being lots of clumsy, bad early AI works in various art fields, web journalism etc. I’m trying to cut back on discussing AI for these reasons, although as an AI enthusiast, it’s hard to keep quiet about it sometimes.

Either the article editing was horrible, or Eno is wildly uniformed about the world. Creation of AIs is NOT the same as social media. You can’t blame a hammer for some evil person using it to hit someone in the head, and there is more to ‘hammers’ than just assaulting people.

Totally right that there are already very impressive open source AI projects.

But Eno doesn’t control diddly, and it’s odd that you think he does. And I assume he is decently well off, but I doubt he is super rich by most people’s standards.

'I’ve heard a few people just throw them into baggies and sell/give to crafty folks, which I might do in the end. ’

Yeah. Seems like they could be put to good use by assemblage artists, e.g. Kris Kuksi types.

‘One quick question ladies. How big is your shower?’

Massive ongoing improvements in AI, and hopefully less massive but still impressive improvements in humanoid robots. Both of these will actually happen, unlike a lot of stuff that I and many others would LIKE to have happen.

I clearly remember an incident when I was a 20 year old pizza delivery guy who made a delivery to an attractive middle aged woman in a bathrobe who gave me a bit of mischievous smile when I showed up with her pizza. I didn’t take the bait, but it was pretty weird. Luckily the pizza was from a really good place, so hopefully she wasn’t too disappointed.

Agreed. History is full of unintended consequences, partially because so many things were more complicated than individuals and societies realized. There are not tons of really simple tradeoffs along the lines of ‘freedom vs safety’. I don’t think people could have imagined the future world they would bring about when they started planting crops instead of just hunting and gathering, for example.

Mud Pies incoming!