Sinuous Grace

for: free minds and free markets, meritocracy, individualism, rationality, limited gov't, live & let live

+intensely interested in AI

=cognitive dissonance?

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It feels like, in my personal life and at work, there has been a shift, just in the past 1-2 weeks, where ALMOST EVERYONE I interact with now has a strong opinion about AI (LLMs and AV generators) and that opinion is resoundingly NEGATIVE. Not sure what this means for the bubble.

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@TeeJayTheory @valvesoftware @Steam I mean, billions of people spend hours every single day holding a corpo metal or plastic rectangle. Do gamepads really even need to be ergonomic? Smartphones aren't.

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@wfaaweather Nah, survival of the strong. If they die it wasn't meant to be.

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@wfaaweather Sounds like this one may not fizzle out like Friday / Saturday due to the cap.

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@wfaaweather Another fizzler...

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@lostinininind @SadlyItsBradley They punch above their weight but in terms of number of employees (about 350) they are dwarfed by Nintendo (about 8,200). And Nintendo is dwarfed by the others I mentioned. Very different scale.

I think the AI PC parts apocalypse has seriously loused up what they wanted to do...

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@lostinininind @SadlyItsBradley I wouldn't call Valve large. They're about 1/20th the size of Nintendo. Nintendo is about 1/20th the size of the big companies (Meta, MS, Apple, nVidia, Amazon, Samsung, Sony, Google).

The 400% spike in consumer RAM prices in mere months has most definitely affected their plans.

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@valvesoftware @Steam Thank you for at least updating us. I hope the Steam Frame still gets released eventually even if it's a very limited one-and-done production run at $1,500 for the enthusiasts.

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@valvesoftware @Steam You should really put something out there. It has been 82 days of complete radio silence. No update on any software, dev, regulatory, manufacturing, logistical, legal, or pats sourcing issues. No update on when a pre-order / reservation date might even be announced.

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Okay so it's been ~ 10 weeks since I posted and my view of "AI" has completely flipped due to a) disillusionment, b) irritation, and c) some outright hostility towards it.

I stopped consuming AI news. I'm tired of it. I want it to go away. And, to a large extent, IT HAS. Try it!

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@SadlyItsBradley This was used sometimes in Tad Williams' VR series Otherland. Subvocalization.

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@Okami13_ Is the system AI-based? LLM-based? I'm not opposed to that (I think it could be cool + immersive to have a decent LLM powering individual NPCs with distinct personalities / motivations / somewhat open-ended conversation potential), I'm really just curious. Sounds good either way.

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@IpecacRec I always turn music off from the start because it's more immersive that way. Never heard this before.

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@wfaaweather What fun would unfollowing be? If he did that, he wouldn't get to bitch and moan and complain.

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@wfaaweather Huh?? My wife assured me 4 inches was massive. We should be scared.

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@wfaaweather My cousin lives in St. Cloud, MN. Here are their HI temps: Friday -11, Saturday -3, Sunday 2, Monday 9, Tuesday 6, Wednesday 4, Thursday 3.

Wind chills with LO temps are indecent to even post here. (HINT: Celsius and Fahrenheit are the same number!)

I think we'll be alright.

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@wfaaweather As long as your car has enough rear-wheel torque you can just power through this, right?

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@ZeroStateReflex I don't know, down south there can be a lot of being trapped together in the AC in the summer. Imagine it's 109 for the high and still 95 at 10:30 at night. 5am overnight lows of 84 degrees for multi-week spans. Back to over 90 by 9am.

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@benz145 But if I'm understanding correctly, doing so could upset the tracking.

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@wfaaweather Definitely my weather guy.