winterbourne

So much in AI is dependent on which of these two outcomes occur.

The only use I can think of it these days is for social scientists who need to gather judgements from bona fide humans.

This will be devastating for a lot of workers in low-infrastructure countries.

This wiki page is updated frequently and only needs to be fed into an AI to remove its telltale writing.

The video hints at the notion that they may just have not figured it out. Certainly working iron and steel would have been extremely useful, but they never developed that ability either, even after thousands of years of civilization. The interplay of a wheel and an axle may not be as intuitive as it seems to us in modern times.

One of the more esoteric explanations that I have heard is that there was a religious taboo around easing manual labor. And that the wheeled (and axled) figurines that we have found were not children's toys, but religious objects.

You're right that getting a car custom-built is where the costs add up quickly; easily north of $50K. Most of the cost is labor, which is $0 if you do it yourself. Some of the projects are much easier than others. If you want to fall down a rabbit hole, look in the kit car and hot rod categories; lots of affordable and small builds in there. The Buick Riviera in La La Land is more of a resto-mod cruiser project, but the small/retro itch is exactly what the kit car category scratches. The first step is to find a forum where people are building the car you like, and start following related build threads. That's the majority of my social media intake these days.

Aggregator for new posts in build threads from 277 old-school DIY forums.

Build threads of people building cars, 4x4s, motorcycles, boats, airplanes, hot rods, musical instruments, etc.

Even if they grant a reset, the ball is now in OpenAI's court.

The AI slop on the site is not appealing, but it could also mean that the project will be parallelized successfully.

The classic forum format and tight-knit communities are ideal for what are called "communities of practice": like-minded people who get together to help each other build/create/make/do something. A well-moderated build thread is best suited to a classic linear non-threaded posting format, and that's why thousands of niche DIY forums still exist.

Pining for the forum heyday is common on social media now, but for niche DIYers, that participation is still a daily ritual.

Will be interesting to see OpenAI's next move.

Yes, this is the takeaway for me. A PR can no longer be a reasonable proof of work.

I'm happy to move to a superior model, but I'm not really hearing enough about significant improvements, and the obvious pressure to release the latest and greatest model makes me hesitant to upgrade. I've been satisfied with the results I get using 4.5 with an "ask ChatGPT" skill that runs the code by ChatGPT 5.4.