the problem with AI is what AI does. it does not cost an enormous amount of energy and absolutely not water
I had a development deal with SNL 1998-99 that sadly didn't go anywhere. Some of the cast members I worked with were ... not great. Will Ferrell, however, seemed like a standup guy.
Get well soon. 😷
I'm in shock. Pronouncing "jaguar" as "jag-wire" is a regional pronunciation? I knew the Brits had their own strange way of saying it, but the rest of the country says it wrong too?
Vance is so pathetic it’s unbelievable, a man with a void of integrity so vast it has its own gravity bsky.app/profile/reic...
one of the major problems with capitalism which AI exacerbates is that useful activity (search engines, news) is often entirely a side effect of useless activity (ads, ads), and we expect the distribution of that useful activity to remain constant even as the returns to related activities change
What's the best hypercompetancy fantasy TV show? Where the characters are above all else the best at what they do and are goddamn professionals at the job. Examples: Sorkin's oeuvre (West Wing, Sports Night, etc.) House Suits? The Bear? NCIS Mad Men
Mostly unrelated, but ever read True Names by Rosenbaum and Doctorow? Premise is two interstellar AI systems battling for supremacy; one is an uploaded civilization comptronium maximizing and the other is synthetic (and IIRC had some preservationist impulses). archive.org/details/True...
True Names is a science fiction novella by Benjamin Rosenbaum and Cory Doctorow, initially published in Lou Anders' Fast Forward 2 anthology, Pyr, 2008....
Size of the city matters less than quality, IMO.