I think the entire business idea was hallucinated by an LLM.
A go-live at 11PM is a recipe for disaster as sleep-deprived engineers struggle to fix all the teething bugs.
I think the Master and Commander series would work as an anime. I'd accept CGI for the technical aspects of the ships - in fact, I'm sure that's the only realistic way to portray all the vessels in the books.
There's a ton of nuance in the books that can be used as voiceover filler too. Perfect fit.
The VA who portrays Major Kusanagi can be the one behind Diana Villiers. EDIT sadly she passed away in 2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atsuko_Tanaka.
Habryka @ LW takes a break from reinventing Western civilization from first Rat principles to advocate a RETVRN to incandescent lighting:
Eventually, in most of the western world outside of the US, incandescent lightbulbs were literally banned to promote energy saving policies.
This was the greatest uglification in history. Within two decades, much of the world that was previously filled with beautiful natural-feeling light started feeling alien, slightly off, and uncomfortable, and societal stigma around energy-saving policies prevented people from really doing anything about it.
Look I know Doctorow fails the gen-AI purity test but I think he's making sense here
Why? So it can be firebombed?
(don't fire-bomb residences people)
also it's hilarious that a 5% local tax surcharge on a place you don't even live in is considered Stalinism
This is the inevitable evolution of climate change denialism - accept it's real and happening, just that it's too late / too expensive to do anything about it.
"tenant of white supremacy"
White Supremacy is the worst landlord.
As for the prospect that AI will enable business users to do more with fewer humans in the office or on the factory floor, the technology generates such frequent errors that users may need to add workers just to double-check the bots’ output.
And here we were worrying about being out of work...
Normal person: an LLM is trained on publicly available images of MRIs, most with tumors, so presenting an image of any MRI will naturally generate text related to brain tumor descriptions.
Brain-addled prompt fondlers: clearly this response proves Claude is more intelligent than any doctor.
I believe the scientific consensus is that it originated in a wet market in Wuhan.
The "lab leak theory", while not impossible, is also shorthand for a morass of conspiracy theories grounded in racist attitudes towards China. It somehow conflates that the pandemic is China's fault, if not an outright attack from China, while simultaneously downplaying any efforts to mitigate such an attack.
Habryka doesn't have time to write all the crazy shit he's mulling on, so he offers a summary.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MqgwHJ93pJpaeHXs6/posts-i-don-t-have-time-to-write
Do you enjoy living in a society that takes fire safety seriously? Sucks to be you, I guess:
How about we just make all the mosquito nets flammable. That's effective altruism!
Also Switzerland is a libertarian paradise apparently.