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That would be great. Or, for the physical world, combining some kind of smart glasses with the new Pangram image detection which seems to work well on rephotographed data. Like the _They Live_ glasses.

Lettuce and oats are some other foods.

The overcrowding can also allow bird flu to spread more easily.

They are too big to fail, if these companies were to be sanctioned in a way that slows them down, major components of the economy would collapse.

The difference between

"We found aliens!"

And

"Aliens are out there!"

Maybe they are talking about physical mandalas?

Yeah, they're always leaving the Martians out!

Why doesn't someone just try to measure this next time!?

Very much like map CD-rom updates, I think a lot of people wouldn't mind paying per-update for these models, and would understand the implications. That is, if there weren't so many open models available.

Another example was the doc for GPT-5, which had all its graphs messed up, but they said it was human error rather than AI.

If the training toggle is switched on, maybe OpenAI doesn't consider a chat to be private? Therefore making this a 'safe' statement.

Exactly, and right now we have the worst of both worlds with companies blatantly ignoring copyright, but individuals prosecuted for violating it.

I think there are better funding models than the precarity of copyright-dependent publishing.

Not at all. You're presuming that nobody can be taken off this hypothetical salary once they're on it, and that they would be placed on it indiscriminately.

Simple safeguards are already in practice in today's economy to prevent such circumstances.

Right, that was worded too universally, but this is what I mean: royalties here are supplementary to a salary, not a wage in themselves. The research was funded before publication.

As with academics, inventors and artists should be paid for their labour long-term, not for their result.

Academics don't collect any royalties, they're paid prior to publication, not for selling copies of books.

Authors and artists are not (and souldn't be) making Art for money. It is not a 'job' where effort goes in and product comes out. It's more like a religious calling, they often have no other option. That's true, but it's also the reason people are paid less than their technical peers.

It is difficult in the current climate to prevent industrial actors from cultivating genetic lines instantiated by Artists in Art. In a different future, the seperation between small and large-scale genetic agriculture would be recognised, and the abolition of copyright may proceed.

In a world where money is devalued, genetic lines and mental constituency will become even more powerful.

See: the mental constituency of sci-fi books in E. Musk's brain

Ah yes, now that you point it out that sounds reasonable.

They missed a trick with their typeface, which could have made another nomative connection. Maybe Garamond just isn't web-safe enough.

There's no way the connection isn't intentional!

Man wouldn’t it be cool to be able to slot a massive ROM AI chip into the external AI drive of the pc…

There’s still time to get in on the ground floor! What an opportunity

The AIs are supposed to be very expensive, but it's left to the reader to figure out why—maybe it wouldn't work out that way in real life, but if the reader can't explore every part of the economic and technological space of the world (they can't), they become immersed within it, and allow the subconscious to come up with reasons for why such technologies exist in the story.

What's interesting in sci-fi at the time is that, because software wasn't fully solidified as a concept (nowhere near, in the case of Neuromancer) everything acts like a tool. What you buy stays just as it is, until it becomes obsolete. There's something quite appealing in that completeness. As you say, software is jarring in a way firmware isn't, and it lets developers be lazy.

As for toilets:

> Sometimes he resented having to leave the deck to use the chemical toilet they’d set up in a corner of the loft. - Neuromancer

...And he grew up in Shanghai, China

Here are some more informative photos:

https://www.pentagram.com/work/caligra-c100-developer-termin...

Ha! it pays to do a little research, I should have done so.

So it's something like 'Thought for the Day' on the radio...

Definitely seems 20th century given the novelty around computers. The audio inclusion is beautiful, hardly see anything like that anywhere else, with music too.

It’s formatted strangely… an excerpt from the book at the bottom of the page? The authors don’t match. Or maybe that footnote’s for the images…

It doesn’t need to be any longer; one of the ironic byproducts of our newest computer companions is that, even in the age of short-form content, they produce reams of rubbish, very rarely containing anything of consequence.

This, in contrast, is refreshing.

[Edit] doh, the reference is explained in the first line of the thing.

The other way around, surely? The ‘ghost’ being the soul, absent in purely robotic beings.

Yes, it’s hard to accept that for many, the notion of quality is conflated with uniformity of texture.

It’s a fun website nevertheless, interesting project.

its the only weakness of the corpo-capitalist gestalt!

Most people have a local view of their world through their immediate surroundings, not a panoptic or holistic perspective on the earth or their nation.

The power of collective action via votes isn’t a bayesian system, its just like the sum of many binary vectors.