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it has a very LLM style of writing

As long as Adobe is charging huge amounts of money, it seems like a free desktop app that competes with that and integrates with the existing Canva ecosystem would be worth it.

I think OPs example the awareness refers to the thing that becomes aware of the thoughts bubbling up from the subconscious

If we get ocr working it makes it possible to store all human knowledge now stored in PDF's with way less resources

https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html

They didn't take ownership, they just paused decision-making and now major choices can veto'd by the ministry of economic affairs if they are deemed not in the interest of the Dutch company (which is part of a larger Chinese holding).

Info coming from Israel and verified by Israel, taking this with a big grain of salt.

Thanks for posting, he was a really interesting guy.

This is my favourite interview with him so I will take this post as an excuse to share it.

https://youtu.be/HrUy1Vn2KdI

I personally think this last one is pretty great

don't worry, I also believe in prison for violent offenders, I just think that the more power you have the more serious punishment should get

Atleast in China they have to option to give CEO's the death penalty if they step out of line. I think silicon valley behaviour would be better if the CEO's had some skin in the game.

pivoting to AI to get the bag while getting acquired

GitHub Dotnet Copilot Code Generator for VSC (new)

Facebook seems like an exceptionally morally rotten company, which I guess just stems from Zuck being in control.

Are there any competing phone OS'es still around? Maybe there is something in China I dont have a view on?

there is post of Anna's archive blog about exactly that, we basically have to hold on until (open source) OCR solutions are good enough and then it suddenly starts to become feasible to have all the world's published knowledge on your computer

Don't forget the biggest scifi guy turned cult leader of all L. Ron Hubbard

this is generally true in a regulation sense, but not in emergency. The executive can either covertly or overtly take control of a company if AGI seems to powerful to be in private hands.

> But curiously, none of the pieces use fancy mathematics.

> “This thing might as well have been discovered 50 years ago, but it wasn’t,” Thorup said. “That makes it that much more impressive.”

this is so cool to me, it feel like a solution you could* have stumbled upon while doing game development or something

*probably wouldn't but still

I wonder if Valve could (threaten to) become their own payment processor if this becomes too big of a threat. They are one of the few companies on earth with enough money to attempt it.

If I remember correctly a big part of Valves heavy investment into linux was Microsoft wanting to lock windows down more, and now in 2025 gaming on linux is a viable alternative to windows.

I've actually started using raku for hobby projects recently (my day job is C#) and it is actually really fun to write.

I just hope that one of the morons running youtube eventually sees these threads and fixes this.

Is there anyone trying to solve OCR, I often think of that annas-archive blog about how we basically just have to keep shadow libraries alive long enough until the conversion from pdf to plaintext is solved.

https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html

I hope one of these days one of these incredibly rich LLM companies accidentally solves this or something, would be infinitely more beneficial to mankind than the awful LLM products they are trying to make

I don't think Wes Anderson has anything to worry about either, it isn't only panning shots in pastel colors.

i honestly don't see much different between this and for example using windows whilst Microsoft is providing the compute that powers the ongoing genocide in Gaza. I Observe the BDS boycot by not giving MS money directly but avoiding all the companies that use Microsoft would be kinda ridiculous

No idea, but when people say they can visualize an apple and then say it feels like number 1 on that chart, I would say that my experience of whatever I'm doing when I'm 'visualizing' an apple is more like 4 or 5

https://twistedsifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AppleVi...

I can only assume people are trying to accurately describe their own experience so when my experience seems to differ a lot it seems to me that there is more going on than just confusion about wording.

Vera Rubin just came online, will will start to do surveys of the entire sky every 3 nights, which makes spotting stuff like this easier.

https://youtu.be/X3N-DjVXh44

so we are probably gonna notice a lot more of them

my theory is that aphantasia is purely about conscious access to visualizing not the existence of the ability to visualise.

I have aphantasia but I would say that spatial reasoning is one of the things my brain is the best at

Adding more sanctions seems to be the default US move it seems, to the point that there are so many sanctioned entities that they've formed a paralel world economy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/wh...

So embarrassing they thought this was a good idea, these are the people earning the big google salaries? What a clown show

It is nice when it works, but sometimes I run into trouble where I don't know a right word to put in the prompt to get the answer I'm looking for. I've recently been playing around with Raku and had a really cryptic type signature error and Claude was of absolutely no help because it didn't know about the interaction of Signature literals and 'Slurpy' sigils in method parameters. Only when I learned about it and included the word Slurpy in my prompt would it actually regurgitate the information I was looking for but at that point I already knew it.