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sizzle

12,811 karma · joined January 2, 2014

Science, art, culture, technology, and human-centered design enthusiast looking to improve the human condition through the work we do, fighting to change the privacy diminishing and unethical behaviors that plague our tech industry.

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sizzle··on America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
How much vfx is being done by AI video editing software/ massive gpu clusters over previous locally employed vfx studio artists? Maybe I’m thinking about this wrong but isn’t the compute/AI vfx models now reducing the amount of humans needed to edit things like Marvel character’s special effects scenes, etc?
sizzle··on Claude Duet
Did you redact your ssn and PII info before feeding it to Claude? What are the implications for it seeing your PII by accident? Can it ever get leaked?
sizzle··on Starcraft: Ashfall
Can you talk a little about the work involved in making this masterpiece. Could something like this be vibecoded today with AI in your opinion? Amazing work! I played Brood War every free second I had in my younger days.
sizzle··on 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds
For men? I thought it was predominately cervical cancer
sizzle··on 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds
So make GLP1 free for the masses if it eliminates obesity mortality rate
sizzle··on There are no "rogue" AI agents
How did your ex-gf get caught writing Malware and then how did that lead to prosecution without any tangible damage? A proof of concept was enough for a DA to nail her in court?
sizzle··on Brood War Bench
Likewise really miss those carefree days killing time in servers and making diabolically hard maps to play online with strangers and friends.
sizzle··on Brood War Bench
Battle.net servers was my hangout spot with friends eventually joint clans and playing ranked matches. Making maps to play online was also super fun. Brood War was perfect.
sizzle··on US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
Sounds like the plot taken from For All Mankind
sizzle··on Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
I think you have the wrong conclusion with Alexa’s skills and ecosystem, as a prior heavily bought-in Alexa user myself. It did feel like magic in the beginning and was a quality of life improvement if you automated repetitive task of daily life e.g. auto light/thermostat activation.

I never needed it to add stuff to my Amazon shopping cart or interpret things I said as voice shopping asks, which was a terrible UX.

There were so many other daily frustrations and Alexa skills that were half baked and random frequently resetting or going offline. Another frustration was Alexa failing to recognize the magic incantation to activate a simple action in the day to day when skills had overlapping utterances.

I actually wished Siri had better HomeKit IoT products so I could switch over, but I just gave up out of death by a thousand cuts wearing me down over the years and do everything manually now. Privacy and surveillance was also a huge tipping point to make me bin all my Alexa devices. I digress…

sizzle··on Exit the Cave
What happens if your flashlight craps out?
sizzle··on Dolly Parton has died
Has anyone successfully rallied their county to get this program enacted? Seems a lot of Cali zip codes are not available…
sizzle··on Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
Google Glass comes to mind
sizzle··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
Any idea if a pill form will be available in the future?
sizzle··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
How has it been treating you? Do you keep muscle mass without having to hit 1g/lb of protein intake daily?
sizzle··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
It causes less muscle loss/wasting which is a huge benefit over Tirz.
sizzle··on ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud
So what does this accomplish? I’m just trying to understand if it’s worth it before sending over PII to register
sizzle··on ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud
What’s the outcome if you submit a DROP request, less targeted spam phone calls/junk mail?
sizzle··on AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
This… wow… should be tightly regulated and illegal to use on the general population.

Literally hijacking people’s neural activation pathways on a mass scale that can’t be easily blocked, unless you look away or start meditating.

Are there any other precedents for this kind of neural-subterfuge being released into the wild, effectively lowering the barrier to mass manipulation?

sizzle··on Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July
Should have launched it off from Geisel library
sizzle··on Aluminum foil (2021)
Does aluminum foil contain PFAS and does cooking on them on the grill for example expose the food to forever chemicals?
sizzle··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
Take the output to a Radiologist and verify the veracity of the statements.
sizzle··on No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass
Curious what advice from the book did you not follow if you were already investing in index funds and doing well?
sizzle··on I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
“We've all experienced watching a company we love or admire be warped and broken beyond recognition; until it's a husk of its former self, or worse. I wanted to understand why. And I wanted to know what all of us can do to stop that from happening.”

Enshittification and maximizing founder/shareholder/c-suite profit?

sizzle··on H-1B Crackdown on Indian Workers Erodes a Texas Real Estate Boom
Lots made out handsomely with low interest rates and huge appreciation/equity.
sizzle··on Claude for Small Business
How much would it cost a non enterprise paid customer to experiment and vibe code apps without too many token limits?
sizzle··on Ti-84 Evo
Thanks for the reply, I see you are quite the legend and am all caught up now.

Are you still coding these days? Does AI instill any new sense of awe and wonder or a new found passion for coding/computers? Hope you are in a better place now. Cheers.

sizzle··on Ti-84 Evo
How long were you locked up in the clink for? Did you get any access to computers there? How did your time there affect you or change how you think? Thanks for sharing
sizzle··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
How do you see AI playing out there? Are you glad you got out before AI coding became a thing? What are you up to in your retirement years, anything fun? Thanks.
sizzle··on Claude Design
Grok already proved it was possible to replace that nsfw genre
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