> often better at presenting what was possible than how to do make it happen.
that, i feel, is the chilling aspect to this situation. does the lack of new books explaining what's possible, imply that our society's opportunites for growth are dwindling?
So.. is this where the AI hype train starts to lose steam? One AI hallucinated and caused the incident, and another AI program just wasted everyone's time after it was unable to verify the issue. Sounds like AI was utterly useless to everyone involved.
> Sounds like AI was utterly useless to everyone involved
Maybe.
Imo, I think the advances in AI and the hype toward generated everything will actually be the current societies digitally-obsessed course-correction back to having a greater emphases on things like theater, live music, conversing with people in-person or even strangers (the horror, I know) simply to connect/consume more meaningfully. It'll level out integrating both instead of being so digitally loop-sided as humans adapt to enjoy both.*
To me, this shows a need for more local journalism that has been decimated by the digital world. By journalism, I mean it in a more traditional sense, not bloggers and podcast (no shade some follow principled, journalistic integrity -- as some national "traditional" one don't). Local journalism is usually held to account by the community, and even though the worldwide BBC site has this story, it was the local reporters they had that were able to verify. If these AI stories/events accelerate a return to local reporting with a worldwide audience, then all the better.
* I try to be a realist, but when I err, it tends to be on the optimist side
The tech giants sucking up all the ad revenue is what killed local journalism. Unless you can find a solution to that problem (or an alternstove fundong model), it's not coming back.
But just think of all the people that didn’t have to receive a paycheck because of all this efficiency!
It’s really incredible how the supposedly unassailable judgement of mass consumer preference consistently leads our society to produce worse shit so we can have more or it, and rewards the chief enshittifiers with mega yachts.
I just picked up an old gamecube. it's refreshing to play purely offline content from an age without any AI art of any kind. some games, like animal crossing, will break in 2031 though, so there's only a good 5 more years left to enjoy it.
Well, the Gamecube is probably fine, but the Dreamcast was thinking, so watch out :P
I know Animal Crossing is sensitive to the RTC, but could you set the clock back 28 years and go from there? You'll have the same days of the week and what not, just the year number will be wrong.
yeah, been thinking about that... but itd feel kinda weird. my village (named Seattle, funny enough) is ~20 years old, and has both mine and my younger brother's characters. Whatever I decide to do with it in 2031, it'll feel like an ending.
The site appears to have gotten the ol' hug-of-death. For those who have seen the contents, can you answer if this is SFW or NSFW? The existing comments in this thread imply the latter.
Edit - downvotes for asking a question? Hackernews is becoming more and more like reddit each day.
If you read the 2 year old discussion linked in comments here, the owner said that the drawings on the actual website are all manually scanned by hand. So those are probably filtered. However, the YouTube livestream of the printer is not filtered. Basically it will print whatever but your drawing may or may not show up on site.
I wish I could peer into the mind of someone who would send that and still feel the need to replace the U in "fuck" with an asterisk. What an odd combination of outspokenness and modesty.
Coincidentally, just a couple hours ago, I used asterisk for swear word vowels on HN (for "L**tC*de" and "bl*ckch**n"). Partly as a statement that those are figuratively swear words to me, but mostly simply to avoid keyword search hits for people positively searching what I want to be negative terms.
But if one is going to use an actual swear word (that they're wielding themself, rather than quoting), why pull one's punches? IMHO, maximum condemnation is to spell out all four letters. Unless your intended message is that something is highly despised, yet could be worse, so you're keeping the final letter in reserve.
Oh, though, if it were an in-person demonstration sign in public, the kind that's for an audience of broadcast TV news cameras, I suppose maybe self-censoring the word might be more likely to get it on the air? Or at least that could be the thinking? And someone mimics that in a different context.
Or it could be someone raised not to use strong words, and to be apologetic when they do, and so then the apologetic signalling could mean, "I don't normally use strong words, but this is so bad that even I felt compelled to do so, despite my respectable sensibilities".
Or it could be a non-culturally-fluent speaker, who's learned idioms, and picked up these ones, but hasn't yet been exposed to some of the finer points and connotations.
>Oh, though, if it were an in-person demonstration sign in public, the kind that's for an audience of broadcast TV news cameras, I suppose maybe self-censoring the word might be more likely to get it on the air? Or at least that could be the thinking?
But by doing that it turns it from a demonstration into much more of a performance. Someone who's actually angry doesn't say "eff", he says "fuck". I would question how really angry or frustrated someone is if they still bother to self-censor while they rant. Think back to Samuel L. Jackson's censored line in Snakes on a Plane and try to imagine someone actually saying that. You'd think "well, okay. He's not that fed up about it if he's still joking around."
I suppose it does come across that way to some of the audience, but that might be necessary.
When I was learning photojournalism on the side, I shot a bunch of political demonstrations. A lot of those I saw were performances solely for media coverage (not really for, say, the occupants of a building they were in front of, nor for cars driving by). They would tell the media when they would be protesting, media would show up with cameras, media would leave, demonstration would disperse. For those media-centric ones, I guess it would be foolish to show a sign that the TV crew can't easily include in their footage (because it contains a banned word they'd have to go to work to edit out while already on a hectic news cycle schedule).
and who manages the HR department employees? not being facetious, Ive wondered this for a while now. seems like they have almost unchecked power to run a corp into the ground.
If a company is the Soviet Union and the CEO is Stalin, HR would be the NKVD. How did Stalin keep the NKVD in line? They were also being murdered themselves while filling their murder quotas.
Side note.... one thing I wish all cloud provider websites would provide is a recycle bin in the GUI. its far too easy to bulk delete resources, and the cost of a misclick/tampermonkey script bug occurring while doing so can result in a huge qmount of time spent on restoring your service.
>Yes, it really is called ASS. Its predecessor, SubStation Alpha, went by SSA, and since these formats were developed by enthusiast hobbyists, I believe they couldn’t resist the siren song of a little bit of cheeky naming.
All I'm saying Its a complete 360 from the marketing they did to establish their brand... you know, save the world kind of stuff, especially from google.
From 2000-2016 most tech marketing\branding was aimed at some kind of social benefit.
> The people with opinions of value are already giving them internally.
interesting take, in light of all the brain drain that AWS has experienced over the last few years. some outside opinions might be useful - but perhaps the brain drain is so extreme that those remaining don't realize it's occurring?
that, i feel, is the chilling aspect to this situation. does the lack of new books explaining what's possible, imply that our society's opportunites for growth are dwindling?
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