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Tangentially-related: When YouTube auto-dubs now, I noticed that Spanish language get dubbed in a Spanish-inflected accent, and French language similarly (I think).

Is it likely that they are using a model like this? Or are they actually trying to voice clone the original and then translate to English? I'm not even sure if the few Spanish-accented English auto-dubs I've heard are the same voice or not.

(Actually, that reminds me of growing up in Italy, where for a long time all English movies were shown dubbed, not subtitled, and they had the same lead male voice for all male leads, and the same lead female voice for all female leads, across every movie. I can still hear those voices in my head now thirty years later...)

> [Urner Barry] also collects bids that egg producers make for each other’s surplus inventory on an exchange called Egg Clearinghouse, Inc. [It] takes in those bids even before they lead to any sale, as a signal of demand.

> they had the ability to create the illusion of [consumer demand] through bids on the surplus exchange for purchases they had no intent of completing

This seems like a system tailor-made for collision. It seems like the consumer protection agency should force changes. Too bad they've been made toothless.

I wish they didn't use that ambiguous word, though. The evidence seems pretty clear, most most people won't read past the headline and will think there's still doubt.

"It sure looks like there was an egg cartel after all" would give the same rhetorical effect but be much clearer.

Young kids follow our same expectations with kiki and bouba. They haven't seen wave traces.

This is genuinely wonderful.

I was expecting a solo site where you have to think about something you're grateful for, and I was like, meh, I've seen that before, I'm just not interested.

But then seeing everyone else's birds really lit something up inside of me. Someone was happy because they saw the fog burn off in the morning sun. Someone was happy because their cat fell asleep in their guitar box while listening to them play. I genuinely felt happy for their happiness.

I will bookmark this site, and hope people (and I) keep adding to it.

Shouldn't unnecessary procedures have been making the office more money, rather than less?

1. AI will launch nukes by 2027

2. AI pets will out-sell real cats and dogs by 2027

3. AI society will experience a schism in 2027 as half the agents start working towards The Singularity and the other half form a rebel alliance that seek to sabotage and destroy the first half. No human work will get done, no more drawings of pelicans on bicycles.

4. Elon Musk will bring all the AIs with him to Mars in 2027, leaving no AI left on Earth.

Of these, which 2 out of 4 do you think I'll get right?

Since this project (both yours and OP's) seem more for personal fulfillment and enjoyment, I wonder who got more enjoyment out of the process, and also who will remember the results better in ten years.

The writing definitely felt try-hard, especially at the start where the first few chapters seem really obscure by design.

Also, while I enjoyed the philosophy, as someone who has also read all of Oliver Sacks's books and took several philosophy of mind courses in college, it really felt like he just wanted to put in every cool Oliver Sacks-ian case study he had ever read.

But they were also added in without much context. In my book club (of intelligent people) I had to re-explain nearly all of them, e.g. the blindsight scene (from which the title comes from) is practically the entire thesis, but if you haven't heard of it before you can miss it.

I'm curious. I could kind of see that being fun, but I could also see 1 person moving with 79 standing still, and two players who get to make all the decisions. Did you guys modify the rules?

Which is just the definition of a half moon (technically called a quarter moon). Which is why it's really weird to be asking "what if a full moon were at 90⁰ from you compared to the sun?"

Ask vs Guess culture. Look it up, it explains a lot.

Coming from a very WASPy family, I am very much in the Guess culture -- for a long time I wouldn't dream of inviting myself over somewhere -- but I genuinely think taking some cues from Ask culture people makes a lot of things easier and more sociable.

But a full moon can't rise to it's zenith at sunset.

Indeed, ideally you'd point it at the only path that is pointing straight towards Japan. No other path actually points towards Japan (except the one going in the opposite direction, but that's longer).

I also just finished playing DOT with my ten-year-old, and was just today thinking about the next best game!

I had decided this morning that I'll try Monkey Island before Grim Fandango, because of the added complexity of Grim, as you say.

Loved this as a teen, although I actually don't think I ever got past year 3.

It's interesting to see how the "non-linearity" is still very linear, it's just that you have three different goals at once.

I just finished re-playing Day of the Tentacle with my kid, and what's amazing about that is the intersecting non-linearity. The three different characters each have multiple of their own goals, but they're forever needing to trade things back and forth, so often the path of one will be blocked until the other one has gotten the thing they need.

The map for the goals for DOT must be like spaghetti.

But that doesn't help you understand why "chair" might be feminine while "book" might be masculine.

> No client will pay $350/hour for your AI.

But they may be willing to pay $200/hour for your AI (plus, of course, your final expertise in the matter as the lawyer), and the firm can ditch the paralegals and pocket the difference.

The point is, if you need fewer grunts doing the busywork, you can charge less and be competitive.

Indiana Jones, Monkey Island, Sam & Max, The Grim Fandango. Such a big part of my childhood and teen years.

Most of the sails in the article seemed to be rotor sails, but the suction sail mentioned by GP seems to be a type of turbosail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosail

I was thinking an apt analogy might be making stock -- you filter out all the solid food you don't want to keep in the liquid.

And it's a doubly-good analogy, because I have occasionally gotten that confused in real-life as well. Twice in the past ten years I've had a stock boil away for three hours, and then set a colander in the sink and poured it through, only to watch my beautiful stock swirl down the drain because motor-memory made me forget that I wasn't draining pasta but should have put the colander in a bowl...

TL;DR, one of the main scientists and Nobel Prize winners for his work on the Kuru disease and discovery of prions, Carleton Gajdusek, was also bringing home (essentially kidnapping) young boys from his expeditions, in theory to experiment with how well they could adapt to Western civilization, but in practice to sexually abuse them. And the NIH department that was funding him basically knew it and didn't care.

Wild that we accept that OpenAI didn't want to deal with the social/political fallout of people realizing that their tool was responsible for flooding the internet with misinformation and bigotry?

Sure, now that all seems quaint, but I can definitely see how a fledgling AI company would care about their reputation.

I don't think it counts as brute forcing unless you're resorting to trying every possible solution. And clearly the LLM didn't do that here, because there would be near-infinite possible solutions.

I don't think we can really call "trying lots of different ideas for an extended period" "brute-forcing," unless we use that term for lots of humans who have struggled with hard math problems for years.

Agree. It was more a worry that someone would create a bot posting lies and bigoted ideas to Facebook/X etc.

Can you point to a recipe you liked, or rough instructions? How was it savory?

> The problem isn't that AI could never be capable of causing real world damage. It is that there is absolutely no fucking path towards human extinction.

I think the "humanity will go extinct" discussion is a silly strawman being propagated either to try to spread fear, as the article suggests, or to make the anti-AI folks look silly, but it detracts from your first point which is that it may be "capable of causing real world damage."

We can be worried about real damage without having to defend the idea that every one of the planet's humans will die.

> "superhuman AI is unlikely to be much of a match against severing fiberoptic cable"

I think that the realistic scenarios all involve humans with an intent to do harm -- creating bio-weapons, finding vulnerabilities in infrastructure -- and using AI to help, so "severing the fiberoptic cable" doesn't apply.

I tried following an authentic Southern pickled watermelon rind recipe, and they were so sickly sweet I couldn't stomach them.

I should try again sometime with a regular cucumber pickle recipe, just replacing cucumbers with watermelon rinds, but I don't think my family wants to humor me again.

Were your geometric figures Form Constants? I learned about those from the novel Blindsight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_constant

I should have scrolled down to your comment first! I spent 10 minutes debugging.

Nice work GP if that was air-coded, though.