Hackworth

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.

Rogue Legacy 2, if it counts. Otherwise, Axiom Verge.

I forget which writer said this, but “If ya wanna make em cry, make em laugh first.”

-the guy who invented the inversion table

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

If you’re looking for AI-generated anti-AI music, we’ve got that (mildly NSFW).

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

I’m super curious about the small text underneath.

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 ruminate on this from time to time. I’m not particularly well read on these things, but this is the closest I’ve managed to make sense of it: For whatever reason (and thar be many), the trumpite has embraced denigrating others as an acceptable way to soothe the ego. Unhealthy as it is, this kind of projection/displacement is by no means an uncommon trait in any demographic. Though it seems to be more common in groups that highly value hierarchy (as the Right typically does). On its own, utilizing this as a motivating force yields diminishing returns as shame or just boredom creep in. And so the aspiring demagogue hitches denigration to anger, goads projection with scapegoating, and ultimately harnesses hate to do evil.

But this takes time. Trump didn’t skip all the way to invading cities and tearing down a third of the White House on day one. Trumpites have been lead gradually by these mechanisms and a host of complimentary social tactics to do more and more shameful things. And in doing, their egos are resiliently bridled to Trump’s. To turn against him now would mean facing feelings of abject humiliation and shame/guilt, and in some cases a complete reset of personal identity. Most people aren’t willing to do that until they encounter tragic and very personal consequences. So they persist in delusion, which comes naturally to parts of the religious demographics… but that’s a whole other can of worms.

Simpsons did it.

I’ll second Dispatch. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would and legitimately looking forward to the next chapters.

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.

The fact that workers with expense accounts still feel they’re getting paid so little that they deserve to commit fraud says something about that stratum of employee.

Pretty much anyone who travels has to submit receipts. Most people who travel are not making bank. They’re the people who set up and stand at convention booths, sales staff support, assistants, videographers, etc. Also, most travel is a miserable ordeal. I’m not saying it’s okay to commit fraud, but let’s not equate the hourly employee “re-creating” his lost lunch receipt with a 6-figure income.

Ladies and gentlemen, Unlit Pyre.

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.