JFingleton

My prediction: we'll be arguing about what AGI actually is... Forever.

When I worked in the games industry, we would spent an incredible amount of effort, money and time on creating as realistic a world as we could muster out of the hardware. This would involve talented artists, animators, programmers and hardware engineers.

And then came Minecraft made by 1 guy rendering blocky graphics with basic animations. It was a real wake up call for a lot of developers, that success isn't driven by how realistic you can make a world, but something more fundamental. Most games with ultra-realistic graphics feel more like theme-park rides, where you have little or no affect on the game - as doing so would break the immersion.

After minecraft came out I quit the industry, and am far happier for it.

A bit over my head - but can't Prolog achieve similar results?

I have a million and one things I want to accomplish but can't due to lack of time and energy as I work full time.

This includes reading, gardening, playing sports, learning to play the piano, etc. Of course some of that is consuming media, but I don't think people will just become couch potatoes.

Think of all the things "high society" accomplished in Victorian england because they had the time, energy and resources.

There are other search engines that are on par with Google search from a few years ago. Brave search is particularly good.

These were developed without the big bucks, so the tech has improved for smaller players at least.

I really want to combine them with RAG, plus doing some agentic stuff on my home server which runs a number of services, some as Home Assistant. So I want it to read all the sensors every hour, and then message me if anything occurs out of the ordinary (with ordinary equaling the historical data provided by the RAG).

No idea if this will work or not, but it's how I learn to use new technologies.

You could of course build this using traditional software development.

Revolut (the banking service) and Revolt are both British I believe...

Seeing as Revolut has been around for a number of years, as a British person I wouldn't have chosen a name so close to Revolut (for any product).

Agreed - I usually scroll to the bottom of landing pages to see the Github link - which Revolt did not have. Perhaps a suggestion to the developers?

It's an unwritten rule :)

Indeed. VPNs were originally created to allow secure remote connections to and between LANs. The whole privacy thing is a by-product, and they're not that great at it.

Tor exists and is far better at providing privacy.

Perhaps Homomorphic encryption can provide part of the solution in running services on untrusted Cloud platforms?

Although with Microsoft's recent breakthrough in their quantum processor, I'm not sure whether quantum will be a help or a hindrance.

The Chaos Engine forums - a site for game developers to discuss, moan, and celebrate fellow and former colleagues... Now moved to Discord due to this act. It really is a strange time we are living through.

https://thechaosengine.com/index.php

Perhaps we could:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

Someone far smarter than me could probably tell us if this actually works in the real world?

Image/video generation could possibly be used to advance LLMs in quite a substantial way:

If the LLM during it's "thinking" phase encountered a scenario where it had to imagine a particular scene (let's say a pink elephant in a hotel lobby), then it could internally generate that image and use it to aid in world-simulation / understanding.

This is what happens in my head at least!

"Fascism is a political ideology and movement characterized by extreme militant nationalism, authoritarianism, and a strong emphasis on state control"

Just thought I'd post this here.

Breezy Weather: how have I missed this gem for all these years??

Thank you

> Crypto is a very easy way to funnel bribes

Interesting... are you able to expand on this? My understanding is that the $TRUMP coin runs on Solana, which similar to Bitcoin runs on a public ledger and therefore offers limited anonymization (basically none).

> Twitter clone without the political baggage

I tried out Bluesky last week in hope of finding a social network which ticked this box, but my feed was full of anti Elon Musk / Trump messages. So it was very political from my initial experience.

This was after the setup wizard process where I selected tech/science/entertainment preferences.

Perhaps I did something wrong or didn't give it enough chance?

Either way I deleted my account.

...but he really looks like a "Joe"! :D

I did say "within reason"... which I realise is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

A social network requires at least being able to "friend" another user does it not? I don't think Hacker News has such features.

It's a forum... And a bloody good one.

Hancock is great at showing civilizations that I would have never heard of if it wasn't for his "journalism" (that's he's self-appointed title). He's a good communicator and I feel like I learn at lot from his Netflix shows.

However the whole "forgotten civilization" AKA lost city of Atlantis, just seems too far fetched and forced into the various episodes. That part of it makes for good entertainment at least.

In general, I'm a supporter of his work and look forward to further episodes.

Here in the UK there's been a boom in robot delivery over the years:

https://www.starship.xyz/

"Slow but steady" I would call it.

> Brave supports bringing your own LLM e.g. through Ollama

It's a shame Brave is so far ahead of the game but no one seems to notice.

> If you put 1000 dumb people together, they don't magically become smart?

Do they not become smart*er* though?

I suppose it depends on how you define "intellectual". If you define it as someone who can talk for hours on end, and make a success out of it, then I'd say that's pretty smart. He's a comedian too (not seen any of his shows), which to my understanding requires quick thinking - something that most people don't have.

He's whole "I'm an idiot" thing is just a character he plays. You don't get to be a success like that by being an actual idiot.

If you mean intellectual to be "book smart", then yes I agree with you.

Fridman has interviewed some pretty smart people - so I would say the shows are intellectual, rather than the hosts themselves (although Lex is a smart guy IMHO). I like the long-form interview format - it's allowing the listener to make up their minds rather than "old media's" way of pushing certain points of view.

For example: Fridman's interview with John Carmack is my favorite episode (at 3+ hours I think?).

I've never got on with Joe Rogan's or Jordan Peterson podcasts - just not my cup of tea. Sam Harris is no doubt a smart guy but he suffers too much from TDS - which gets annoying.