Very cool video. Kinda terrifying that inducing Kessler syndrome as a tactic of warfare is plausible enough that they included it as an option in the wargame. I wonder how viable that would be in a real world conflict.
I watched the movie before I knew there was a book, so I came at it without all that context and I thought they did a good job with environmental storytelling. Things weren't exactly laid out but I always felt like I had a handle on who the characters were and why they were motivated to do what they were doing, and the bits of the world we did see felt detailed and "built" even if the movie didn't establish a ton of worldbuilding.
Prompt an LLM to contemplate its own existence every 30 minutes, give it access to a database of its previous outputs on the topic, boom you've got a strange loop. IDK why everyone thinks AGI is so hard.
Never is a long word, but I have a bunch of poems and short stories and other errata that I think seems unlikely to ever see the light of publication. I have submitted poems to journals and other publications (never successfully published though), but the vast majority of my writing is compost that I'll turn over every few months and see if I want to revisit it. Occasionally I'll tweak things here and there or, more likely, reading an old thing will inspire a new thing that gets added to the pile. Maybe I'll get something published someday. Maybe I'll be a modern Emily Dickinson and get famous posthumously. Or maybe, like most poets, I'll fade unremarkably and unremarked-upon into the wash of history. I'm content with any of these outcomes.
Oh no oh dear don't make me chronicle the progression of the natural miracle that is the evolution of language as I swore to do when I solemnly took my Lexicographer's Oath oh no that's my least favorite thing.
It really depends on the advice, and my relationship with the advice giver. I generally give advice at least a thought, even if it was unwanted, unless I have a reason to mistrust the advisor. As for how I respond to the person, if it's a friend I'll usually have followup questions, for people I know less well it's usually a cordial variant of "hmm, interesting perspective" and then I have to think on it for a while before I respond, if I respond at all.
Sometimes I think about how so many of us look up at the stars and wonder "if there really are aliens out there, why aren't they colonizing the galaxy as fast as possible, as any intelligent species would naturally do?" like it's the thing just anyone looking at the stars might think. we might be the horrifying biomechanical paperclip maximizer that the other aliens in the galaxy have to band together to defeat or face extermination.
Yep, I think the accepted English pronunciation of "Euler" is as a homophone of "oiler", so the award would be "the oilies". I never heard the name out loud as a kid so I pronounced it "you'-ler" until well into adulthood, until someone made a big deal about me not pronouncing it correctly. I remember the occasion very clearly 🙃
We can call it the Euler Award for Excessive Achievement in Science. Or the Eulies if you're in the industry. And we can make a big deal about it if anyone pronounces it "the yoolies"
That tracks. It felt like someone at the show really liked the first version but someone at the network made them change it, so they were like "fuck it, put a tambourine under it idk" and called it good enough.
Ooh, I never get to ask this question: Do you have a preference between the initial version and the season 3 version? I always felt like they changed it because they got the feedback "fans don't like the song" but they didn't really know what to do with that feedback, so they wound up with a rewrite that sounded almost, but not quite, exactly the same. But I am in the group that never really vibed with either so I find it hard to draw comparisons. Curious to get a perspective from someone who liked the intro.
I hope it happens. And by it I mean VR / AR equipment that I can comfortably use for a few hours at a time without getting sweaty, fatigued, or motion sick. When I'm using a computer I like to have a bunch of displays, and it would be really convenient to have a comfortable headset that I can wear instead and live my dream of coding in VR / AR and spin displays up or down on a whim, or better still use some as-yet-undreamed VR native UI that takes advantage of the platform. That dream is still a way off, it seems like, but I still want it.
Very cool video. Kinda terrifying that inducing Kessler syndrome as a tactic of warfare is plausible enough that they included it as an option in the wargame. I wonder how viable that would be in a real world conflict.