It's 30 years from now. I found a lump which will prove to be inoperable. My wife looks on as the tech lowers me into the water to number our remaining days. A call wells up inside her before escaping: "I love you." The water in the scanner rises, devouring more and more of my body like the cancer growing inside of me. "I know." Beside my wife, a handcuffed Chewbacca roars.
Playtime: How the hell did they film this? My brain had trouble processing much of it because there was so much visual information conveyed in every shot (complimentary). Probably the most meticulously designed movie I’ve ever seen. The blocking makes Spielberg look like a hack.
PICARD: Data, shields up
DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.
[camera shakes]
WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS
DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't
That's not hubris; it's some kind of cognitive dissonance or guilt. He's bought into the idea that people with privilege are the problem, but also knows that he's one of them.
He can't hold both beliefs: "I'm a good person," and "I'm one of the evil class."
To absolve himself, he overcompensates hard with the Marx evangelism.
That's the whole deal with these people is to be seen as "one of the good ones" whether or not they really are. That's one of the most insidious parts of this belief system is that it preys on people who I think (some of them) genuinely want to be good people and help others.
people are now sequencing their DNA at home, locally on DGX Sparks and Mac Studios.
this madlad is running Evo 2, a 40B‑parameter DNA LLM that predicts genome sequences instead of text.
local AI is going to unlock a world of creativity. @karpathy’s personal computing v2 is here.
The neurodivergent version of “making it” is waking up without dread, doing work your brain actually likes, and having at least one person in the world you don’t have to explain yourself to.